Gonzo linguistic impressionism . . .

Saturday, July 19, 2025. Its the Satyr's day . . . Ditto, yesterday's forecasts.

Left-over Jetsam . . .

. . . The Great Fire of Rome began 1,950 years ago yesterday in 64 A.D. in the late evening hours of July 18. Nero may or may not have played a fiddle.

. . . Yesterday was Nelson Mandela Day. born in Mvezo, South Africa (1918

. . . The gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson born in 1937, Louisville, Kentucky.

Today . . .

On this day in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the United States was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention.

On this day, 71 years ago, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published. It was the first part of J.R.R. Tolkein's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

[T]he science of alien language...might learn to open itself to every conceivable degree of otherness, even the possibility of beings that share nothing with us but the cosmos. – Eli K.P. William, “The Grammar of a God-Ocean,” in Aēon, 7/19/2025

And, today is the birth date of Edgar Degas, The innovative French impressionist was born in 1834 Paris.