Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The great thing about April snows is that I feel almost no need to go outside and shovel. By the end of the month, the snow will be mostly gone whether I do anything or not and springtime weather with highs in the 40s is scheduled to resume by Sunday.

Of course, I have very little else to do these days so going outside and shoveling snow wouldn’t be the worst use of my time.

Then again, I could watch this replay of the 1986 Australian Grand Prix. Or rewatch a classic trilogy of fights: Leonard-Duran I, Leonard-Duran II “No Mas”, or Leonard-Duran III. Or, read, write, grade papers, and entertain the dogs. In short, there’s always something to do.

I could even provide my readers with a little list of quick hits and varia:

• RIP Manolis Glezos.

• Judith Butler on the COVIDS.

• Slavoj Žižek on Pandemic.

• Latour on The COVIDs. 

• A response to Latour.

• Distance Must Be Maintained.

• Nautilus on Outbreak.

• A pandemic poem.

• This Side of Paradise at 100.

• Some debates on the National Emergency Lending Library from the Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive announced it.

It’s based on the idea of Controlled Digital Lending.

The New Yorker loves it.

The Authors Guild, not so much.

The Internet Archive responded.

More on the debate.

• Images of North Dakota.

• People are Pooping at Home.

• Teaching online with compassion.

• When it’s cool to try harder.

• Crapola Sublime.

• What I’m reading: Thomas Pynchon, The Bleeding Edge(2013).

• What I’m listening to: Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: the Coltranes.