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Friday, September 5, 2025. It's Frigg's (Freya) day . . . and moderate to strong Northerlies are forecasted to bring cooler conditions in the low 70's and maintain cloudy skies over TulseyTown today. Likely morning rain for some is to depart before noon.
A genuine emptiness, a pure silence is not feasible — either conceptually or in fact. If only because [art] exist in a world furnished with many other things … Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech (in many instances, of complaint or indictment) and an element in a dialogue. – Susan Sontag, “The Aesthetic of Silence” in Maria Popova's Marginalian,
We remember Crazy Horse, the chief of the Oglala band of Lakota, born (surmised) on this day in 1842 near present-day, Rapid City, South Dakota.
It's the birthdate of several artists who broke convention and gave us new perceptions, concepts and meaning.
Jack Kerouac's novel, On The Road, was published today in 1957.
John Cage was born on this date. The avant-garde composer who managed to step outside the bounds of conventional and its concepts of meaningful sound and created new concepts and meaning, was born in 1912 Los Angeles, California.
Werner Herzog turns 83 today. The German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author was born in 1942, Munich, Germany. He almost single handedly reinvented German cinema. Get acquainted, if you haven't, by watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God, if you can find it.
And It's the birthday of Freddie Mercury. The singer/song writer and front man for the band Queen, was born in 1946, Stone Town, Zanzibar [now in Tanzania.