Quentin's Weeknotes 3/7/21-3/31/21
This Week:
- In an effort to drive less and get more excercise, I started to biking to work, now that the long New York winter is starting to loosen its grip. I bought a used Trek 7000, and a Banjo Brothers waterproof pannier to keep my stuff from falling.
- In Collections Management, we talked about collections policies, and NAGPRA, and also using computer databases to organize collections.
- I did some work trying to get a future exhibit on Mexican Masks up and running.
- I worked with students, and by myself, on some collections research projects related to the peopling of North America, and 19th century Indigenous politics.
- I finished reading “The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carniverous Cosmos of Laird Barron.” I love Barron’s short fiction, which meshes together Cosmic horror with the working class fictional genres of westerns, work novels, and detective fiction. In particular, his collections “Occultation” and “The Imago Sequence” are modern horror classics, and his austere and muted prose strikes a gorgeous counterpoint to his wildly imaginative monstrous cosmology related to ancient evil and occult conspiracy. This collection shows other authors paying tribute to Barron by using his mythologies in their own original stories. Perhaps ironically, given that Barron’s worlds are very masculine in tone and subject, the best stories here, in my opinion, were written by women.
- On Bandcamp friday, I picked up Richard Thompson’s new-ish album “13 Rivers” and Jawbreaker’s classic “24 hour Revenge Therapy”
We got a dog. This is Aquilo or Quill for short. He’s probably some kind of husky/german shepherd mix, though possibly with a bit of terrier in there somewhere. So far, he’s a sweetheart who loves time on the couch as much as he loves exploring every square foot of our local park. We got him from “It’s Ruff without a roof”, a shelter in Pennsylvania.
