All This Is That Turns 10 Years Old Today

By Jack Brummet, Mona Goldwater, and Pablo Fanque, Eds.

We've published 7085 posts since starting in 2004, and have published every single day for the last ten years, mostly from Seattle, but also from India, China, Russia, Mexico, England, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Korea, Idaho, Montana, New York City, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Oregon, Arizona, and Wyoming.

All This Is That is often syndicated , purloined, linked to, and referenced by other blogs and websites, and our articles and art have been reprinted in books and magazines about The Web, alien lore, folk lore and folk ways, poetry, and politics.  We've even published a few recipes by Jack.

All This Is That began ten years ago with a poem by Jack Brummet posted the morning of November 16, 2004:

Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer 
Drink from the Skookumchuck River

by Jack Brummet

A rainbow loops over
the alder cathedral.
Dark clouds are sinking.

The Lamplighter
loans them a patch of land
and a heartbeat.
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The one rule of ownership

"You don't really own anything you can't carry on your back at a dead run." — Daniel Keys Moran

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Drawing: Faces #953 - pigpile

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces #951 (using two dull Sharpies®)

By Jack Brummet

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David McCandless's infographic on myths and misconceptions

 These are part of the myths and misconceptions infographic created by London-based author, data-journalist and information designer David McCandless.

click to enlarge

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Digital art: bubbles

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: On the road

By Jack Brummet

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Five Poems: The Golden Rule; The Glass Is Not Half-Full; It's Getting Crowded; Limits; Surviving

By Jack Brummet 

The Golden Rule

Listen to the songbirds

Trill

But keep an eye 

On the buzzard section. 

The glass is not half-full

I saw our dreams

Disappear 

Like a white pony 

Over 

A low grassy hill. 

It's Getting Crowded

We cover the earth

With Venn Diagrams

As our steps

Bisect old steps. 

Limits

We like to believe

We could endure anything for five minutes 

But that theory, cooked up 

In your hermetic study or bedroom, 

Comes apart at the seams 

When you imagine being on fire 

Or having crows feast 

Upon your eyes. 

Surviving

Salvation lies

In remaining unblinded 

To the treachery 

Massing around you:

The enemy without,

Calculating your fall 

And the traitor within,

Beating in your chest.

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Science!: A feather and a bowling ball fall in a vacuum

By Jack Brummet, Amateur Physics Ed.


I remember from physics class that all objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum.  But I'd never seen it.  The money shot starts at 2:50 on this YouTube video. . .

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Five crazy GIFs from Russia

By Jack Brummet, Russian Ed.

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Drawing: Faces #945

By Jack Brummet

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Betty and John Brummet, Veterans of the Navy, Army, and Marine Corps

By Jack Brummet, Military Ed.

Seaman and Corporal John Newton Brummet, Jr. (I'm the 3rd). He was in the Army before the war, and in the Navy during. That's him on the left. I only have three pictures of my dad in the army. This is, of course, my favorite.  He died in 1964.

Below this is a drawing of my mom, Corporal Betty Echo Jones Brummet, U.S. Marines in 1945 (she's still here at 91).

Happy Veteran's Day, veterans.

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