It's
So
Still
In
The
Blue
Mosque
You
Can
Hear
A
Fly
Expire.
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So
Still
In
The
Blue
Mosque
You
Can
Hear
A
Fly
Expire.
Saturday, May 04, 2013
The photos of Alexey Titarenko
By Jack Brummet
I have really been enjoying the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko's work. Check it out: http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/
I have really been enjoying the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko's work. Check it out: http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/
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Friday, May 03, 2013
Remove the Confederate Memorial? Is Mt. Rushmore next?
By Jack Brummet, Public Art Ed.
The largest relief carving in the world is in Georgia. But an Atlanta man (and a lot of other people) wants the Confederate Memorial relief on Stone Mountain removed. "It's almost like a black eye or an embarrassing smudge on our culture," McCartney Forde told 11Alive News on Monday. The 600 foot wide carving depicts Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. The monument, started in 1923 was completed in 1972.
People object to the monument because two of the people depicted were slave-owners.
Interestingly enough, that's also true of Mount Rushmore. . .
The largest relief carving in the world is in Georgia. But an Atlanta man (and a lot of other people) wants the Confederate Memorial relief on Stone Mountain removed. "It's almost like a black eye or an embarrassing smudge on our culture," McCartney Forde told 11Alive News on Monday. The 600 foot wide carving depicts Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. The monument, started in 1923 was completed in 1972.People object to the monument because two of the people depicted were slave-owners.
Interestingly enough, that's also true of Mount Rushmore. . .
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
Two Tolkien songs from Lord of the Rings by Del Brummet
By Del Brummet
Two songs based on Tolkien poems from Lord of the rings. . .
Two songs based on Tolkien poems from Lord of the rings. . .
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Poem: Optimism
By Jack Brummet
In
our tarpaper shacks,
We build crystal dream palaces
To colonize
When our ships come in.
To colonize
When our ships come in.
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Poem: Scarred for life
By Jack Brummet
It could be watching your family
Diced up in slow-motion
By a sick biscuit with a machete,
Or the day your brother let you down.
It might be when you were wrongfully accused,
Whether they sorted it out or not.
Maybe you discovered your wife sleeping
With her yoga teacher,
Or remember the night your parents
Let you cry yourself to sleep.
It could be the motorcycle accident,
Or the time you saw your Uncle naked.
Under a bad moon,
It can all leave you scarred for life.
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It could be watching your family
Diced up in slow-motion
By a sick biscuit with a machete,
Or the day your brother let you down.
It might be when you were wrongfully accused,
Whether they sorted it out or not.
Maybe you discovered your wife sleeping
With her yoga teacher,
Or remember the night your parents
Let you cry yourself to sleep.
It could be the motorcycle accident,
Or the time you saw your Uncle naked.
Under a bad moon,
It can all leave you scarred for life.
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Poem: The Jitters
by Jack Brummet
1
We almost always feel less
Safe than we actually are.
2
We engage in a game of dodge ball,
Where we can’t see the ball,
But bob and weave
Over which we have no control―
And only a fraction of which you ever see.
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1
We almost always feel less
Safe than we actually are.
2
We engage in a game of dodge ball,
Where we can’t see the ball,
But bob and weave
Over which we have no control―
And only a fraction of which you ever see.
—o0o—
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Which Seattle Police will show up at May Day tomorrow?
By Mona Goldwater, Seattle Metro Ed.
Which Seattle Police will show up at May Day tomorrow? Will it be the White Hats or the Dark Hats? In theory we will see balanced, proportional responses to any trouble from the crowd, or the "anarchists."
The SPD should be ready...they've been training for this for five weeks. And thinking about it for a year, after their flubbed responses last time around.
Which Seattle Police will show up at May Day tomorrow? Will it be the White Hats or the Dark Hats? In theory we will see balanced, proportional responses to any trouble from the crowd, or the "anarchists."
The SPD should be ready...they've been training for this for five weeks. And thinking about it for a year, after their flubbed responses last time around.
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Poem: Mission Statement, 2
By Jack Brummet
You don't need to see
A discounted cash flow analysis.
You only need to know
If the right people are in your pocket,
And, if not, whom should be bought off,
Scared off, or bumped off?
A discounted cash flow analysis.
You only need to know
If the right people are in your pocket,
And, if not, whom should be bought off,
Scared off, or bumped off?
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Poem: Who Am I Today?
By Jack Brummet
I'm no longer the Jack
Is replaced every seven years--
My brain rewires itself
And the new circuits
Sing in a synaptic chorus line.
I don't know if I will wake up
As The Fuhrer,
Bishop Tutu,
Or something in between.
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I
was in 2006. Each cell
Is replaced every seven years--
My brain rewires itself
And the new circuits
Sing in a synaptic chorus line.
I don't know if I will wake up
As The Fuhrer,
Or something in between.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Poem: 3 A.M.
By Jack Brummet
The house is still as a painted boat
On a painted sea,
Quiet as the pond
In Monet's Water Lilies,
And as dark
As Mephistopheles' rectum.
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On a painted sea,
Quiet as the pond
In Monet's Water Lilies,
And as dark
As Mephistopheles' rectum.
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