By Jack Brummet
We
all have a platoon
Of partly-contained
Of partly-contained
Ready to burst
From the confines
Of our clown car.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Poem: "I contain multitudes"
Ready to burst
From the confines
Of our clown car.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
The Tumbling Walls Of Jericho
By Jack Brummet
Jericho was locked down
tighter than a submarine.
It made Helms Deep and
Fort Knox look porous.
Joshua studied the walls,
scooping a way inside,
When a man with whirling
gaslight eyes appeared.
"Hey Spook! Are you
for us, or against us?"
The spook whirled around,
rattled his sword,
And grew ten feet tall and
five feet wide.
"I am the General of
all Generals."
It was The Lamplighter
himself. "Take the shoes
From your feet on my holy
ground,
And follow the ark, with
seven priests with seven trumpets.”
Joshua told the peasants, "All
right, beat feet!”
Seven priests tooting
seven horns led the parade
Around and around and
around Jericho
Like Sambo marched the
tigers around the tree,
Or the way the earth spins
in the dark around the sun.
They marched in silence
six long days.
On the seventh day they
lit out at dawn
And marched around the
city seven times.
After the seventh orbit,
the priests blew a cadenza.
Joshua said "Shout”
And the roared swelled
with each passing minute
Until the walls came
tumbling down.
Every man, woman, animal
and bug,
Young, old, red, yellow,
black and white,
Fell on the sword.
Joshua was the Lord’s boy
now
And put the hairy eyeball
on any plan
To resurrect Jericho.
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
An Ivory Soap Orgy - an advertisement from about 1919
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
In this advertisement, from about 1919, did Madison Avenue try to exploit the homoerotic content of their image and message, or were they really completely unaware?
In this advertisement, from about 1919, did Madison Avenue try to exploit the homoerotic content of their image and message, or were they really completely unaware?
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Painting: Five women
By Jack Brummet
This is an analog-digital hybrid. I drew all the figures by hand, and then colored them in Photoshop. . .
Details:
This is an analog-digital hybrid. I drew all the figures by hand, and then colored them in Photoshop. . .
Details:
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Middle finger of the year (and the usual monthly roundup)
By Mona Goldwater, Gestures and Signs Ed.
Here is our usual roundup of reader-submitted middle fingers, both celebrities and just regular folk like us. This first one, however, has to be our finger of the year (I can't remember if it was sent in by reader Jeff C or Dean E).
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Here is our usual roundup of reader-submitted middle fingers, both celebrities and just regular folk like us. This first one, however, has to be our finger of the year (I can't remember if it was sent in by reader Jeff C or Dean E).
But, then, a close runner-up has to be the middle finger given by former representative Anthony Weiner following his concession speech in the NYC Mayoral election primary. His parting shot to the press was to flip them off as he was driven away into much-deserved obscurity.
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