The madness continues in the pointless exercise to generate band names. Today, I'm repurposing mathematical terms. Geometry alone would supply enough band names for the next generation.  Here are some of my favorites.

Higher Math Bands

 

Absolute Value

Arbitrarily Large

Binomials

Coefficients

Common Factors

Cube Roots

Fibonacci Sequence

Denominators/Numerators (must perform together)

Derivatives

Empty Set

Exponents

Floor Function

Ideal Theory

Imaginary Unit

Initial Conditions

Improper Fractions

Irrational Integers

MeanMedianMode

Natural Numbers

Obtuse Angles

Probabilities

Standard Unit

Subset

Tensor Product

X-Intercept

Geometric Bands

Angle of Depression

Annulus

Bisectors

Center of Rotation

Circular Functions

Glide Reflection

Major Arc

Ordered Triple

Pappus's Theorem

Platonic Solids

Sector of a Circle

Self-Similarity

Standard Position

Zero Dimensions

 

 

Escape Fate

Escape Fate 

Walking on the beach 

In the dead of August 

I met a fish

Who told me

I could escape 

and live without my Fate

cut away from the gods’ woven fabric.

“What’s the catch?”

I asked the fish.

You will have nothing 

but your own choices

I stood stock still 

the waves lapping at my feet

and the fish long gone. 

A Midwestern Heart

From Bottom Dog Press, A Midwestern Heart, my first book of poetry. 

Fonts and Grammar as Band Names

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm continuing my never ending pointless exercise to generate band names. Today, I'm repurposing grammatical terms and fonts. Some ideas in the grammar category:

• Subordinate Clauses
• Third Person
• Diphthongs 
• The Elipses 
• Idioms
• Personal Pronouns
• Indirect Objects
• Past Participles
• Prepositions
• Subjective Case
• Passive Voice
• Past Perfect
• Infinitives
• Em Dashes
  

With Fonts, its a target rich environment and I couldn't make up my mind so I had to restrict my choices to a small sample:

• Arial Black
• Chalkdusters
• Trebuchets
• Comic Sans
• Bold Italics
• ALL CAPS
  

Also, if you haven't seen the genius of Elle Cordova's videos on fonts. There are a must.

Random bonus name:

• Les Majeste

Form a band and take a name. Goodbye for now.

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The Physical Life of Books

 

One thing I enjoy about a physical book versus a digital version is that the book can share its own story.

I recently finished, Wind in this Sahara by R.V.C. Bodley purchased for one dollar at a thrift store in Alexandria, Virginia. It’s the story of an Englishman, between the world wars, who decides to live among the bedouin tribes of north Africa for seven years, apparently on the advice of TE Lawrence. 

 

The book itself was printed in the United States in1944 and, because it was during a war time in America, required lighter paper, and the text was more condensed on each page to save paper. On its inner pages is an inscription that it had been donated as a gift to the Atchison, Kansas public library by Mr. and Mrs. John Breaky (sp?) and the librarian's notation in pencil assigning a Dewey Decimal designation. Although the library card is no longer in the pocket and there's telling how many times it had been borrow out, it leaves you to wonder how many readers of Atchison, Kansas may have borrowed it. 

Finally, there's a Withdrawn stamp when library decided the book was no longer to be kept in circulation. Once it was taken out of the Library's collection, it would have been sold or donated and made it's way to a reader's library. Finally, it was eventually donated to the thrift shop where I purchased it. 

A book telling its own story.

 

Resume of Robert Zimmerman

 

2023 THEME: TIME, MEMORY, AND NOSTALGIA...ALSO NONSENSE

Looking back on my reading for 2023, if I find any themes for the year they would be time, memory, and nostalgia. A few of the quotes and observations I've written down from this year.

 

 Like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers.

--Jean Cocteau

 

If you live long enough, the process of memory ruthless condenses your experiences consigning much to oblivion.

--Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

 

The alleys at night intimate chambers of of just remembered dreams and childhood

-- Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

 

Journey taken in youth inform the rest of our lives -- they are markers of of change in us as well as the rest of the world

--WSJ, April ?, 2023

 

The lifetime that I've been lent

in idleness I've spent

    --fragment of a poem that I can't recall attribution. 

I had become my ancestors

--The Growing Seasons, Samuel Hynes

 

Man, if he is ever any good never gets over being a boy.

--Sherwood Anderson

Memories lengthen the land

--Walter Havighurst

When considering new innovations, the Supreme. Court must tread carefully so as not to embarrass the future.

--NW Airlines v. Minnesota,  322 U.S. 292, 300 (1949) 

A library without members is a like a cemetery. Books are like people. Without contact they cease to exist.

--can't remember attribution but I'd like to say Jorge Luis Broges

...at times there came a startled sense of wonder and unrealized opportunity.

--Sherwood Anderson

...time is not cool...

   --NPR interview with a Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (ok, I cheated on this one, it was aired in December 2022)

My observations

 

The right to be forgotten is a formula of truth verses time.

Time is the highway that memory travel down after the journey has been made.

 

Memory is more a poem than a transcript.

These quotes don't fit into my themes but I'm adding anyway because I liked them enough to write down. 

 

Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.

--Will Rogers

There is nothing as easy as denouncing...it doesn't take much to see something is wrong but it takes some eyesight to see what will put it right.

--Will Rogers

 

Courtesy is the very basis for all mutual respect and concord.

--Erasmus

 

The hoi poloi's hobledihoi poo-pooed the hub-bub.

--My best homemade nonsense sentence of 2023