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Monday, January 25, 2010
Digital Art: Jack Brummet and Pablo Fanque - Double Portrait
Digital art by Jack Brummet
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Drawing: Faces No. 149: The Hair Club, with multiple sets of identical twins
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Faces Drawing No. - The Jury (Pt 6)
Faces Drawing No. 103 - The Jury (Pt 6) by Jack Brummet
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Friday, January 22, 2010
The transit and eclipse of Ex-Senator John Edwards (thank God!)
By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor
The Ex-Senator with his daughter
A couple years ago, Ex-Senator John Edwards was a serious presidential contender; a nice guy who spoke passionately for the poor and disenfranchised middle-Americans. [ed's note: Pablo Fanque was an early supporter of John Edwards] He was good looking, sunny even, optimistic, ran a clean campaign, didn't take cheap shots, and never ambushed or smeared anyone. He was an asset in the Kerry presidential campaign, particularly stacked up against Darth Cheney.
After years of prevarication, delusion, and denials, Edwards now admits he’s the father of an almost two-year old daughter and that he has been--as we all know--supporting his daughter and baby momma Rielle Hunter. He has not 'fessed up that he tried to get his pal and employee Andrew Young (not the Carter cabinet member/ambassador/pastor ) to take the fall for paternity. But that's OK. After being seriously burned by Edwards, Young decided to let the world in on just what went down. Yes, has his own axes to grind, but his story seems verisimilitudinous.
Edwards made his tawdry announcement in a press release (he’s in Haiti right now!). The country now knows he left his cancer-stricken wife at home and was on the campaign trail playing hide the salami with his videographer. When he was exposed, he spent the next two years engaged in an almost laughable cover-up. In 2007, the National Enquirer reported on Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter. The mainstream press barely touched the story until they had been scooped by the Enquirer and the story blew up in their faces.
"Game Change" describes Ex-Senator John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, as the couple from hell. Tim Rutten, reviewing the book in the Chicago Tribune wrote: "As reported in these pages, he is delusional, megalomaniacal, self-absorbed and breathtakingly irresponsible; she is condescending, viciously insulting and shrewish -- Lady Macbeth with magnolias. It's hard to imagine two people whose public personas have been more at odds with the private reality than apparently has been the case with these people."
Even the bright and long suffering "St. Elizabeth" is on the griddle in the book. As far as I know, these are new revelations. . .at least people have kept the lid on them in the last couple of years.
The aide, Andrew Young, sold a book proposal to St. Martin’s Press for an undisclosed price late last summer (the book is coming out in Feb. 2010). The proposal promised to blow the lid off Edwards' deception. Mr. Young quotes Mr. Edwards, the Dem's 2004 VP nominee who ran for president in 2008, as begging him to confess to fathering Ms. Hunter’s baby. If he did, Edwards promised, "he would be taken care of for life."
Following John Edwards' mea culpa, we wish him the best of luck personally, and hope he can balance his families, wife, and Rielle Hunter. Politically, good riddance, and R.I.P.
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All This Is That National Affairs Editor
The Ex-Senator with his daughter
A couple years ago, Ex-Senator John Edwards was a serious presidential contender; a nice guy who spoke passionately for the poor and disenfranchised middle-Americans. [ed's note: Pablo Fanque was an early supporter of John Edwards] He was good looking, sunny even, optimistic, ran a clean campaign, didn't take cheap shots, and never ambushed or smeared anyone. He was an asset in the Kerry presidential campaign, particularly stacked up against Darth Cheney.
After years of prevarication, delusion, and denials, Edwards now admits he’s the father of an almost two-year old daughter and that he has been--as we all know--supporting his daughter and baby momma Rielle Hunter. He has not 'fessed up that he tried to get his pal and employee Andrew Young (not the Carter cabinet member/ambassador/pastor ) to take the fall for paternity. But that's OK. After being seriously burned by Edwards, Young decided to let the world in on just what went down. Yes, has his own axes to grind, but his story seems verisimilitudinous.
Edwards made his tawdry announcement in a press release (he’s in Haiti right now!). The country now knows he left his cancer-stricken wife at home and was on the campaign trail playing hide the salami with his videographer. When he was exposed, he spent the next two years engaged in an almost laughable cover-up. In 2007, the National Enquirer reported on Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter. The mainstream press barely touched the story until they had been scooped by the Enquirer and the story blew up in their faces.
"Game Change" describes Ex-Senator John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, as the couple from hell. Tim Rutten, reviewing the book in the Chicago Tribune wrote: "As reported in these pages, he is delusional, megalomaniacal, self-absorbed and breathtakingly irresponsible; she is condescending, viciously insulting and shrewish -- Lady Macbeth with magnolias. It's hard to imagine two people whose public personas have been more at odds with the private reality than apparently has been the case with these people."
