Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s finally Friday of what feels like one of the longer weeks in recent memory. Maybe this has to do with this being the first week of class. Or maybe the unseasonably warm weather. Or maybe the juggling too many little projects that did not quite get finished over the winter break.

Whatever the reason, I’m looking forward to taking some time this weekend to read, to recharge, and, ideally, to enter the third week of January with a renewed reserve of energy. 

I am also looking forward to watching some of the final test of the tied Australia-India series, watching my mighty Spiders take on their crosstown rivals at VCU, and seeing how the NFL playoffs continued to develop. 

In the meantime, please enjoy some quick hits and varia:

• A changing of the guard at the SCS Blog.

• Ed Watt’s on the storming of the Capitol.

• Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice

• Linked Open Data for the Ancient Mediterranean: Structures, Practices, Prospects

• Wonder Woman as a Museum Employee.

• Byzantine Studies Electronic Resources.

• Hearing Corwin Hall: The Archaeology of Anxiety on an American University Campus.

• It Hardly Hurt a Bit.

• An Oral History of 12 Monkeys.

• 1950s LeCoultre Futurematic.

• 2021 Records to Die For.

• What I’m reading: Eleni Kefala, The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity. Washington, DC. 2020.

• What I’m listening to: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette, Yesterdays.