Who wore it better?

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I was wondering why Machine-Created Culture had only sold ca. 4 copies in its first year of release & it turns out it was only available in HB for $120 ($1/pg). The ebook’s $20, though. But if you are on a shoestring budget, message me here and I’ll hook you up. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...

Lake Michigan from the beach in Lake Bluff, Illinois. January 1, 2026. I will never understand why I’m usually the only person out in places like this on days of cold and bluster. The air is brittle and the sunlight rare and I hope heaven is just like this.

[Werner Herzog voiceover]: In our final moment, we are all like the Tannenbaum at the New Year, naked of all ornamentation and symbol, once loved and cared for but now just like every other tree, soon to be shrouded, carried off, and turned to ash. #HappyNewYear

And for those of you wanting a palate cleanser after Stranger Things tonight, I recommend ep. 4, season 7, of the X-Files: “Millennium”. It’s a proper NYE episode and introduces the character Frank Black of the Millennium Group. Aired 25 years ago.

Happy Vulcan New Year

Farewell to 2025 in which I buried my father, buried one of my last two cats, bought my first house and immediately lost my archaeology job, collected unemployment, found an archaeology job, moved my mother with Alzheimer’s to Illinois, and became a caregiver. It feels like I’m barely holding on.

My goals for 2026: 1) publish my archaeology poetry chapbook, 2) write my heist novel (Meltdown), 3) write my Alzheimer’s novel (Monkeybrain), 4) learn how to use a fountain pen & start writing letters to friends like I used to, 5) do something meaningful for the Resistance, 6) finish my new record.

I’m ready for the New Year bonfire after clearing out the playhouse (not been done in 13 years). Who’s up for whisky and flames you can see from space (or at least from the top of the Sears Tower)?

And then the cat disappeared. Waukegan, Illinois. December 29, 2025.

I just finished Silent Hill 2 for the first time, and as a caregiver, it hit me right in the feels.

Today is the day to bake soft pretzels with S-tier yeast. These are big boys!

Merry Christmas to me #Stålenhag #ArchaeologyOfLateStageCapitalism

Everybody gets a Christmas sweater

Merry Christmas, from my house to yours

Near Montrose, Colorado. December 20, 2025.

I’m a little late to the party this year, but Io: #Saturnalia! #Classics open.spotify.com/track/0EJoHt...

Who are these cookie recipe writers who say “makes 40” when it obviously only MAKES 18?

I was going to bake Dolphin Cookies today, but I couldn’t find any all-porpoise flour :( #Baking #Christmas #DadJokes

I’m currently losing my shit here in the parking lot after seeing the Control Resonant trailer. Is it 2026 yet?

I have the rest of December off, so I’m taking Cyphernaut off hiatus for a new record. Early stages, but the drums are giving 1994 Portishead and guitars are sounding 1993 Slowdive. Let’s see where this goes.

I just won this bottle. I’d been searching for ANY Van Winkle bourbon for decades, and now I finally have one. Merry Christmas to me. #bourbon

I’m no longer on the bird site, but got an #archaeogaming alert this morning with the post below. I’m delighted that the #NoMansSky project for my PhD still resonates with the player community I worked with, a digital public archaeology involving the local population every step of the way.

May I introduce you my new creation: the “NoDak” cocktail? 1 part vodka, 1 part ranch dressing, all parts delicious. The next iteration will have a hamburger dill garnish or a cornichon (if you’re nasty). #NoDak #NorthDakota #cocktails #mixology

Front wheel of a seed drill. Rice County, Kansas. December 7, 2025.

Rice County, Kansas. December 6, 2024.

Lyons, Kansas and its world’s largest salt shaker. December 5, 2025. #FolkloricMegafauna

Rice County, Kansas. December 4, 2025.

Rice County, Kansas. December 3, 2025.

Armadillo. Rice County, Kansas. December 2, 2025.

Call me old fashioned, but I miss that veil between the screen and the viewer. Filming in HD for HD screens removes that sense of mystery and wonder. Contemporary moving pictures seen in HD have an artificial quality to them even if you can tell the thread-count now.

Home. Waukegan, Illinois. November 30, 2025.

New designs just dropped on my ArchaeoTees RedBubble store (tshirts, stickers, etc.): www.redbubble.com/people/archa... #archaeology #CRM 🏺

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5... Happy #Thanksgiving

Back home in Chicagoland on Lake Michigan. November 26, 2025.

Today’s #archaeology poem is about #CRM crew sessions. It is in the Trenta-Sei form. 🏺

Rice County, Kansas. November 24, 2025. Not tennis balls—Osage oranges.

Rice County, Kansas. November 23, 2025. Pumpjack and alfalfa field.

Barton County, Kansas. November 21, 2025. 1/2 Cows, goats, and migrating birds

Today’s #archaeology poem is about a rain day. It’s kind of a mess, but you’ll get the idea. It is in the Tripadi form. 🏺 #CRM

Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas. November 21, 2025.

For my #MediaArchaeology friends, all episodes of Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future are streaming on Tubi.

Punk archaeologist. #PunkArchaeology Barton County, Kansas. November 20, 2025

Tonight’s historical #archaeology poem is in the Tricube form (3 stanzas of 3, 3-syllable lines). I am continually amazed by what I observe in the Plains states, which are anything but plain. 🏺

Architecton is an astonishing film: part Koyaanisqatsi, part Edward Burtynsky.

Rush County, Kansas. November 19, 2025. Windmill, cow jaw and teeth, dried sunflower stalks. 1/2

Rush County, Kansas. Limestone posts rock fenceposts, fence, and fossils. November 18, 2025.