Even the bright and long suffering "St. Elizabeth" is on the griddle in the book. As far as I know, these are new revelations. . .at least people have kept the lid on them in the last couple of years.
The aide, Andrew Young, sold a book proposal to St. Martin’s Press for an undisclosed price late last summer (the book is coming out in Feb. 2010). The proposal promised to blow the lid off Edwards' deception. Mr. Young quotes Mr. Edwards, the Dem's 2004 VP nominee who ran for president in 2008, as begging him to confess to fathering Ms. Hunter’s baby. If he did, Edwards promised, "he would be taken care of for life."
Following John Edwards' mea culpa, we wish him the best of luck personally, and hope he can balance his families, wife, and Rielle Hunter. Politically, good riddance, and R.I.P.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Faces Drawing No. 147 - by Jack Brummet
Drawing No. 147 finished last night
pen and ink on 24x24" muslin
by Jack Brummet
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Faces Drawing No. 86
Faces Drawing No. 86 by Jack Brummet
Pen, ink, and acrylic on 24x24" muslin
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A huge G.O.P.victory & bad news for BHO on his first anniversary as President
"BOSTON – A year to the day after his inauguration, Barack Obamaand his Democratic allies are suddenly scrambling to save his signature health care overhaul and somehow rediscover their political magic after an epic loss in the Massachusetts Senate race.
"Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to beat Democrat Martha Coakley. The loss was a stunning embarrassment for the White House. It also signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide." Read the grim Associated Press story here
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Call To Action: It may be time to take it to the streets
By Pablo Fanque
[thanks to Jack Brummet for pointing out this quote, along with Arianna Huffington's far more eloquent call to action. /PF]
If things go the wrong way tomorrow in Mass. (which now seems likely), the GOP and insurance companies will have us right where they want us--dead in the water. Next time, or next week, it's probably time to take it to the streets. There's something to be said for uncivil unrest.
All This Is That National Affairs Editor
- Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth"One man one vote
Now is that really real?
The name of the game
Is let's make a deal."
Can we save health care if Martha Coakley loses to Scott Brown in Massachusetts tomorrow? Maybe. Both houses have already voted...they have a big stake in all this. If we lose our "filibuster-proof" majority things become much trickier. But I think there will be hell to pay for both parties. And both parties will pay in November.
The way it could work is if the House passes the Senate bill, and then launches a reconciliation bill to iron out the kinks. This is probably the quickest way to get a bill passed. And it would short-circuit having to jam a bill through the Senate again. This will be very hard to swallow for House Democrats, who've made clear recently that they won't go along with every piece of the Senate's version.
If things go the wrong way tomorrow in Mass. (which now seems likely), the GOP and insurance companies will have us right where they want us--dead in the water. Next time, or next week, it's probably time to take it to the streets. There's something to be said for uncivil unrest.
Maybe the only way left to effect massive and real change is to take to the streets by the millions. It worked during the Vietnam War. It's probably time to see if it can work again, and if we can really set the stage from outside the Beltway for Real Change.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Painting: Parts by Jack Brummet
Pen and ink, and acrylic on muslin, 24" x 24" by Jack Bummet 2010.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Mount Rainier's three summits
Mount Rainier is 54 miles southeast of my house. This photo is not the more traditionally beautiful and rounded face we see on clear days in Seattle, but a great view of its three summits (Liberty Cap, Columbia Crest, and Point Success).
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Our two favorite letters from George W. Bush
By Pablo Fanque (National Affairs Ed.) and Jack Brummet (Arts and Social Mores ed.)
As you may or may not remember, we (Jack and Pablo) have corresponded periodically with the Presidents (we've only had two since All This Is That started five years ago). Our letters to them ranged from out and out trolls to respectful invitations. One letter we received--that we cannot find!--came from a staffer and basically said "are you crazy? We're not giving this to The President."
But in response to some of our more, shall we say apparently positive and supportive letters?, we did hear back from The Boss himself.
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As you may or may not remember, we (Jack and Pablo) have corresponded periodically with the Presidents (we've only had two since All This Is That started five years ago). Our letters to them ranged from out and out trolls to respectful invitations. One letter we received--that we cannot find!--came from a staffer and basically said "are you crazy? We're not giving this to The President."
But in response to some of our more, shall we say apparently positive and supportive letters?, we did hear back from The Boss himself.
