click to enlarge
---o0o---
Friday, April 01, 2011
Drawings: Faces No. 194 and 195: Two couples at the Braxton show last night
Drawings by Jack Brummet
click to enlarge
click to enlarge
Thursday, March 31, 2011
All This Is That finds nude TSA scans of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Michele Bachmann, Glee's Dianna Agron, and Jessica Alba, on the internet
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
and Mona Goldwater, Gen X Desk
To no one's real surprise, an underground market for body scan images taken by the TSA has popped up. In fact, the All This Is That editors were able to purchase explicit, nude "backscatter" images of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann, Glee's Dianna Agron and Jessica Alba, among others. We purchased these images 50 minutes after we began searching--from an underground, but fairly easily found website, with a room labelled "TSA's Hottest And Greatest Hits." Jack hooked us up with an email reference and we were in.
Jack Brummet, our arts, paranormal, and animal husbandry editor, began this story with a sonic boom and then bugged out. He was off the story (with a bogus excuse about needing to focus on blah blah blah), handed it off to us and hooked us up with his contact in TSA management, who--surprise!--denied everything. You could tell he was lying because he really sucked at it. Jack's contact (a guy just below the top exec, level of the TSA) told him the TSA had discovered that employees were trading high quality TSA screening scans--digitally enhanced photos of celebrities and of "hot" men and women, often in categories like "grotesque" "hot jailbait" "long dong silvers" "great racks" or "belugas." Not long before TSA security swept in, the images began appearing online, and finally, for sale online.
The TSA and other government agencies often tout the quality of "Advanced Imaging Technology" like the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., while assuring customers that their operators "cannot store, print, transmit or save the image, and the image."
Gizmodo busted them on that set of lies, by requesting (under the Freedom Of Information Act) 100 scans from among the 35,000 federal agents had saved on the scanner that "cannot store. . .or save the image." The images Gizmodo released were less explicit images from the older scanning technology, not the new "backscatter" X-ray technology. The backscatter images leave nothing to the imagination, which is how the trading and then black market for the celebrity and other images emerged.
The TSA, natch, posits that the leaked photos on Gizmodo were fakes. The TSA announced on their blog that the images they look at (but do not save!) look like this (click here to visit the TSA blog):
and Mona Goldwater, Gen X Desk
Jack Brummet, our arts, paranormal, and animal husbandry editor, began this story with a sonic boom and then bugged out. He was off the story (with a bogus excuse about needing to focus on blah blah blah), handed it off to us and hooked us up with his contact in TSA management, who--surprise!--denied everything. You could tell he was lying because he really sucked at it. Jack's contact (a guy just below the top exec, level of the TSA) told him the TSA had discovered that employees were trading high quality TSA screening scans--digitally enhanced photos of celebrities and of "hot" men and women, often in categories like "grotesque" "hot jailbait" "long dong silvers" "great racks" or "belugas." Not long before TSA security swept in, the images began appearing online, and finally, for sale online.
The TSA and other government agencies often tout the quality of "Advanced Imaging Technology" like the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., while assuring customers that their operators "cannot store, print, transmit or save the image, and the image."
what you see in a digitally reversed backscatter body scan
Gizmodo busted them on that set of lies, by requesting (under the Freedom Of Information Act) 100 scans from among the 35,000 federal agents had saved on the scanner that "cannot store. . .or save the image." The images Gizmodo released were less explicit images from the older scanning technology, not the new "backscatter" X-ray technology. The backscatter images leave nothing to the imagination, which is how the trading and then black market for the celebrity and other images emerged.
The TSA, natch, posits that the leaked photos on Gizmodo were fakes. The TSA announced on their blog that the images they look at (but do not save!) look like this (click here to visit the TSA blog):
what the TSA claims you see in a body scan
---o0o---
Amateur video of The Band's Don't Do It
This is obviously film (it's 1971), but feels like it was shot by an amateur. On the other hand the sound is great, which argues against an amateur. Anyhow, The Band's cover of a great old Motown tune (not so old back then). It's always amazing seeing Levon drumming like crazy as he sings .On second thought, I bet they sync'd the music from the Rock of Ages live album, which came from those shows. BTW, the great Alan Toussaint arranged the horns for these shows. . .
