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Monday, May 04, 2015
Sunday, May 03, 2015
A John Peers clown painting (probably of Emmett Kelly) I bought years ago at a junk store
By Jack Brummet, Outsider Art Ed.
I know a lot of people don't like clowns. I'm pretty neutral on clowns (except maybe John Wayne Gacy). I bought this oil for $5 about 20 years ago at a junk/antique store on Lake City Way (it's about 2'x3'). I did some searching and found out the artist is John Peers, a somewhat well-known painter of clowns.
"This is Famous Bohemian San Francisco gallery artist (of the time) PEERS, from the 1950's. My mother and father both knew this man and he painted many paintings for them. I still have some of the nicest ones." Someone else: "Peers lived in South San Francisco and liked to drink. He was a friend of my Uncle Giovanni and should be about 75-80 is he is still alive. He would go to bard on Third Street (near Candlestick Park) and sell those clown paintings for $25. My Uncle has 3 and they are rather good."
I think the subject of the painting is Emmett Kelly who was a kind of hobo/clown amalgam (like Red Skelton)?
I know a lot of people don't like clowns. I'm pretty neutral on clowns (except maybe John Wayne Gacy). I bought this oil for $5 about 20 years ago at a junk/antique store on Lake City Way (it's about 2'x3'). I did some searching and found out the artist is John Peers, a somewhat well-known painter of clowns.
"This is Famous Bohemian San Francisco gallery artist (of the time) PEERS, from the 1950's. My mother and father both knew this man and he painted many paintings for them. I still have some of the nicest ones." Someone else: "Peers lived in South San Francisco and liked to drink. He was a friend of my Uncle Giovanni and should be about 75-80 is he is still alive. He would go to bard on Third Street (near Candlestick Park) and sell those clown paintings for $25. My Uncle has 3 and they are rather good."
I think the subject of the painting is Emmett Kelly who was a kind of hobo/clown amalgam (like Red Skelton)?
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Saturday, May 02, 2015
Friday, May 01, 2015
The Axial Seamount volcano may (or may not) have erupted off the coast of Oregon and Washington
By Jack Brummet, Rim of Fire Ed.
On Thursday, April 23, the new sensors placed on and near the volcano (see photo below) recorded 8,000 small earthquakes in a 24-hour period. The volcano’s caldera, which had been expanding rapidly with magma, collapsed like a deflated balloon.
Scientists are debating whether this was actually an eruption, with actual molten rock flowing over the seafloor. No instruments were destroyed and there was no temperature spike. It is possible the volcano didn't erupt, but filled subterranean fissures, with lava.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Poem: [Strangely green beneath the shadows] - generated with the poetry generator
By Jack Brummet
A phone ringing somewhere
Out of whose dream
The lost man
Asks his way
Trying to remember
We beat murky devils below the slime
You beat brilliant witches about the grave
1
Strangely
green beneath the shadows
We converse with evil goats below the air
We converse with evil goats below the air
2
We confound fluorescent witches near the virgin
We confound fluorescent witches near the virgin
The
fun has died
Dark and glowing beyond the sea
You pull lustful devils below
And grind blue demons against the sky
Awaken, awaken! The evil was good:
Unsure, silent on the edge of the world
Down streets where guests
Look for landmarks while the snow falls
Dark and glowing beyond the sea
You pull lustful devils below
And grind blue demons against the sky
Awaken, awaken! The evil was good:
Unsure, silent on the edge of the world
Down streets where guests
Look for landmarks while the snow falls
3
Mournful
signs beside the fog
The Queen is going,
shifting, restless across the water
The Queen is going,
shifting, restless across the water
A phone ringing somewhere
Out of whose dream
The lost man
Asks his way
Trying to remember
4
Sinning
beside the sea
We hobnob with illusions beyond the spirits
Totally red under the gods
I shove angry tomb stones beneath the virgin
The day is born and clouded hesitant,
Saying goodbye with no words left
In how many harbors does a stranger
Look for love and never knowing how
We hobnob with illusions beyond the spirits
Totally red under the gods
I shove angry tomb stones beneath the virgin
The day is born and clouded hesitant,
Saying goodbye with no words left
In how many harbors does a stranger
Look for love and never knowing how
5
Strangely
poisonous beyond the water,
I divine illusions above the shadows,
Strange and mournful over the air
I divine illusions above the shadows,
Strange and mournful over the air
We beat murky devils below the slime
You beat brilliant witches about the grave
The
life is becoming opaque, fighting
back
And crossing the frontier
The victim loses his way
While the snow falls
And crossing the frontier
The victim loses his way
While the snow falls
6
Darkening awake and blurring at the edges
For whose sake the other
Leaves his home while the crowd watches.
For whose sake the other
Leaves his home while the crowd watches.
7
We
breed invisible idiots beneath the sky
The devil is vanishing, a shadow seeking
Another country with nothing left to lose
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Another country with nothing left to lose
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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:
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?
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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