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Friday, January 11, 2013
Poem: The Creek
By Jack Brummet
The creek alongside me
Carries raindrops, tears, sweat, and snow
That may once have landed
In Johannesburg, Soho,
Bucerias, Constantinople,
Athens, Ketchikan, or Saskatoon.
The creek alongside me
Carries raindrops, tears, sweat, and snow
That may once have landed
In Johannesburg, Soho,
Bucerias, Constantinople,
Athens, Ketchikan, or Saskatoon.
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Marginalia in a Harvard University copy of Ezra Pound's cantos
By Jack Brummet, Poetry Editor
Ezra Pound, who made all the famous cuts and marginal comments in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land, gets the sama marginalia treatment from the undergrad and grad students at Harvard. This is a shot of one of the circulating copies of the book in their library. This is really appropos of nothing at all; I just love marginalia, corrected proofs and manuscripts, and in general, the now soon to be lost analog methods of interacting with text.
Ezra Pound, who made all the famous cuts and marginal comments in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land, gets the sama marginalia treatment from the undergrad and grad students at Harvard. This is a shot of one of the circulating copies of the book in their library. This is really appropos of nothing at all; I just love marginalia, corrected proofs and manuscripts, and in general, the now soon to be lost analog methods of interacting with text.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Faces No. 352 - The breakout sessions
By Jack Brummet
[2013 - pencil and Sharpie on 24"x24" surplus muslin sterilization wrapper]
[2013 - pencil and Sharpie on 24"x24" surplus muslin sterilization wrapper]
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Matt Drudge hits a new low (how is this even possible?)
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
Thanks Jeff Clinton for passing this along...
To add to the Alex Jones hysteria, Matt Drudge decides to jump the shark, and this is a new low for even him. . . He clearly does not understand the history or scope of executive orders, or recognize the fact that BHO--despite the gun and ammo buying hysteria that accompanied his election--has never been particularly anti-gun/2nd amendment. It's been a long time since Drudge broke anything important. His descent into total irrelevancy is now complete.
Thanks Jeff Clinton for passing this along...
To add to the Alex Jones hysteria, Matt Drudge decides to jump the shark, and this is a new low for even him. . . He clearly does not understand the history or scope of executive orders, or recognize the fact that BHO--despite the gun and ammo buying hysteria that accompanied his election--has never been particularly anti-gun/2nd amendment. It's been a long time since Drudge broke anything important. His descent into total irrelevancy is now complete.
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The Sous Chef - detail from large painting "Dan White Is Dead"
By Jack Brummet
[detail from 3'x4' acrylic on canvas
[detail from 3'x4' acrylic on canvas
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Close encounter with a polar bear
By Jack Brummet, Fauna Ed.
I don't usually post animal videos--or cut animal videos anyhow. This one has elements of a zombie attack, with the persistent way the bear attempts to get into "the ice cube."
I don't usually post animal videos--or cut animal videos anyhow. This one has elements of a zombie attack, with the persistent way the bear attempts to get into "the ice cube."
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Monday, January 07, 2013
ATIT Reheated, from 2006: Notes on Mick Jagger's penis, and an interesting experiment he performed on it
By Mona Goldwater, Society Ed.
Janice Dickinson had sex with both Mick Jagger and Bob Barker. Only Bob measured up.
One time musical innovator Mick Jagger was also ahead of his time on another front: Mick was at the vanguard of the "penis enhancement" movement well before it became the provenance of junk mailers and spammers. While you have probably spent a great deal of time over the last several years clearing out "penis enhancement" spams from your email--whether you actually owned one or not--Mick Jagger was personally blazing a trail through the wilderness of tallywhacker growth.
The frontman covered his pride and joy with bees to swell its size, film director Julien
Temple, who worked with Jagger on the the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, revealed in a recent interview on Britain's Radio 4.
"It involved putting bamboo over the male member and filling it with stinger bees so the member attained the size of the bamboo," said Temple. "Mick spent months in the jungle in Peru. He was going mad out there I think."
Jagger has acquired a reputation as a "cocksman" over the years and been linked with dozens of beautiful women, four of whom bore him seven children. His current squeeze is the American fashion designer L'Wren Scott. L'Wren would not comment on Jagger and refused to return calls to All This Is That.
The former Price Is Right model and actress on The Surreal Life, Janice Dickinson, told U.K. talk show host Jonathan Ross recently that "Mick has a very small penis." This leads us to the conclusion that Mr. Jagger does not measure up to Bob Barker, whom she also evaluated.
Janice Dickinson had sex with both Mick Jagger and Bob Barker. Only Bob measured up.
