Rampage Kills Eleven PITTSBURGH — Armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 congregants and wounding four police officers and two others, the authorities said. In a rampage described as among the deadliest against…
I never expected to see Smokey Robinson perform live. The Motown artists were in their heyday when I was a kid. All are up in years. Performing is demanding work. It is physically arduous, and one has to give one hundred percent emotionally if one is to meet one’s obligation to the audience. Last…
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Excerpt from The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) I have no words. There is nothing more to say.
Ethical boundary, aesthetic boundary of sport as of art. Without limits there is no value; without value, there is no esteem, no respect and especially no pity: death to the referee! —the fatal habituation to the banalization of excess. –excerpt Silence on Trial p 33 by Paul Virilio What is missing? It is Friday…
A machine for seeing, a machine for hearing, and a machine for thinking…. very shortly to come with the boom in all things digital and the programmed abandonment of the analogue. How will the silence of the infinite spaces of art subsist? We are all seated in Plato’s cave, which has become the Sybil’s…
This afternoon I feel blue. There is a lot of funky-shit going down. I am aware of too much given the ever present cell phone news feed, offering adrenaline prompting content, just a swipe away. Most of the time I resist the temptation. A sure recipe for misery is to allow one’s mind-space to…
“It’s a mass exodus.” Rodrigo Abeja, who is also with Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said extreme poverty and unchecked gang violence have driven migrants to leave their homeland. “The organizer of this caravan is number one hunger, two death,” he said. —report USA Today We must put out the excess rather than the fire.—Heraclitus Today…
In my scheme of the German state, there will be no room for the alien, no use for the wastrel, for the usurer or speculator, or anyone incapable of productive work. — Adolf Hitler, Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923 I came upon this quote yesterday. The words froze my mind. These are the…
Fall harvest season is here. Apple picking, visits to a local farm for selecting pumpkins are parts of the ritual that marks this season of the year. The air is chilly. One does the remaining out of doors chores with awareness that soon the frost and then the snow will signal a season of…
The last few hours were eventful with travel, rental car return, receipt of boarding pass, TSA check in, and then boarding for the two hour flight to Chicago. Nothing outside of normal expectations. That is how life sometimes is, except when it isn’t. I am sad for my sister two years younger than I. …
