Dumb as a board? Try smarter than 98% of the people reading this. Paris Hilton is outed as a genius and Mensa member.

A family member close to Paris Hilton revealed to All This Is That yesterday that Ms. Hilton is a member of Mensa. Contrary to the image she has carefully developed over the last several years, Paris Hilton has an I.Q. of 144, and is in the top 1% of the population in I.Q.

"It's one of the best-kept secrets in the world," the source told us, "and probably the last thing she wants known." Ms. Hilton joined Mensa in 1997, at the urging of her parents, when she was 16 years old. The family had known about her intelligence for many years, and finally, urged her to take the Mensa qualification test. She had already racked up stratospheric scores on I.Q. tests taken during her early school years and easily passed the Mensa qualification test.

Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, and Dr. Lance Ware to create a society for bright people, with the only qualification for membership being a high IQ. They hoped to create a utopian group that was non-political and free from racial and religious distinctions. The society includes members from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population.

Paris Hilton is an American actress, fashion model, author and singer. Her rise to fame was as an heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as of her father's, real estate fortune. She was skyrocketed to fame (infamy?) when a videotape of her having sex with her boyfriend became public on the internet. The video drew attention to her participation in a reality T.V. series, The Simple Life. That was followed by a series of personal scandals and publicity stunts. The notoriety enabled Ms. Hilton to publish books, release a music CD, and to launch a best-selling perfume, among other ventures.

Our source told us "She has basically shucked the public into thinking she was a hopeless airhead when in fact, she is a cynical manipulator and entrepreneur. She does nothing that is not calculated and scripted to enhance the image of the mornonic blonde skank. You know what she raked in off just her perfume this year? It's worked pretty well. Don't you think?"
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A Blast from the past: Conelrad. Tune to 640 or 1240 in case of emergency. . .

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all this is that

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Wally Wood's 22 panels that work

Wallace "Wally" Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher mostly remembered for his work in EC Comics and Mad Magazine. He was born in 1927, and took his own life in his mid-fifties, in 1981.

He created hundreds of comic book pages and illustrated books and periodicals, as well as working in advertising, commercial design, product illustration, gag cartoons (I'm thinking of those risque little cocktail napkins from days of yore), and record album covers and posters.

He also worked on those fantastic Topps "Mars Attacks" trading cards.

Below, is a reasonably high-res. scan of his "22 panels that always work." He apparently created this as some sort of primer for others (and a reminder to himself). He described the panels as a primer, "interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page."


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A lot of his lessons seem to apply across the board--not only to comic illustration, but to easel art, trad. animation, and digital art--the whole tamale.

It's a little unclear who actually released this scan...BoingBoing says http://joeljohnson.com is the guy. He says he recently purchased the original very cheaply. He has some really high res scans on his site.
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Poem: Anger management is a slippery slope

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I keep worrying
That anger management
Is a slippery slope

In the march toward
Political Correctness
And the next thing you know

We'll be managing laughter
Because people not laughing feel left out
Or because there's so much to cry about

That laughter trivializes the anguish
And leads to the day
When horseplay clowning and japery

Are forbidden forms of expression
And the universal hand-wringing
Begins.
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Digital painting: a self-portrait -- something of a Chuck Close Experiment

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This is something of a Chuck Close experiment in painting. The portrait on the left is composed entirely of hundreds of mini-mes, colored and shaded differently. The portrait on the right is the portrait on the left, drastically shrunken and softened. Below is the photo I used for a starting point. I blew this picture up and replaced blocks of pixels with the shaded "mini-me" images.

the original source photo (left) and a detail of the painting (rigtht)
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Alien Lore No. 87 - The Greys at Roswell

I will not go into a lot of detail here. . . check out the links below to learn more about Roswell. I mostly just wanted to publish this picture:


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Celebrities on Roswell
Cheney, Bush & The Greys
Alien Bodies in possession of the U.S. government
Ronald Reagan,. Steven Spielberg, The Greys, & Roswell
The Roswell Flying Saucer and Alien Autopsy
The Alien Interview
Presidents (And Near Presidents) Who Believe In Or Have Seen UFOs: Carter, Nixon, Reagan, Ford, Goldwater, Truman
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Happy 60th Birthday Bill Clinton

The youngest President ever to leave office under his own power turns 60 years old today. Happy Birthday, Bill!

