Weeknotes: 7/2/23-7/8/23

This Week:

• My wife and I watched “I am Mother”, a dark and deeply cynical science fiction film about a robot that raises a human child inside a sealed, post-apocalyptic bunker. It was well done, but definitely emotionally and morally messy.
• I finished reading “Hellfire: The Jerry Lewis Story” by Nick Tosches. It’s a beautiful book about a genuinely unlikeable person who also managed to make some of the wildest and most astonishing music of the 20th century.
• The museum hosted our second “Crafternoons” centered around the theme of storytelling. Our student workers made storytelling dice and kids made comics and picture stories. It was tons of fun!
• We did some more work installing “Velocity and position” in the Elting gallery.
• With the holiday, my fam did several fun trips. We went to Ithaca and visited the Museum of the Earth, a really fascinating and beautiful paleontology musuem. We also went to Binghamton and took the kids to see “The Little Mermaid” and “the Flash”, respectively, as well as paying a visit to Robot City Arcade. Finally, we went to a 4th of July cookout at a friend’s house, and had a great old time, despite the heat.