Quentin's Weeknotes 11/7/21-11/13/21
This Week:
- I finished reading “Memento Mori” by Brian Hauser. It’s an epistolary (sort of) novel that riffs on the mythology of Robert W. Chambers “The King in Yellow”, a favorite of HP Lovecraft and the inspiration for the first season of True Detective.
- This week in MUSt251, we talked about Maps as Material Culture, and cultural landscapes.The students also submitted their object biography drafts, and we sent them comments to help them revise.
- For the last two weeks, one or the other of my kids has been quarantined for COVID-19 exposure. It’s been a rough and exhausting time, and I’m happy that my kids were ultimately not infected. I’m also frustrated and angry at my follow community-members, who continue to resist, flout, or complain about the most minimal of public health interventions (masks and vaccines) thus creating even more dramatic consequences for themselves and us.
- I spent some time working on getting the panels in our mask exhibit fully translated into Spanish.
