---o0o---
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Monday, May 08, 2017
Despite $20 and $23 veal chops and t-bones, these Navajos only cook their meat well-done
by Jack Brummet
---o0o---
Sunday, May 07, 2017
Saturday, May 06, 2017
The four corners of Utah, Colorado, Nex Mexico, and Arizona
by Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.
I love to stop at every corny tourist attraction (baby kangaroo petting zoo, Paul Bunyan and Babe on Hwy 101, rock shops, the Montana testicle festival, roadside monuments and overlooks, chainsaw carving joints, Area 51, and many more).
Today I was tragically thwarted in a lifelong quest—to go to Four Corners & take a picture straddling four great states. I'll settle for this.
What we didn't get to see:
I love to stop at every corny tourist attraction (baby kangaroo petting zoo, Paul Bunyan and Babe on Hwy 101, rock shops, the Montana testicle festival, roadside monuments and overlooks, chainsaw carving joints, Area 51, and many more).
Today I was tragically thwarted in a lifelong quest—to go to Four Corners & take a picture straddling four great states. I'll settle for this.
What we didn't get to see:
---o0o---
Friday, May 05, 2017
Thursday, May 04, 2017
Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Miss America 1922
by Jack Brummet
One of these contestants became Miss America in 1922. I love the women, but am particularly digging the millinery.
One of these contestants became Miss America in 1922. I love the women, but am particularly digging the millinery.
---o0o---
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Drawing: Faces No. 1947 — The Moderates
by Jack Brummet
click to enlarge/right or context-click to save
---o0o---
---o0o---
The modern world reimagined as Pangea, the one continent
by Jack Brummet
Reddit user LikeWolvesDo, recently took a map of the ancient supercontinent Pangea, surrounded by the one ocean, Panthalassa and drew current political borders on it.
According to Live Science, "Even our current map, with separate continents, is changing."
“Right now, for instance, Australia is inching toward Asia, and the eastern portion of Africa is slowly peeling off from the rest of the continent.”
Reddit user LikeWolvesDo, recently took a map of the ancient supercontinent Pangea, surrounded by the one ocean, Panthalassa and drew current political borders on it.
According to Live Science, "Even our current map, with separate continents, is changing."
“Right now, for instance, Australia is inching toward Asia, and the eastern portion of Africa is slowly peeling off from the rest of the continent.”
---o0o---
Monday, May 01, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
The President forgets who broke the ground he is treading upon
By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.
"The relationship I have with China, it's been already acclaimed as being something very special, something very different than we've ever had." - President Donald J. Trump on Face The Nation this morning.
Well, not quite, Mr. President.
---o0o---
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Sunday, April 23, 2017
25 quotes on UFOs by Presidents, Astronauts, and Scientists (and others)
By Jack Brummet
- UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. — Carl Sagan, Other Worlds, 1975.
- I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more … advanced than we are… — Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Mercury 7, letter to the United Nations, 1978.
- I can assure you that, given they exist, these flying saucers are made by no power on this Earth. — President Harry S. Truman, 4 April 1950, at a press conference.
- I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not. — Richard Feynman
- [The Airship] looked like a great black cigar with a fishlike tail….The body was at least 100 feet long and attached to it was a triangular tail, one apex being attached to the main body. The surface of the airship looked as if it were made of aluminum, which exposure to wind and weather had turned dark….The airship went at tremendous speed. As it neared Lorin it turned quickly and disappeared in the direction of San Francisco. At half past 8 we saw it again, when it took about the same direction and disappeared. — Case Gilson, reported in the Oakland Tribune, Dec 1, 1896.
- It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the Moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.
- If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists — President Jimmy Carter
- I am completely convinced that [UFOs] have an out-of-world basis. — Dr. Walther Riedel, LIFE Magazine, 7 April 1952. Research director and chief designer at Germany's rocket center in Peenemunde. He also worked on classified projects for the U.S. after WWII.
- After I give lectures — on almost any subject — I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?". I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?" — Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World, 1995.
- For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations. — Preface to the Memoirs of Harry S Truman, 1946-52 Vol II: Years of Trial and Hope.
