Sunday, May 31, 2015

God's only full recipe

By Jack Brummet, Food Ed.

The Bible contains only one full recipe, which is given to Ezekiel by God:


Ezekiel 4:9 "Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof…"


Ezekiel 4:12 "And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man."

The Ezekiel bread package does not specify what fuel was used to cook the bread.
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Dennis Hastert, hush money, and Republican Family Values

By Jack Brummet




I always knew ‪#‎DennisHastert‬ was a dirtbag, I just didn't know he was this kind of dirtbag. ‪#‎JohnBoehnersMentor‬ ‪#‎GOPFamilyValues‬.

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Beard permits in the Norwegian Navy

By Jack Brummet

Facial Adornment Ed.




Sailors in Norway's Navy must submit a form requesting permission in order to grow a beard. The form requests information on the proposed beard and requires a drawing of what their beard will look like. 

A Redditor, "aellgutta," recently shared a copy of his form and his translation: 

"On the top it says "BEARD APPLICATION", then it's rank/ military ID-number, full name and platoon/ division. Then it says "Reason:" to which I wrote "I get irritated skin from daily shaving and it's starting to get cold outside." Under the sketch I drew, it says "DRAW HERE!" and at the bottom the Lieutenant has written that he will inspect it after the next exercise (which gave me about 2,5 weeks) followed by a stamp to show my application was accepted."


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Friday, May 29, 2015

Cruising home to Seattle in style

By Jack Brummet



A shot of me cruising home from Kent in my brother Guy's sweet 1999 M3 convertible on a beautiful 80 degree day, with Milo Petersen and the Jazz Disciples on cassette. What a great album--great songs by Milo and great players (I think Jay Thomas on trumpet, Milo on drums (he also a great guitar player), Phil Sparks on bass, Marc Seals on piano, and Rick Mandyck on tenor saxophone

Of course I especially love the song "The Good," a beautiful tune Milo wrote for our wedding. "The Good was completed for a childhood friend's wedding and was inspired by the spiritual writings of the Katha Upanishad."
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John Brummet 2nd carving

By Jack Brummet

This is a flag holder my dad (John Brummet 2nd, 1923-64) carved and painted for my Cub Scout den in the early 60's). Just recovered it in the continuing clean out of my mom's house. I guess he was an early influence....

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Ex-Senator Rick Santorum runs for Pres. again. Will Dan Savage crank up his act again?


By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

Rick Santorum is officially running for President again!




Will his Frothy problem return? Maybe...Dan Savage is not sure. (more details--> http://www.motherjones.com/…/rick-santorum-2016-dan-savage-… ).


Even though Savage has not updated his notorious Santorum site (blog.spreadingsantorum.com/) for a few years, it still pops up in the top results on searches for "Santorum."
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Drawing: Faces #1120 and #1121

By Jack Brummet

[pencil and sharpie on a way too absorbent old palette I found at Value Village, roughly 18" x 24"]



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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Mummified monk is ‘not dead’ but in a rare meditative state?

By Jack Brummet


"A mummified monk found in the lotus position in Mongolia is 'not dead' and is instead one stage away from becoming a real-life Buddha, it has been claimed.  Read the story here, in The Siberian Times. 
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Regrets - by Mark Twain and Ray Bradbury


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. - Mark Twain

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Sidney, The Creationist Puppet (via Grimy Ghost)

By Jack Brummet

Thanks to Dean Ericksen, ATIT's religion consultant, for passing this along.


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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Poem: I don't believe

By Jack Brummet



I don't believe in transubstantiation
I don't believe in Papal Infallibility
I don't believe in no-knock warrants
I don't believe in the divine right of kings
I don't believe in smooth jazz
I don't believe in rock instrumentals
I don't believe in jazz vocals
I don't believe in the Second Amendment
I don't believe in the Trilateral Commission
I don't believe in the international Jewish banking conspiracy
I don't believe in Republicans
I don't believe in The National Front
I don't believe in the vegan taliban
I don't believe in repressed memory
I don't believe in John Lennon not believing in Beatles
I don't believe in Richard Gere and the gerbil
I don't believe in the Ku Klux Klan
I don't believe in Tea Parties
I don't believe in libertarians
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Caligula
I don't believe in Idi Amin
I don't believe in Draco
I don't believe in reactionary figurative painters
I don't believe in dinosaurs being 4,000 years old
I don't believe your child can paint better than Jackson Pollock
I don't believe in astral projection
I don't believe in angry Buddhists
I don't believe in angry Baptists
I don't believe in Halie Selassie as a deity
I don't believe in Upanishads
I don't believe in The Psalms
I don't believe in the sutras
I don't believe in Jack Chick
I don't believe in the Book of Mormon
I don't believe in Bhagavad Gita
I don't believe in granola camp
I don't believe in nazis
I don't believe in fascists
I don't believe in the 22nd amendment
I don't believe in Osama
I don't believe in free trade
I don't believe in Christian Science
I don't believe in Busby Berkeley
I don't believe in partitioned countries
I just believe in me. . .and thee.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Dynamo Royale's new album

By Jack Brummet


I just received the album from Dynamo Royale that I backed in Kickstarter a couple of years ago.  The album by Tiz Aramini and Jon Auer is not what I expected at all.  And I am loving it...



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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Drawing: Faces #1110 - Anon.

By Jack Brummet


click to enlarge

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Your Studio and You - Matt Stone and Trey Parker's first movie

By Jack Brummet, Comedy Ed.

"Your Studio and You" is the first film by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The educational style film It was commissioned as part of a party at Universal Studios by then new owner Seagram.

The short is 14 minutes long with appearances by James Cameron, Demi Moore, Sylvester Stallone, Michael J. Fox, Traci Lords, John Singleton, Shaun Cassidy, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Angela Landsbury, Brian Grazer, Heavy D, Marty Stuart, and the Zucker Brothers...

You can download a copy of this film athttps://archive.org/details/yourstudioandyou.