Another letter from President George W. Bush

After receiving a letter back from The President, I wrote several more times, but did not get a return letter.  But finally, about a year later, some staffer took pity and fired us off this one.  I suggested incarcerating Howard Dean (since a firing squad would be a bit extreme), and even repealing the 22nd amendment.

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Painting: One of the chinless wonders

Digital drawings: Four faces by Jack Brummet

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That's one way of getting the job done: Marry The Boss's Daughter

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George W. Bush writes to All This Is That (from 2005)

By Jack Brummet
Social Mores Editor

Five years ago, then President George W. Bush, wrote us to politely decline our invitation.   And now, after two years out of office, we see the slow resurrection and rehabilitation of George W. Bush's image beginning to occur. . .  Check out the original article here.

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Five digital faces by Jack Brummet

Click the drawings to enlarge. Created on an iPad, using Harmonious drawing tools...

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All This Is That Turns Six Years Old This Week

We began publishing this blog in November, 2004.  Since then, we've published 4,260 posts, or, roughly two per day.  At least 180 of these posts have focused on alien lore; 200 or so have been poems by Jack; three or four hundreds of Pablo Fanque's political pieces have appeared, as well as four hundred pieces of original art.  We have also published numerous pranks and japes; two letters from George W. Bush to the editors of All This Is That, dozens of articles on country, rock, bluegrass, and jazz; around 20 articles on Growing Up Hillbilly, hundreds of articles on Presidents, and Presidential elections, many articles on pop culture, and dozens of articles on the folly of humans and the human condition.  It's hard to sum up four thousand posts, but we have generally stuck to our mission of covering the paranormal, poetry, painting, politics, persiflage, and pop.

Over the next week, Pablo and Jack will be posting links to their favorite articles here.  We will also include links to Google's top searches here (of which, interestingly, none appear on either Jack's or Pablo's lists.


We started out very tentatively six years ago, feeling our way along as learned how to blog and how to publish every day.  We've gotten much better at it, and have published every single day for the last six years.  We have published this blog from all around the country--from Boston, Vancouver and Victoria Canada, NYC, San Francisco/Berkeley, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Orange County, England, Mexico, Greece, India, and Turkey.

Stay tuned this week for some of our favorites. 

Before we sign off today, we want to announce that we are adding another editor to our staff.  Our friend, and reformed Republican, Mona Goldwater will become a regular contributor on, or before, December 1, 2010. 

In closing, here is the very first piece to ever appear on All This Is That.  It is a short poem by Jack, that appeared our first day, November 16th, 2004:

Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River


A rainbow loops over
the alder cathedral.


Dark clouds are sinking.
The Lamplighter


loans them a patch of land
and a heartbeat.
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Jack Brummet
(originally appeared in The Croton Review)
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random bad phone camera shots from Laguna Beach

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Olmec Exhibit at LACMA In L.A., along with

We went to see the William Eggleston show at LACMA in LA. Wow. He is a color photography genius...really like the show. They had around 200 photographs from 1961-2008. The dye transfer process brings out these  saturated riots of heartbreakingly great color. He goes after the everyday image--not just glamor shots or ponderous portraits.  I really didn't know about him before this show, but he has apparently been a big influence on art and artists.

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Photos from the Collosal Olmec sculpture show at LA's LACMA

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Faces No. 188 - 16 Lagunites

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The Roman gladiatorial stadium at Aphrodesias in Turkey

The gladiator stadium at Aphrodesia in Turkey has to be probably my favorite ruin ever (and we've seen them on several continents).  It was massive and very well-preserved.  My sons had a gas leaping around, darting out of the warrior tunnelts.  You could somehow sense the thousands who battled and died there--like the scene in the movie Patton where Gen Patton says to Gen. Omar Bradley, "I was here Brad.  I was here with the Carthaginians two thousand years ago.".  While we were there, we met the guy who was revisiting the place for lonely planet.  He was the only person we saw at these magnificent ruins. We saw a handful of people at the great museum there, but out among the temples and stadiums and theatres, we saw no one.

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