Analog drawing-->Digital painting by Jack Brummet -- Click to enlarge
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Popular Science's Vision of the Future (1950) as envisioned in 1925
By Jack Brummet
Near Future Editor
[Thanks to Jeff Clinton for pointing this out...]
This [now] public domain image was published on the cover of "Popular Science Monthly in 1925. It depicts the city of the future, the future they refer to happens in 1950. It's pretty interesting to see the few things that have actually panned out, and the many that have not sixty years after their vision of the future occurs.
Near Future Editor
[Thanks to Jeff Clinton for pointing this out...]
This [now] public domain image was published on the cover of "Popular Science Monthly in 1925. It depicts the city of the future, the future they refer to happens in 1950. It's pretty interesting to see the few things that have actually panned out, and the many that have not sixty years after their vision of the future occurs.
click to enlarge
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Friday, October 15, 2010
"It Gets Better" -- It needs to get better every day
By Jack Brummet
Social Mores Editor
I really hope it does get better. My brother-in law-Colin took his life in 1983. I don't think he was bullied per se as a young adult, but the atmosphere around being gay couldn't have helped (even in Manhattan) as he struggled with other issues. While it was different, I can't help but think of him every time I hear one of these heartbreaking stories.
Luke Burbank said yesterday that in ten years this will seem like a bad dream. He talked about the people in the 60's who would say "I don't have anything against blacks. They just shouldn't be allowed to go to the same restaurants as us."
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Social Mores Editor
I really hope it does get better. My brother-in law-Colin took his life in 1983. I don't think he was bullied per se as a young adult, but the atmosphere around being gay couldn't have helped (even in Manhattan) as he struggled with other issues. While it was different, I can't help but think of him every time I hear one of these heartbreaking stories.
Luke Burbank said yesterday that in ten years this will seem like a bad dream. He talked about the people in the 60's who would say "I don't have anything against blacks. They just shouldn't be allowed to go to the same restaurants as us."
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
A Gorgeous "Father's Clothes" recorded at KEXP by Seattle's Grand Hallway
This is a really beautiful song, with a gorgeous arrangement and incredible, delicate work--"Father's Clothes-- by the Seattle band Grand Hallway. It starts off like a perfect and moving Steven Reich or Phillip Glass song, and then after a couple of minutes, the vocals kick in and you are just. . .wow. . . Clarients, 'cello, three violins, piano, guitar, and, oh yeah...an oboe. This was like mindf***er 2010chamber music!
A friend, Jaclyn, is the fiddle player in the grey blouse. If you get the chance (btw, they're in NYC next week), go to one of their shows.
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A friend, Jaclyn, is the fiddle player in the grey blouse. If you get the chance (btw, they're in NYC next week), go to one of their shows.
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The Buse
I don't who took this photograph of Gary Busey, but they unquestionably captured his strange, twisted and wonderful soul. I'm with Busey!
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Poem: a slippery slope
Anger management is itself a slippery slope
Next, we'll manage laughter so those not laughing
Won't feel left out or have something to cry about
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Poem: Tidiness is a phobia...or is it a mania?
1.
Tidiness is phobia,
Cleanliness delusion,
And order, madness.
So much is lost--
Love, music, art,
Books, walks, and idle moments
Of shocking profundity and beauty,
Put on hold or abandoned.
Dr. Lister would be appalled.
2.
We've become a nation of
Rub-a-dub-Georges,
Wielding sprayers, wipes, and germicides,
Madly laving away
The sepsis and cooties--
Scrubbing for dear life.
3.
Cleanliness and tidiness
Are a bulwark
Against the inevitable.
Tidiness to the extreme
Exterminates the connections
Between the parts.
4.
No one ever said
On their deathbed
I wish I'd had fewer dust bunnies.
- Jack Brummet
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Tidiness is phobia,
Cleanliness delusion,
And order, madness.
So much is lost--
Love, music, art,
Books, walks, and idle moments
Of shocking profundity and beauty,
Put on hold or abandoned.
Dr. Lister would be appalled.
2.
We've become a nation of
Rub-a-dub-Georges,
Wielding sprayers, wipes, and germicides,
Madly laving away
The sepsis and cooties--
Scrubbing for dear life.
3.
Cleanliness and tidiness
Are a bulwark
Against the inevitable.
Tidiness to the extreme
Exterminates the connections
Between the parts.
4.
No one ever said
On their deathbed
I wish I'd had fewer dust bunnies.
- Jack Brummet
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Alien Lore No. 185 - The Greatest Story Never Told - Roswell and Commander George W. Hoover
By Jack Brummet
Alien Lore & Unexplained Phenomena Editor
[thanks Jeff Clinton for the find]
Commander George W. Hoover, the "grandfather" of satellite technology--a friend and close associate of Dr. Werner von Braun--revealed that the truth about Roswell is a lot weirder, and closer to the accounts long ago dismissed as wack-job conspiracies, than we ever guessed.
Hoover worked many years with with the U.S. Office of Naval Research, won a bazillion awards and medals, made huge contributions to atmospheric balloon research and to Werner von Braun's Project Orbiter--which led to the launch of Explorer I. After he retired from the Navy, he worked with NASA and various companies in the military-industrial-space complex. He helped develop the first flight simulators, and was a very accomplished pilot himself.
