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The man, David Gonzalez, a 21-year-old medical records clerk, said he was confused, then relieved. "I thought she was saying 'No phones,' " he said. "I really thought she was upset with me. Goes to show what I know about women!"

Gonzalez, who said he is obsessed with filing and organizing, enjoyed the show.

"That was incredible," he said. "It was like a tribute. To see something from the past brought back so perfectly, it's really comforting."

Then Ike took me through Tate's, explaining the value of action figures, admiring Star Wars replicas, and trying to sell me on the legitimacy of graphic novels, which will always mean sexually explicit literature to me.

I must have been softened by my own laughter. "OK, I'm sold!" I said — but I was really just trying to slip away for something I could really buy into: irreverence. I picked up some Jesus Band-Aids and a Virgin Mary bread stamp, because, art and boobs aside, who knows when a girl will need divine healing or a breakfast toast miracle?