loraineltai's amazing potash evaporation pools in Moab, Utah on Flickr

Flickr's loraineltai's great photos of the desert, including photographs of potash evaporating pools. To see more go to loraineltai's album here.

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Mummified monk is ‘not dead’ but in a rare meditative state?

By Jack Brummet

"A mummified monk found in the lotus position in Mongolia is 'not dead' and is instead one stage away from becoming a real-life Buddha, it has been claimed.  Read the story here, in The Siberian Times. 

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Regrets - by Mark Twain and Ray Bradbury

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. - Mark Twain

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

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Sidney, The Creationist Puppet (via Grimy Ghost)

By Jack Brummet

Thanks to Dean Ericksen, ATIT's religion consultant, for passing this along.

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Painting: Caesar

By Jack Brummet

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Mixed media painting: The Grey Visitors

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: I don't believe

By Jack Brummet

I don't believe in transubstantiation
I don't believe in Papal Infallibility
I don't believe in no-knock warrants
I don't believe in the divine right of kings
I don't believe in smooth jazz
I don't believe in rock instrumentals
I don't believe in jazz vocals
I don't believe in the Second Amendment

I don't believe in the Trilateral Commission

I don't believe in the international Jewish banking conspiracy
I don't believe in Republicans
I don't believe in The National Front
I don't believe in the vegan taliban
I don't believe in repressed memory
I don't believe in John Lennon not believing in Beatles
I don't believe in Richard Gere and the gerbil
I don't believe in the Ku Klux Klan

I don't believe in Tea Parties
I don't believe in libertarians
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Caligula

I don't believe in Idi Amin
I don't believe in Draco
I don't believe in reactionary figurative painters
I don't believe in dinosaurs being 4,000 years old

I don't believe your child can paint better than Jackson Pollock
I don't believe in astral projection
I don't believe in angry Buddhists
I don't believe in angry Baptists
I don't believe in Halie Selassie as a deity
I don't believe in Upanishads
I don't believe in The Psalms
I don't believe in the sutras
I don't believe in Jack Chick
I don't believe in the Book of Mormon
I don't believe in Bhagavad Gita

I don't believe in granola camp
I don't believe in nazis
I don't believe in fascists
I don't believe in the 22nd amendment
I don't believe in Osama
I don't believe in free trade
I don't believe in Christian Science
I don't believe in Busby Berkeley
I don't believe in partitioned countries
I just believe in me. . .and thee.

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Spaghetti eaters: Bjork, Dean Martin, Danny DeVito, Sean Connery, Lady Gaga, JFK, The Beatles, Julia , Sophia Loren, Madonna, Sammy Davis, Sinatra, Mr. T., Martha Stewart, Schwarzenegger, and more

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Dynamo Royale's new album

By Jack Brummet

I just received the album from Dynamo Royale that I backed in Kickstarter a couple of years ago.  The album by Tiz Aramini and Jon Auer is not what I expected at all.  And I am loving it...

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Drawing: Faces #1119 - Scratchboard and reversed scratchboard

By Jack Brummet

[scribe on 9"x12" India Ink masonite scratchboard + digitally reversed image - click to enlarge]

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Drawing: Faces #1117

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces No. 1112 - the front office

By Jack Brummet

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