- Of course the flying saucers are real and they are interplanetary… . The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence. — Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, RAF, August 1954.
- I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets--which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. — Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Mercury 7
- We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from. — Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, after his Apollo 14 Moon flight in 1971.
- Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. — Captain Edward 'Eddie' Rickenbacker
- I've been asked [about UFOs] and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Astronaut Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17, in the Los Angeles Times, 1973.
- I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers are real and interplanetary. In other words we are being watched by beings from outer space. — Albert M. Chop, deputy public relations director at NASA
- I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. — Richard Feynman
- Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension. — Robert A. Baker, 'The Aliens Among Us: Hypnotic Regression Revisited.
- Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you. — Marlene Dietrich, Venus, 1962.
- A circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. After some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. — From a series of Egyptian hieroglyphs on a papyrus dated to the reign of Thutmose III (1504-1450 BC)
- It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries. — Hermann Oberth, 'Flying Saucers Come from a Distant World,' in The American Weekly, October 24, 1954.
- UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head… . I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something… . The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalleled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop. — Paul Hellyer, Canada — s Defence Minister from 1963-67, speech at the University of Toronto, September 25, 2005.
- The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously. — Mikhail Gorbachev, 'Soviet Youth,' May 4, 1990.
- As far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947… . If the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either, and I want to know. — President Bill Clinton, reply to a letter from a child asking about the Roswell Incident
---o0o---
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Drawing: Faces 1939 — Électeurs français
By Jack Brummet
[yes, I know the crate is Spanish]
[yes, I know the crate is Spanish]
---o0o---
Friday, April 21, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Drawing: Faces No. 1541, 1405, 1577 — Three faces on found wood
By Jack Brummet
[Sharpie™, Micron .08, Windsor and Newton Markers, and 4B Pencil on drift plywood and a wine crate]
---o0o---
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Drawing: Faces No. 1937 — On line at Starbucks for first day Unicorn Frappuccino™
By Jack Brummet
---o0o---
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Monday, April 17, 2017
Ken Kesey Wisdom
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
To hell with facts! We need stories!
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken, on a bus trip heading east, stopped in Yellowstone and saw a sign that said "Beware of Bear" and said : This used to mean be aware of the bear. But now, it means "be afraid of the bear."
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.
Always stay in your own movie.
You're either on the bus or off the bus.
... you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
To hell with facts! We need stories!
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
---o0o---
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Poem: A flight of swallows
by Jack Brummet
A flight of swallows
Spins outside the window.
One by one,
Stars turn on
And the yellow sun
Cycles to dusty rose
As it sinks
To the other side.
The moon's in tune,
Stars turn on
And clouds drape themselves
Across the sky.
In the web
Of the Milky Way we careen
Through space, twirling on earth's axis,
Around the sun, and into the black.
---o0o---
A flight of swallows
Spins outside the window.
One by one,
Stars turn on
And the yellow sun
Cycles to dusty rose
As it sinks
To the other side.
The moon's in tune,
Stars turn on
And clouds drape themselves
Across the sky.
In the web
Of the Milky Way we careen
Through space, twirling on earth's axis,
Around the sun, and into the black.
---o0o---
Saturday, April 15, 2017
A load of ca-ca in Germany
BERLIN (Associated Press story):
"One can only imagine the expletives uttered by a Bavarian driver and his teenage daughter after a farmer accidentally filled their convertible with a trailer full of manure. German police say the incident happened Saturday near the town of Altomuenster, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Munich.
"The 52-year-old father and his 14-year-old daughter were parked by the roadside when a tractor pulling a trailer of liquid manure swung in their direction. The maneuver sent the entire load pouring into their Renault convertible, covering the occupants from head to toe with slurry.
"In a statement Monday, police said the car is likely a write-off. On the upside, they noted: "nobody was injured."
---o0o---
Reactions from China to Donald Trump
How the news President Trump won't label China a currency manipulator plays in China:
- "Eating his words!"
- "Trump slaps self in face, again"
Friday, April 14, 2017
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)