Tuesday, December 06, 2011

a bigfoot encounter

By Jack Brummet, Paranormal Editor
illustration by Jack Brummet

In North America (hey! including the brothers and sisters in Canada) there are myriad stories of Bigfoot kidnappings and sex with native women. Here's one story from a book written by Dr. Ed Fusch: "Seweneytl And The Stick Indians Of The Colville". The book contains dozens of accounts of Native American interactions with "large bipedal hominids". To us, this story about a Colville Indian bride stood out the most as it was summarized in Monster DNA and Ancestory by Ray Crowe:


Credit: www.colvilletribes.com

"Perhaps the most famous is the one in a rare book of Dr. Ed Fusch, “Seweneytl And The Stick Indians Of The Colville.” He tells of the Lake Band of the Colville Indians. They had a fishing camp in the late 1890’s near Keller, Washington, on the San Poil River."

"The recent pretty bride had gone for water when the camp heard the Indian maiden scream. The men thought a bear might be threatening or attacking the bride and rushed to her aid and they could only stand and watch in awe as the bride disappeared in the distance in the arms of a Skanicum (local Bigfoot name)."

"The remainder of the summer the men hunted for the lost bride searching every nook and cranny, but without luck. Finally at the end of summer they found her while she was gathering roots as the Skanicum slept. She was pregnant from the seed of the monster that had forced her to satisfy his desires. Months later she bore a half-monster child – a son. She named him Patrick. And Patrick survived and grew up to become a member of the tribe."
"Patrick was ugly. A tiny troll of a sub-human hybrid. He was hump-backed and only 5’4” tall with arms that hung down to his knees. There was a sloped forehead, a large mouth, and a large lower jaw with protruding teeth. He grew up, being considered quite bright and affluent; enough that he found a wife and lived a successful married life. He reached the ripe old age of 30, and was buried on the Colville Reservation."
"Patrick had a full family life, siring three daughters and two sons that died early. The girls were Mary Louise, Madeline, and Stella, who also died early. Mary Louise lived near Omak and it was said that her paternal grandfather was a Skanicum, although she was relatively normal in appearance; although both girls were said to have protruding teeth, wide mouths, and were squint eyed."
"Madeline lived near the Washington coast, and was said to be incredibly ugly. An alcoholic, she spent much of her time in taverns. Dr. Fusch is, last I heard, was unsuccessful in trying to track her down to get a DNA sample which might have been illuminating."
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Monday, December 05, 2011

#OWS: The Re-occupation

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Poem: Failure


Failure
By Jack Brummet

I try over and over to slap the stink-eye
On those who trespass
Against me.

I stand in the yard at midnight,
Sending invites to the greys.
They keep right on moving.

I sit in meetings,
Trying to hypnotize
The speaker droning

On about something
That won't really matter.
I focus every electron of thought

On my perceived enemies,
And they always wake up.
Either telepathy fails me

Or I fail telepathy,
With a brain
That refuses to transmit.
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

Friday, December 02, 2011

Logo

A 3D copy of you

By Mona Goldwater, Technology Editor




Real-F is offering an amazingly detailed 3D face mask of you for $3,920.  A copy of your entire head will run you $5,875.  But after the first one, discounts come in...additional faces and heads cost $780 and $1,960.

Real-F's "Three -Dimension Photo form (3DPF)" technique allows them to duplicate pores, eye's blood vessels and iris exactly like the original, the original being you.

I would love to have a bunch of these and walk the streets with my platoon of clones. . .


You can find them here, on Facebook, or at their Website.  Only four grand: what have you got to lose?
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The 1919 Seattle General Strike

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Editor


The Occupy Oakland General Strike made me remember studying the 1919 Seattle General Strike in a Labor Union class in college.  Oakland also had a very successful general strike in the 1940's. And they had another effective one a few weeks ago as part of the Wall Street Uprising.  It got a lot of attention, and nothing bad happened; it helped shore up OO; the Oakland P.D. did not leap in with a disproportional response, that night anyhow.

Twenty years after the Seattle strike, in 1936, James Farley, the Postmaster under FDR, said "there are 47 states in the Union, and the Soviet of Washington," referring to the leftist movements in the state, and especially in Seattle, where the general strike had occurred.  There have been similar quotes over the years, referring to the Supreme Soviet of Seattle. . .

The Seattle Star's last ditch effort to stop the General Strike

The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first real city-wide labor action in America to be acknowledged by the media (then, radio, magazines, and newspapers) as a "general strike."   The strike happened due to the heavy presence of radical labor unions in the Pacific Northwest, the strong influence of the IWW [International Workers of the World, sometimes referred to as IWW:"I Won't Work."], although they were not heavily involved, and because of the vast numbers of workers and soldiers who were recently out of work due to the end of World War I.

The strike lasted less than a week, but inspired other strikes and was one of the triggers of the Great Red Scare of 1919.  This strike frightened people (well, mainly the 1%-ers of the early 20th century) because it was generally believed the strike was fomented by Communists/Bolsheviks, who successfully revolted in Russia two years earlier.   The Wikipedia says the fallout from the strike was "the first concentrated eruption of the anti-Red hysteria that characterized the Red Scare of 1919."

