Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s the first fall Friday here in North Dakotaland and people are greeting each other with the phrase “Fall has sprung!”

The sports calendar is as exciting as ever with NBA, NFL, MLB, and NASCAR. The Formula 1 circus is in Russia, the IPL is going full tilt, and there are a gaggle of significant fights this weekend as well headlined by the fighting Charlo brothers.

Of course, there is always work to be done with an NDQ deadline on October 1, a book review languishing as a blog post, and a field manual to pretty up. I’m also keen to get to work on my next book chapter. But life is like that, I suppose: there are always more thing that we want to do than we have time to get done.

For now, I’ll satisfy myself with a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Vercingetorix in Vietnam.

• Ian Morris on escaping the California wildfires.

• Lycia, Churches, and PhDs

• What Is the Good Life in Uncertain Times?

• The Overlooked History of Race Barriers in the United States.

• Cultural Heritage Under Siege.

• Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) Haudenosaunee Archaeological Materials.

• The Long Golden Age of Useless, American Crap.

• Hagia Sophia: The History of the Building and the Building in History.

• MQR issue on Persecution.

• The Vampire Ship.

• Wind.

• RIP Dean Jones. “If you can’t hack it we’ll get a tough Queenslander out there.”

• 500 Greatest Albums.

• In Solidarity With The Refugees of Moria Camp.

• What I’m reading: Tanya Whitehouse, How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value (2018) and Siobhan Lyons, Ed., Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay (2018).

• What I’m listening to: Byard Lancaster, It’s Not Up to Us. (1968).