My Trip to Geppi's Entertainment Museum

I took my six and half year old son with me to the Geppi’s entertainment museum.

Room by room section by section the museum did a great job to keep the viewer engaged with the show. The computerized question boxes made the experience interactive and fun. My son and I keep going back and forth to the walls displays the most valuable artifacts (in my view) to find the answers for question and in a way learning a bit more. Off all the rooms I would probably stay a lot longer in the comic books section if it was not for the dragging pulling of my son. Most of the comic books tell a story about generation and the shift in cultural thinking. The graphics and the pictures full of guns, fighter planes, smoking pipe and blasts of all sorts of things say something what was acceptable a few decades ago. Among my favorites super man

and Action comic are few of them. I was not planning to travel fifteen thousand miles and twenty years back to enjoy the great memories I had with my child hood friends. It happens in a flash as I was staring at the great collections of these comic

books. Growing up in the third world country these comic books gave many of us the glimpse of the American culture. The pulling of my son brought back to now. The one thing that this section helps you to see is that how society or culture changes its view of guns and violent on comic books or what was popular then is no longer viewed as such now. If those comic books are published in this day and age we would see a lot of special programs in all the media and many so called professionals trying to relate all the violence occurring at school and every where with these comic books. Through out the museum the collections are really reflecting how popular culture shaped the American society as well as many culture around the globe.

The other thing I have observed in museum was that how the American culture influenced the entire world. As I have mentioned earlier I did not grow up here and some how I knew about most of the things even before I got here in the United States. Starting in 1960s and 1970s it is clearly visible how commerce played a big role in shaping our culture. It is also obvious how the American culture consumed and admired by billons around the glob.

My overall experience at Geppi’s was one of the best in recent time.

Most of all, my little boy enjoys every bit of it. Off course he bought few of his favorite stuffs and I could not find the strength to say no and give in to the commerce aspect of our culture, but the money was worth spent.

My Project Topic

In this project I would look in to one of the popular TV shows, Lost, to understand what this show is all about. To engage in a conversation with my friends and co-workers I have watched a few episodes of the show and did not gain any more understanding of the show than I had before start watching it. I have listened others discussing on how great the show is. My friends tried to explain the show as best as they possibly could, but did not make any difference in resolving my confusion in the show. I really want to understand the show and see why I am lost. Probably I am going to watch the first season episodes and try to connect the dot in order for me understand it.

A little more about me

This is my son, Zion, Whom I love so much (I love my wife so much too :) ) and each day I work so hard to live a lifelong mark in him. My family is the most important things for me in this world and I am so lucky to have them in my life. I also love to read any book well kind of. I am finding myself pulling away from fictions though. I like philosophy, inspirational, instructional (especially on how to manage my finance) and mystery books. One of the main reason I am taking Popular culture in my last semester at UMBC is that I would be able to understand how the society evolves and changes what pop cultures are and/ or aren't so that I will be able to carry an intellectual conversation with my son, family and who ever brings the topic of pop culture.

For the semester project I would like to focus the following TV shows and Movies

- Lost: I am really lost I do not understand that show and most of my coworkers love the show.

- Matrix: I love the first movie did not like the second one and I did not even watch the third one.

- Premonition: I like the move, but did not like the ending and I did not understand the alternate ending on the DVD.

- Desperate house wife: The show my wife likes and I cannot stand it.

I am here... I guess

Here I am stating my view, but first thing first. With co-workers (great folks), In the middle posing to show that I am here.. kind of :)