Not a lot of exposition is needed here. It IS ironic—and maybe a little Bizarro world, that the flying saucers we've been waiting for were actually launched from earth.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Alien Lore No. 238 - The first flying saucer was launched by the USA
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Editor
Not a lot of exposition is needed here. It IS ironic—and maybe a little Bizarro world, that the flying saucers we've been waiting for were actually launched from earth.
Not a lot of exposition is needed here. It IS ironic—and maybe a little Bizarro world, that the flying saucers we've been waiting for were actually launched from earth.
Faces No. 307 - The order pickers
By Jack Brummet
[pen, ink, and Sharpie on surplus muslin hospital tray wrapper]
[pen, ink, and Sharpie on surplus muslin hospital tray wrapper]
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
St. Catherine's head
By Jack Brummet, European Travel Editor
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When I was traveling in Italy in the mid-80's, I was curious interested fascinated obsessed with the reliquaries and other collections of people's physical remains. And if you went to a lot of museums, churches, and basilicas, you would bump into various collections of what I called Shards of Saints and Parts of Popes. But my friend Nick nailed it one night over a few glasses of lovely Tuscan wine, when he called them The Papal Giblets [1].
Rome’s Capuchin Crypt lies beneath the Santa Maria della Immacolata Concezione dei Cappuccini church in Rome. It's not a crypt in the same sense as the Paris catacombs or the crypts beneath the Vatican, but the walls of this series of chapels are entirely decorated with the bones of deceased Capuchin monks.
She died of stroke in Rome in 1380 at the age of 33. The people of Sienna wanted her body back. They couldn't steal her whole body, so they cut off her head and put it in a sack. Legend says that guards stopped the thieves but when they checked the sack, only found hundreds of rose petals in the bag. When they returned to Sienna, the head had re-materialized.To this day, the head is still on display in Sienna, along with Saint Catherine’s dismembered thumb [3]. For some reason, her foot is in Venice.
[1] [Ed's note: *Sidebar* There is a rumored Papal Phallus repository squirreled away in some shrine or crypt. And drifting even further off topic, I believe, that Lord Byron's pride and joy actually merited its own urn when it came to disposing of his body. If that is true, and if the relic did survive into the third millennium, All This Is That can't find it.]
[2] Although not nearly as strange as the trial of Pope Formosus. In the ninth century, "a successor of Pope Formosus (891-896) exhumed his 9-months-dead body and put it on trial for perjury and other crimes. As Notre Dame scholar Richard P. McBrien recounts in 'Lives of the Popes,' Formosus' cadaver was 'propped up on a throne in full pontifical vestments' for the trial, and after his conviction, 'three fingers of his right hand (by which he swore oaths and gave blessings) were cut off.' " (From the St. Louis Post Dispatch).
[3] St. Catherine's head, being many centuries old now, is not so nearly well-preserved as say, Lenin's, or Mao Zedong'a, or even the body of Sylvester, the mummified corpse that stands in a display case in Seattle's Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe.
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When I was traveling in Italy in the mid-80's, I was Rome’s Capuchin Crypt lies beneath the Santa Maria della Immacolata Concezione dei Cappuccini church in Rome. It's not a crypt in the same sense as the Paris catacombs or the crypts beneath the Vatican, but the walls of this series of chapels are entirely decorated with the bones of deceased Capuchin monks.
There is a chapel in Rome—the church of Saints Vincenzo and Anastasio—very close to Trevi Fountain (and near the very site where St. Paul was beheaded) that contains the hearts of almost thirty popes, from Sixtus V (d. 1590) to Leo XIII (d.1903). When a Pope was embalmed, it was a custom to remove their heart, which was placed into an urn. This church keeps those urns because it is the official parish church of the Quirinal Palace which the Popes used as their summer home since the 16th century.
St. Catherine's head
A trip to Sienna requires absolutely requires at visit to the mummified head, and finger, of St. Catherine at the Church of San Dominico [2]. It was one of the most memorable things I saw in Italy. She is the patron saint of both Italy and fire prevention (she was reportedly fireproof).
Saint Catherine of Sienna once received a vision that Jesus gave her a wedding finger made of his own holy foreskin. She "wore" thing ring her entire life, although no one else could see it. She would whip herself to dampen the unholy urges she sometimes felt. At the age of 16, her family attempted to marry her off, but she wasn't buying that. She cut off all her hair and scalded herself in a hot springs in order to make herself flat out too ugly to marry.
St. Catherine experienced stigmata—when she was 28, five red rays shot out of the crucifix she was praying to and pierced her hands, feet and heart. She had visions, and lived on nothing but the Blessed Sacrament (a sip of wine and a cracker). It is also said that she could spontaneously heal, was impervious to flames (she was fireproof!), and had the ability to levitate.
St. Catherine experienced stigmata—when she was 28, five red rays shot out of the crucifix she was praying to and pierced her hands, feet and heart. She had visions, and lived on nothing but the Blessed Sacrament (a sip of wine and a cracker). It is also said that she could spontaneously heal, was impervious to flames (she was fireproof!), and had the ability to levitate.
The Church of San Dominico
St. Catherine's finger
[1] [Ed's note: *Sidebar* There is a rumored Papal Phallus repository squirreled away in some shrine or crypt. And drifting even further off topic, I believe, that Lord Byron's pride and joy actually merited its own urn when it came to disposing of his body. If that is true, and if the relic did survive into the third millennium, All This Is That can't find it.]
