Quentin's Weeknotes 9/18/22-9/24/22

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This Week:

I celebrated my wife’s birthday…by driving all of us back to Oneonta from Toronto, with a brief stop at the Niagara Butterfly conservatory, and capped off with Japanese take-out and grocery store cupcakes. This is just going to be one of those weird, surreal birthdays banked in the book.
With my son, I finished reading Knight’s Castle by Edward Eager. It was fun, but not as fun as Half Magic.
I finally finished watching “The Devil’s Backbone”, Guillermo Del Toro’s haunting and haunted meditation on the Spanish Civil War. It was great and creepy and kind of sweet in its open-hearted enthusiasm for the bravery of children.
In North American Material culture, I talked about Indigenous cities with a focus on Cahokia, as well as tobacco as medicine and as commodity.