All This Is That

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Drawing: Things

By Jack Brummet

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Nancy Grace: People on pot shoot each other, strangle each other, and kill whole families (via Raw Story )

On Tuesday, Nancy Grace began to channel the notorious film "Reefer Madness," and claimed that people on marijuana shoot, stab and strangle each other, and that children shouldn’t bear witness to their parents drinking soda. Click here to read the entire story.

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Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book!

By Jack Brummet, '60's Ed.

I loved Abbie Hoffman's first book when I was young. Thumbing through it now, through the filter of years, I still admire its indulgent, subversive anarchy. Well, someone has really stolen it, or at least placed it online (there is no difference, is there?). I bought the book twice. The first time, of course. . .someone stole it. I found this book online because bannination.com listed it with the caption "Dirty hippies give tips to unemployable bankers on how to survive in meltdown economy."

There is a lot of good stuff, and plenty of silly, indulgent, and even dangerous stuff here. Maybe you had to have "been there," I'm not sure! Click here to Steal This Book,

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Pen and Ink: Drips

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Poem: Waiting

By Jack Brummet

There is

no tomorrow

until we

get through

the day

after yesterday

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Poem: Tendrils

By Jack Brummet

When a tree is chopped down

Volunteer shoots sprout
From the roots,

Sending tendrils of life into the world
In an urgent last gasp—
A genetic S.O.S.—

Like what they say
Happens
When you hang a man.

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Strange toilets, kaybos, latrines, loos, WCs, restrooms, and bathrooms from around the world

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

[some of these are reader submissions; some collected from vartious sites and G.I.S.]

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Elena Shumilova's amazing photographs of her kids, farm, and animals

By Jack Brummet, Photography Ed.

Sweet photographs by Elena Shumilova of her kids and farm/domestic animals. Amazing colors, environments, kids, critters, and weather. Good stuff. Check them out here, on Bored Panda.

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Books by and about giants, rebels, blowhards, madmen, screwups and troublemakers

By Jack Brummet, Lit. Ed.

A lot of my favorite books are about rebels, eff-ups, blowhards, troublemakers, and giants (or some hybrid of these). It's no coincidence that most of the books on the list are hilariously funny. Some of these books are often referred to as picaresque novels. A partial list, off the top of my head:

almost any book - Jim Thompson
Rivethead - Ben Hamper
The Natural Man - Ed McLanahan
Catch 22 - Jospeh Heller
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash - Jean Shepherd
The Paul Bunyan Tales - the one true American myth that grew from folk tales in Canada and the midwest, and were collected and expanded upon by later writers. These are great stories that I have reread my entire life. When I was about ten years old, I had read every PB book in the King County and Seattle library system.
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie
Amerika - Franz Kafka
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
A Cool Million - Nathaniel West
Henry IV, Part I - William Shakespeare
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Good Soldier Schweik - Jaroslav Hasek
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
Blue Movie - Terry Southern
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter S. Thompson
The First Third - Neal Cassady
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Bad Popes - E. R. Chamberlin
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Guerrilla Warfare - Che Guevara
Revolution for the Hell of it - Abby Hoffman
Steal This Book - Abby Hoffman
almost any book - Carl Hiaasen
almost any book - Elmore Leonard

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A most disturbing (and hilarious) prank

By Mona Goldwater, Film Ed.

A hilarious, and disturbing remote-control Devil Baby recently took to the streets of New York as part of a viral marketing campaign for the upcoming horror movie Devil's Due. The movie releases Friday, January 17th.

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