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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Poem: The Bad Movie
By Jack Brummet
I can't believe it's still
running.
There's miles of bad footage to come.
This loge seat is a throne of pain.
It's a talkie, but no one says anything.
There is no music, no sound design,
Only the projector clicking.
We can't stop watching.
The camera careens drunkenly
Around what might be the action.
It's so murky,
It could be pornography,
Or footage of an alien or Sasquatch.
The camera dollies in
On a random piece of litter.
Someone fiddles with the lens
And the scene shifts into deep focus.
We can't
Stop watching.
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There's miles of bad footage to come.
This loge seat is a throne of pain.
It's a talkie, but no one says anything.
There is no music, no sound design,
Only the projector clicking.
We can't stop watching.
The camera careens drunkenly
Around what might be the action.
It's so murky,
It could be pornography,
Or footage of an alien or Sasquatch.
The camera dollies in
On a random piece of litter.
Someone fiddles with the lens
And the scene shifts into deep focus.
We can't
Stop watching.
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Painting: Benazir Bhutto
By Jack Brummet
I created this digital art the day after Bhutto's assassination in 2007.
I created this digital art the day after Bhutto's assassination in 2007.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Grateful Dead's album Shakedown Street was released 34 years ago today
I believe this sign is in front of a head shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Poem: Lost At Sea
By Jack Brummet
The rings of the splash
Send dopplers into the void,
Widening and disappearing
In the cold and lonely sea.
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Send dopplers into the void,
Widening and disappearing
In the cold and lonely sea.
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All This Is That turns eight years old today
By Pablo Fanque, Mona Goldwater, and Jack Brummet
Thank you for following us, and keep returning as often as you can! ATIT has published every single day since since November 15, 2004 (this is the 5,654th post) . If you are on Facebook, like us (https://www.facebook.com/pages/All-This-Is-That/41797236400).
Pablo, Mona, and Jack
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Reheated: four years ago on ATIT - NY Governor David Paterson unleashes a volley of 88 new taxes in retribution for his portrayal as befuddled on SNL
By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor
Governor David Paterson in an apparent fit of pique, has unleashed a set of 88 new taxes that insiders say are a punitive measure against what the Governor privately called "This c***sucking Saturday Night Live generation of Blackberry packing, iPod toting, spoiled a**holes!"
Editor's Warning: The video clip of SNL has been sporadically available on YouTube. The link below may well be broken by the time you read this. Bending to pressure from Patterson, and other groups, YouTube has deemed the video clip "offensive."
The Governor also said "I've been up front with these f***ing a**holes, admitted having affairs, snorting coke. My wife had affairs and did blow too. So motherf***ing what! Look what honesty gets me! Ridiculed on Saturday Night Live. How f***ing dare they mock my blindness! I can't pay back the whole f***ing country over this one. But I'll be glad to start with these New York creeps."
Although the Governor is attempting to close a $15+ Billion dollar budget gap, most observers agreed the new taxes were retaliatory. The Governor's office rolled out a punitive tax package that included, among many other taxes:
- an 18% tax on soda
- an iPod and smartphone tax
- a new movie theater tax
- doubling the taxes on beer and wine,
- new taxes on massages (up to 50% for "full release/happy ending")
- an additional tax on cigars
- an email and text tax
- a 75% tax on energy drinks
- a tax on all digitally-delivered entertainment (which, of course, includes phone ringtones, phone games, games delivered online like World of Warcraft, movies on demand or purchased, videos, and music downloads to name a few)
- a sporting event tax
- another taxi tax
- a new bus tax
- a limo tax
- cable TV tax
- a radio tax
- and a clothing tax
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Communism, Hypnotism, and The Beatles
by Jack Brummet, Music Editor
I am assuming this pamphlet by David A. Noebel was written sometime after John Lennon's statement that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. I remember when this happened in 1966, and how the Tea Party forebears held Beatle burnings across the south and midwest--huge bonfires of LPs, 45s, Beatle wigs, posters, books, and souvenirs. Even then it was clear these people were the lunatic fringe; it wasn't us, listening to what turned out to be fairly innocent and beautiful music. But the religious right aside, I dig the communism angle. Like The Beatles were channeling messages from Nikita Kruschev to the Youth of America.
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