mummies and postcards and singing, oh my!

I'm breaking in the new glasses with Bob Brier's The Murder of Tutankhamen, a forensic examination of the young pharaoh's (probable) murder. Brier, an Egyptologist, paleopathologist, and professor of philosophy at CW Post University, is perhaps bes t known for his 1993 embalming of a human cadaver, utilizing authentic ancient Egyptian techniques (National Geographic did a TV special on the mummification, but so far, I'm not having much luck tracking it down). Haven't had a chance to get too far into the book yet, but he certainly knows his material, and does a deft job of presenting his information in a lucid, readable style.

In other news, I'm rediscovering the joys of postcards, and have begun to amass a collection of same to replace the ones I've lost to various moves over the years; my sincere thanks for their contributions to grave, jolefay, anoisblue, curmudgeon (it's lovely, but do you really have to die first?), and sun_set_bravely (and welcome aboard, too!). A (hopefully) quick night at work, then to piano bar, to sing.