click to enlarge
---o0o---
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
LBJ drives his car into a lake
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
LBJ driving his amphibious car. He liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving them downhill in his Amphicar into his property’s lake, "while shouting that the brakes had broken.”
LBJ driving his amphibious car. He liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving them downhill in his Amphicar into his property’s lake, "while shouting that the brakes had broken.”
---o0o---
President Ronald W. Reagan rides a missle
By Jack Brummet
This is a 1981 photo of a statue of President Ronald Wilson Reagan of the United States on a missile. This was a protest sculpture on the street Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal (really?!) in Amsterdam. RWR appears to be emulating the final Slim Pickins scene in Dr. Strangelove.
This is a 1981 photo of a statue of President Ronald Wilson Reagan of the United States on a missile. This was a protest sculpture on the street Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal (really?!) in Amsterdam. RWR appears to be emulating the final Slim Pickins scene in Dr. Strangelove.
---o0o---
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Jimmy Webb's Highwayman by The Highwaymen
By Jack Brummet, C & W Music Ed.
The Highwayman is an incredible tune by Jimmy Webb, and this version, by The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson is as good as it gets.
The Highwayman is an incredible tune by Jimmy Webb, and this version, by The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson is as good as it gets.
"Highwayman" by Jimmy Webb
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.
I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..
---o0o---Monday, July 08, 2013
Alien Lore No. 252 - Google Doodle celebrates 66th Roswell Anniversary
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
Google's doodle today commemorates the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash in 1947. Many UFOlogists believe Roswell was an alien landing outside the New Mexico town.that went wrong. The Google doodle allows users to control a small alien through a series of tasks in a Roswell-like desert.
Google's doodle today commemorates the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash in 1947. Many UFOlogists believe Roswell was an alien landing outside the New Mexico town.that went wrong. The Google doodle allows users to control a small alien through a series of tasks in a Roswell-like desert.
Conspiracy folks believe that that US military captured a crashed alien aircraft a/k/a flying saucer in July 1947. The Air Force and others insisted that the incident merely involved the recovery of debris from a secret surveillance balloon.
A press release issued that day by a local US military base says that the crash involved a flying disk. But the Army quickly changed their story.
In 1995, Ray Santilli in London claimed that he possessed film footage showing an autopsy being performed on one of the Roswell aliens. Santilli said later that the film was a reconstruction of what he insisted was real events.
Fifty years later (!) the US Air Force released 1997 231-page report--Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash--stating that the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing at the crash scene were actually life-sized crash test dummies.
---o0o---
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Painting: Pond Life
By Jack Brummet
[Analog/Digital hybrid art; pen and ink drawing digitzed and colored in PaintShop Pro X4]
[Analog/Digital hybrid art; pen and ink drawing digitzed and colored in PaintShop Pro X4]
click to enlarge image
---o0o---
Saturday, July 06, 2013
Poster for an early John Lennon gig with his band The Quarrymen (who evolved into The Beatles)
By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.
The Quarrymen were a Liverpool skiffle/rock band, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956. By 1960, they had evolved into The Beatles. This poster is from one of their early gigs, playing at a garden show/dog display/costume parade. Macca would join the band a few months after this show, and George Harrison joined in early 1958. Ringo joined The Beatles in 1962, after they sacked their drummer Pete Best.
The Quarrymen were a Liverpool skiffle/rock band, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956. By 1960, they had evolved into The Beatles. This poster is from one of their early gigs, playing at a garden show/dog display/costume parade. Macca would join the band a few months after this show, and George Harrison joined in early 1958. Ringo joined The Beatles in 1962, after they sacked their drummer Pete Best.
---o0o---
The Maury Island Incident film has begun shooting!
B y Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
Yesterday we posted an "ATIT Reheated" article about The Maury Island Incident:
As you know from the post yesterday, the first known UFO incidents in the U.S. did not occur at Roswell,. but in Washington state, within 60 miles of Seattle (and in the case of Maury Island, about a mile from Seattle).
Yesterday we posted an "ATIT Reheated" article about The Maury Island Incident:
Alien Lore No. 251: UFOs in Seattle - The Maury Island UFO Mystery
And, this morning, we stumbled onto the news that a film about the incident began shooting in the Burien/Des Moines/Maury Island area on June 28th.
As you know from the post yesterday, the first known UFO incidents in the U.S. did not occur at Roswell,. but in Washington state, within 60 miles of Seattle (and in the case of Maury Island, about a mile from Seattle).
