Evil Konks Out
By Jack Brummet
In the end, evil konks out
Like a squid simmered in its own ink.
Evil fails the moment
It overcomes the good
And consumes the energy
To which it owed its duration.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Poem by Jack Brummet: Turning, and revolution
Turning, and revolution
By Jack Brummet
When grass is pulled up
The sod comes with it
There is no one
Without the other
The host and the tenant are locked
In mostly benign equilibrium
Each valley is followed by a slope
And every going followed by a return
There is no relief without an ache
And no virus without a host
One who parries danger
Is testing the margins of life
The bricks tumble into the moat
The king's body hangs naked
From the flagpole
A ruler topples
And for one fleeting moment
The condition exists for change.
---o0o---
By Jack Brummet
When grass is pulled up
The sod comes with it
There is no one
Without the other
The host and the tenant are locked
In mostly benign equilibrium
Each valley is followed by a slope
And every going followed by a return
There is no relief without an ache
And no virus without a host
One who parries danger
Is testing the margins of life
The bricks tumble into the moat
The king's body hangs naked
From the flagpole
A ruler topples
And for one fleeting moment
The condition exists for change.
---o0o---
Monday, February 21, 2011
Seattle's Aurora Bridge, fenced at last
By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Editor & Mona Goldwater, Psychology Correspondent
A week ago today, Wash. Department of Transportation crews finished the nine foot safety barriers on the sides of the 167-foot high cantilever/truss Aurora Bridge (a/k/a The George Washington Memorial Bridge)that carries Highway 99 (formerly known as The Pacific Highway) across the Ship Canal. Hallelujah! We drove by and admired the work this weekend.
The Aurora Bridge's height and easy pedestrian access have long made it a popular location for suicide jumpers. In fact, the first person to leap to their death from the bridge did so while it was still under construction, in 1932. It took us until 2006 to install six emergency phones and 18 signs to encourage people to seek help instead of jumping. People even put up home-made stickers that asked people not to jump and call a suicide hotline instead. Someone even posted their own number "call me! I care about YOU!"
These fences are a beautiful thing, when you consider their potential. If only a couple of people turn away a year, it is money well spent. The Aurora Bridge is the No. 2 bridge for suicides in North America. It was No. 3 until Toronto fenced their bridge. In fact, since they put up that fence, there have been no suicides. This has happened at every bridge where they have installed fences. That is goodness. One week in 2009, three people jumped from the bridge, two of them "successfully." True, you will not stop someone determined to end themselves, but you will stop impulse jumpers and people who might reconsider. One statistic we heard recently said that of all the people who came close to jumping, but turned back, 94% don't ever come close again. If these fences buy the despondent two minutes to think, then, in our booklet, that's five million dollars well spent. Seeing these fences go up makes our hearts sing.
A week ago today, Wash. Department of Transportation crews finished the nine foot safety barriers on the sides of the 167-foot high cantilever/truss Aurora Bridge (a/k/a The George Washington Memorial Bridge)that carries Highway 99 (formerly known as The Pacific Highway) across the Ship Canal. Hallelujah! We drove by and admired the work this weekend.
The Aurora Bridge's height and easy pedestrian access have long made it a popular location for suicide jumpers. In fact, the first person to leap to their death from the bridge did so while it was still under construction, in 1932. It took us until 2006 to install six emergency phones and 18 signs to encourage people to seek help instead of jumping. People even put up home-made stickers that asked people not to jump and call a suicide hotline instead. Someone even posted their own number "call me! I care about YOU!"
These fences are a beautiful thing, when you consider their potential. If only a couple of people turn away a year, it is money well spent. The Aurora Bridge is the No. 2 bridge for suicides in North America. It was No. 3 until Toronto fenced their bridge. In fact, since they put up that fence, there have been no suicides. This has happened at every bridge where they have installed fences. That is goodness. One week in 2009, three people jumped from the bridge, two of them "successfully." True, you will not stop someone determined to end themselves, but you will stop impulse jumpers and people who might reconsider. One statistic we heard recently said that of all the people who came close to jumping, but turned back, 94% don't ever come close again. If these fences buy the despondent two minutes to think, then, in our booklet, that's five million dollars well spent. Seeing these fences go up makes our hearts sing.
---o0o---
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Faces No. 190 - drawing by Jack Brummet
Faces No. 190 by Jack Brummet
[drawings in the faces series are usually hand-drawn/analog. This one is all digital.]
[drawings in the faces series are usually hand-drawn/analog. This one is all digital.]
click to enlarge
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Joseph Stalin and Keanu Reeves (and Stalin/Borat and Stalin/Hitler/Obama)
Jeff Clinton recently sent us the Joseph Stalin photo on the left, which reminded us of Keanu Reeves, so we put them together (and grey scaled and aged the Keanu photo, so it would match).
I emailed results to Dean Ericksen, who then responded with more Stalin photograph sets. These are, unlike the one above, the more traditional and later photographs of Stalin we see all the time.
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Digital Painting: Diagram of Serene Branson's Migraine
Digital Painting: Diagram of Serene Branson's Migraine, by Jack Brummet
click to enlarge
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Friday, February 18, 2011
A case study in persistent genital arousal syndrome
By Jack Brummet
Social Mores Editor
Thanks to the Old 97's for the news tip!
Social Mores Editor
Thanks to the Old 97's for the news tip!
click to enlarge
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Drawing: The Assistant D.A.
Drawing: The Assistant D.A.
By Jack Brummet
By Jack Brummet
[analog<---->digital - scanned drawing digitized and twiddled - click to enlarge]
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"Back To The Future": Irena Werning's photos go backwards and forwards
Irena Werning's great photo project, Back To The Future--shots of people taken 20-50 years apart, wearing the same clothes, and expressions. . .fascinating. and a little creepy.
"With my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future." Check it out here.
'--o0o---
Alien Lore No. 193 - Poem: When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
by Jack Brummet
When aliens land
Will they come as Farmers,
To harvest seeds they planted long ago?
Is it "hi, Mom," or "hello cousin,"
Or will we be enlisted as drones?
Will they stop in for phosphorous or zinc?
Or will they just toss earth in the back
Of an enormous galactic flatbed truckfarm pick-up
And head back to Zeta Reticulon?
Will they make this spinning ball
A rendering plant
Or come to absorb our wisdom, art and humanity?
We never picture
aliens, greys, or martians
Coming in peace
Because we never came in peace.
---o0o---
by Jack Brummet
When aliens land
Will they come as Farmers,
To harvest seeds they planted long ago?
Is it "hi, Mom," or "hello cousin,"
Or will we be enlisted as drones?
Will they stop in for phosphorous or zinc?
Or will they just toss earth in the back
Of an enormous galactic flatbed truckfarm pick-up
And head back to Zeta Reticulon?
Will they make this spinning ball
A rendering plant
Or come to absorb our wisdom, art and humanity?
We never picture
aliens, greys, or martians
Coming in peace
Because we never came in peace.
---o0o---
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Three digital paintings by Jack Brummet: Roses
Three digital paintings: Roses - by Jack Brummet
- click images to enlarge -
- click images to enlarge -
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