Friday Varia and Quick Hits

With a week left in July, the “frog days” of summer have come early here on the Northern Plains. We have a heat advisory and temperatures are set to lick the mid-90s.

Fortunately, there’s plenty to keep my occupied out of the heat as I begin my month-long taper into the start of the fall semester. The rubber match in the England-West Indies Test Match series started today. The Phillies open their COVID season this evening. The NBA is on the horizon, and while my summer reading list is in shambles, I refuse to go the entire summer without reading a novel. 

Hopefully your weekend offers something entertaining, intriguing, or, failing that, productive. Here are some quick hits and varia:

• Fires in Greece

The fires in the Corinthia are out of control. 

You can track the fires in near real-time via this site.

The first archaeological site that I published was atop Mt. Oneion which the fires have burnt.

• Vrysaki in To Vima

• Racism in Modern Classical Studies.

• A Roman Boat.

• The New Lanier Center for Archaeology.

• Some free ASOR books.

• Some Byzantine News

Dumbarton Oaks Summer podcast.

Bringing Heaven into the Church. 

Judith Herrin on Reconverting Ay. Sophia to a Mosque.  

• Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work in Academic Archaeology.

• Art Historian, Professor, Writer, Spy.

• Dave Grohl on Teachers.

• Black Market Bourbon.

• Why do so many people love the Grateful Dead now?

• Updated postcard.

• John Lewis.

• Marlon James on Race.

• Albanian poetry.

• Enslavement at Colleges.

• The MC5 in 1970.

• What I’m reading: A stack of grant applications!

• What I’m listening to: Dehd, Flower of Devotion.

He is not a rocket surgeon

Upside-Down Dog