Quentin's Weeknotes 10/16/22-10/22/22

This Week:

• Movie-wise, I was on a western kick this week. I finished watching “The Harder they Fall” a revisionist African-American western with a stellar cast. It’s long but very entertaining.
• I also watched “High Plains Drifter”, dark and haunting movie about the magnetic pull of evil and the inability to escape violence.
• We hosted Hartwick’s Board of Trustees at the Yager Museum.
• I did final grades for MUST252: North American Material Culture to 1700. It was a fun class, and I hope the students enjoyed it as much as I did.
• I picked up two albums–Green Lung’s “Woodland Rites” and “Silent Shout” by the Knife. Great Halloween music!
• We de-installed “Street Stuff”, an installation at the Museum by Roberta Griffith.
• I finished reading Scott R. Jones bewildering cosmic horror novel “Stonefish”, about a journalist in the future who seeks out, and ultimately finds an eccentric tech-billionaire who disappeared while searching for cryptids in the pacific Northwestern United States. It’s a dark and explosively written novel that, like most cosmic horror, is about the futility of action in an actively hostile universe, but it steps above the genre with its elaborate and terrifying mythology, rich prose, and understated humanism.