Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It’s a long weekend here in North Dakotaland punctuated by food, sport, and the spectacle of American consumerism. So far the food has been better than the sport with Australia slinking to 165/4 in the first test of the Ashes, but it’s only day two and the captain is at the crease. Plus, my second favorite NFL team managed to win on Thanksgiving (whoever is playing the Cowboys) and I’m guardedly optimistic that Ohio State can win The Game on Saturday. 

Whatever happens, the weekend is always a nice way to set up for the grading, paper writing, and frantic fire-fighting at the end of fall semester. So I hope you have time to enjoy a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• A storified review of the new Teubner edition of the Odyssey. 

• Matt Milner and Christa Ballard Tooley compare the new Museum of the Bible to the Creation Museum.

• A database of Roman urbanism.

• Kyparissos in 1982.

• “Flights of Archaeology: Peschke’s Acrocorinth“

• “‘Deviants, punks and Pink Fairies’: counter-archaeologies for unreasonable people“

• Archaeology of climate change.

• Two decades of the Bakken.

• The Liberian-American mayor-elect of Helena, Montana. 

• Touch the art.

• This could be neat.

• Writer’s Block.

• Go on and pre-order a copy of the The Beast.

• What I’m reading: Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia (2017). 

• What I’m listening to: Mal Waldron, Mal-2.