---o0o---
Friday, July 05, 2013
Alien Lore No. 251: UFOs in Seattle - The Maury Island UFO Mystery
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed
The Maury Island UFO Incident is one of the seminal episodes that launched the modern era of Flying Saucers, UFO's, crop circles, cattle mutiliations, hive activity, conspiracies, underground bases, pacts with The Greys, Majestic 12, and all the rest.
The Maury Island incident occurred in the summer of 1947 in the Puget Sound area. . .just a couple of miles from where I write this. Maury Island is located near the much larger Vashon Island, in Puget Sound, just off the Seattle coastline. The most incredible part of the Maury Island mystery is that it happened exactly two weeks before the famous Roswell UFO
crash. Shorty after Maury Island was when Kenneth Arnold saw an armada of UFOs over Mt. Rainier (about 60 miles southeast of Seattle). The Maury Island incident was capped by the crash of a B-25 Bomber and the deaths of two military intelligence officers. This bomber was allegedly carrying slag, wreckage, and other rubble from the Maury Island incident. Incredibly enough, this was the very first time a United States Air Force plane had ever crashed.
On the afternoon of June 21, 1947, Harold Dahl saw UFOs over Maury Island. He and his son were salvaging logs with a crew in Puget Sound just off Maury when they saw six doughnut shaped disks hover over the sound. One disk wobbled and seemed to be in trouble. The UFO descended in altitude to 500 feet above the water and was joined by five other saucers. The foundering disk dropped what looked like aluminum metal on the beach, followed by black slag. The slag wounded Dahl's son Charles and killed their dog.
The Maury Island UFO Incident is one of the seminal episodes that launched the modern era of Flying Saucers, UFO's, crop circles, cattle mutiliations, hive activity, conspiracies, underground bases, pacts with The Greys, Majestic 12, and all the rest.
The Maury Island incident occurred in the summer of 1947 in the Puget Sound area. . .just a couple of miles from where I write this. Maury Island is located near the much larger Vashon Island, in Puget Sound, just off the Seattle coastline. The most incredible part of the Maury Island mystery is that it happened exactly two weeks before the famous Roswell UFO
crash. Shorty after Maury Island was when Kenneth Arnold saw an armada of UFOs over Mt. Rainier (about 60 miles southeast of Seattle). The Maury Island incident was capped by the crash of a B-25 Bomber and the deaths of two military intelligence officers. This bomber was allegedly carrying slag, wreckage, and other rubble from the Maury Island incident. Incredibly enough, this was the very first time a United States Air Force plane had ever crashed.
On the afternoon of June 21, 1947, Harold Dahl saw UFOs over Maury Island. He and his son were salvaging logs with a crew in Puget Sound just off Maury when they saw six doughnut shaped disks hover over the sound. One disk wobbled and seemed to be in trouble. The UFO descended in altitude to 500 feet above the water and was joined by five other saucers. The foundering disk dropped what looked like aluminum metal on the beach, followed by black slag. The slag wounded Dahl's son Charles and killed their dog.
Kenneth Arnold's UFO sighting happened an incredible three days later on June 24. A pilot and Federal Marshall, Kenneth Arnold, saw nine disks skip over the north face of Mt. Rainier. It was upon this was the sighting what newspapers coined the term Flying Saucer. Arnold was interviewed by local and national press (including Edward R. Murrow), and the story made headlines around the world
Kenneth Arnold was lit up on UFOs after his sighting and he responded to a request by Ray Palmer—a Chicago editor—to investigate the Maury Island sighting. Lt. Frank Brown and Capt. Davidson met with Kenneth Arnold and Harold Dahl and collected all the fragments of rock to take back with them to Hamilton Field. Their plane allegedly loaded with alien artifacts, as I mentioned earlier, crashed (See Alien Lore No. 105 for more on the crash--forthcoming).
A couple of weeks later, on July 2, 1947, an object crash landed on a ranch, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, leaving a large field of debris and fully catapulting UFOs into the popular imagination.
Kenneth Arnold was lit up on UFOs after his sighting and he responded to a request by Ray Palmer—a Chicago editor—to investigate the Maury Island sighting. Lt. Frank Brown and Capt. Davidson met with Kenneth Arnold and Harold Dahl and collected all the fragments of rock to take back with them to Hamilton Field. Their plane allegedly loaded with alien artifacts, as I mentioned earlier, crashed (See Alien Lore No. 105 for more on the crash--forthcoming).
A couple of weeks later, on July 2, 1947, an object crash landed on a ranch, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, leaving a large field of debris and fully catapulting UFOs into the popular imagination.
---o0o---
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)