He was an inspiring President (if you discount a few rather tawdry and indecorous episodes). A warm man, and a great speaker, he can light up a room like no one in that office has since JFK. I have only seen him in a large crowd, but people I know who've been at gatherings say he is even more mesmerising in smaller venues. He avoided war, and balanced the budget (and began paying down the deficit). His politics, personality, and deep bond with the American people only shine brighter the longer his successor remains in office.
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Poem: Changes 15/The Armies Of The Night

The fifteenth hexagram of the I-ching says
It is favorable
To set armies marching

To chastise
One's own city
And one's own country

And I wonder what happened
To those Armies Of The Night
That marched in the 60's

And ended the war
And how hard it might be
To do it again

Just one more time
As Tessio said
For old times' sake.
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Identikit drawing of Del Brummet

OK. I'm still no good at this (maybe this would be close enough to nab Del on the lam) but I think I can figure it out eventually. Identikit drawing of Del Brummet created with Faces 3.0.
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Montage of two nearly fifty year olds

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As it turns out, I couldn't use this montage because the evite I am working on won't support large images.
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Former President George H.W. Bush excoriates his son's war

The "First Family" is rumored to have suffered an irreparable rift. More precisely, the rift between the former and current President George Bush has grown into a Grand Canyon-sized chasm. Sources told All This Is That that former President George George (aka POTUS 41) recently told another former President, William Jefferson Clinton (aka POTUS 42), "Bill, we ran the wrong brother for President. I feel terrible."

The former President continued, "What really chaps my hide is that this gigantic mess he's gotten us into is somehow perceived as making amends for my Presidency. For some mistake I made. Sure, I made mistakes. But does an even bigger one somehow even the score?"

"Look," Bill Clinton said, "George. . .no one blames you for any of this. It is his war. Most of us know you had nothing to do with it." "But there is this perception, Bill, " George H.W. Bush explained, "That I somehow didn't finish the job. Or finish it right. And look at the mess he has gotten us into." "I mean it George," Bill Clinton explained, "No one holds you responsible." "Maybe not," George Bush said, "but the f**king idiot has done nothing for my legacy, except hurt it, believe me. . ."

"Let's face it, Bill. You whipped my ass over these mistakes. (And that jughead Ross Perot didn't help either). I accept that. I like you. We're friends. That was politics. But what my son has done is inexcusable. It's wrong. It's hurting our country. And he has broken my heart. And he's done it with Rummy and Cheney and these other folks I trusted and cared about. I don't even talk to the boy anymore. We see him on holidays. I don't even know if I can keep doing that. The whole thing just makes me sick."

All This Is That earlier reported on the rift in the first family in its formative stages: click here.

Other recent All This Is That reportage on George Bush (43):

President George Bush 'channels' Adolph Hitler during Iowa speech ...
The Declaration of Independence & Parallels between King George ...
President Bush and the origins of the "you rock/devil horns" sign
Painting: President George W.Bush does a face plant on the world ...
"I would love to kill George Bush"
George Bush & the Geometry problem
Alien Lore No. 65 - George Bush, Dick Cheney & The Greys
President Bush condemns bilingual national anthem
President Bush: "Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton"
President Bush lights up the "c***suckers" in the press
President angrily refuses to accept Veep Cheney's resignation ...
Sex Pictures Of President Bush, President Chirac, And Queen Elizabeth
President George W. Bush Speaks About Universal Values
All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com
Best President Bush quotes of 2005
The lies the President told in his State of the Union & his real ...
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Mudballs, or hikaru dorodango

Hikaru dorodango are balls of mud, formed by hand into perfect spheres, and then polished to a brand-new-bowling ball gloss. "The process is simple, but the result makes it seem like alchemy." It does.

Mud? These things are incredible!

Dorodango was a traditional pastime among the Japanese children. No one seems to know where it came from. The tradition was dying out until Professor Fumio Kayo developed a simple technique for creating dorodango. It's now hip, and booming.

The dorodango above is by Bruce Gardner --click on his name to see his interesting site. He has created some wonderful dorodango. And he even gives you detailed information on how to make your own.
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Digital Painting: Send in the clowns

Click the clown to enlarge. This isn't really all that shocking an image
when you consider how many people have a true phobia/fear/
dislike of clowns.

I found this on the internet about ten years ago. It is usually called Bill The Clown. It still exists on a couple of sites, but no one seems to know who created it in the first place. If it was you, let All This Is That know!
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Painting: self-portrait

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