All This Is That

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Drawing: Faces #1099

By Jack Brummet

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The Baltimore Orioles' COO John P. Angelos' amazing statement on what is really important (not baseball)

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

A local Baltimore reporter/radio broadcaster, Brett Hollander, posted a series of tweets explaining how protests like this negatively impact the people of Baltimore. Hollander retweeted numerous examples of property damage and concluded that, "any really important message out of these protests is lost when the rest of the community is disrupted."

Amazingly, the best rebuttal to Hollander came froma Baltimore Orioles Executive Vice President and COO, John P Angelos. Angelos is the oldest son of the team's owner. Here's a transcript of Angelos entire Twitter reply:

"Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy, investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.

"That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.

"The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importances of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ballgame irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans."

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Orioles to play White Sox in an empty Camden Yards tomorrow

By Jack Brummet

This has to be a first, right? Camden Yards empty? It's strange, and makes me think of the tree falling in the lonely forest. Is it really a baseball game with no fans to see it?

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Drawing: Mt. Rainier at midnight

By Jack Brummet

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The Doors' Jim Morrison melts down again in Seatte, ca 1970

By Jack Brummet, Music History Ed.

There is a very good piece on John Densmore's website on The Doors final appearance in Seattle. It was a disaster (as was their previous appearance at a festival).

Only 5,000 seats in the Coliseum were filled. At one point Morrison claims, "You know, I haven't been to Seattle in about two years; And good riddance they say." The audience corrected him, reminding him of last year's Seattle Pop Festival (another disaster). He then asked "Was it a year ago?"

According to my friend Francis, the audience was unrelenting and kept calling out for "Light My Fire," which he swore he would never perform again. The audience was also asking him to "Play Miami" referring to the show and his subsequent arrest for indecent exposure. Jim tried to infuse some humor into the situation with, "Well you know, driving into Seattle from the airport... Seattle reminds you of a late 1930s version of twenty years in the future. You know what I mean?!"

Francis said he was pissed both figuratively (e.g., very drunk) and literally. The power was pulled in the middle of a song, and The Doors walked off stage.

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