Six months in, the answer on all fronts seems to be yes; in that time, the museum has had more visitors than in all of 2000, the last year it was fully operational in the old building, and membership has more than doubled.
I'm not much of a TV watcher, but last week while waiting for the 10 p.m. news, I saw the end of one show that featured a man being cut in half with a chainsaw (yes, in prime time, on a regular network) and then another show that involved a busload of teenagers taken captive and murdered by sadistic brothers playing fantasy games.
(The subtitle is tentative; if you have better ideas, send them to me!) It will be published by John Wiley and Sons in early 2012 -- yes, just in time for that election we'll be talking about 24/7 from now on.
Poetry also becomes the vehicle that lets a bulky, light-footed man named (yes) Poetri, in times of stress, turn himself into Michael Jackson (whose last name conveniently rhymes with "relaxin' ").
Consisting largely of snatches of conversation without context, the opera repeatedly asks the question "Where are we?" Where in space, yes, but also in time and medium, in a work with cameos by Salome and Abraham and Isaac from the Bible, Medea and Oedipus from Greek mythology and Octavian and the Marschallin from opera.
Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times, yes.
And yes, that's just in time for the new Premier League and Serie A seasons.
"At the right point in time, yes, the Turks will be involved".
Any manager would be disappointed not to be given the time they need to finish a job, but if you're asking me whether I'm very disappointed at this moment in time, yes, I am.
