Weeknotes: 07/14/24-07/20/24

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This Week:

Saturday, we took a trip to the Landis Arboretum for a butterfly and garden tour. It was quite hot, but a lot of fun, and the grounds were beautiful. There was also a charity booksale in the old barn, and I grabbed a couple of paperbacks that I’m looking forward to devouring.
Monday, I ran a Dungeons and Dragons game for my 11 year old and his friends. I’ve played DnD as an adult, but I haven’t DM’d since I was a teenager. I used a wonderful kids module called “An Ogre and His Cake” from the DMS guild, and it was incredibly fun.
Tuesday, I went with my friend Bill to check out “Longlegs”. Both of us came away feeling somewhat measured about it–good, but not great. Nicholas Cage is suitably unhinged, but the rest of the film felt kind of overstuffed. Having said that, it’s beautifully shot and rendered, with incredibly eerie sequences and setpieces, and as far as that goes, I enjoyed it.
Crafternoons continues! This week’s theme was stories, and visitors made story dice and their own comic book pages.
Dominic and I finished reading Louis Sachar’s “Holes”, a fun and exciting novel that sneaks anti-racist and anti-carceral politics into its otherwise adventure-focused narrative.
I spent some time compiling tribal territory-specific spreadsheets of our collections to further our NAGPRA compliance.
I finished reading M. John Harrison’s “Climbers” and found that I had a lot to say about it.