[pencil and Sharpy drawn on 24" x 24" surplus cotton autoclave wrapper]
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Help Wanted: Sasquatch Hunter
By Jack Brummet,
Paranormal & Unexplained Phenomena Editor
The All Over Albany website has has alerted the Internet to a job opening on Craigslist — for a primate-lover with an open mind and a (preferably) four-wheel-drive vehicle. And, BT Dubs, s/he will tracking down Sasquatches (a/k/a Bigfoot, Yeti, Abominable Snowman).
The Craigslist post, seeks a research assistant: "Not for profit organization, located in Whitehall, NY is a high-energy, team-oriented research entity that is involved in the tracking, documenting, and study of cryptozoological creatures, with a deep interest in the study and search of bipedal primitive apes. We seek an experienced researcher with a deep understanding of cryptozoology, primatology, with a good background with scientific research and interest in great apes."
Some of the researcher's duties are to "investigate, document and interview individuals with reported Bigfoot sitings [sic]. The right person for the job must be ready for "occasional travel to remote areas of Adirondacks including spending several nights in the wilderness, checking motion cameras, collecting hair and dung samples for laboratory analysis amongst other related activities."
MSNBC recently noted that "though there is no objective scientific evidence supporting the idea that Bigfoot is real, more than a quarter of Americans believe that the woodland ape either definitely or probably exists."
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Paranormal & Unexplained Phenomena Editor
The All Over Albany website has has alerted the Internet to a job opening on Craigslist — for a primate-lover with an open mind and a (preferably) four-wheel-drive vehicle. And, BT Dubs, s/he will tracking down Sasquatches (a/k/a Bigfoot, Yeti, Abominable Snowman).
The Craigslist post, seeks a research assistant: "Not for profit organization, located in Whitehall, NY is a high-energy, team-oriented research entity that is involved in the tracking, documenting, and study of cryptozoological creatures, with a deep interest in the study and search of bipedal primitive apes. We seek an experienced researcher with a deep understanding of cryptozoology, primatology, with a good background with scientific research and interest in great apes."
Some of the researcher's duties are to "investigate, document and interview individuals with reported Bigfoot sitings [sic]. The right person for the job must be ready for "occasional travel to remote areas of Adirondacks including spending several nights in the wilderness, checking motion cameras, collecting hair and dung samples for laboratory analysis amongst other related activities."
MSNBC recently noted that "though there is no objective scientific evidence supporting the idea that Bigfoot is real, more than a quarter of Americans believe that the woodland ape either definitely or probably exists."
Copyright (C) 2012 by All This Is That. All This Is That contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make these materials available to advance the understanding of political, economic, literary, artistic, and social issues. In some cases we satirize, parody, or lampoon materials from other sources. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for by section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit for research, educational, and entertainment purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', please read and follow our Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license and attribute the work to All This Is That, along with our URL (http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com).
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Faces No. 312 - Drawing: The Four
By Jack Brummet
[12"x18" analog drawing, scanned and "processed" a/k/a messed with...]
[12"x18" analog drawing, scanned and "processed" a/k/a messed with...]
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
New(ish?) Mark Knopfler song - Seattle
I've heard this is only available on a two CD import set from Europe. /jack
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Drawing: Going My Way?
Drawing by Jack Brummet
[pencil, sharpie, and pen and india ink on an old 30" x 18" traffic sign]
[pencil, sharpie, and pen and india ink on an old 30" x 18" traffic sign]
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Gee whiz: Jorge Luis Borges' grave desecrated
By Mona Goldwater, Quality Lit Editor
Jorge Borges grave got an unscheduled watering recently. A book cover depicting Chilean writer Eduardo Labarca "apparently urinating" on the author's grave provoked outrage in Argentina.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Seattle's first famous musicians, and a mysterious disappearance: the Louise and Ferera Hawaiian troupe
By Jack Brummet, Northwest history editor
This is an instrumental Hawaiian guitar version of Alberto Pestalozza’s 1898 “Ciribiribin." by the Louise and Ferera Hawaiian troupe. Click here to download Ciribiribin.
Frank Ferera was the first great star of Hawaiian music, and he and his future wife became the first musicians from the remote province of Seattle to achieve fame. Ferera first visited the United States as part of the Keoki E Awai troupe, and he became famous with the troupe by performing to an estimated 17 million people in a seven-month period at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. He married Helen Louise Greenus, the daughter of Seattle businessman, and they toured the U.S. as the Louise and Ferera Hawaiian troupe. In 1915, they were signed by Columbia Records. “Ciribiribin” was the last song they recorded together.
On December 12, 1919, Helen Louise mysteriously disappeared while the couple were on board the steamship SS President, from Los Angeles back to their home in Seattle. She had apparently gone on deck for a walk at 4 a.m. and never returned. I thought that only happened in noir movies. . .
This is an instrumental Hawaiian guitar version of Alberto Pestalozza’s 1898 “Ciribiribin." by the Louise and Ferera Hawaiian troupe. Click here to download Ciribiribin.
Frank Ferera was the first great star of Hawaiian music, and he and his future wife became the first musicians from the remote province of Seattle to achieve fame. Ferera first visited the United States as part of the Keoki E Awai troupe, and he became famous with the troupe by performing to an estimated 17 million people in a seven-month period at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. He married Helen Louise Greenus, the daughter of Seattle businessman, and they toured the U.S. as the Louise and Ferera Hawaiian troupe. In 1915, they were signed by Columbia Records. “Ciribiribin” was the last song they recorded together.
On December 12, 1919, Helen Louise mysteriously disappeared while the couple were on board the steamship SS President, from Los Angeles back to their home in Seattle. She had apparently gone on deck for a walk at 4 a.m. and never returned. I thought that only happened in noir movies. . .
