Weeknotes: 3/10/24-3/16/24

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This Week:

I read Tochi Onyebuchi’s harrowing sci-fi novella “Riot Baby”, a powerful book about race, violence, psychic power, and freedom, and which calls to mind the best radical and socially-conscious science fiction.
I’ve also been slowly reading Bob Mehr’s wonderful “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements”, and decided that I needed to fill in the gaps in the ‘Mats back catalog, so I picked up the Rhino records Original Album Series, which has the first five records, and have been basking in their ramshackle beauty and humor.
In MUST204, we talked about taking artifact photos for cataloging purposes, and I lectured on the history of collections.
I’ve been assisting in the installation of our newest exhibit of paintings by the great Anna Richards Brewster.
I did some more work moving on NAGPRA and repatriation.
I cemented some plans for our upcoming hosting of a talk by the great Neal Powless. I’m really excited to hear him talk about Lacrosse, Indigenous recognition, and more on April 10th.
My wife and I are working our way through “The League”, a hilarious and positively filthy show about fantasy football, with a stellar cast that manages to make the frankly terrible people they portray human and even occasionally empathetic.