Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s Friday and I’m very much looking forward to the weekend. The weather isn’t supposed to be particularly nice and other than the start of BIG 10 football, there’s isn’t anything in particular that’s getting me excited. All the same, fall weekend have a particular vibe. The fall light feels just perfect for napping or reading something that I probably could allow to sit on my bookshelf for a few more months until the urge passes.

I hope that all my readers have escaped the recent uptick in COVID cases and are surviving the bumpy road to the election next week. 

Please be safe, stay sane, and enjoy this little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Check out FestivalCHAT.

• Persistent Pilferers.

• Ten Years of Sententiae Antiquae.

• Colonial Cosplay.

• The WARP Field Manual on tDAR.

• Writing Clearly.

• Interaction on the Edge of the Earliest Empires.

• The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology

• Empire and the British Museum.

• Colleges and the Pandemic.

• Free ditties from Tom Lehrer.

• A review of the new DeLillo novel.

• Style as Story.

• What I am reading: Todd Andrew Needham, Power Lines: Phoenix and the making of the modern southwest (2014). 

• What I’m listening to: Eric Dolphy, Iron Man.