[2] Although not nearly as strange as the trial of Pope Formosus. In the ninth century, "a successor of Pope Formosus (891-896) exhumed his 9-months-dead body and put it on trial for perjury and other crimes. As Notre Dame scholar Richard P. McBrien recounts in 'Lives of the Popes,' Formosus' cadaver was 'propped up on a throne in full pontifical vestments' for the trial, and after his conviction, 'three fingers of his right hand (by which he swore oaths and gave blessings) were cut off.' " (From the St. Louis Post Dispatch).
[3] St. Catherine's head, being many centuries old now, is not so nearly well-preserved as say, Lenin's, or Mao Zedong'a, or even the body of Sylvester, the mummified corpse that stands in a display case in Seattle's Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The Sergeant-At-Arms
by Jack Brummet
[mixed media and acrylic on 16" x 30" wood panel, revised and restored Aug. 2012]
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
This photo disturbingly reminded one of our readers (Scott) of ATIT
by Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Editor
Thanks to Scott Tester for passing this along. Although ATIT has published 5,463 articles since 2004, there is a certain group of people who still strongly identity us with our reportage on the Enumclaw horse situation (along with the numerous people each day who look up these past posts on Enumclaw).
Thanks to Scott Tester for passing this along. Although ATIT has published 5,463 articles since 2004, there is a certain group of people who still strongly identity us with our reportage on the Enumclaw horse situation (along with the numerous people each day who look up these past posts on Enumclaw).
- This may be our
final Enumclaw/Horse post. . .
- Not now deer! Wisconsin man
punished for necrophilia and beastiality--at the same time!
- Sex In The News: Lesbian Bigamist
Off The Hook; Shepherd Exonerated Over Sheep Sex
- South King County is in the news
again--not Enumclaw beastiality, but ghostiality in Federal Way
- Horsing around: Co-conspirator in
Enumclaw beastiality/horse sex case arrested in Tennessee
- Horsin' Around? Shades of the
Enumclaw horse sex case--another Washington State man succumbs to the lure
of a smokin' filly
- Inanimate Love: Guys having sex with lamp-posts,
signs, picnic tables, park benches. and cars
- Shades Of
The Enumclaw Beastiality Case-- A Spanaway, Wash. Man Is Accused Of Having
Sex With A Pit Bull
- Further ruminations on Enumclaw
- Horsin'
around: update on Enumclaw
- Another shocking revelation
- Beastiality
in south King County
- The final horse/beastiality update
- Enumclaw
Story To Become A MovieSeattle
Horse Sex Film Is Selected For Sundance!
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Paul Ryan—the man on horseback—rides in to save a moribund and faltering Romney campaign
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan this morning as the "next President of the United States." He later corrected himself, but, who knows?— he may have been right the first time.
I'm good with this choice. He's great for "the base" and ensures there will be exactly zero bleedthrough from the Democratic middle. Isn't it funny that we don't have a good term for more conservative democrats? Blue Dog Democrat probably comes closest. The phrase "Moderate Republican" used to actually mean something.
Moderate Republicans unfortunately became extinct sometime around the time of the Millennium. I now believe the Democrats can and will win this election (up to, and including, The Senate). The GOP/Tea Party, and especially their candidate, keep lobbing incredibly sweet cream-puffs at the Dems. Sadly, I don't think any Veep candidate can much help the Ex-Governor's chances of taking the White House. . .unless they seal the candidate's mouth with duct tape until November 6th.
Mitt Romney has cashed his check. The time of the Democrats has come. Virtually every Romney supporter I've met is not really so much for Romney as they are against Obama. BHO needs to get his message out there: the auto companies are booming and repaying the money he loaned them, with interest; Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are profitable again; the TARP money has mostly proven to be a very good investment. A little bit of health care reform went down on his watch too, on top of winding down wars on two fronts, ending Don't Ask/Don't tell, and (finally!) coming out in favor of same-sex marriage. This could be a rout.
Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan this morning as the "next President of the United States." He later corrected himself, but, who knows?— he may have been right the first time.
I'm good with this choice. He's great for "the base" and ensures there will be exactly zero bleedthrough from the Democratic middle. Isn't it funny that we don't have a good term for more conservative democrats? Blue Dog Democrat probably comes closest. The phrase "Moderate Republican" used to actually mean something.
Moderate Republicans unfortunately became extinct sometime around the time of the Millennium. I now believe the Democrats can and will win this election (up to, and including, The Senate). The GOP/Tea Party, and especially their candidate, keep lobbing incredibly sweet cream-puffs at the Dems. Sadly, I don't think any Veep candidate can much help the Ex-Governor's chances of taking the White House. . .unless they seal the candidate's mouth with duct tape until November 6th.
Mitt Romney has cashed his check. The time of the Democrats has come. Virtually every Romney supporter I've met is not really so much for Romney as they are against Obama. BHO needs to get his message out there: the auto companies are booming and repaying the money he loaned them, with interest; Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are profitable again; the TARP money has mostly proven to be a very good investment. A little bit of health care reform went down on his watch too, on top of winding down wars on two fronts, ending Don't Ask/Don't tell, and (finally!) coming out in favor of same-sex marriage. This could be a rout.
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