The Arctic Blast Continues

I know how laughable it is to many of you to hear what kind of chaos an inch or two of snow can cause in the northwest. We just don't have much experience. There is a narrow band of temperature here—the overall average is 52°F, the August average is 66°F, and the coldest month (January) averages 41°F. In our last cold snap, everyone's power was off; at least we have juice this time!
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Poem: Snow Day In Kirkland, Wash.

In silhouette
Against blue bisque skies,
Crows bounce

On white tree branches,
Shaking snow to the ground.
They survey the valley

For prey
In stark relief
Against the powder-white fields.
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One More Reason Why I Am Scared Sh**less To Fly: Video Of Fixing A Jet's Wing With Duct Tape

If this video doesn't play—and, for some reason, they don't
always want to play—just go here on YouTube to see the clip.
Or go to Turbanhead's blog to the clip.


This is one of the reasons I need to be well-medicated to even approach an airport. I have flown more in the last few months than I have in all my life, and I have even made some of the flights without Xanax or any other sundry pharmaceuticals I beg from my Doctor and various people I know. A second reason I am terrified of flying is that about half of my high school classmates ended up as shoprats at Boeing. Knowing who actually builds these 'planes might give you pause as well, dear readers. . .
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Alien Lore No. 96 - Alien Sex: Antonio Villas Boas' Mad Night Of Alien Debauchery

23-year-old Antonio Villas Boas is the star of what is probably the most famous case of sex with aliens. It all went down on October 16, 1957, although Antonio believes he had seen the alien ship(s) for about two weeks prior to his abduction.


The grey temptress as described
by Boas

The ploughboy was working a field on his family farm when the engine of his tractor died and purple lights came down from the sky.

Greys in spacesuits emerged from a flying saucer and took him into their craft, and ran him throhgh a battery of what seemed to be medical tests. They took his clothes off (a recurring theme in most of these stories), spread a strange liquid over him and took a blood sample. And then, a beautiful, fair-haired, naked woman appeared.

Without speaking or kissing, they made love. She growled like a dog. Perhaps due to the alien liquid (a sort of interstellar Viagra?), Antonio was soon ready for seconds. "Before leaving she turned to me, pointed to her belly, and smilingly pointed to the sky."



Post-coitus, the aliens gave Antonio a guided tour of the spaceship. It was about 5:30 in the morning when Boas returned to his tractor, by his reckoning four and a quarter hours from the time he had been picked up. Antonio become a successful lawyer and still stands by his story 50 years later.

To read a detailed account of Antonio's wild night of Grey love, go to one of my favorite paranormal/conspiracy sites, the Illuminati Conspiracy Archive. There is a link to the main site on my links sidebar. You might also want to check out one of these books that also cover the story:

Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx, by Bruce Rux; pp. 109-116

Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds, by Jacques Vallee; pp. 113-115

Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, by Ralph Blum with Judy Blum; pp. 182-184

If you read Spanish, check out this web site: LA ABDUCCION DE ANTONIO VILLAS BOAS.
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Alien Lore No. 95 - Are The Greys Out There Watching The Sopranos?

TV signals will be sent into space in 2008, according to Scotsman.com, to establish whether aliens—if they are indeed Out There—are watching television. Astronomers will search 1,000 nearby stars for TV broadcasts and other signals that may indicate extraterrestrial life. A Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics spokesperson said the project, will use a new radio telescope to search for radio traffic.

Our current efforts to smoke out extraterrestrial life are almost always focused on searching for messages beamed across space, which would miss a civilization that is not actively seeking contact, as some of our earth folk do.

David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics director of communications, said: "We may pick up spurious signals from people that never meant for us to hear them and get an inkling that something's going on."



A telescope under construction in Australian will avoid most terrestrial radio interference. The project will detect signals within roughly 30 light years of earth (about 1,000 stars).

This project will be rolled out right here in Seattle, at a conference of the American Astronomical Society this Wednesday.
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The Pat Robertson Coloring Book

The Pat Robertson coloring book is now available. What are you waiting for?!


