Friday Quick Hits and Varia
It’s a strange time of year in North Dakotaland. It feels like it really wants to be summer, but spring seems a bit incomplete. The temperatures have soared into the balmy 70s while trees continue to try their hardest to sprout leaves and the various flower wrestle forth from their winter slumber. Perhaps this is the appropriate weather for a bit of a uncertain end to the academic year.
The awkward spring has not put a damper on celebrating the latest book from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. If you haven’t already, check out Backstories: The Kitchen Table Talk Cookbook edited by Cynthia C. Prescott and Maureen S. Thomson for a culinary and intellectual journey through rural kitchens across North America.
This weekend is a bit of a lull in spring sports schedule. While the Cup guys are in my home state of Delaware this weekend, Dover hasn’t been a particularly entertaining a race recently. The Phils start a series against the Blue Jays in which I assume they’ll win game one, take game two into extra innings, and then lose game three. The Sixers should clinch the Eastern Conference championship with a win over Orlando as they’ve continued to coast toward the playoffs.
I have a stack of books and articles to read this weekend too as the grind of the semester gives way to summertime projects and an effort to move my way through my reading and writing backlog. Stay tuned for my annual summer reading list.
In the meantime, check out this little gaggle of quick hits and varia:
What I’m reading: Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures. NYU 2019 (but also: Alexander G. Weheliye, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. Duke 2005.)
What I’m listening to: Paul Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, The Spanish Suite.
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