Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s the Friday before a long weekend and we’re bracing for “seasonal” temperatures here in the Northern Plains with highs in the 90s for the holiday.

Fortunately, I still have a stack of books to read, a big ole chunk of pork to throw on the smoker, and the first Tour de France mountain stages to enjoy on TV. The F1 show is still at the uninspiring Red Bull Ring for the second race in their double header, the NASCAR guys are at Road America (for a slightly different July 4th race), and the MLB season rolls with the NBA playoffs heading toward the finals. In other words, there are plenty of serious things to do this weekend.

I hope you have some fun midsummer plans and are finding ways to stay cool and enjoy the long days even as they start to get shorter again. In the meantime here’s a very small list of quick hits and varia:

• The Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Film Festival.

• Doing Archaeological Fieldwork in One’s Ancestral Home Country.

• Two from Punctum:

Alternative Histories of the Digital Humanities.

Pan-pan

• A new series: Little Books about North Dakota.

• From the NDQ archives.

• Of Brown M&M’s and Publishing in Academic Journals.

• Sun Ra and the Impossible.

• Borgel – The Master Casemaker You Haven’t Heard Of.

• Only Watch 2021.

• Haven Watch Co.

• What I’m reading: Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and the Double Consciousness. 1993.

• What I’m listening to: Lee Morgan, Infinity.