Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a frigid Friday here in North Dakotaland with temperatures nestling down into the single figures at night. In fact, last night while walking the Bargepole, I actually felt COLD.

Fortunately, I have a gaggle of new books on their way over the weekend and a warm laptop. There’s also some good college football, the NBA getting its early season feet, and a trip to San Diego in a couple of weeks to keep me toasty.

As I weather the adjustment to winter, enjoy a little flock of quick hits and varia:

• Eidolon is doing a Special Issue on Papyrus Thefts. 

• It’s University Press Week!In Praise of University Presses.

• Some books (and check out the University Press Week gallery here!)

Dark Age Churches.

Size Matters (free!).

Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers.

Exhibition Catalogue (free!): Cyprus: A Dynamic Island.

Media Skills for Scholars (free!).

Piroska and the Pantokrator

• Modern Greek Studies Association 2019 Program.

• Greek War of Independence in Playmobil! 

• Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere: The Case of Sheboygan. 

• A really old recipe.

• Mill songs.

• The Bit List and Archaeological Data.

• Luck and Academia (a nice counterpart to my Labor and Contradiction in Graduate Education) 

• Pigeons and Poppies.

• Nothing to see here. Move along.

• Sad News.

• The 2019 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève winners.

• Only Watch 2019 is this weekend. I’m totally taken by this unique Breguet Type XX.

• What I am reading: Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier, Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism. London 2019.

• What I am listening to: Bill Evans Trio, Evans in England.

The Bargepole is sick so he’s conserving this strength.