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Photo fun - O-Ren: "I'll collect your f***ing head just like this f***er here!"
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The 9/11 Surfer urban legend? It actually happened. Meet Pasquale Buzzelli.
by Jack Brummet, NYC Editor
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Eleven years ago today, Pasquale Buzzelli survived the attacks of Sept. 11 when he rode a wave of debris as he fell 20 stories inside the tumbling World Trade Center North Tower.
I remember hearing this story in the days after 9/11. Everyone talked about it for a while, and then the news reports quits calling it hearsay and started reporting it as fiction. And then it fell out of the news; everyone assumed it was an urban legend, or a hoax.
There is a documentary out now, featuring Buzzelli, his family, first responders and others. And apparently, it actually did happen. He has come forward to tell his story in a Discovery channel special, “The 9/11 Surfer."
He and his wife, Louise, have written an e-book, “The True Story of the 9/11 Surfer: We All Fall Down.’’
“It was very difficult telling the story then,’’ Buzzelli told Savannah Guthrie on The Today Show. “I couldn’t. I was going through post-traumatic stress and survivor guilt from that. It took a long time to heal from that. I forced myself to do that, to try to give something back. Eventually I came to accept what had happened to me. I was able to go on and mourn. I feel now that it’s an important story to share with others.’’
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Larry Flynt's latest $1 million reward: Send me Mitt Romney's tax returns
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
Thanks to Jeff Clinton for the NewsTip!
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, and self-described free speech activist, is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records. In the past he has offered $1 million for various celebrities to pose naked, for evidence refuting the Warren Commission report, for evidence that Presidential candidate Rick Perry was guilty of infidelity, and during the Clinton impeachment trial, for evidence any of the committee members had been guilty of similar transgressions.
Thanks to Jeff Clinton for the NewsTip!
Flynt, 69, purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and the Tuesday, September 11, issue of USA Today. "What is he hiding?" the ad text reads. "Maybe, now, we'll find out." The ad also includes a phone number and email address where anyone with information can contact Flynt (at http://larryflynt.com/).
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Paul Ryan: "Trust Us On This!"
By Mona Goldwater, Economics Editor
Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan asks us to trust him on how they will make their $5 billion tax cut work. He isn't sure how it will work, but he knows it will. . .
Transcript from ABC’s This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you make the math work without eliminating the big deductions that middle-class families rely on?
RYAN: Well, first of all, that — those claims have been pretty discredited. There have been five different studies –
Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan asks us to trust him on how they will make their $5 billion tax cut work. He isn't sure how it will work, but he knows it will. . .
Transcript from ABC’s This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you make the math work without eliminating the big deductions that middle-class families rely on?
RYAN: Well, first of all, that — those claims have been pretty discredited. There have been five different studies –
STEPHANOPOULOS: How have they been discredited?RYAN: — that show — that this — that this plan works. So the analysis you’re citing wasn’t even an analysis of the Romney plan.
But here’s the point I am trying to make here, George. We think the secret to economic growth is lower tax rates for families and successful small businesses by plugging loopholes.
Now the question is, not necessarily what loopholes go, but who gets them. High-income earners use most of the loopholes. That means they can shelter their income from taxation. But if you take those loopholes, those tax shelters away from high-income earners, more of their income is subject to taxation. And that allows us to lower tax rates on everybody — small businesses, families, economic growth.Here’s where the president wants to take the country. He wants to add a job-killing small-business tax increase on top of the current code, add even more loopholes and deductions to the code, more Washington picking winners and losers. That will crush jobs. You have to remember, George, that most of our small businesses, they pay their taxes as individuals. Most of our jobs come from these successful small businesses. So we’ve shown — look, the Princeton study, the Harvard analysis, they have shown that you can lower tax rates, broaden the tax base, and, yes, there is still room left for broad-based policies that the middle class enjoy so that nobody has a tax increase. We just stop picking winners and losers in the tax code.STEPHANOPOULOS: But, Congressman, as you know –RYAN: When Reagan did this, it worked –STEPHANOPOULOS: — many say it’s difficult –RYAN: Go ahead, George.STEPHANOPOULOS: — to accept your word if you’re not going to specify which tax loopholes you’re willing to close. Don’t voters have a right to know which loopholes you’re going to go after?RYAN: So Mitt Romney and I, based on our experience, think the best way to do this is to show the framework, show the outlines of these plans, and then to work with Congress to do this. That’s how you get things done. The other thing, George, is–STEPHANOPOULOS: Isn’t that a secret plan?RYAN: — we don’t want to — no, no. No, no. What we don’t want is a secret plan. What we don’t want to do is cut some backroom deal like ObamaCare, and then hatch it to the country.STEPHANOPOULOS: But why not specify the –RYAN: We want to do this –STEPHANOPOULOS: — loopholes now?RYAN: — out in the open –STEPHANOPOULOS: Why not say right now –RYAN: — because we want to do this –(CROSSTALK)RYAN: — we want to have this — George, because we want to have this debate in the public. We want to have this debate with Congress. And we want to do this with the consent of the elected representatives of the people, and figure out what loopholes should stay or go and who should or should not get them.And our priorities are high-income earners should not get these kinds of loopholes. And we should have broad-based policies that go to middle-class taxpayers, to make sure we can advance things that we care about, like charities. But that is a debate we shouldn’t cut in a back room, shouldn’t hatch a secret plan like ObamaCare. We should do it out in the public view where the public can participate.STEPHANOPOULOS: That’s exactly what I’m suggesting, having it in public before the election so voters can have that information before they make up their minds.RYAN: We think the best way to get — look, I’ve been in Congress a number of years. I’ve been on the Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. And we think the best way to do this is to get this framework in place, and then negotiate, work with Democrats, work with people across the aisle, have these kinds of hearings, have this conversation to get this objective.
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