Quentin's Weeknotes 10/10/21-10/16/21

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This Week:

In MUST251, we taught brief overviews of the material culture of African-America, including discussions of minkisi bundles, the Bakongo cosmogram, and the African Burial Ground in New York City. I had the good fortune to know and later work for the director of Archaeology from the ABG, Professor Warren Perry, and it was delightful and heartwarming to teach the things he taught me to other students.
I did some work getting ready for our upcoming Halloween event “The Horror in the Museum”
I finished watching “Spring”, a beautiful, sweet, and grotesque film about a young man who falls in love with a monster. I love Benson and Moorhead’s other films, but this is a class by itself. Genuinely strange and gorgeously shot in Italy, it’s a movie about love and death and bodies and history. Just amazing….
In a fit of seasonal Halloween enthusiasm, I dusted off a reading I did of HP Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”. It’ll be up on the blog, as well as in my “projects” section.