Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s an early fall Friday which means cooler temperatures, changing leaves, apples on our apple tree, and football for the backdrop for the hustle and bustle of the academic year. We’ve had just enough recent rain to make some fall foThis really is my favorite time of year.

I’m excited to switch between the Penn State “white out” game against Auburn on Saturday night and the Bristol NASCAR night race. Ohio State’s game verses Tulsa will provide a nice flickering backdrop to some weekend reading and writing. Without Carson Wentz to bring in local viewers, my Eagles aren’t on TV much out here in the Red River Valley, but I’ll be following them on my laptop. I’ve heard, but can’t confirm, that the Phillies season is over.

I hope that you all have some enjoyable weekend plans and, if not, maybe my quick hits and varia can help!

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• Why the periphery should be central to Mycenaean studies.

• Some sad news:

Elizabeth Clark.

Phil Schaap.

Norm MacDonald.

• Putting the Greeks and Romans in their Place: A Syllabus.

• Voices from the Grave: a Late Bronze Age Population from Kalavasos and their Tombs.

• The Armenian Option.

• Integrated spatial analysis in archeological research.

• Beyond Petrotoxic Apparatuses.

• Rhys Carpenter’s poetry.

• Celebrating N. Scott Momaday.

• Monica Byrne, The Actual Star.

• Welsbro Watches.

• What I’m reading: Michael Leib, The Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time. Duke 1998.

• What I’m listening to: Matthew E. White, K Bay.