I am reading a book by Ernst Jünger, the WWI era German writer and survivor of trench warfare. Jünger’s claim to fame is his book based upon his daily journals written while fighting in the trenches entitled Storm of Steel. His book On Pain was written and published in 1934. Jünger is an excellent…
Monday was a rainy today. We didn’t care. The gentle rain gave the woods the patina of an oil painting. The ground was intense yellow with leaves, soon to be covered with the first snow of the season. The gentle rain, and gusty wind that did not impede our enjoyment of movement throughout the…
Jesus really was a no-body, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections. So the people amused themselves one day by nailing him to a cross and planting the cross in the ground. There couldn’t possibly any repercussions the lynchers thought. Then, just before the nobody died, the…
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? Well here we are trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why. –Excerpt Slaughterhouse 5 p 97 by Kurt Vonnegut
I received email messages from two friends this morning. They registered a complaint to a statement which I made yesterday. I criticized Capitalism as practiced by Big Pharma as being predatory, pitiless. I am an insulin dependent diabetic. Not only is the cost of insulin very expensive, the pricing of many prescription medications has…
To stop thinking about the Second World War and Auschwitz is to forget the reality of the horror of war and the violence of extermination. –John Armitage 2002 Introduction to Art and Fear by Paul Virilio To bow in silence seems appropriate in response to the eleven who were killed in the Tree of…
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…
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…
I spent the day in Lincoln Square, Chicago yesterday. A Friend offered to discuss a business startup concept. I jumped at the opportunity. One never knows. Something important and beneficial might be born from a give and take of ideas, conceiving of experimental steps, to discover whether a vision does in fact address the…
Stephen King makes his feelings about Kavanaugh very clear on Twitter Stephen King is no fan of Brett Kavanaugh. People across the world tuned in to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh give their testimonies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. And all across the world, people were tweeting…
