Friday Varia and Quick Hits

We survived the great ground blizzard of 2020 and wind chilliness of around -50. Today it gets warmer and is likely to hit double-digits above zero Fahrenheit which will soar into the 20s over the weekend. I can smell spring in the air!

This weekend will involve a careful read of NDQ 87.1/2 which goes to production on March 1. It’ll also involve the Daytona 500 and maybe a bit of college basketball. I can only hope my Mighty Spiders have better luck against their crosstown rivals VCU than the U.S. Men’s Cricket Team did again the the powerhouse Nepal. 

Hope your weekend is productive, relaxing, and a full of excitement. Please enjoy this little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Letter from the Corinthians.

• SAA Protests Destruction of Archaeological and Native American Cultural Sites at Border Wall.

• Statement on Proposed Executive Order on Classical Design for Federal Buildings. Here’s a little story on the AIA’s (Architects in this case, not archaeologists) statement. Here’s the archaeologists statement.

• Trump on Academic Publishing: “No one knows more about academic publishing than me.”

• Shoot out on Acrocorinth.

• Two Collections meet in Thessaloniki.

• Kleftiko. 

• Remapping Mediterranean Anthropology.

• Athens in 3D.

• Kent Monkman at the Met.

• 650 illustrated Japanese illustrated books from the Met.

• Publishing problems highlighted by American Dirt.

• Burning Vinyl.

• Reviewing a Classic.

• Sneak peek at some New Zu. 

• What I’m reading: Bjørnar Olsen, In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (2010).

• What I’m listening to: Sun Ra, Afro Black. 

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