I hate it when the San Francisco Chronicle reports on a great exhibit that has no plans to come to San Francisco. Do they wish for me to get on a plane and fly to see it? Ugh. Case in point: I would love to see this exhibit called "Games We Played" about boardgames from the last 19th century. They run the gamut of issues, thoughts, and perspectives of the day, including some rather racist ones (e.g. like a game called "...Jim Crow Ten Pins, from about 1900, in which players knock down smiling minstrel figures, and The Game of Watermelon Patch (1896), featuring stereotypes of blacks stealing and eating melons." Can you believe that?! Wow, how terrible.) The exhibit looks fascinating and I am very jealous of Sparky and other New Yorkers who can go to it right now.