Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It is cold here, but we didn’t get snow. I can’t quite decide if this is a good thing or not, but I don’t plan to be outside today long enough to figure it out. And, more mild temperatures are on the way by next week.

This weekend should involve finishing an NDQ issue, finishing a book project, some grading, and some reading. I might make some time to check out the NASCAR guys in California and I’ll likely be hunkered down by the fire to watch my Sixers play on national TV Saturday night. If I was made of money, I’d even be tempted to buy the Jake Paul-Tommy Fury fight on Sunday, but because I’m not, I won’t.

Otherwise, I’m going to keep my head down and keep slogging through this semester. Here are some quick hits and varia to start your weekend off right:

• Pasts Imperfect.

• Washingtonia: An American Refugee Camp in Revolutionary Greece.

• Books

The West.

Feeding the Byzantine City.

The European Experience.

Nnedi Okorafor.

• Justin Dunnavant and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah.

• The Chinatown Punk Wars.

• He was Tom Verlaine.

• Some of the Road, Most of the Time.

• The Worst Team in NBA History.

• JLC Master Ultra Thin Grande.

• What I’m reading: Apuleius, Metamorphosis. 

• What I’m listening to: Chris Potter, Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard. (2023).