---o0o---
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Carla Bruni, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama Measure Up
A Note From Mona Goldwater, Women's Editor
Jeff Clinton sent us this interesting image. Exactly what are French First Lady Carla Bruni, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and US First Lady Michelle Obama measuring?
Jeff Clinton sent us this interesting image. Exactly what are French First Lady Carla Bruni, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and US First Lady Michelle Obama measuring?
click to enlarge
---o0o---
Tea-Party/GOP Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann channels President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
By Mona Goldwater
Tea Party Correspondent
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann seems to have taken a page from the playbook of Idiocracy's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Who knows? It just might work.
Tea Party Correspondent
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann seems to have taken a page from the playbook of Idiocracy's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Who knows? It just might work.
---o0o---
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Teething on my Grandpa Dell's hook arm, 1954
Yes, I did teethe on my Grandfather Dell Galvin's hook arm. Dell was my maternal Grandmother's third, and final husband.
This was a different world--my Uncle Guy had a wooden leg, and I don't think anyone over about 38 on either side of my family had their original teeth. . .body parts, joints and giblets were not easy to come by for poor folk (nor are they now).
This was a different world--my Uncle Guy had a wooden leg, and I don't think anyone over about 38 on either side of my family had their original teeth. . .body parts, joints and giblets were not easy to come by for poor folk (nor are they now).
---o0o---
Monday, March 28, 2011
Painting: Elizabeth Taylor - an original painting of Liz Taylor by Jack Brummet
click to enlarge
---o0o---
Poem by Jack Brummet: Communication Breakdown
Communication Breakdown
The silver rain
Is drawn like a curtain
Between us
And God.
---o0o---
The silver rain
Is drawn like a curtain
Between us
And God.
---o0o---
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Poem by Jack Brummet: Water
Water
by Jack Brummet
Water, in perpetual motion,
Drifts into the troposphere,
Accumulates, and returns to earth
To join ice, rain, and snow
In the hills and mountains,
Rolling into aquifers and underground lakes,
Chasms, fissures, streams,
Valleys, craters, hollows,
Creeks, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Water, the only thing on earth
That never gets old.
---o0o---
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Photograph of Ronald Reagan in a compromising position, from Paul Krassner's The Realist
A photo and perfect caption from Paul Krassner's "The Realist," a great, satiric, scandalous, and hilarious magazine from the 60's and 70's. [ed's note: Krassner was a hilarious, incisive, paranoid, and savagely satirical writer and prankster. His magazine appeared in the 60's and early 70's, and was later revived sporadically, eventually finally kicking the bucket in 2001]
click to enlarge
---o0o---
Thursday, March 24, 2011
End times edge closer: the Tea Party's Michele Bachmann forms "exploratory committee"
By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
Illustration by Jack Brummet
Representative Michele Bachmann, is currently spending a week tromping around Iowa, which will hold the first caucuses of the 2012 Presidential race. Her team just leaked to CNN that said Bachmann will form an exploratory committee in June. She also named an Iowa state senator-- Kent Sorenson--as her political director in the early caucus state.
She recently told ABC's Jonathan Karl that "I'm in for 2012 in that I want to be a part of the conversation in making sure that President Obama only serves one term, not two, because I want to make sure that we get someone who's going to be making the country work again. That's what I'm in for. But I haven't made a decision yet to announce, obviously, if I'm a candidate or not..."
National Affairs Editor
Illustration by Jack Brummet
She recently told ABC's Jonathan Karl that "I'm in for 2012 in that I want to be a part of the conversation in making sure that President Obama only serves one term, not two, because I want to make sure that we get someone who's going to be making the country work again. That's what I'm in for. But I haven't made a decision yet to announce, obviously, if I'm a candidate or not..."
---o0o---
Alien Lore No. 196: The Nation of Islam and UFOs
By Jack Brummet, Paranormal Editor, and
Mona Goldwater, Society Editor
A few weeks ago, the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered his annual Saviours' Day speech in Rosemont, Illinois. In the speech, Farrakhan vowed that he would force the U.S. government to open all UFO files (ed's note: not unlike the governments of France and Russia have recently done).
