Painting: Tell A Sad Story (from a hobo sign)

by Jack Brummet

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iPhone photos from The Methow

The North Cascades still had large amounts of snow...a couple of days before July

Dusk on the Methow River

The Hills surrounding The Methow Valley

The Hills

The Methow River at 9 pm.

The Curran-Brummet-Ford-Sanchez-Querfurth-Ericksen-Stewart Youth (and Eric holding Olivia)

The electric insulator gazebo at Newhalem

A field along Wolf Creek Road

Golden Hills

Snow along The North Cascades Highway

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Faces No. 224 - six sketches

By Jack Brummet

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Methow Margarita Meltdown: family reunion video

By Jack Brummet
Family Life Editor

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Photos from Winthrop/Wolf Ridge

by Jack Brummet
Family Life Editor

A few random shots from the Pete Curran family reunion, which happens every year with 35 people attending, give or take one or two who can't make it.  Head shots of all of them will appear tomorrow.

Eric and Otis Sanchez were among the early arrivals to Seattle

Just some hills/rangeland I like

The Methow River at 9PM

The Methow River at 10PM

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Mutant Tales No. 14

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Faces No. 223 - nine sketches by Jack Brummet

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Poem: Kent, Washington

Kent, Washington
By Jack Brummet

1
The truck farms
Are still there,

Buried a layer down now
beneath tilt-up warehouses.

2
Fin, fur, flesh, and feather
Maintain a faint presence—

A robin waltzes in 3/4 time
Around a stranded nightcrawler;

The pale moon hangs low,
Almost humming overhead
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The President's Head Explodes During Press Conference [six years ago today on All This Is That]

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[By Jack Brummet and Pablo Fanque, All This Is That Wire 6/28/2005 Cleveland, OH]

The President's head spontaneously exploded this afternoon as he formulated an answer to a three-part question from Heywood Jablomy of the Cheyenne Intelligencer. Seconds after the question was posed, the Presidents skull began glowing with a bright pink light and pieces of the skull seemed to break off and hover in the air.

Witnesses reported a deep ringing sound, followed by a loud bang and an overpowering smell of ozone. The whereabouts and medical condition of the President are not known at this time.

Pending further developments, the Vice-President invoked the 25th amendment to The Constitution and was sworn into office at 4:30 EDT today.
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NASA's New Solar System (not quite—this image was assembled before Pluto was de-caffeinated)

By Jack Brummet
NASA Editor & Unexplained Phenomena Editor

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I love browsing and plundering the NASA archives.  And the photographs are free to use anywhere.  We, the taxpayers own them!

The original caption for this montage (remember this was before the International Astronomical Union dethroned Pluto and decided there were only eight planets [1]).  "This solar-system montage of the nine planets and 4 large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula. The light emitted from the Rosette Nebula results from the presence of hydrogen (red), oxygen (green) and sulfur (blue). Most of the planetary images in this montage were obtained by NASA's planetary missions, which have dramatically changed our understanding of the solar system in the past 30 years."

[1] The I.A.U. decided that planets need to have 3 things:

• they need to orbit the Sun
• they need to have enough gravity to pull themselves into a ball
• they need to have cleared out all other objects from their orbit

"Earth is more than 1 million times more massive than all the other material in its orbit combined, while Pluto is just a tiny fraction of the rest of the icy material around it."
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Poem: Chasing Ghosts by Jack Brummet

Chasing Ghosts
by Jack Brummet


1
The scenery whirls by
In a drunken Gaussian Blur
Until I slow it down
And watch it unravel
In a multi-colored, quadrophonic
Parade of flora and fauna
Spinning Venn Diagrams
Around each other.

2
I quit chasing ghosts,
But once in a while
I look over my shoulder
And find a face in the crowd,
With a sad smile and a halo.
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New York! New York! New York!