Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s been a hectic few weeks while I simultaneously tried to relax and get work done that slipped through the cracks of the strange fall semester. I’m not sure that I managed to accomplish either thing, but it’s too late to worry about that now as the spring semester begins next week.

Plus, it would seem silly to even try to get work done when there’s so much quality NFL football this weekend, the third test in the Australia-India series is “hotting up,” and the NBA season is finding its feet. Sometimes it’s all about priorities.

Plus, there are some quick hits and varia:

• An open letter to the Greek Prime Minister from the employees of the National Archaeological Museum.

• Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity.

• Negev and Judean Desert Sounds.

• Top Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2020.

• Top Jazz Recordings from 2020:

Chicago Tribune List.

New York Times List.

Pandemic Jazz via NPR

• Public Domain Day: Alain Locke, The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925).

• Debut Poets.

• The Isolated Cinema.

• J.G. Ballard’s surrealist liberalism.

• The Habring² Felix Foudroyante with Salmon Dial.

• A new Speedmaster.

• What I’m reading: <crickets>

• What I’m listening to: Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976.