Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The brief respite from winter ended as quickly as it arrived last week and we’re back to regularly scheduled weather with the high today somewhere around -10 F (which only sounds colder in C). That being said, there’s enough intriguing sports – with the Sixers on national TV and the NFC and AFC championship games – and enough other odds and ends to take care of to keep me hunkered down by the fire and relatively warm.

Have you downloaded the second volume of Epoiesen: A Journal for Creative Engagement in History and Archaeology? You should. It’s free. 

It’ll also give me an excuse to catch up on reading, try to figure out why I have so many tabs open on my browser, and maybe even have a nap. Winter weekends are good.

To fortify your weekend, here is a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• A nice round up of responses to the racist events at the SCS/AIA annual meeting.

• Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée.

• Petra 1929.

• A new digital addenda to the AIA’s tenure and promotion document.

• The Met’s Search for a new curator of Greek and Roman antiquities.

• Being Modern.

• Future Book.

• Comics, Climate, and Canada’s Energy Future featuring The Beast from The Digital Press.

• Skim reading is the new normal. 

• Jessie Thorson in Grand Magazine.

• Feasting on Precarity.

• RIP John Salter.

• Some cool maps and visualizations.

• Rappers ranked by number of words used.

• What I’m reading: Alfredo González-Ruibal, An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era. Routledge 2019.

• What I’m listening to: Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington. 

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