Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Yesterday, I started to feel like the semester was getting into a kind of rhythm. It’s a new rhythm, but a rhythm nonetheless. It gives me hope that I can start being productive again despite the stress associated with COVID and the anxiety about the November elections, the national and local economy, and life in the 21st century in general.

Fortunately, there’s a good bit to distract me. The F1 guys are at Monza, the Tour de France has flirted with the Alps and will hit the Pyrenees this weekend, the NASCARlers are in Darlington, the Phillies are hot, and Australia plays England in a T20 game. 

More than that, my pile of books continues to grow, my to-do list remains daunting, and I feel like I should be enjoying the outside a bit more before the long-cold winter commences. 

In case you missed it, do check out Kyle Conway’s new edited volume fresh off the presses at The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota: Sixty Years of Boom and Bust: The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018. Here’s the press release on the volume, and here are my thoughts on my contribution.  

And, here’s a little gaggles of quick hits and varia:

• ASCSA Webinar Series.  

• An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World.

• AIA Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology

• Crete and Cyprus.

• Six Grand Forks Schools Added to the National Register of Historic Places.

• Pottery from On-a-Slant Village.

• The 51st Annual UND Writers Conference (coming everything Thursday this fall).

• Arts, Humanities and Pandemic in North Dakota.

• RIP David Graeber.

• A cultural history of the parking lot. 

• Jetpacks.

• Jimmy Butler.

• Randall Kenan.

• Om Shanti.

• What I’m reading: Martin Devecka, Broken Cities: a historical sociology of ruins. (2020).

• What I’m listening to: Gary Corbin, Gods in Brazil. 

Have a Great Labrador Day Weekend!