Poem: The Grey Ambassador

By Jack Brummet

Flybys, crop circles, and other maneuvers
Were executed
To demonstrate their capability.

After the flybys, came landings, and contact.
The visitors
Did not appear hostile.

Some say we were softened up
By E.T., Klaatu, and ALF
And thought this was a mission of mercy.

If they figured out how to get here,
And have come to make war,
We can't stop them.

If they "come in peace"
To teach what they learned
The Hard Way,
Let’s get started.

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Drawing: Faces #960 (scratchboard/reversed scratchboard) - weightless training

By Jack Brummet

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Congressperson Michelle Bachmann covers Macklemore's "Thrift Shop"

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

Michelle Bachmann, the soon to be retiring U.S. Representative, posted a video today in which she quotes/covers Macklemore's Thrift Shop.  I'm going to miss The Representative.

 

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Presidents Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho and Barack Hussein Obama

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Drawing: Faces #959 - double exposure

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces #958 - Rhonda

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: [you can’t see earth]

By Jack Brummet

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You can't see earth
From the dark side of the moon
But maybe that changes

With the accelerating deceleration
Of the moon and earth.
A waning Gibbous moon

Dangles 1.3 light seconds away,
The Sea of Tranquility
A menacing sinkhole.

2
The moon
And the fog
Are in cahoots

And the fog slithers in,
Wraps itself around houses,
Trees, shrubs, and churches,

And threads its way

Along the ground,
Like a horror movie fog.

I wonder if the fog and moon
Really trigger

Mayhem, madness, and murder?

3
Do our brains have tides?

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After the Elks football game, Springerville, Arizona 1972

By Jack Brummet

This is a pretty interesting photographic print I found in a Goodwill about 20 years ago.  I can't decipher the photographer's name, but the legend in pencil beneath the print says "Homecoming Springerville, Arizona.  Elks. 1972."

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"The Fish from April": let's go humaning!

By Jack Brummet

I can't find the book in which this originally appeared.  Wikipedia Commons, and Tineye.com show numerous people who have used the image, but so far, no hints as to what book where this first appeared.  In any case, we'll call it context unknown and share it with you.  There is a class of images that focus on animals turning the tables on their homo sapien oppressors, of which this is clearly one.

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Warning label: result of a product liability lawsuit, or, a translator with a sense of humor?

Drawing: Faces #957 - Thanksgiving Day Before/After

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces #956 - Circle the Chairman of the Board

By Jack Brummet

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