Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The first part of this week was well and truly summertime and the second half has been spring. The good news is that we finally received some soaking rain turning my neighborhood from a kid of pickley brown to a vibrant green. In fact, it’s damp enough that we’re under something (and I kind you not) called a “dense fog warning.” Who even know fog was a THING any more?

In any event, this weekend should be a good one. The Formula 1 boys are finally back at Monaco after a year away because of COVID. The Cup guys are at Circuit of the Americas for the first time. And the Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor fight on Saturday Night has all the makings of a “fight of the year” candidate (and will be nice distraction from the endless Fury-Joshua-Wilder drama.)

Of course the main event of the weekend is the start of the Sixers playoff push with their opening round series commencing against Washington at noon on Sunday. The Phils face the Red Sox for what will be an early test for the up-and-down Philadelphia side.

I have plenty to do to keep my lap top humming when this or that game or race is on TV including getting my tiny Roman History class set up properly.

And continue my hunt for quick hits and varia:

• Who would you talk to from Byzantium (feat. Fotini Kondyli and Alexander Sarantis)?

• An Egyptian Trio

The African Dimension of Egyptian Origins.

Egypt and the Desert (free until June 1).

Coffin Commerce (free until June 2).

• Thessaloniki Lost City.

• Posthuman Archaeologies, Archaeological Posthumanisms.

• Sorting Pottery.

• ‘Stay Alive’: What Academic Annual Reports (Don’t) Say.

• Race and Archaeology Twofer: 

Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology.

Craft an African American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

• Digging Dartmouth.

• L.A. Graffiti Black Book.

• Pencil Typography.

• Certina is Back.

• And if you’re reading this before 9:10 CDT: Kurono Anniversary 朱鷺:TOKI

• What I am reading: Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. (2002)

• What I am listening to: Throttle Elevator Music, Throttle Elevator Music.