Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Fall has started its elegant slide into winter her as the occasional snows become more frequent and the cooling days outpace the warming days here in North Dakotaland. This weekend, we’ll ceremonially retire the lawnmower to the shed and move the snow-blower to the garage: a seasonal ritual of there ever was one.

This weekend will reward hunkering down in a comfortable chair with a book or some television. While my Ohio State game was canceled because The COVID and no one hate life enough to look forward to the Eagles-Giants game on Sunday, the F1 guys make a return to Istanbul Raceway Park with its brilliant Tilke designed track. The sports cars are racing at Sebring for 12 hours on Saturday. The evening concludes with the Bud Crawford – Kell Brook fight (with some interesting, if not exactly “must see,” undercards).

There’s also a good bit of interesting and fun stuff to read, including a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Today at 1 PM EST: “Not in any significant or proper sense… Greek”: Orientalism and the Mycenaeans

• The Arch of Hadrian in Athens.

• Jeremy Huggett: “Virtually Real or Really Virtual”

• Preview: Visualizing Votive Practice from The Digital Press.

• A Vote Against Pericles is a Vote Against Plague

• Aegean-Indus Exchange.

• We Are Still Here: Native American Heritage Month

• Yesterday: Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Missed it? Buy the book!)

• Scholarly Publishing and COVID Roundup.

• Richard Kostelanetz’s Book Art.

• Advertisements for Myself:

  • COVID as Structural Violence.

  • The “Sun Ra Papyrus,” Orientalism, and Ancient Aliens.

  • Extractive Industries, Climate Change, and Capitalism in the Bakken.

• 2020 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.

• Swoon: BorderPatrol P21 EXD 300B Amplifier

• What I’m reading: Christopher Matthews, A Struggle for Heritage: Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community (2020).

• What I’m listening to: King Khan, Infinite Ones.