Poem: Into The Wind

By Jack Brummet



I watch three herring gulls
Fly South into the wind
And they're losing ground,

Tumbling and righting themselves
In the shifting currents
Scouring the air.

It's not that they want
To migrate South
So much as not go North.

Something in the gull's hearts
Tells them to stay clear
Of Ketchikan, Skagway, and Nome.
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Poem: The Quest

By Jack Brummet

It’s all one story—
                           A ragged

                                        shape-shifting tale

Of incredible coherence and constance,
                                                           encompassing all you know,
                                                           all you don’t know you know,
                                                           and all you one day will know.
There is more
                     To be

                              seen,

                              tasted,

                              heard,

                              and felt
                                           than can ever be known or told.

Our myths flourish and spread,
Person to person,

And the mysteries of the seas and skies and stars
Fill our collective conscience

With mystical scenes,
Quests, and tales of greatness.

These myths, tales, and fables
Cannot be invented, ordered, or denied.

When you strip away

The stage flats, makeup, and costumes,

It’s all one story
Starring our private heroes and dreams.
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Drawing: Faces No. 1039 - The Benghazi Investigators

By Jack Brummet

[Scribe on India Ink scratchboard; second image digitally reversed - click to enlarge]

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Faces No. 1038 - The Substitute

By Jack Brummet

[hand drawn on India Ink scratchboard; the other image is digitally reversed. . .]

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Painting by Adriaen Collaert - America, A Personification circa 1590

This engraving--America, A personification--by Adriaen Collaert, was done in 1590. Interesting...

click to enlarge

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Faces No. 1037 - An old card file

By Jack Brummet

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Cooking with Jack: Three vintage recipes - Cream of Muskrat Casserole; Bear Paws (literally) Kit Carson; Pink Surprise Salad

By Jack Brummet, Cooking Ed.

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Video: The Bird Is The Word by Rocky Roberts & The Airedales, with Jayne Mansfield

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.

Rocky Roberts was a retired boxer who became a pop star in Europe.  BT Dubs - that's Jayne Mansfield dancing.

The song is not actually T-Bird, but The Bird Is The Word, originally done by The Trashmen I think, or they at least most famously performed it. . .

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Fighting dinosaurs in Ossineke, Michigan

Photo by chicamusica on Flickr, from the Ossineke Michigan Dinosaur Gardens.  The dinosaurs were built by hand from 1935 to 1967 by Paul Nathan Domke, using trowels and brushes on concrete mixed in a mud box.  Beneath the concrete, the dinos have frames of metal lathe.  

click to enlarge

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The bird/Middle fingers of the month (Freaks and Geeks, Rihanna, Bieber, Bowie, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Badfinger, Martin Freeman and more)

By Mona Goldwater, Signs and Gestures Ed.

Our monthly round-up of photos sent in by readers, and a few we discovered on various sites. . .

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Drawing: Mount Rainier at night

By Jack Brummet

[Pen+Digital - click to enlarge]

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The United States Code on Treason

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

United States Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; PART I - CRIMES; CHAPTER 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES; Sec. 2381 - Treason

§2381. Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

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