Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a fall Friday with all that entails here in North Dakotaland despite the looming specter of the COVID and the absence of football and the typical homecoming festivities.

Despite the strangely abrupt cancelation of the entire Philadelphia Eagles season, there will still be plenty to distract me over the weekend including the NASCAR guys at  Talladega and there’s some decent boxing on tap Saturday night as the hype begins to build for the mid-month Lomachenko-Lopez magafight on October 17th. The Indian Premier League continues as well for those in need of an international sporting fix.

Other than that, there are papers to grade, books to read, and articles to revise.

And, of course, some quick hits and varia:

• Kyle Harper on pandemics and plagues in antiquity.

• New Lighting of the Acropolis in Athens.

• Commemorating the Battle of Salamis.

• Black Pharaohs.

• Sarah Bond on Polychromy.

• Antigone Film Series.

• The archaeology of in-between places: Finds under the Ilissos River bridge in Athens.

• More Classics Films.

• Jody Gordon on using antiquity to predict the future.

• History of Fresh Kills landfill.

• Anti-Racist Your Archaeology.

• The Kingdom of Alashiya and the Bronze Age Collapse.

• Argie “The Bargepole” on Twitter.

• Harry Smith’s Anthology.

• Some good press for One Hundred Voices.

• The Election Forecast from 538.

• Bookstores and COVID.

• Polyhymnia Remixed.

• In the Hour Before Sunset.

• Q Timex Reissue Digital LCA.

• Is it Bandcamp Friday? (Here’s the schedule).

• What I’m reading: everything and (sadly) nothing.

• What I’m listening to: Wayne Shorter, JuJu.

The Bargepole in Autumn