Ray Davies shot in 2004

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.

Ray Davies made the news in 2004 when he was shot in the leg while on vacation in New Orleans. Near the French Quarter, two muggers snatched his girlfriend, Suzanne Despies's purse at gunpoint, and Ray went after them.  One of the muggers shot him in the leg, but the injuries weren't serious. The headline, which is from The Sun I think: “You Really Shot Me!”

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Drawing: Ink fight

By Jack Brummet

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POTUS x 4: Four Presidents yuk it up at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, April 2013

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Painting: Tsunami

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Li Po in the mountains

By Jack Brummet
painting of Lip Po by Liang K'ai (13th century)

Four hundred and sixty-thousand
Moons ago, Li Po sits
Drinking wine on a bluff.

The sun slides into the blue mountains.
Crickets tune up and the first bats
Sail from roost to roost.

I think about Li Po drunk again.
He holds an inkpot, scroll, and brush.

Between the mountains and stars,

A crow wheels over fogged red pines
Spiring in moonlight.
LiPo shakes wet peach blossoms

From his coat and fills the cup again.
Silver moonlight dances on the golden wine
In green ceramic cup.
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Written 1990, Published in Electrum

revised June, 2014

A quirky but effective gun safety video, using dildos in lieu of guns

By Mona Goldwater and Jack Brummet

Jack: Quite possibly the best gun safety video ever! Not anti-gun, just focused on keeping guns locked up. These guys at Evolve are just great!

Mona: No political/2nd amendment ranting, just a funny and kinky PSA about gun safety. Brilliant.

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A tour of the C.I.A., led by one of their explosive sniffing K9 dogs

By Jack Brummet

The C.I.A. has always had an outward facing element--mainly the CIA World Factbook, which has long been available and is a pretty standard reference work.

Lately, though, they have jumped into the world of Social Networking, with Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook accounts.

This is a short video tour of the CIA, released on YouTube, conducted by one of their bomb-sniffing dogs, and narrated using the voice of a young girl. . .

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Painting: Wired up

by Jack Brummet

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Painting: Summertime

By Jack Brummet

Detail:

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Drawing: Faces No. 838 - illuminated first class menu

By Jack Brummet

This is from our trip to Colombia last November, where we were able to upgrade with miles and fly round-trip in first class.  With about 20 hours on my hands, I went to work on the menu (the food and drink, BT Dubs, was fantastic).

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Run, Rudolph, Run: a reindeer watches a German bomb strike over Russia

A confused reindeer watches German planes bombing Mourmansk, Russia in 1941.  Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldey.

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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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