Weeknotes: 06/20/26-06/26/26

This Week:

• In the Museum, we had our “half-day fun” programs, for kiddos (like mine!) who had a week of half days before school lets out.
• I did some good planning for future indigenous programs, and some work finalizing a response to a repatriation claim. I also helped our assistant do some cataloging of a new collection.
• I finished reading Madeline Ashby’s “Company Town” which is a great future noir about post-humanism, the violence that men do, and the spaces of generosity and care we can find outside those dark forces.
• Good things:
  • Alanna and I watched the Edgar Wright version of The Running Man. Overall it wasn’t bad! The ending is a bit all-over-the-place, but the bulk of the movie is viciously, breathtakingly paced and Glen Powell kind of works as an angry, working-class jerk who loves his family. We’re also planning on taking the kiddos to the Unadilla Drive-in to celebrate the last day of school.
  • Scrobbles included Richard Shindell, Caroline Polachek, and Richard Thompson.
  • Father’s day included a wonderful breakfast of crepes, some gardening, and an amazing present in the form of a touchscreen for my raspberry pi rune audio server. Since digitizing most of my music in the 2000s, I’ve had a dream of having an accessible audio setup where all my music was easily available. Now I have it–thanks hon.
  • I also took a trek up to Barnes and Noble in Utica and picked up Yanis Varoufakis’ “Techno-feudalism” and Ray Naylor’s “The Mountain in the Sea”.