Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It’s been a while, but I am getting back into the swing of blogging this summer. In other words, I feels like it’s time for a few quick hits and varia.

It’s good sports weekend with the F1 chaps at Hungaroring, the NASCARlers at the Brickyard, and Indy Car in Toronto. If you’re a real sports fan, though, you’re getting up early to watch England v. Pakistan in cricket. Pakistan took the first test in the series at Lords. If this test series isn’t being read as a critique of England’s conflicted history with its colonial past, then people don’t know how to read sports as politics.  

• How to eat souvlaki. (And you ahead and check out the rest of the WARP blog from this past summer).

• Some nice lesson plans based on the Corinth Excavations.

• Roman Larnaka.

• I’m quoted on the BBC webpage.

• An Archaeological Photo-Ethnography by Y. Hamilakis and F. Ifantidis. It’s cool and it’s free.

• Best social media practices in archaeology from the SAA.

• Dreams, Memory, and Imagination in Byzantium.

• New UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

• Shipwrecks and The Little Mermaid.

• Bagpipes.

• RIP Alan Vega.

• Jan Chipchase on the future.

• What I’m reading: Matthew Kirschenbaum, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. Harvard 2016. 

• What I’m listening to: Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues; Junior Wells Hoodoo Man Blues.

Lots of ways to deal with the frog days of summer.