Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s my first back in the US and I’m still working to get my bearings, but I think I have enough of them to offer a little gaggle of quick hits and varia on a lovely mid-summer Friday.
A Virgin Mary archaeological park in Turkey which is cool, but not in the way that it sounds.
Charles Texier’s Byzantine Architecture(1864) free from Harvard.
I haven’t read this new reports on the humanities from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and from Harvard, but they’re on my summer reading list. Both are generating lots of response and reaction. Now Michael Bérubé and Anthony Grafton and James Grossman chime in.
R.I.P. Douglas Engelbart the inventor of the mouse (among other things).
I appreciate my colleague and friend Eric Burin’s willingness to deploy his specialist knowledge on the Civil War in the public sphere. Check out this op-ed. I wonder, though, whether his rhetorical position (artful sloganeering?) could be made against those who so staunchly defend the humanities, though.
While wandering Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport yesterday, I noticed a cover photo of Neil Gaiman not taken by Kyle Cassidy.
This is a pretty funny little story about Noodles and Co. Wall Street triumph. It is very reminiscent of the Marilyn Haggerty incident a couple years back. We have a Noodles and Co. in Grand Forks and it’s pretty uninteresting.
What I’m listening to: EL.P. and Killer Mike, Run the Jewels.
What I’m reading: Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956).
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