In the 1950's, Dr. Werner Von Braun said "Everybody talks about satellites, then nobody does anything. George Hoover's contribution should never be forgotten." The Vice Chief of the Navy, Admiral Harry D. Fel, said praised Hoover's contributions and organizational and logistical brilliance.
Some UFOlogists believe that Hoover also assisted Fred Durant in the early UFO government study group "The Robertson Panel" as well as other official--both public and secret--UFO studies.
George Hoover Jr. says that his father spoke numerous times of the Roswell crash during the 1960s. Remember, this was well before the explosion of UFOlogy/coverups/conspiracies in the mainstream media in the 80's. In the 50's and 60's, it was rarely spoken of, and UFOs and Alien Lore were not a part of pop culture, or the American psyche in general.
An article by Anthiony Bragalia says there may be evidence that Hoover assisted Fred Durant of the early UFO government study group "The Robertson Panel" as well as on other official UFO studies.
In 1995 George W. Hoover Sr. left his papers with an associate of the History Channel. Some of Hoover's hints about Roswell that he had made to his own son were later corroborated in private, off-the-record conversations that Commander Hoover had with researcher Dr. William J. Birnes.
Commander George Hoover finally revealed what he really knew about Roswell. He explained the truth, or at least whatever version of the truth he had learned about decades ago. According to more than one source, that truth was mainly the following:
Alien Lore & Unexplained Phenomena Editor
[thanks Jeff Clinton for the find]
Commander George W. Hoover, the "grandfather" of satellite technology--a friend and close associate of Dr. Werner von Braun--revealed that the truth about Roswell is a lot weirder, and closer to the accounts long ago dismissed as wack-job conspiracies, than we ever guessed.
Hoover worked many years with with the U.S. Office of Naval Research, won a bazillion awards and medals, made huge contributions to atmospheric balloon research and to Werner von Braun's Project Orbiter--which led to the launch of Explorer I. After he retired from the Navy, he worked with NASA and various companies in the military-industrial-space complex. He helped develop the first flight simulators, and was a very accomplished pilot himself.
In the 1950's, Dr. Werner Von Braun said "Everybody talks about satellites, then nobody does anything. George Hoover's contribution should never be forgotten." The Vice Chief of the Navy, Admiral Harry D. Fel, said praised Hoover's contributions and organizational and logistical brilliance.
Commander Hoover is seated at the far left at the table
Some UFOlogists believe that Hoover also assisted Fred Durant in the early UFO government study group "The Robertson Panel" as well as other official--both public and secret--UFO studies.
According to Anthony Bragalia, and Aurimas Svitojus, George W. Hoover Jr. recently revealed some remarkable tidbits about his father, including: the fact that Hoover Sr., in his official capacity, learned the real story (if there is one) about the Roswell crash sometime in the 1950s, or even earlier. He also told his son that he had seen "evidence about the Roswell crash event that convinced him that it was neither a balloon nor a hoax." Hoover, Sr., however would not go beyond that, and offered no further details. George Hoover also says his dad had "both a personal and professional interest in UFOs."" [Hoover offered] the driving spirit, organizing genius, imagination and foresight which set in motion the mighty effort toward the first man-made earth satellite, man's first step toward space flight." - Vice Chief of the Navy, Admiral Harry D. Felt
George Hoover Jr. says that his father spoke numerous times of the Roswell crash during the 1960s. Remember, this was well before the explosion of UFOlogy/coverups/conspiracies in the mainstream media in the 80's. In the 50's and 60's, it was rarely spoken of, and UFOs and Alien Lore were not a part of pop culture, or the American psyche in general.
An article by Anthiony Bragalia says there may be evidence that Hoover assisted Fred Durant of the early UFO government study group "The Robertson Panel" as well as on other official UFO studies.
In 1995 George W. Hoover Sr. left his papers with an associate of the History Channel. Some of Hoover's hints about Roswell that he had made to his own son were later corroborated in private, off-the-record conversations that Commander Hoover had with researcher Dr. William J. Birnes.
Commander George Hoover finally revealed what he really knew about Roswell. He explained the truth, or at least whatever version of the truth he had learned about decades ago. According to more than one source, that truth was mainly the following:
- UFOs are not the "biggest secret" the government has been sitting on--it is the entities behind them (or, as wel prefer to call them, The Greys, that are of most concern
- Roswell was a crash event of "visitors from somewhere else"
- The Greys were "not so much interplanetary as much as they were...time travelers." They visitors had transcended time!
- The visitors are clearly "from the future." There is reason to believe that they may even be "us" from a future Earth, and are not actually visiting, but Coming Home.
- These "future humans" have the ability to "manipulate reality around us."
- The government feared the intentions and abilities of the "visitors." Wouldn't you?
- These visitors are able to use the power of consciousness in extraordinary ways to morph reality.
- And, maybe the best, or, most hopeful part: human beings are far more powerful in potential than we ever dreamed. We can't yet even comprehend our amazing future capabilities.
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Drawing: Scratchboard face
Drawing by Jack Brummet: analog
scratchboard/digital reverse of analog
scratchboard image - click to enlarge
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
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