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Saturday, July 25, 2009
On The Road to Yellowstone and Chico Hot Springs: warning signs in Yellowstone National Park.
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The Yellowstone Supervolcano
This warning was posted by geologist Christopher C. Sanders on January 1, 2009: "I am advising all State officials around Yellowstone National Park for a potential State of Emergency. In the last week over 300 earthquakes have been observed by the USGS. We have a 3D view on the movement of magma rising underground. We have all of the pre warning signs of a major eruption from a super volcano. - I want everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park and for 200 miles around the volcano caldera."
It looks like he was off by some unknown interval. The supervolcano has yet to blow. If it were to blow, from what I saw on the island of Thira (a/k/a Santorini) in Greece, 200 miles might be just enough distance to survive. Read the article on Sangtorini's supervolcano here, on All This Is That.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Digital Art: Senor Daveed a/k/a Dave Hokit and 'Mo a/k/a Maureen Roberts
2/5 of the family usually referred to as the Hokits. (as always, click to enlarge). I heart them.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
The President weighs in on the Gates' travesty (includes press conference video)
By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor
My conservative friends would not agree, but last night a gust of fresh air blew in.
At the end of yesterday's news conference on health care reform, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet asked Barack Obama about race relations in America.
The President said "the Cambridge police acted stupidly" arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates in his own home. He also said if he broke into his house (e.g., The White House), "Then I'd get shot." Right on, BHO!
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Poem: Blackout
Lights off: dark skies.
The river gurgles over rocks
Somewhere behind me
In the night.
The Big Dipper
Beams large and bright
Like a Times Square marquee
Flashing among the random stars.
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Lullaby Moon at Gasworks Park
A bad cell phone shot of rabbits singing and dancing in the always evolving Lullaby Moon show that appears each month on the night of the full moon, at various Seattle waterfront parks.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Poem: Denial
Denial
by Jack Brummet
What is denial, really,
But those moments,
Those swaths of your life,
Where you play
Hide and seek
With yourself,
Heavy
On the hide,
And easy
On the seek?
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by Jack Brummet
What is denial, really,
But those moments,
Those swaths of your life,
Where you play
Hide and seek
With yourself,
Heavy
On the hide,
And easy
On the seek?
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Team America: World Police video clip - Kim Jong Il meets with Hans Blix of the UN, and in another clip, Blix discusses his portrayal in the movie
This may be my favorite scene from Team America: World Police . . .where Kim Jong Il meets with Hans Blix and drops him into a shark tank (foul language warning):
After Team America was released, Hans Blix talked about his puppet version's confrontation with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il at the Arms Control Association's 2006 Annual Meeting, Amazing! Who knew Hans Blix had such a sense of humor?
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After Team America was released, Hans Blix talked about his puppet version's confrontation with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il at the Arms Control Association's 2006 Annual Meeting, Amazing! Who knew Hans Blix had such a sense of humor?
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Monday, July 20, 2009
40 years ago today, we, yes, WE, walked on the moon. I remember looking up at it, thinking "one of us is up there."
40 years ago today, we, yes, WE, walked on the moon. I remember looking up at it, thinking "one of us is up there." What has it brought us, after all, but a couple boxes of rocks, and Tang [tm]? I know there have been various materials, processes, and other inventions that have probably benefited the world (aside from Tang). But, all that aside, there was something so magnificent about knowing we were up there, striding in the dust, where (most likely) no one had ever been before. In another connection, I think I remember the recently departed Walter Cronkite saying as Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon "hot diggity dog."
It wasn't great that we beat the Russians there--although that was cool too--but more that we had done it. And when you think about the crude computer technology and the materials that went into the rockets and spaceship, it was absolutely amazing we made it. I know that before we abandoned going there, something like 40 or 50 people walked on the moon. For what it's worth, I'd like to see us get there again.
There were the naysayers, of course. And their stories have again been circulating again around this anniversary. Here are a few of the stories and poems that have appeared over the years on All This Is That about the moon, and moon landings (I think my favorite is "The Skeleton on the moon):
Alien Lore No. 81 - The Skeleton on the moon
Life on the moon?
Nixon's back pocket speech in the event of a moon landing disaster
Michael Jackson moonwalk video clips
Alien Lore No. 134 - Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up
Poem: The Moon Race
Poem: The Moon's In Tune
The Six Faked Moon Landings?
Alien Lore No. 29 - Nazis On The Moon!!
Alien Lore 53 - The Moon Dust File
Alien Lore No. 108 - The spaceship on the moon
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Keelin Curran and Dave Hokit posing in Winthrop, Wash.
Dave and Keelin pose in a cut-out on the "western"-themed main street of Winthrop, just outside the local brewery.
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On the back side of the cut-out is this warning (you think they've had to extricate a few heads over the years?):
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On the back side of the cut-out is this warning (you think they've had to extricate a few heads over the years?):
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