As it turns out, UFOs are a central tenet in the teachings of the Nation of Islam. The NOI is a 50,000 person church based in America (as opposed to the Islam Religion, with almost two billion members).
An early NOI leader--Elijah Muhammad--told The Nation of a gigantic Earth-orbiting "Mother Plane" equipped with many weapons. According to an article on AOL News, "seeking the divine in the skies is one of the core beliefs of NOI leaders and followers, which explains why so much of their literature tells of UFOs, or what they prefer to call airborne 'wheels.'"
The bummer for me, and the readers of our Alien Lore series is that it is not Greys, or aliens flying these saucers around. The Nation of Islam teachings say the circular spacecraft were built by humans on Earth, many centuries ago, under the guidance of God.
NOI teachings claim that the original "wheel" was built by scientists on the islands of what is now Japan, "at a cost of $15 billion in gold." The story also says that "these original UFOs were used to create mountains on Earth."
Naturally, this is tied into Ezekiel's Wheel (ed's note: remember the song..."Ezekiel saw a wheel/Way up/In The middle of the air?"). The encounter in The Bible of the prophet Ezekiel with a wheel-like UFO, is central to the Nation of Islam religion.
Farrakhan told the group in Chicago that "Many have died or have been killed to keep from sharing what they have seen." Does this sound familiar to any Alien Lore fans? If you dig into nearly any Alien Lore story, eventually it comes down to conspiracy and cover-ups.
In his Saviour's Day speech the year before, Farrakhan said that in 1985 he himself had been taken aboard the craft. And, when he was on the flaying saucer, he heard Elijah Muhammad speak to him.
The gathering in Illinois included a group of international UFOligists. "They have in us allies. They have in us their protectors. They have in us those that will help them to gain the finance to keep up their research."
"Since the founding of the Nation of Islam, these wheel-like objects have been taught to us of their existence and their function," said Ishmael Muhammad, one of Elijah Muhammad's sons.
"The founder of the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad, taught us about these objects that the world calls UFOs, and he gave us great details as to the materials that they were constructed of and that most of these objects come from this planet Earth," Ishmael Muhammad told AOL News.
"He also taught us of the existence of life on other planets, as well as a highly advanced civilization on the planet Mars. He taught us about the Mother Plane (UFO) and gave us the dimensions that it was a half mile by a half mile, human-made planet, one mile in height, and that this Mother Plane carried 1,500 smaller planes."
He went on to claim that the FBI and other feds have, in their various raids, confiscated much of the evidence the NOI had collected over the years. One of the UFOlogists at the conference said "The entire discussion [with Farrakhan] was about UFOs, and it didn't deviate. He [Farrakhan] kept talking about how heroic and brave we were in the face of worldwide skepticism and the media so often treating this at such a high level of ridicule. I was pleasantly surprised when he offered both emotional and financial support for our work, and he came across as very humble in our presence."
"I believe that the recent release of UFO documents by the British government is very significant, along with other countries that have released their own," Ishmael Muhammad added. "I think it says that they know that contact is imminent."
Mona Goldwater, Society Editor
As it turns out, UFOs are a central tenet in the teachings of the Nation of Islam. The NOI is a 50,000 person church based in America (as opposed to the Islam Religion, with almost two billion members).
An early NOI leader--Elijah Muhammad--told The Nation of a gigantic Earth-orbiting "Mother Plane" equipped with many weapons. According to an article on AOL News, "seeking the divine in the skies is one of the core beliefs of NOI leaders and followers, which explains why so much of their literature tells of UFOs, or what they prefer to call airborne 'wheels.'"
NOI teachings claim that the original "wheel" was built by scientists on the islands of what is now Japan, "at a cost of $15 billion in gold." The story also says that "these original UFOs were used to create mountains on Earth."
Naturally, this is tied into Ezekiel's Wheel (ed's note: remember the song..."Ezekiel saw a wheel/Way up/In The middle of the air?"). The encounter in The Bible of the prophet Ezekiel with a wheel-like UFO, is central to the Nation of Islam religion.
