Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The school year is upon us with fall rains, the first changing color in the trees, and the dazed look of a new group of undergraduates arriving in Grand Forks, the capital of my little neighborhood in North Dakotaland. There are many reasons to be cheerful!

The bustle of the week cut into my random web surfing time and impoverished my quick hits and varia, but those that I do have, I’ll share with you.

• Interviewing the Zakrites.

• RetroReveal reveals the image on a Mycenaean sherd. 

• ASOR is looking for an editor of Near Eastern Archaeology and the ASOR Annual.

• Byzantium and Modernity, and Ag. Sophia in the 19th century.

• Images from the Gennadius library.

• Ballad of Special Ops Cody.

• #ShadowCV

• End of a Blogging Platform (good thing newsletters are immortal!)

• Are the Humanities in Crisis?

• Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at me.

• Early 20th century Hobo Graffiti.

• Insta novels from the New York Public Library. (Check it out here.)

• What I’m reading: Hugh Goldring, Nicole Marie Burton, Patrick McCurdy, The Beast (2018)

• What I’m listening to: Horace Silver, The Cape Verdean Blues.