Horse Armor

So yesterday I met up with The Slush God and Amy Tibbets (watch for her fiction in an upcoming issue of Black Gate magazine) to go check out the extra-special exhibit on medieval horse armor at the Met. I enjoy going to museums so that I can glance at each piece and make a joke about it (e.g. re: a four-foot-long series of hinged armor plates, “This must be the horse’s cock protector”), but Amy explained that it’s actually possible to read those little boxes of text next to each piece and actually learn something. I always wondered what those were for. Amy even amazed us all by knowing off the top of her head what happened in 1588, one of the most important dates in history. (Of course, I know what happened in 1588, but a lot of people don’t.) After that we meandered through Central Park, then met up for dinner with a few other friends (Rob, Carol, Andrea) to congratulate Andrea in person for making her first fiction sale.