Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a snowy and windy Friday here in North Dakotaland and after my first week back in the classroom in the new semester, I overslept! I am getting soft in my dotage, it would seem.

I have a full slate of work to do this weekend, but I plan to take some time to watch the Sixers play this evening, the NFL playoff games, and to wrap up the college football season with the national championship game on Monday. I was vaguely intrigued by the Alexis Rocha-Raul Curiel fight tonight, but I guess Rocha struggled with the weight cut and pulled out. Alas.

In the meantime, here are some quick hits and varia:

• Two new journal issues

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (featuring More Knodell)

Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. (featuring Iain Davidson’s “Harry’s Wall”)

• Congrats to my buddy Rangar Cline for getting an NEH grant for his work on religious pilgrimage in antiquity.

• Szymanski Photograph Collection, 1938-1941.

• From the Blogs:

The Sphinx year end review is nice.

Noodlings is always good.

The Current Rodeo from NDSU’s substack.

• Steve Smith doing Steve Smith Things.

• Ricoh GRIV Monochrome.

• What I’m reading: Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger, The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. 2025.

• What I’m listening to:  Craig Taborn, Tomeka Reid, and Chen Smith, Dream Archives. 2026.