A rare but nice treat: Martin Tyler doing the commentary for an American Premier League broadcast

personally i dont think a blt, draft beer and tip should cost $34 even if it is at an airport but here we are in gods good america

I need some new bits, the “st Louis sucks,” “America is a barbarian uncivilized country,” and “archaeology is even weirder than you thought, also colonialism” kinda running out of steam even for me

I wish Chicago was closer to STL than 5 hours by train

I was 2/2 picking movies this Christmas. My extremely anti woke family loved The Jerk (iykyk) and also The Talented Mr Ripley (improbably, but I guess there’s something for everyone there)

American airports bring back smoking lounges challenge. I don’t need to be able to light up anywhere, a designated area is fine like in literally every other country in the world. Just don’t make me go outside and then through security again ffs

Is there an app for this or is it all browser? Cause it doesn’t work great on my phone tbh

Well, this sure hasn’t turned out to be substantially better than Twitter lol

Sorely tempted by the ad free YouTube subscription, accessing it across devices has become increasingly annoying

Working my way through “St. Louis and Empire: 250 Years of Imperial Quest and Urban Crisis” by Henry Berger. Highly recommend g.co/kgs/Af4HzM

Recalibrating my media diet, been consuming mostly junk food for far too long

lol cool, nice work Zarghami www.iranintl.com/en/202311267...

have a cold for the first time in… not sure how long. No fun!

Happy Native American Heritage Day from the Newark Earthworks, constructed by the Hopewell Culture between 1-400 CE

Nothing like some time off to see “oh, that’s where my mind is going to rest these days”

New frontiers in family time, me (34) and my brother (24) smoked a joint on the lanai and my dad went “smells like dope!” and that was that lol

Once again grilling the Turkey turned excellently. Really the way to go for so many reasons www.bonappetit.com/recipe/exper...

Wanna read how Shawn Graham and I used knowledge graphs and AI to find what *MIGHT BE* a multi-decade crime spree across museums and continents? It's FREE: "Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is one of my favorite parts of the year, right before the holidays when people start to go home and normal time begins to unravel as Holiday Time replaces it

Alright so I was following the anthro/archy feed but it was almost entirely classics. Is there another one going that is less Greco-Roman focused?

Was going through my phone on the plane yesterday and found this, Philly ca. 2019

Can’t wait to see what kind of crazy bullshit is going on with Eric Adams and Erdoğan, that’s gonna be one for the ages

“Lead in the water, amirite?” is a great way to understand it when boomers and gen xers start acting up

In Florida for the week, pray for my soul

Anybody else on here have a life-changing experience with a “self-help” book? (Could be one marketed as such or one that functioned for you like one) if so, what was it?

Most of the time I just blanch green beans (I get the fancy variety at aldi) but last week I stewed them with onions and bacon and whew boy

I've noticed far less enjoyment on my part for traveling (conferences, going home for the holidays, etc) & was puzzling over it. Was it about masking? Costs? Nope. Turns out that when I was in grad school being on a plane was the only time I wasn't working. Now the expanse of nothing-time is a bore

One of my favorite things when rewatching northern exposure is popping the next ep on and from the intro remembering “Oh sweet this is a Leonard/Adam/memorable-out-of-towner episode”

I just don’t know how some of you do it. I am so constantly pulled in a million directions by my own brain let alone circumstances that I never seem to get anywhere

Lol whoops forgot to post on here for 2 weeks

Got to do one of my favorites over the weekend: explaining to foreigners how much American slang comes from baseball. Clutch

Heads up people with lecture slides about the Paleolithic for intro to archaeology classes: it’s more where archaeology gets done than taphonomy that produces the illusion of the symbolic revolution ca. 50kya

Just caught myself ordering a filter-coffee at the campus cafe and the lady just looked at me like boy what

Days when I manage to get in both a workout and dance practice after work before evening functions >>>

feeling grateful to the ca. 20% of students that actually filled out the mid-term evals. their feedback is actually super helpful in improving my courses, even if it is true that the only students I end up hearing from in this format are the 'motivated' ones

Spending some time tonight with Tu Wei-Cheng, an artist I find endlessly fascinating. Working up an essay about his 10-year long practice that involved creating and displaying in a range of media a totally fake ancient civilization as a commentary on the “special exhibition”

Reflecting on todays lesson introducing general survey course students to Indigenous Archaeology, it’s really incredible what a low level of knowledge many folks seem to have of removal and the wars the USG waged on Native nations, like, not that long ago

Got to visit my thesis subjects this weekend, the figurines from Tureng Tepe. These friends introduced me to so many things, from semiotics to use-wear and eventually my current research on the historical political economy of archaeology

Lol my alma mater really covering itself in glory again this week. Get your head outta your ass, Penn

“There has been a swift and dramatic narrowing of permissible speech on Israel/Palestine that strikes at the heart of academic freedom.” Read MESA Board’s “Statement on Palestine and Israel” mesana.org/advocacy/let...

Really proud of my TAs today! They did a great job giving the Indigenous Archaeology lecture in my World Archaeology course, introducing the class to both the method and theory of IA (with a focus on Native North America) based in their own personal experiences, which was really special

Doing something new for the first time today: driving to the airport and leaving my car parked there

Hat tip to my friend who reminded me this week how much Bonnie Raitt kicks ass

Some praise for St Louis: this town’s got some real funky freaks, like the guy who shreds noise on his keytar wearing outlandish costumes at many public events or just wherever sometimes. You can find him on IG (poopyknife) and be sure that he rips it

Annnndd just after firing off those posts I queued up the next episode of Northern Exposure and it was the episode where they introduce Mike Monroe, the man who moved to Alaska to escape the chemical toxicity of modernity. Think I might make my students watch it to be like see, even 90s tv was on it

Lol damn today was the day it finally broke for my students in the archaeology and climate change class. I had them read some of the AGW big pieces from 2015-16 and they were all like damn yeah the J-curve really does shoot up around 1950 in almost every proxy we can think of

Realized I was a bit apprehensive about going to Philly tomorrow and it’s clear why. I didn’t leave on the best of terms (a friend breakup that kinda rocked me) & also I’m sad that it isn’t home anymore

I’m bored and spoiling for a fight: the arch is the stupid as hell and St Louis would be better off if they hadn’t bulldozed the port and adjacent neighborhoods to build it

Where are my weird archaeology people at? I don’t mean “are you an archaeologist and are you weird” (that’s all of us, cmon), I mean people doing out-there archaeology

Today I learned that while I know I can do primary drafting for a max of 3 hours in a day, I can edit and revise without end. I had to cut myself off or I could have just done it until bedtime lol