Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Spring is forcing us to acknowledge its presence here in North Dakotaland. We might even get comfortably above freezing before I decamp for the Eastern Mediterranean this summer.

In the meantime, I’ll continue to sit by the fire with the two dogs, enjoy the balmy nights of Indian Premier League cricket, watch the boys of winter (the NBA) wind their way through the playoffs, and savor the Formula 1 and NASCAR seasons. Heck, I might even get some other work done. 

Whatever your weekend plans, enjoy some quick hits and varia:

• Lunch with Patrick Leigh Fermor. 

• Theory Adrift.

• KRAP.

• Mapping Prejudice.

• Discussing Open Access textbooks in Archaeology.

• Land Matters.

• After Authenticity.

• When you’re old enough to die.

• The Scientific Paper is (still) Obsolete.

• Flexible Seating and Classroom Design.

• Poetry in America.

• Imaginative Reality of Ursula K. Le Guin.

• What I’m reading: Laurent Olivier, The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory. (Landham, MD 2011).

• What I’m listening to: Wilhem Kempff, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas.

Still Milo with Slobber Duck

So Tired