In an editorial in the Seattle Union Record, a union newspaper, activist Anna Louise Strong tried to describe the general strike's power and potential:
"The closing down of Seattle's industries, as a MERE SHUTDOWN, will not affect these eastern gentlemen much. They could let the whole northwest go to pieces, as far as money alone is concerned."
"But, the closing down of the capitalistically controlled industries of Seattle, while the workers organize to feed the people, to care for the babies and the sick, to preserve order--this will move them, for this looks too much like the taking over of power by the workers."
"Labor will not only Shut Down the industries, but Labor will reopen, under the management of the appropriate trades, such activities as are needed to preserve public health and public peace. If the strike continues, Labor may feel led to avoid public suffering by reopening more and more activities."
"UNDER ITS OWN MANAGEMENT."
"And that is why we say that we are starting on a road that leads--no one knows where!"
Newspaper across the country reprinted excerpts from Strong's editorial.


"The strike began in shipyards that had expanded rapidly with war production contracts. 35,000 workers expected a post-war pay hike to make up for two years of strict wage controls imposed by the federal government." (From an article in the The Seattle Times on March 31, 1996)


When the regulators refused to lift the wage caps, the Metal Trades Council union alliance declared a strike and closed the shipyards.   The Metal Trades Council pleaded for support from the Central Labor Council and virtually all of the city’s 110 local unions voted to join a sympathy walkout. 


Local and national press vehemently denounced the strike, and the conservatives called for extreme measures to snuff what they felt was a revolutionary/Anarchist/Bolsheviki plot. Mayor Ole Hanson, elected the year before (with heavy labor union support), armed the police and threatened to declare martial law and bring in federal troops to prevent the strike.

Some of the unions caved early on, and by the time the Central Labor Council officially declared an end on February 11, most unions had already gone back to work.

After the strike, reprisals against "the Reds," specifically the IWW, and Socialist Party, began.  Their HQ were raided, and the leaders thrown in jail.  Federal agents closed the Union Record, the labor-owned daily newspaper, and arrested several of its staff members.

Around the country, headlines screamed the news that Seattle had been saved, that the revolution had been broken, and, as Mayor Ole Hanson said,  “Americanism” had triumphed over “Bolshevism.”  The mayor promised to preserve order and do whatever it took to protect life and property. A few months after the strike was over, Hanson resigned and made a small fortune on a lecture tour, talking about the strike and the evils of Bolshevism. 

An anti-syndicalism law passed by the state Legislature early in its 1919 session was used as a basis for numerous raids on Socialist and radical labor headquarters, police disruption of meetings, and the arrest of suspected revolutionaries.

When three marchers were mysteriously shot in Centralia's 1919 Armistice Day parade, vigilantes retaliated by lynching a radical union leader, Wesley Everest. The Seattle Union Record's sympathetic coverage of the union side prompted federal marshals to suspend publication of the paper for several days, charging its editor with sedition.

Slowly, things returned to what passes for normal in Seattle.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011

The rules from Zombieland

By Jack Brummet, Film Editor

I really liked this movie a lot. . .and the rules were good.  Of the 32 or 33 rules alluded to by Columbus in the film, these are the ones specifically mentioned.


Cardio (Rule #1) Build up that endurance.

Limber Up (Rule #18) Don't pull a muscle running or dodging.

When in doubt, know your way out (Rule #22) "This rule is all about knowing your surroundings and preparing yourself for the worst,” says Columbus.

The Double Tap” (Rule #2)  "In those moments when you're not sure
that the undead are really dead-dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets…You can avoid becoming a human happy meal.”

Check the back seat (Rule 31)  “The last thing you need while driving is to have a zombie crawling up behind you trying to bite you.”

Wear Seatbelts (Rule #4)You won't be driving along easy roads anymore. You need to be ready for a crash!”


Beware of bathrooms (Rule #3) "Just because it's not socially acceptable to climb under cubicle doors, it doesn't mean the zombies won't do it."

"Enjoy the little things (Rule #32)  “Without enjoying the little things, it's all too easy for you to lose sanity and peace of mind from the constant stress and pains of staying alive.”

Don't Be a Hero (Rule #17)Possibly the most important rule of all. Don't risk your own life just to make yourself look good."

BE a Hero (also Rule  #17) Every good rule is meant to be broken.

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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on the 99%


"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile—and the rest of us are f***ed until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep."  —Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in The Great Shark Hunt, 1979
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Middle Finger of the day, No. 23

By Mona Goldwater, Sign Language Editor

True, we don't post them every day, but when we have received enough good ones from our readers, we'll throw them up on the blog all at once.  Send in any interesting middle finger shots that come your way. . .  /Mona




John Shaft

Aussies

Senior Citizen

sign

Old Navy girl

the family photo

Iraq

Another family photo


On The Street

Kristen Srewart

J.C.
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Drawing: Faces No. 36

Drawing by Jack Brummet


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