Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The smoke from the wildfires in British Columbia will bathe Grand Forks in strangely their strange amber light this weekend and will only add to the fall-like crispness of the morning air. Fortunately, distant fires, amber light, and morning crispness is “weather appropriate” for the first week of classes. 

This weekend will be the last time to catch my breath after a hectic summer and before what will even be a more hectic fall. Fortunately, the Bristol night race, some intriguing pennant races, and a couple good books will give me plenty to distract me from the simmering apocalypse of winter outside the windows.

As a smokey fall descends across our fair land, please enjoy these quick hits and varia:

• Sarah James on her new book on Hellenistic pottery.   

• Diversity in Classics.

• Blogging Cyprus and CAARI.

• One minute Athens.

• WD.

• Punk Type.

• Poetry matters again (so you might as well submit something to NDQ poetry prize)

• The History of Black Museums.

• Why haven’t you downloaded the Williston Report from 1958?

• Words between buns.

• Cricket batsmen have lost the ability to play.

• Make your old Kindle and clock.

• A runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb.

• Art of the Shinkasen.

• Border Patrol DAC.

• What I’m reading: Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. 2014.

• What I’m listening to: Aretha!