Donald Trump tweetstorm

by Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Donald Trump is in the middle of a bizarre tweetstorm. His staff is still asleep apparently. He's bringing up #sextapes?

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drawing: faces 1620/1621 — Libertarian caucus

By Jack Brummet

B Side:

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Drawing 1599-1619 — rocks: The Surrogates

By Jack Brummet

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Florida voters weigh in on Donald J. Trump's debate performance

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Donald J. Trump cashed a thirteen cent check

In 1990, Spy magazine performed an interesting experiment to find out "Who is America's cheapest zillionaire?"

Spy sent various people a 13 cent check , and waited to see who would actually cash it. They sent the checks to the home addresses of the rich people. DJT cashed his. So did the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi.

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Donald Trump gets taken to Chinatown

by Jack Brummet, Republican Family Values Editor

Of all the things DJT said in the Presidential Debate last night, what most offended me was when he referred to President Obama as “your President” while speaking to Hillary late in the debate. It flared up on FB, Reddit, Twitter, and other sites. Was this tied into his earlier refusal to apologize ("I have nothing to say.") for his five year birther jihad; because he believed [and still believes] the President is illegitimate and therefore not his President? To have not said Our President offended me most, but I imagine everyone has their own choices...God knows he gave the nation so many tonight.

"Not global warming, like you think and your President thinks.” - Donald J. Trump

This debate will go down as a turning point in 2016 and in the annals of great/insane debates. In the spin room, Rudy G said he wasn't sure if Donald would be attending the next two debates. Interestingly, the guy who boasted of his testosterone levels a couple of weeks ago (and by implication, last night)couldn't find the "stamina" to finish the debate.

Trump would be smart to duck out; he has nothing to lose, and would, probably, be cutting his losses. Sure, we'll call him a pussy, but all the razzing and the media barrage would be nothing compared to one more monumental f***up like this. I'm sure his base loves him still, but he lost the outliers tonight, and I'll be really surprised if his head to head national poll numbers don't show a 6% drop by next week.

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drawing: faces 1600, 1605, 1605 — Couple x 3

by Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1594 — line outside the debate

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rock drawings: faces 1584-93 — the in-laws

by Jack Brummet

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by Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1582 — Vigil

by Jack Brummet

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Shaming ads from the rag trade, circa 1957

Dress right!  The American Institute of Men's and Boys' Wear ran ads in 1957 seeking to increase men's clothing sales using outright shame and scare tactics.

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drawing: faces 1581 — Smiler lineup; police like the guy second from the left.

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge 

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The gas pedal

Sometimes it feels

Like God has hit

The accelerator—

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drawing: faces 1580 — My favorite Real Change newspaper vendor

By Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1579 - 12"x12" ceramic tile

by Jack Brummet

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Fall seven times and stand up eight

Fall seven times and stand up eight. 

— Japanese Proverb

faces drawing 1577/1578 - Dad & Stepmom (wine crate)

By Jack Brummet 

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drawing: faces 1563-1576 — the last of the rock family

by Jack Brummet

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The most convincing photo of the Loch Ness Monster ever?

Check out the article in The Scotsman.

drawing: faces 1562 — threesome

by Jack Brummet

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IKEA beds

I just read that one in ten Europeans is conceived in an IKEA bed.

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drawing faces 1561: Drift(ply)wood with barnacles

by Jack Brummet

Detail (barnacles):

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drawing 1557 — four variations

by Jack Brummet

Detail:

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Land Torpedo, ca 1917 in Popular Science

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drawing: faces 1554-1556 — mom, dad, and me

By Jack Brummet

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Go Seahawks!

drawing: faces 1544-1553 — nine rocks

by Jack Brummet

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1543 — the guy with the sign at exit 149

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: faces 1542 — 7th Anniversary

By Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1541 - driftwood

By Jack Brummet

[Another piece of drift(ply)wood Keelin found in her travels...]

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Inspirational quotes from uninspirational people

• "Words build bridges into unexplored regions." - Adolf Hitler

• "He who stops being better, stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell

• "Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." - President Richard M. Nixon.

• "Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow." - [Scientology Creator] Ron L. Hubbard.

