We’re experiencing North Dakotaland’s version of the Halcyon Days this week and we hope that it stretches into the weekend. With temperatures kissing 30 degrees, the world has come alive. Joggers and cyclist crowd the sidewalks, young families enjoy picnics in the parks, neighbors cook out and hold leisurely conversations across the alley, and students have donned flip-flops (thongs for my Aussie readers) and boardies as they head to class.
Here at Archaeology of the Mediterranean World headquarters, we’ve enjoyed the warm, grey days from the confines of our office working alternately on PKAP2, a lingering book review, layout for Visions of Substance, and, of course, Friday Varia and Quick Hits:
- The sad and strange saga of the St. Louis AIA chapter continues to develop. It now appears that this chapter will lose its charter and give archaeologists everywhere a chance to be self-righteous.
- Part of the drama is that the members of the St. Louis AIA chapter who authorized the sale of antiquities appear to be extraordinarily sensitive. This is the AJA editorial that they made all kinds of threats about.
- Fantastical beasts of Ancient Greece.
- Absolutely arresting photos on a new blog about Greece.
- A round up of information on the new Sappho fragment.
- A nice remembrance of Tony Wilkinson. I never met him, but his work was important to my development as a historian.
- Cyprus Airways is in trouble. The airline has an interesting history. I guess that makes the world’s most famous Hawker-Siddeley Trident abandoned property.
- What if I started a podcast?
- Litter in the National Parks.
- A bit of hesitation (and some shrimps and tenderloin) about having a man camp as a neighbor.
- Mapping the Bakken Boom.
- NEH open books initiative.
- Slow story-telling in a digital age.
- A one building town.
- Professor drops lame-ass class.
- This is what Devo and Neil Young did when they jammed together.
- How not to care.
- Rick Springfield in court again.
- What I’m reading: M. Parani and D. Michaelides, eds. The Archaeology of Late Antique and Byzantine Cyprus (4th-12th centuries A.D.): Recent Research and New Discoveries. Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Chypriotes 43 (2013).
- What I’m listening to: Bill Evans Trio, Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Sessions.
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