Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s cold in North Dakotaland. The high yesterday was 12 and the low last night was -2. It is simply too early to be this cold.

Fortunately, there my colleagues over at The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota have a number of reasons to stay inside, by the fire, and warm on Veterans’ Day weekend. If you haven’t already, you should download a copy of Micah Bloom’s Codex, or if you’re as taken by it as I am, go and grab the trade paperback for the low, low price of $9.99. Realizing that this is the start of a long winter, you might as well also go and pre-order a copy of The Beast from our friends at Ad Astra Comix.

If that’s still not enough, do check out this long essay from a veteran of World War I originally published in North Dakota Quarterly in 1919.

One last thing, I’d love to get some more feedback on my draft article on our work at the Atari excavation in Alamogordo, New Mexico a few years back. 

Or the following gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• The SCS statement on sexual harassment at their annual meeting.

• A very nice carved gem of Grecian provenience. (It’s hard to get my students to stop using the word Grecian when the Old Grey Lady does.)

• Neville Morley anticipating Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Odyssey. 

• Some blurbage on the Restoring the Minoans exhibition at ISAW. 

• From the Guardian on Mary Beard’s new book.

• Cult of the Saints database.

• Allstar cast for Ergon: Greek American Arts and Letters.

• Chaco Canyon in danger.

• Blogging, Archaeology, and Archaeogaming.

• On basketball and jazz.

• EPA graphics manual.

• Small towns, Istagram, and Movie Stars.

• The News Game.

• Homeless Heritage.

• Archaeoblitz.

• A Love Supreme live.

• What could go wrong?

• What I’m reading: A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendency of American Higher Education (2017). 

• What I’m listening to: …