Poem: A touch of evil

By Jack Brummet

1.

Darkness, having been eliminated,
furtively obtrudes again.

2.
Does the wind blow over the earth
or does it blow under heaven?
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Painting: Burbles

By Jack Brummet

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Hobo Sign: Tell Sad Story

Painting by Jack Brummet

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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.”

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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.

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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.

                                                    "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..

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A maintenance man rappels down Lincoln's nose

Provenance and photographer unknown.

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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.

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.

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Painting: The Frown

By Jack Brummet

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Painting: Pond Life

By Jack Brummet

[Analog/Digital hybrid art; pen and ink drawing digitzed and colored in PaintShop Pro X4]

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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.

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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: 
  

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). 

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