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A salute to Rev.Pat Robertson
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
- Pat Robertson
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Mount Shuksan
A photo of that most gorgeous mountain Mount Shuksan. Shuksan is a glaciated peak in the North Cascades, north of Seattle, near Mt. Baker, and just below the Canadian border. It is 9,127 feet tall, and 'though it is 5,000 feet lower than Rainier, it one of the most photographed of the Cascade Mountains. I've always thought this was a beautiful mountain.
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by David et Magalie from Vancouver, Canada
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by David et Magalie from Vancouver, Canada
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Fun With Dick Nixon's Ghost
If you're a friend, or a blog follower, you probably know that LBJ and Nixon are the presidents I've studied most. With Nixon, it has been a life-long fascination. When I lived in NYC, I often brought friends over to pay homage at his townhouse on the Upper East Side--and where the Secret Service never hassled us, although we rarely arrived there before 2 AM, or even closing time (which in NYC then was 4 AM). I wrote a while ago about visiting him here. Or check here. Anyhow, yesterday, I spent a half hour at his grave site, communing with the shade of Richard Nixon, who has fascinated me for forty-some years, and a couple more hours at his library, and birthplace. Despite being a Gorbachev Democrat, I still like the guy, and despise about 90% of his politics. He was a treacherous sneak, but managed to pull off some pretty stunning accomplishments before he was driven to the sea.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Adlai Stevenson quote on Republican lies
By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
Adlai Stevenson wasn't very good at winning Presidential elections, but he was a very wise man.
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I don't know if it's safe to make cop jokes again (is it too early?) after recent events
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Brummet Island
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Brummet Island is located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. The island sits in Lake Wentworth, and has an elevation of 535 feet. Latitude: 43-35'18'' N Longitude: 71-08'31'' W.
To get there from Seattle:
1. Check your tires, wipers, and gasoline.
2. Pack some food.
3. Merge onto I-5 S via the ramp to Seattle 6.0 mi
4. Take the exit onto I-90 E toward Bellevue/Spokane
Passing through Idaho
Entering Montana 824 mi
5. Continue onto I-94 E
Passing through North Dakota
Entering Minnesota 824 mi
6. Continue straight onto I-694 E 11.7 mi
7. Slight right at US-10 E (signs for I-35E S/US-10/St Paul) 0.6 mi
8. Merge onto I-35E S 4.8 mi
9. Continue onto US-10 E (signs for US-52 S/US-10 E/I-94 E) 0.5 mi
10. Merge onto I-94 E
Entering Wisconsin 255 mi
11. Continue straight onto I-90 E
Partial toll road
Passing through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Entering New York 950 mi
12. Continue onto Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway/New York State Thruway (signs for I-87 N/Newyork/Boston) 1.0 mi
13. Continue onto I-87 S 13.5 mi
14. Take exit 21A toward I-90 E/Mass Turnpike/Boston 1.1 mi
15. Merge onto Berkshire Ext Ny Thruway 0.7 mi
16. Continue onto Ny St Thruway Berkshire Extd 5.6 mi
17. Continue onto I-90 E
Partial toll road
Entering Massachusetts 107 mi
18. Take exit 10 to merge onto I-290 E toward Worcester
Partial toll road 21.2 mi
19. Take exit 26B on the left to merge onto I-495 N toward Lowell
Partial toll road 56.1 mi
20. Merge onto I-95 N
Toll road
Entering New Hampshire 15.1 mi
21. Take exit 5 toward US-1 Bypass/Portsmouth Cir 0.5 mi
22. Continue straight 0.1 mi
23. At the traffic circle, take the 3rd exit onto NH-16 N/Spaulding Turnpike/US-4 W 5.3 mi
24. Continue onto NH-16 N
Partial toll road 14.5 mi
25. Continue onto US-202 E 2.2 mi
26. Continue onto NH-16 N 16.8 mi
27. Turn left at NH-109 N/Wentworth Rd 1.2 mi
28. Turn left at Govenors Rd 0.4 mi
29. Take the 2nd right onto Moose Mountain Rd 0.8 mi
30. Slight right at Tumble Down Dick Rd 3.2 mi
31. Tumble Down Dick Rd turns left and becomes Pleasant Valley Rd 1.5 mi
32. Turn right at Point Breeze Rd 0.4 mi
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Analog art: Painting--Justice at work
Painting: Justice at work by Jack Brummet
I painted this at least 12 years ago, and I think someone bought it or I traded it. Anyhow, all I have left is this low resolution photo. This was done with acrylic and pen on canvas, and was about two by three feet. One thing I notice is that is the ensuing years, my drawing skills have remained utterly static. Either I am a complete dolt, or found my "style" early on.
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