The Lost Coast Tapes (coming soon?)

By Jack Brummet, Paranormal and Unexplained Phenomena Editor

The Lost Coast Tapes is a new horror-POV feature that has just finished post-production and should be out sometime in 2012.  It is already getting some buzz.    The Lost Coast Tapes follows a group of investigative journalists as they set out to Northern California to debunk a rogue hunter who claims he has a Bigfoot in captivity (now you know why we're writing about this!).  The tagline:

"In 2011 a documentary crew traveled to a remote site in Northern California to verify the discovery of a dead Sasquatch. This footage is all that remains."

If this poster for The Lost Coast Tapes has anything to do with the movie at all, this is pretty exciting.  It is directed by Corey Grant and they promise to release a teaser trailer soon. 

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The Emaciated Siddharta

Keelin took this photo yesterday at a Buddhist art exhibition here in New York. . .this outdoes even some of the wildest sculptures we saw in India. . .

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Poem: The trouble with flying

Even though I've flown hundreds of times, every time I do, it still puts the spook in me.  Xanax helps during the flight itself,  but I still have a week-long run-up of anxiety and darkness, whenever I have to fly.  But then I like to fly, because it takes me places I want to be. 

The trouble with flying
By Jack Brummet

The trouble begins,
and often ends,

When you make an unplanned transition
From an initial flying state

To a subsequent not flying state.
Falling per se is OK;

The hitch comes
When falling becomes not falling,

Or, what the pros call
The uncontrolled landing problem.
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NYC, Day One

By Jack Brummet

After a five hour and five minute red-eye flight on Jet Blue, Keelin and I landed at JFK at 6:05 AM.  We hopped on a bus that took us to the Howard Beach subway station, where we got on the A train (the train we rode to school and work every day when we lived in Brooklyn), switched at Columbus Circle for the No. 1 train (which was our train when we lived on the Upper West Side), and got off at 79th for our hotel--The Belleclaire, on the corner of Broadway and 77th Street.  It was too early to check in, so we went out for breakfast to Barney Greengrass "The sturgeon king" which is just up the street from our old apartment at 158 W. 84th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus).  We always liked eating there when we lived here, but usually couldn't afford it.  I had scrambled eggs, an amazing plate of Nova Scotia salmon, a bialy, and Barney's usual lame coffee.  No one makes better nova, lox, sturgeon, herring, etc. than Barney.  Anyhow, the nova at Barney's is transcendent, if you like nova (very slowly code smoked salmon, with a very subtle smoke...not as dense or smoky or salty as lox).

Since we couldn't check in to our hotel in noon, we decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  There was a Franz Hals show we wanted to see, as well as a survey of historical Indian (the Asian Indians) painters.  And I always like to see their modern collection (The Klines, Warhols, Pollocks, Rothkos, etc.). Before I completely collapsed (I only slept two hours on the 'plane), I also went through the Roman and Greek marble galleries--always one of my favorites.  Usually, I also like to go through the Egyptian galleries too, which I may have to do this weekend.  But then there is the Modern, the Whitney, and The Frick, and The Guggenheim to consider.

More tomorrow (will try to visit the Occupy Wall Street protest/uprising).

one of my favorite warhol silk screen paintings

and it is huge--probably 20 feet tall

Self portrait in a parabolic mirror art installation at the Met

 

click to enlarge -- Autumn Rhythm,  by Jackson Pollock (and, yeah,

I know a lot of people don't like his work.  I do).

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Occupy Seattle, 2

D.I.Y Robot

By Jack Brummet

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Occupy Seattle

http://occupyseattle.org/







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Breaking news: Chris Christie says "no thanks"

By Mona Goldwater, New Jersey Editor

Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey once again announced Tuesday that he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination, saying that while he thought seriously about entering the presidential race, "now is not my time."  The Governor said he decided Monday night and told his family and aides this morning.  He said he went to the bed last night "knowing exactly what I wanted to do" for the first time in weeks.

Christie told reporters that he "felt an obligation to earnestly consider" the appeals made by various prominent republicans, up to and including former President George H.W. Bush, and former first lady Nancy Reagan.  Christie closed by saying he wouldn't rule out a run in the future.

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The Will of The People, II

by Jack Brummet
[digitized and enhanced analog drawing]

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Poem: Frontier Justice

Frontier Justice
by Jack Brummet

1
A roiling thunderstorm clears the air
Like Wyatt Earp's peacekeeper

2
A bad beginning can be overcome
But a good end lasts forever
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The National Jukebox

By Jack Brummet, American Music Editor

A fantastic resource for the school, teacher, researcher, writer, student, and blogger is The Library of Congress digital archives.  The LoC has now mounted The National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the amazing collections of the Library of Congress, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, and other contributing libraries and archives, including an amazing treasure trove of ten thousand old 78 RPM recordings from the R.C.A. Victor catalog, all digitized and available for streaming (but not downloading).  Check it out.

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Send In The Clowns

Artist: unknown

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