Poem: September 13, 1985

By Jack Brummet

It was quiet as a painting 
in Berkeley, 

driving at three a.m. 
on Telegraph Avenue 

toward Oakland, 
to the delivery room. 

I saw a new moon 
hung on our old sky. 

We watched the monitor 
and waited.

Her robber-stockinged face 
came down and one bleat 

to the rafters 
started us all breathing again. 
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Poem: [don't look back]

By Jack Brummet

Don't look back
Means no regrets

Look back on the good times
But leave the rest

Just ask Lot's wife
And the other pillars of salt

Standing outside Gomorrah
Like Easter Island statues

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President William Howard Taft's sleeping porch on the White House roof

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.

William Howard Taft was 27th President (1909–13) and later, tenth Chief Justice of SCOTUS. No one else has ever held both offices.   This is his sleeping porch on the White House roof.

photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

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Drawing: Faces No. 837

By Jack Brummet

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More fun with Google search. . .

By Jack Brummet, Research Ed.

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Drawing: Faces No. 836

By Jack Brummet

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Christian Aerobics a/k/a Praise-r-cise

By Mona Goldwater

Found via tsutpen.blogspot.com a/k/a "If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" (which comes from the title of a Charles Mingus song).

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New York Times, 1924: Hitler no longer to be feared

By Jack Brummet, History Ed.

That didn't really work out, did it?

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Faces No. 835 - Scratchboard drawing

by Jack Brummet

[India Ink scratchboard; second image is the scratchboard image digitally reversed (negative image)]

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Faces No. 834 - Ten iPad drawings

By Jack Brummet

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Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins play together (with Ray Brown and Buddy Rich)

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed.

Two favorites performing together. . .with Ray Brown (whom I got to see just once; Bird died when I was two years old, and Hawkins died just a few years before I got into jazz).  Not quite so sure about Buddy Rich—I'm not a fan of his over the top drum attacks or his notorious treatment of young band members on the road.  Check out his rants here: http://youtu.be/omID1prJHFo).

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Neil Young performs Needle Of Death in Jack White's Third Man phono-recording booth

By Jack Brummet, Americana and Roots Music Ed.

Neil Young playing Bert Jansch's Needle of Death in Jack White's vintage phonograph recording booth, from his new album Letters From Home. This song is maybe my favorite (Del's too) from the album.

"I was especially taken by Needle Of Death, such a beautiful and angry song. That guy was so good… And years later, on On The Beach, I wrote the melody of Ambulance Blues by styling the guitar part completely on Needle Of Death. I wasn’t even aware of it, and someone else drew my attention to it."

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