Some other recent Pat Robertson mentions on All This Is That:

God Warning of big storms
Islam is Satanic
Jesusland in Jeopardy?
Assassinate President Chavez?
Pat Robertson keeps his foot out of his mouth for two weeks!
More wisd0m from Pat
I didn't say that? Did I?
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President Bush sets new goals for Iraq

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According to The New York Times on Sunday, President George W. Bush President will establish "a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to try to ease sectarian tensions and stabilize the country politically and economically, senior administration officials said Sunday. "

Wait, didn't we do that two years ago? The difference is this time we really really really mean it.
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Poem: Changes 27/Taking Care

1
Pay heed to nourishment
And with what a person seeks
To fill their own mouth—

2
To know what anyone is like
Observe how they bestow love and mercy
And what part of their nature

They nurture
A person of goodness takes care
In order to take care of others

3
At the foot of the mountain
Thunder—
An image of nourishment

Thunder and lightning
Feed into the earth
And charge it like Frankenstein's monster

4
You let the magic turtle go
And train your sharp eyes
Like a tiger with a craving

5
Awareness of danger
Brings good fortune
As you cross the great water.
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Lyrics to The Band's (And Marvin Gaye's) Don't Do It

The Band came to this tune late in their career. And when they did, they owned this song (with all deference to the late, great Marvin Gaye, who covered the song in the first place). It was the opener at the fantastic Rock Of Ages New Year's show, and brought down the house. The Band often played this song as their encore, as they did in The Last Waltz, where the song plays at the beginning of the movie, over the credits.

Levon and Rick sang the song, sometimes in dual leads, and sometimes with Danko coming in mostly on the chorus. It's a very piano-ish song, with a great rumbling bridge by Richard Manuel on piano over Helm's lead vocal. There is a spirited live version on the compilation The Genuine Bootleg Series - Crossing The Great Divide 1961-1991 in addition to the Last Waltz and Rock of Ages versions. It opens The Last Waltz movie, but they did not put the song on the soundrack--at least on the more common 2 CD set. It did appear on the 4 Disc Last Waltz box set. The Last Waltz version, alas, only includes one verse. They were eager to get off stage. As that song died down, things would never be the same again.

Don't Do It
By Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier/Edward Holland, Jr.


Baby don't you do it, don't do it
Don't you break my heart
Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart

A sacrifice would make you happy if nothing for myself
Now you wanna leave me for the love of someone else
My pride is all gone whether I'm right or wrong
I need you baby to keep on keepin' on

You know I'm trying to my best
Oh i'm trying to do my best
Don't do it, don't you break my heart
Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart

My biggest mistake was loving you too much and letting you know
Now you got me where you want me and you won't let me go
If my heart was made of glass well then you'd surely see
How much heartache and misery, girl, you've been causing me

While I've been trying to do my best
Well I've tried to do my best
Don't do it, don't you break my heart
Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart

Go down to the river and there I be
I'm gonna jump in girl, but you don't care bout me
Open up your eyes
Can't ya see I love ya?
Open up you heart, girl
Can't ya see I need ya?

Oh baby don't do it, do it, do it
Don't you break my heart
Pleeeeease don't do it don't you break my heart

My biggest mistake was loving you too much and letting you know
Now you got me where you want me and you won't let me go
If my heart was made of glass well then you'd surely see
How much heartache and misery, girl, you've been causing me

While I've been trying to do my best
You know I've tried to do my best
Don't do it, don't you break my heart
Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart
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I apologize. . .

I apologize for all the broken links on any (ahem, all) of the audio posts I've made over the last year and a half. The guys who hosted those links went belly up, and the sound files went with them.

I put up a few interesting poems of mine, recordings of kids, snippets of speeches by President Bush, and Hitler, and Mario Cuomo, as well as recordings I'd made in the 70s and 80s of Jerry Melin, and the New Years 1980 recordings of Colin Curran, Keelin Curran, Kevin Curran, Nicholas Dogfish Gattuccio, Sean Curran, and Jerry Melin.

I'll find a new way to host these audio files, and repost them, along with some other nuggets I never got around to putting up in the first place. . . Love & Mercy, Jack.
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President Ronald Reagan once said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

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President Ronald Reagan once said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
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Be afraid, or rejoice: Grateful Dead fans Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are now at the center of power

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The Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are—as it turns out—huge Grateful Dead fans. Harry Reid told a reporter from KLAS-TV "Here, I'll show you the bathroom. This is my prized possession, a signed poster of the Grateful Dead."



One of The Speaker's celebrations includes a band of former Grateful Dead members, including Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, and Bruce Hornsby, along with Warren Haynes, and Mike Gordon. They performed a passel of Dead (and other) classics:

Shakedown Street—"Don't tell me this town aint got no heart... You just gotta poke around"
Truckin'
End of the Innocence
Touch of Gray—
The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby solo)
Come Together
U.S. Blues
Iko Iko
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