Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s reading and review day here in North Dakotaland and I plan to spend as much of it as possible reading and reviewing. In a perfect world, I might read and review all the way through the weekend.

In reality, I know myself well enough to realize that I probably can’t read and review all weekend. Fortunately, there is a remarkable weekend of boxing on tap. First, there is Anthony Joshua versus Kubrat Pulev for heavy weight championship of the world. Then in the evening, there is a full card of boxing from Bob Arum’s Top Rank stables including Shakur Stevenson, the first round knock out machine Edgar Berlanga, “The Dominican Kid” Elvis Rodriguez, and the former Cuban Olympia Robeisy Ramirez. It should be an entertaining enough day of boxing to make me forget that Ohio State won’t be playing Michigan this year for the first time in a century. 

In the meantime, here’s a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Hesperia 89.4.

• WARP’s 2020 in Review.

• Archaeology and Climate Change: New Challenges to Fieldwork in the Middle East.

• Fancy Mosaic in England.

• Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins.

• A new director at Isthmia.

• Minoan Deep State.

• The Challenge of The Winter Moons.

• Bloom County at 40.

• A Person not a Number.

• Principles of University Teaching for the post-COVID 19 Campus.

• Radiator Heat and Pandemics.

• Now in Paperback:The University of North Dakota and the Great War.

• Looking Back at Fleetwood Mac.

• Two great collaborations:

Bamford London X Time+Tide.

Unimatic X Massena Lab.

• Vacheron Constantin 222.

• What I am reading: Marcos André Torres de Souza and Diogo Menezes Costa, Historical Archaeology and the Environment. 2018.

• What I am listening to: Bobby Hutherson, Total Eclipse.

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