Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s the first fall Friday of 2015, and the leaves are just beginning to change here in North Dakotaland. That means that we might start to enjoy some cool evenings and the sparkling dust of frost in the morning light. Good times except that it too quickly gives way to mind-wrenching cold temperatures and endless snow piles.

So enjoy the fall weather while it lasts, and enjoy this week’s quick hits and varia:

• Will Cyprus allow the Akamas to be developed?

• Some more love for the Athienou Archaeology Project on the ASOR blog.

• Qin-Han Dynasty and Roman Cyprus. This is a bit chilling. 

• Finding the West in ISIS.

• Medieval graffiti from England.

• Authentic pizzerias of New York.

• Small Town Football in the Bakken. 

• Ghost Man Camps!

• North By Inferno. A play set in the Bakken.

• The New York Public Library is Posting 435,000 Maps Online.

• Digitizing early NEH grant records.

• Declining student resilience.

• Ebook sales slip as people reaffirm their commitment to killing trees.

• If Werner Herzog narrated the Muppet Show. 

• Fake Obama Speaking Fake English.

• What I’m reading: Chris Fowler, The Emergent Past: A relationist, realist archaeology of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices. Oxford 2013.

• What I’m listening to: Ryan Adams, 1989 (but read this review here to see how “haters gonna hate”); Teen Men, Teen Men.

Always vigilant.