Weeknotes 09/24/23-09/30/23

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This Week:

My wife and I watched Step Brothers, a searing critique of American masculinity, hiding underneath a gross-out comedy. It’s less overt than something like The Other Guys and its didactic indictment of the 2008 financial crash, but its grotesque humor feels almost mirror-like in how it reflects the strangeness and contradictions of American men.
In MUST252, I taught brass projectile points and tomahawks, two objects related directly to the conquest of North America as resistance to it.
At the end of last week, the Museum hosted presentations by four of our students who talked about internships they had this summer at a wide variety of museums in the northeast. They did a great job–well done!
I picked up SUNN o))))’s album “Life Metal” which, in its droning electric waves of noise, is exactly what I needed this week.