When an artist dies, I think a piece of the world breaks off and falls away. Aretha Franklin was a “world maker.” Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the…
Concepts are Vagabond A concept is fuzzy or vague not because it lacks an outline but because it is a vagabond, non-discursive, moving about on a plane of immanence. ….it is the event as pure sense that immediately runs through the components. It has no number…for counting things that display its properties, but a…
Metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent’s spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host’s body; it is typically spoken of as such spread by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases. Wikipedia *** This morning I felt numb, unable to write in the…
Today is to be a “normal” day at the office. Pay no attention that my mind seems to be in molasses, barely able to rise above idle. Perhaps that will improve as the day progresses. I struggled to read and understand the text in this mornings reading of the comparison between philosophy and science. …
Got up at 5:30AM and by 6AM I was climbing into the cab of the big blue Volvo semi. I spent the weekend with Aunt Clara and her family, honored to be included by marriage. The occasion was a celebration of her 90th birthday. A family member, David operates a trucking business and kindly…
Rough day yesterday. I witnessed an email exchange between friends which came to a painful conclusion. I was a participant, and played a part in the conclusion which at this juncture could entail the end of a relationship with an individual. I do not know anyone who would abide the disparagement of being judged…
Nothing much to say this morning. I am on the road to Eagle River Wisconsin. Stayed in Baraboo last night. Baraboo is one of our favorite little Wisconsin towns. Outside of the big cities such as Madison and Milwaukee the economy is closely related to Nature. The quality of travel experience is much enhanced…
These lines, the first four from What Is Philosophy by Deleuze and Guattari, and the last from this mornings front page of the New York Times have weighed on my mind. These are snapshots, evidence of a state of things that will continue to move, to change inexorably according to contingent factors which by…
Why do I keep attending car shows? Another one was held in Mundelein late in the day yesterday, Park on Park. This time my wife agreed to go with me. I always enjoy her company. Usually I go alone with camera in hand. I am drawn to a car show for the same reason…
Another day of fiery destruction in California. When Nature is shoved off balance by the heat sink of increased atmospheric carbon loading, the surface of the land warms without recovery from regular and gentle rains,–then the dry vegetation burns. How many days have the weary fire fighters manned their fire lines while airborne tankers…
