to nca or not nca? part three: affinities
Music: Legendary Pink Dots: Any Day Now (1987)
I have been busy attempting to complete a manuscript by tomorrow, however, I didn’t want Rosechron to linger too long on the negative. I’ve been working-through whether I should attend my professional organization’s big conference this year in San Francisco. Thus far the reasons not to go (explained here and here) are as follows:
- Outgoing president Bach’s idiotic and offensive parting shot, and by extension,
rest in peace, prof. leff
Music: Sade: Love Deluxe (1992)
Yesterday my colleagues and I learned that rhetorical theorist and critic Michael C. Leff succumbed to cancer. Once the shock abated (although it still lingers), the mood gave way to sadness. We believe he was 67.
Mike was one of those scholars who gave his life to the field and made it a better place for us to work. I learned last night that, true to
