R.I.P. Yogi Berra

By Jack Brummet

Of anyone, ever, in the Yankees organization, he was the sweetest and most memorable. His malapropisms will long survive him. According to Yogi, he only actually said a few of the many phrases attributed to him.

And, how many of us have a cartoon character named after them?  Note: "According to the creators of the character, Hanna-Barbera Productions, the two were not connected."  This is, of course, not believed by anyone.  

And then there his long association with YooHoo.  What a sweet, class act.  You will be missed Yogi Berra. 

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Drawing: Faces #1234—Watching President Xi Jinping's limo crawl up the street

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Poem: Here

By Jack Brummet

When I'm not here
I'm often there

Which is anywhere
That's not here.

I'm there,
But not all there.

I have to be
A little here

To be there
And a little there

To be here.
Being here

Or being there
Is not being everywhere.

When you go anywhere
You leave a little bit behind,

Shedding pieces
Here there and everywhere.

If you're not here
And you're not there

You are somewhere
Neither here nor there

And somewhere
Could be anywhere

But can't be
Everywhere.

I saw a bear.
Where? Over there.

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Poem: [We all have a platoon]

By Jack Brummet

We all have a platoon 

Of partly-contained voices

And shards of multiple personalities
Ready to burst

From the confines
Of our clown car.

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Updated GOP-Tea Party scorecard: Scott Walker is out

By Jack Brummet, Election 2016 Ed.

Here is our updated ATIT GOP-Tea Party scorecard.  Governor Scott Walker has bailed out and the Koch brothers want their money back!

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Drawing: Faces #1235 - The clock runs out in the 4th quarter (scratchboard)

By Jack Brummet

[stylus and pin on 9"x12'"Masonite India Ink scratchboard; 2nd image is digitally reversed]

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Poem: Growing up (revised 9/15)

By Jack Brummet
[illustration  "eight stages of life" via http://thenakedconvos.com/]

The 1950s were about

Giving ourselves The American Jitters:

The Day The Earth Stood Still, Huntley-Brinkley, The Thing,

Ed Murrow, The Blob, Fidel, Godzilla, Senator Joe McCarthy, Gorgo.

Wild-eyed Nikita pounded his loafers on TV.
He promised to bury us.

The Cold War ignited on Ike's watch
As alarms shrieked duck and cover.

Dad was in the basement
Sandbagging the jam closet

And caching the beans

And gasoline.

We spooked ourselves for good
And grew up to fear nothing but nothing itself.

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Poem: 3:15 A.M.

By Jack Brummet

The house is still as a painted boat

On a painted sea,

Quiet as the pond
In Monet's Water Lilies,

And as dark
As Mephistopheles' rectum.
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ATIT's GOP last (wo)man standing scorecard

By Jack Brummet, Election 2016 Ed.

[click to enlarge]

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Hillary Clinton's brilliant new ad on the September 2015 GOP-Tea Party debates

Watch: New Hillary ad brilliantly mocks the Republican debate and the candidates' deafening silence on the REAL issues facing the American people.  

Watch: New Hillary ad brilliantly mocks the Republican debate ... 

Posted by Occupy Democrats on Thursday, September 17, 2015

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I was told there would be naked girls. . .

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Drawing: Faces #1233

By Jack Brummet

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