Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Chris Gayle is racking up runs in the IPL, the Sixers just beat the Heat at home, J.P. Crawford can suddenly see the ball, and Red Bull racing has won a Formula 1 race. Let’s hope these trends continue even as our unseasonable weather has given way to a proper spring here in North Dakotaland.

Now all I have to do is survive the last three weeks of the semester and get my life together to head to Cyprus and Greece for my summer field seasons.

In the meantime, you should all go and download my most recent side project, The Letters of Edward P. Robertson, President Emeritus of Wesley College from 1935. I’ve blogged about it here, or you can download it here.  

If passionate and compelling letters of obscure college presidents are not your bag, then please enjoy this further list of varia and quick hits:

• A Classicist Reviews Troy: Fall of a City.

• Protestors attack the Truman statue (again).

• Macedonian Language in Greece.

• Digital Mappa.

• Journal of the Computer Applications in Archaeology CFP.

• Found mosaic.

• Three long poems in Athens.

• Gerald Murnane in the NYT.

• Concord Mall.

• Building a text editor.

• Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life.

• Slow Radio.

• Vintage Apple Ads.

• The Path of Shindo.

• What I’m reading: Max Warner and Margaret Purser, Historical Archaeology Though a Western Lens. (Nebraska 2017).

• What I’m listening to: GUM, The Underdog.