• "Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions." - War Criminal Slobodan Milosevic

• "As long as you have love in your heart, you'll never be alone." - Charles Manson.

• "I only believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin

• "A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it." - Rev. Jim Jones [Cult leader who convinced all of his followers to commit suicide by drinking a poisonous Kool-Aid. Jones prompted the suicide attempt as a "revolution." 900 people died, and Jones either killed himself or was murdered by a gunshot wound to the head.]

• "Countless million who have walked this earth before us have gone through this, so this is just an experience we all share." - Ted Bundy

• "An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure." - Genghis Khan.

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drawing: faces 1539 — tripleganger

by Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1534, 1535, 1536 join their rock family

by Jack Brummet

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jack and Keelin in PDX

Photo by unknown passer by

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drawing: faces 1537 — in distress

By Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1538 — PDX faces

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12 jazz albums that made a difference for me

By Jack Brummet

On Facebook, a friend asked us to come up with 12 jazz albums thatr stuck with us, or made a difference. Here are mine. [Note: a couple of these are compilations, because we don't really buy or listen to the haphazard collections released by many of the older artist's record companies. The Louis Armstrong and Bird sets in particular].

1. Forest Flower — Charles Lloyd. This was the album that got me hooked on jazz when I was around 20.
2. The Legendary Dial Masters — Charlie Parker. [It's kind of cheating —maybe—to use a compilation like this.]
3. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall —Thelonious Monk. [This tape of this 1957 concert was long lost and then found in 2005 at the library of congress. It was mastered and released a few years ago, and became a jazz best seller. It’s great.]
4. The Complete Atomic Basie — Count Basie
5. Live at Antibes — Charles Mingus. [Ah Um, Pithecanthropus Erectus, Oh Yeah were close contenders.]
6. Blue Train — John Coltrane [I was tempted to put Live in Seattle, which as some critics noted, contains some of his best, and worst, playing ever.]
7. Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band — Duke Ellington [This is peak Ellington which = peak jazz.]
8. Milestones — Miles Davis [this one was really hard…so many fantastic albums.]
9. Bug Music — Don Byron
10. Love Devotion and Surrender — John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana [Odd choice? Yes. I love each guitar player on their separate stereo channels and their rocking take on Coltrane].
11. Hot Fives and Sevens- Louis Armstrong
12. Visiting Dignitaries — Milo Petersen and The Jazz Disciples [by my oldest friend Milo and some really talented sidemen. I dig this out pretty often. Beautiful songwriting and arrangements. It includes a song, “The Good,” he wrote for our wedding.]

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The Soviet human-ape hybrid

By Jack Brummet, Genetics Ed.

OK. This is completely nuts. From weirduniverse.net:

The Human-Ape Hybrid

For decades dark rumors circulated alleging that the Soviets had conducted experiments to try to create a human-ape hybrid by breeding chimpanzees and humans, but it wasn't until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of Russian archives that the rumors were confirmed.

Dr. Il'ya Ivanov was a world-renowned expert on veterinary reproductive biology, but he wanted to do more in life than breed fatter cows. So in 1927 he traveled to Africa to pursue his vision of interbreeding man and ape.

Thankfully his efforts weren't successful. This was due both to genetics, and to the native staff of the West Guinea research facility where he worked, from whom he constantly had to conceal the true purpose of his experiments. If they had found out what he was really doing, he wrote in his diary, "this could have led to very unpleasant consequences." The necessity of carrying out his work in secrecy made it almost impossible to do anything, although he did record two unsuccessful attempts to artificially inseminate female chimpanzees with human sperm.

Frustrated, Ivanov eventually returned to the Soviet Union. He brought an orangutan named Tarzan back with him, hoping to continue his research in a more accepting environment. Back home he advertised for female volunteers willing to carry Tarzan's child, and remarkably he got a few takers. But then Tarzan died and Ivanov himself, suspected of harboring counter-revolutionary sentiments, was sent off to a prison camp for a couple of years. This ended his research. There are vague rumors suggesting that other Soviet scientists continued Ivanov's work, but nothing has been proven.

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drawing: faces 1532 (a rock Keelin found for me to draw upon)

By Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1533 - the smiler 2

by Jack Brummet

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