Friday Varia and Quick Hits

I’m still hanging out at the American School of Oriental Research annual meeting in sunny and warm San Diego. Unlike some years, I’ve been able to enjoy a full slate of panels. Yesterday the panel on Maritime Archaeology and Object Biography were particularly thought provoking, and today it looks like I could spend about 6 or 7 hours in panels devoted to the archaeology of Cyprus.

So with the travel and conferencing by quick hits and varia will look a bit thin, but I figure I do owe my readers something!

• Cypro-Minoan tablets from Pyla-Kokkinokremos.

• Assyrian reliefs and 3D imaging.

• Fancy Roman mosaic in Zeugma, Turkey.

• Deserted Greek villages from Kostis Kourelis.

• The quirky and progressive mayor of Thessaloniki.

• Richard Rothaus says go see the Overnighters, a documentary film on Williston, ND and the oil boom.

• You can now read a complete draft of my Tourist Guide online.

• Andrew Reinhard says go and check out Atari: Game Over, a documentary film on digging up Atari games in the Alamogordo desert.

• Forever professors and ageism in academia.

• Think about this next time you use Facebook. For my part, I’ve switched to Ello.

• Creator of Choose Your Own Adventure dies.  

• Thurston Moore’s poetry class at Naropa.

• A long review of Neil Young’s Pono.

• What I’m reading: Zack Furness, Punkademics: The Basement Show in the Ivory Tower. (2012).

• What I’m listening to: Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street.