Farrakhan told the group in Chicago that "Many have died or have been killed to keep from sharing what they have seen." Does this sound familiar to any Alien Lore fans? If you dig into nearly any Alien Lore story, eventually it comes down to conspiracy and cover-ups.
In his Saviour's Day speech the year before, Farrakhan said that in 1985 he himself had been taken aboard the craft. And, when he was on the flaying saucer, he heard Elijah Muhammad speak to him.
The gathering in Illinois included a group of international UFOligists. "They have in us allies. They have in us their protectors. They have in us those that will help them to gain the finance to keep up their research."
"Since the founding of the Nation of Islam, these wheel-like objects have been taught to us of their existence and their function," said Ishmael Muhammad, one of Elijah Muhammad's sons.
"The founder of the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad, taught us about these objects that the world calls UFOs, and he gave us great details as to the materials that they were constructed of and that most of these objects come from this planet Earth," Ishmael Muhammad told AOL News.
"He also taught us of the existence of life on other planets, as well as a highly advanced civilization on the planet Mars. He taught us about the Mother Plane (UFO) and gave us the dimensions that it was a half mile by a half mile, human-made planet, one mile in height, and that this Mother Plane carried 1,500 smaller planes."
He went on to claim that the FBI and other feds have, in their various raids, confiscated much of the evidence the NOI had collected over the years. One of the UFOlogists at the conference said "The entire discussion [with Farrakhan] was about UFOs, and it didn't deviate. He [Farrakhan] kept talking about how heroic and brave we were in the face of worldwide skepticism and the media so often treating this at such a high level of ridicule. I was pleasantly surprised when he offered both emotional and financial support for our work, and he came across as very humble in our presence."Ishmael Muhammad, Nation of Islam's national assistant minister, spoke to AOL News about NOI's fascination with UFOs and their fervent hope that they will somehow unite all the religions of Earth."
---o0o---
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
5ives.com is back!
After a hiatus of about two years, the website 5ives.com is back. Merlin Mann has a sweet web site with many lists of five. I like lists. Some of my favorites from his earlier run:
Five actors I prefer not to visualize having intercourse
Broderick Crawford
Rondo Hatton
Richard Dawson
Paul Lynde
Curly Joe DeRita
Five people with whom to never start a conversation on MUNI
Needy-looking guy in kilt
Fat man with enormous parrot on his shoulder
Chinese lady quietly trimming her toenails
Stinky guy talking animatedly to fat guy’s parrot
Smirky guy taking numerous phonecam pictures of stinky guy, fat guy, and parrot
Five congressional terms that sound kind of dirty
Minority Whip
discretionary appropriations
filibustering
discharge petition
franking privileges
Five total scams in high school
class rings
cap and gown fees
Who’s Who Among American High School Students
prom
assemblies featuring christian rock bands
Five things it’s probably better not to do when you’re kind of drunk
buy domain names
hire an attorney
do lots of file management from the command line
sort out your finances
telephone people you remember fondly from elementary school
Five things it would probably be disingenuous for me to rap about
the streets
my bitches
thug life
popping a cap in your ass
my milkshake
---o0o---
Five actors I prefer not to visualize having intercourse
Broderick Crawford
Rondo Hatton
Richard Dawson
Paul Lynde
Curly Joe DeRita
Five people with whom to never start a conversation on MUNI
Needy-looking guy in kilt
Fat man with enormous parrot on his shoulder
Chinese lady quietly trimming her toenails
Stinky guy talking animatedly to fat guy’s parrot
Smirky guy taking numerous phonecam pictures of stinky guy, fat guy, and parrot
Five congressional terms that sound kind of dirty
Minority Whip
discretionary appropriations
filibustering
discharge petition
franking privileges
Five total scams in high school
class rings
cap and gown fees
Who’s Who Among American High School Students
prom
assemblies featuring christian rock bands
Five things it’s probably better not to do when you’re kind of drunk
buy domain names
hire an attorney
do lots of file management from the command line
sort out your finances
telephone people you remember fondly from elementary school
Five things it would probably be disingenuous for me to rap about
the streets
my bitches
thug life
popping a cap in your ass
my milkshake
---o0o---
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)