Friday Odds & Sods Rocks and Rolls All Nights, Parties When Able

Another week draws to an end, and with it, I hope, the end of the illness under which your poor correspondent has been suffering.  Plenty of green tea and bed rests have left me with only a sore throat, and I hope that by next week I will once again be the picture of good health.  In which case, dear reader, you may hopefully expect more postings as my body and mind both finally make the adjustment into winter.  But for now, let us leave the future to the future and turn to the present with this week's Friday Odds & Sods.

• For weekend reading, a story about bullies, con artists, and the Swiss boarding school that produced them and an examination of the sometimes revolutionary history of the much maligned Times Style section.
• If looking for something to do this weekend, allow me as a philhellene to recommend this exhibit at NYU documenting the history of the Greeks in Egypt.
• Longtime readers will remember the recommendation to check out The Great War series on YouTube, where the course of World War One is recorded week by week. I know pass along a story I heard there of Gunther Plüschow, the only man in either world war to escape from a POW camp in England.
• Speaking of heroic men, a recording of Robert Frost reading his poetry.
• Finally, a song for your Sunday morning, the only example, at least that I know of, of throat singing in America.  A bit odd at first, but I find that it grows on you.