Having gotten back on the right track, I stopped in at the barber shop. Also closed. Good thing I'd gotten a haircut just a week before.

Off to see "Midnight at the Museum," tonight. From reading the reviews, it looks like it's based on (or heavily influenced by) a book called "The Night Life of the Gods", which is set in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (rather than the Museum of Natural History where the movie takes place). The book was written in 1931 by a guy named Thorne Smith. He was famous then for writing comic novels. The best known were probably those in the "Topper" series. These spawned at least a couple of movies at the time, and a TV show in the early 1950s. I've read a few of his books and, allowing for their datedness, they're pretty good. Nice social satire.