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January 4th, 2010 - 8:36 pm § in Archaeologist

Yemen is a Beautiful Mess

I’m categorizing this one under archaeology, but it’s really not. You see, I did my dissertation research in Yemen, and really love the country. So, with how much it’s been in the news lately, I’ve been gobbling up all the Yemen news I can find.

In doing so, I came across two blogs that (I’m embarrassed to say) I previously didn’t know existed. Between them, they paint vivid and wildly divergent pictures of the country. But if you’re at all interested in Yemen, you owe it to yourself to look read them as a sort of antidote to the stupid stuff that you’ll find elsewhere.

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December 31st, 2009 - 11:16 pm § in Uncategorized

Happy 2010!

(Note: the following is a break from my policy of this blog being a politics-free zone. I would have posted it on Facebook or Twitter, but it’s too long. Enjoy.) Fuck the Aughts. Fuck racist stupid-as-shit Republicans. Fuck our lazy-ass press who can’t do their own fucking jobs. Fuck Bush, h[...]

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December 30th, 2009 - 9:20 pm § in Archaeologist

Ouch!

Today I decided to let my ASOR membership lapse. It was a painful decision, but seeing how little I’m actually doing in the field, I just could’t bring myself to pony up the $110 for another year’s membership. I sincerely hope that this is just a temporary thing, and that I re-up sometime in [...]

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December 20th, 2009 - 11:24 pm § in Handyman

A Little Carpentry Project

For some reason, little girls who are seriously into horses like to pretend that they’re horses. I really don’t know why this is, but all the girls who ride with my daughter spend hours before and after their lessons running and jumping over child-sized jumps. They trot, they canter, and the mak[...]

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November 18th, 2009 - 6:51 am § in Archaeologist

Finders Keepers?

John Tierney makes an ass of himself again, this time discussing cultural property.[...]

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October 30th, 2009 - 10:01 pm § in Handyman

I Hates Meeces to Pieces

I consider myself to be a fairly tolerant person. But there’s one thing that I won’t tolerate: mice in my truck. I really hate those smelly, pissing, pooping, wire chewing bastards. So any that move in should know that they will die. But what I really want to know is what the neighbors’ big, [...]

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October 26th, 2009 - 8:17 pm § in Archaeologist

Hey, I’m Famous!

Well, not really…but my work is featured in the new exhibition on the Royal Cemetery of Ur. Just opened this past weekend at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, I haven’t yet had the chance to go to Philly to see it in person, but I hope to do so someday soon. In the mean time, you [...][...]

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