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Friday, March 29, 2013
Alien Lore No. 247 - The most popular file in the FBI's digital Vault is a memo about the Roswell UFO crash
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
The FBI recently opened a digital reading room--The Vault--with thousands of documents on their most famous cases (you know, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, The Unabomber, the 9/11 conspirators, et cetera). The most downloaded document (by far)? A 1950 memo about a UFO sighting.
The memo to J. Edgar Hoover is from from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C. field office.
The informant, whose whose name is redacted, said that saucers had been found in New Mexico because the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area that is believed to interfere with the guidance systems of the saucers.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947. The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military. American authorities allegedly covered the incident up. We won't go into a lot of detail here, since this is one of the most well-documented UFO stories of all time.
The FBI recently opened a digital reading room--The Vault--with thousands of documents on their most famous cases (you know, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, The Unabomber, the 9/11 conspirators, et cetera). The most downloaded document (by far)? A 1950 memo about a UFO sighting.
The memo to J. Edgar Hoover is from from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C. field office.
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The informant, whose whose name is redacted, said that saucers had been found in New Mexico because the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area that is believed to interfere with the guidance systems of the saucers.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947. The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military. American authorities allegedly covered the incident up. We won't go into a lot of detail here, since this is one of the most well-documented UFO stories of all time.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Full Moon Craziness
By Jack Brummet, Unexplained Phenomena Ed.
When I worked on the flying squad at a crisis clinic in the 70's, the Conventional Wisdom was that, on the night of a full moon, we could expect far more, and far crazier and desperate calls. Tonight was a full moon, and I didn't really see anything untoward happening. But I have also heard a greater number than normal of sirens in the distance.
I never understood how the moon could possibly affect people's sanity or will to live. But I also never really grasped how something 239,000 miles away could affect us at all. I do remember, from my physics for poets (or dummies?) class in college that tides are created because the earth and the moon are attracted to each other like magnets. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. And, the earth can hold onto everything except the ocean. I understand this (sort of), but probably need my science children Del and Claire to actually explain it in knucklehead terms.
When I worked on the flying squad at a crisis clinic in the 70's, the Conventional Wisdom was that, on the night of a full moon, we could expect far more, and far crazier and desperate calls. Tonight was a full moon, and I didn't really see anything untoward happening. But I have also heard a greater number than normal of sirens in the distance.
I never understood how the moon could possibly affect people's sanity or will to live. But I also never really grasped how something 239,000 miles away could affect us at all. I do remember, from my physics for poets (or dummies?) class in college that tides are created because the earth and the moon are attracted to each other like magnets. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. And, the earth can hold onto everything except the ocean. I understand this (sort of), but probably need my science children Del and Claire to actually explain it in knucklehead terms.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Two Marilyn Monroe Statues
By Jack Brummet
The first Marilyn Monroe statue is from Palm Springs, California. The second one is from 1,400 miles south, in Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico. It stands outside Billy's Gym, where I go to cycle when I am there...
The first Marilyn Monroe statue is from Palm Springs, California. The second one is from 1,400 miles south, in Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico. It stands outside Billy's Gym, where I go to cycle when I am there...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Ezra Pound: Canto 120
By Ezra Pound [1]
[Richard Avedon's 1958 photos of Ezra Pound, shortly after he was released from his 13 year stint in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was committed in lieu of being tried for treason for his broadcasts from Italy during WW II]
"I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
let the wind speak
that is paradise
let the wind speak
that is paradise
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”
[1] E.P. wrote many wonderful and some baffling works. I truly love a lot of the Cantos. The problem with liking E.P. are the broadcasts, and his virulent rants about the the Jews and the alleged international banking conspiracy. He broadcast hundreds of addresses over Italian radio, paid for by the Italian government. And of course, when the Americans liberated Italy, one of the first persons they came looking for was Ez. So, how do you reconcile this? Do good works somehow ameliorate the invective and hate speech? I've read about anti-Jewish comments coming from people I admire (just a sampling: Harry Truman, T.S. Eliot, Lennin, Churchill, Martin Luther, George Washington), , and whose work I love. My best friend (R.I.P.) had a thing about Jewish people...not hatred I don't think, but a very deep mistrust Do you forgive and forget, or forgive but never forget? Maybe it all falls under "hate the sin; love the sinner."have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”
Of the mainly poor blue collar families people I grew up with, there was plenty of animosity toward African-Americans. Until I was maybe in high school, I don't think I ever heard anyone describe them as black, or even negro. Except on television. They used the other four words--the n word, the c word, the j word, and the s word.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013
The complete (so far) painting oeuvre of George W. Bush (24 paintings and counting)
By Jack Brummet, Painting and American Art History Ed.
As you have possibly read, a hacker--Guccifer--purloined these photographs of Ex-President George W. Bush and his paintings by hacking into the Bush family's email. He originally furnished the stolen photos to The Smoking Gun and recently, to Gawker. Three batches have been released so far. We already knew a little about POTUS 43's painting from his art teacher's website and interviews.
Guccifer hacked the accounts of Dorothy Bush Koch and at least five others with close ties to the Bush dynasty. To highlight his brilliance, he furnished The Smoking Gun with a series of paintings by Ex-President George W. Bush. He also included a string of emails about Bush’s ailing father, POTUS 41. And, this week, he sent along to Gawker a new batch of photos of Dubyah's oil paintings.
In a package on Georgia’s WAGA-TV, Bush 43’s art teacher, Bonnie Flood, said the president regularly opts to draw household pets.
“He started off painting dogs. I think he said he painted 50 dogs,” Flood said. “He pulled out this canvas and started painting dogs and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I don’t paint dogs!”
As you have possibly read, a hacker--Guccifer--purloined these photographs of Ex-President George W. Bush and his paintings by hacking into the Bush family's email. He originally furnished the stolen photos to The Smoking Gun and recently, to Gawker. Three batches have been released so far. We already knew a little about POTUS 43's painting from his art teacher's website and interviews.
Guccifer hacked the accounts of Dorothy Bush Koch and at least five others with close ties to the Bush dynasty. To highlight his brilliance, he furnished The Smoking Gun with a series of paintings by Ex-President George W. Bush. He also included a string of emails about Bush’s ailing father, POTUS 41. And, this week, he sent along to Gawker a new batch of photos of Dubyah's oil paintings.
A scary dog behind bars with a prospect of the White House
In a package on Georgia’s WAGA-TV, Bush 43’s art teacher, Bonnie Flood, said the president regularly opts to draw household pets.
Cats, dogs, and a still life
a photo of the President's painting of his recently deceased dog Barney
The artist at work, painting a church
Self portrait in the shower
Bathtub self-portrait
Twelve photos of paintings that Guccifer gave to Gawker
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Poem: Perpetial Motion
By Jack Brummet
The mountain is the youngest child
Of heaven and earth,
Striving ever upward
And simultaneously tumbling down,
Like the five volcanoes
That surround me.
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The mountain is the youngest child
Of heaven and earth,
Striving ever upward
And simultaneously tumbling down,
Like the five volcanoes
That surround me.
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