Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s snowing back home in Grand Forks, but only damp and cool here in Duluth where the sea and sky cover us with a grey blanket. I think this weather will provide lovely backdrop for a little exploration of coast of Lake Superior. (To be honest, I’ve never spent much time near the Great Lakes other than a couple of visits to Chicago. Who knew they were so big?).

This weekend looks full of interesting sport with Ohio State and the Eagles having evening games. I was initially worried that these might conflict with the last two days of the Australia – New Zealand test match. The way it looks now, I might be wrong. 

Whichever side you’re pulling for (unless it’s the Cowboys) this weekend, enjoy this little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus. This site overlooks our site of Pyla-Koutsopetria and is a neighbor to our Hellenistic site of Pyla-Vigla. 

• Punk Archaeology and Man Camps on Vice Motherboard.

• The shipwrecks of Fourni in the Aegean.

• Robert McCabe’s photographs of and around Mycenae.

• Jack Davis on Carl Blegen’s last years.

• A neuroscientist is pretty sure that the pyramids were built to store grain. 

• North Dakota now that the boom is over. 

• The dreaded NPR voice which is related (in some ways) to the Secret History of Podcasting.

• Does Spotify depress record sales.

• RIP Edward Soja. I encountered the idea of third space and the work of Henri Lefebvre through Soja’s writings.

• The end of Grantland in the context of Philly sports radio.

• What I’m reading: E.P. Thompson, Warwick University Ltd. London 1970.

• What I’m listening to: Floating Points, Elaenia; Tapper Zukkie Man Ah Warrior.

I’ll just wait here until supper.