Of Art History, Genetically Mutated Ninjas, and Secular Entertainment...OH MY!

Does anyone else find it particularly disturbing that the only reason I have an inkling of a desire to actually study the Renaissance and High Renaissance art period is because; A.) I have an unhealthy infatuation with the 80's phenomenon that never died, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and, B.) My fiance has a slightly more healthy infatuation with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

After re-reading that blasphemous paragraph masquerading as a run-on sentence, perhaps I should focus my efforts upon grammar. (shudder) Then again, maybe not...Where was I? Oh yes, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo and why I do or don't wish to study their works. I suppose I could throw Bramante in there too seeing as how he actually designed St. Peter's Basilica and then handed it off to Michelangelo after he died, who then handed it off to someone else after he kicked the bucket to finish the dome.

So, I'm sitting in Art History and all I can picture is Ninja Turtles teamed up with Robert Langdon running amok on the streets of the Vatican City armed with paintbrushes and chisels...Periodically, the Turtles turn into their namesakes, who are just as confused as I am cuz frankly, I don't speak Italian. Robert Langdon is just wondering what happened to the turtles and why a bunch a dead Renaissance artists are up walking around. Okay, NOW, the turtles are back and Michelangelo wants to hit up every pizza place, Donatello is enamored with the history and scolds me that I should be doing the same. (I stick my tongue out at him.)Leonardo is trying to keep tabs on Mikey and Raphael is... being Raphael. Don't ask what happened to Langdon at this point. I think he got frustrated and left. And thank goodness class ended because I don't think my brain could handle all the universal cross overs.

TEH END!!!