One time musical innovator Mick Jagger was also ahead of his time on another front: Mick was at the vanguard of the "penis enhancement" movement well before it became the provenance of junk mailers and spammers. While you have probably spent a great deal of time over the last several years clearing out "penis enhancement" spams from your email--whether you actually owned one or not--Mick Jagger was personally blazing a trail through the wilderness of tallywhacker growth.
Yeeeeeeeeeeowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
The frontman covered his pride and joy with bees to swell its size, film director Julien
Temple, who worked with Jagger on the the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, revealed in a recent interview on Britain's Radio 4."It involved putting bamboo over the male member and filling it with stinger bees so the member attained the size of the bamboo," said Temple. "Mick spent months in the jungle in Peru. He was going mad out there I think."
Jagger has acquired a reputation as a "cocksman" over the years and been linked with dozens of beautiful women, four of whom bore him seven children. His current squeeze is the American fashion designer L'Wren Scott. L'Wren would not comment on Jagger and refused to return calls to All This Is That.
The former Price Is Right model and actress on The Surreal Life, Janice Dickinson, told U.K. talk show host Jonathan Ross recently that "Mick has a very small penis." This leads us to the conclusion that Mr. Jagger does not measure up to Bob Barker, whom she also evaluated.
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Poem: Being extinct is really missing
by Jack Brummet
Among those reported missing or nearly missing:
Dodos, several brands of Whales,
Snail Darters and Spotted Owls,
Pygmy Hippotami and the Flightless Cormorant,
Vancouver Island Marmot and Gavial,
Great Auk and Wild Ass.
Tapir Kagu and Manatee,
Carolina Parakeet and Dire Wolf,
Coelacanth and Blackfooted Ferret,
Snow Leopard and Przewalski's Horse,
And then, Glaciers, virgin forests and monkey flower,
Bigleaf Scurfpea and Spiny Rice,
Interrupted Brome and Greensword.
Among those reported missing or nearly missing:
Dodos, several brands of Whales,
Snail Darters and Spotted Owls,
Pygmy Hippotami and the Flightless Cormorant,
Vancouver Island Marmot and Gavial,
Great Auk and Wild Ass.
Tapir Kagu and Manatee,
Carolina Parakeet and Dire Wolf,
Coelacanth and Blackfooted Ferret,
Snow Leopard and Przewalski's Horse,
And then, Glaciers, virgin forests and monkey flower,
Bigleaf Scurfpea and Spiny Rice,
Interrupted Brome and Greensword.
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Sunday, January 06, 2013
The Worst Wedding, Ever
By Mona Goldwater, Manners and Mores Editor
I've been to some strange weddings over the years, but none matches what happened at the Princess Maria Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna's marriage to Amadeo (sometimes written Amedeo), duke of Aosta (and son of the king of Italy) on May 30th, 1867. On the day of Princess Maria and Duke Amadeo's wedding:
Three years after this series of tragic events, Amadeo was elected the King of Spain. But Spain was so factionalized that he was unable to muster popular support, and his rule was punctuated by violent uprisings by and among the various warring political factions. He abdicated the Spanish throne in 1873 and went back to Italy. Maria della Cisterna died three years later, nine years after their disastrous wedding.
I've been to some strange weddings over the years, but none matches what happened at the Princess Maria Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna's marriage to Amadeo (sometimes written Amedeo), duke of Aosta (and son of the king of Italy) on May 30th, 1867. On the day of Princess Maria and Duke Amadeo's wedding:
- Her page (e.g., wardrobe mistress) hanged herself.
- The gatekeeper of the palace where the wedding took place, slit his throat (possibly because he was in love with the page?). Slitting your own throat cannot be a cakewalk. But the gatekeeper did it, successfully.
- The Colonel who led the wedding procession, collapsed with a "sun stroke," or heat exhaustion, and died.
- After the marriage ceremony, the station manager was crushed beneath the wheels of the honeymoon train as it was leaving.
- One of the king's advisers fell off his horse and died immediately.
- The best man, presumably after witnessing all of this f**ked up stuff, shot himself.
- Not long after the marriage ceremony, The Princess discovered her new husband was a degenerate philanderer with an eye for the gals. When she complained to his dad, the King of Italy, the King told her to pound sand.
Three years after this series of tragic events, Amadeo was elected the King of Spain. But Spain was so factionalized that he was unable to muster popular support, and his rule was punctuated by violent uprisings by and among the various warring political factions. He abdicated the Spanish throne in 1873 and went back to Italy. Maria della Cisterna died three years later, nine years after their disastrous wedding.
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