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Sunday, August 07, 2011
A vintage paperback - Old Terror In New Buildings: Rumble At The Housing Project
Rumble At The Housing Project is a rare book published in 1960. Most of the copies of this first edition 35 cent paperback original that I've found are around $50.
Faces No. 241 - The Front Desk Team At The Unemployment Office
By Jack Brummet
click to enlarge
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Saturday, August 06, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Michael Corelone and Carlo: The final meeting
MICHAEL: You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.
CARLO: Mike, you got it all wrong...
MICHAEL: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ahhh that little farce you played with my sister -- you think that could fool a Corleone?
CARLO: Mike, I'm innocent -- I swear on the kids, Mike -- Please, Mike, don't do this to me.
MICHAEL (as he pulls up his own chair) Sit down.
CARLO (sitting): Mike, don't do this to me, please...
MICHAEL: Barzini's dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia -- Moe Greene -- Strachi -- Cuneo -- Today I settled all Family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Admit what you did. (then, to Neri) Get him a drink.
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Do you also feel like we've been "corn-cobbed" in the last six weeks?
By Jack Brummet
Editor In Chief
As some of you know, we are political junkies. But, alas, recent events have nearly stripped politics of it's entertainment value. I have had many moments these last forty years of being disgusted with politics--but always on a more cellular level, not systemically, like I feel today. I first felt disgust about Agnew and Nixon, and there have been plenty of candidates on both sides of the aisle (and with the 3rd partiers like Ralph "the dingbat" Nader, or Ross Perot). If you're a reader of All This Is That, you may have noticed the dearth of political articles over the last six weeks. We've felt alternately depressed, disgusted, and paralyzed with fear. It's been hard to muster the resources to even address the depressing political situation in America.
The United States of America has 537 elected officials. It's time we threw the bums out. All 537 of them. BHO, Crazy Joe Biden (a personal favorite), The House of Representatives, and The Senate. It's never actually 537, since at any given time at least a few of them will be embroiled in a sex scandal, under indictment for skullduggery, caught with their hands in the till, or, sadly, struggling with health issues like Congressman Gabby Giffords, and--there's usually a couple of fossils like Senator Robert Byrd or Jesse Helms that are functionally useless. But I digress. It's more than time to make a clean sweep.
I don't think I'll feel this way next week, but I feel violated, as we all should. Politics at it's highest and best, is about give and take, compromise and honest debate. We've seen so little of that in this deficit mess that it is truly disheartening. I like real politics; I like hardball politics. What we have seen in the last two months is cynical and self-serving mindless bickering by 537 overpaid hacks in $2,000 suits. I feel like I need to take a shower.
It may just be time to take it to the streets.
Editor In Chief
As some of you know, we are political junkies. But, alas, recent events have nearly stripped politics of it's entertainment value. I have had many moments these last forty years of being disgusted with politics--but always on a more cellular level, not systemically, like I feel today. I first felt disgust about Agnew and Nixon, and there have been plenty of candidates on both sides of the aisle (and with the 3rd partiers like Ralph "the dingbat" Nader, or Ross Perot). If you're a reader of All This Is That, you may have noticed the dearth of political articles over the last six weeks. We've felt alternately depressed, disgusted, and paralyzed with fear. It's been hard to muster the resources to even address the depressing political situation in America.
The United States of America has 537 elected officials. It's time we threw the bums out. All 537 of them. BHO, Crazy Joe Biden (a personal favorite), The House of Representatives, and The Senate. It's never actually 537, since at any given time at least a few of them will be embroiled in a sex scandal, under indictment for skullduggery, caught with their hands in the till, or, sadly, struggling with health issues like Congressman Gabby Giffords, and--there's usually a couple of fossils like Senator Robert Byrd or Jesse Helms that are functionally useless. But I digress. It's more than time to make a clean sweep.
I don't think I'll feel this way next week, but I feel violated, as we all should. Politics at it's highest and best, is about give and take, compromise and honest debate. We've seen so little of that in this deficit mess that it is truly disheartening. I like real politics; I like hardball politics. What we have seen in the last two months is cynical and self-serving mindless bickering by 537 overpaid hacks in $2,000 suits. I feel like I need to take a shower.
It may just be time to take it to the streets.
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Thursday, August 04, 2011
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Police order man to stop wearing bunny costume in public
A northwest man (Idaho Falls) wearing a bunny suit has been frightening local children, according to the police. They also reported that he sometimes wears a tutu with the costume. Of course he does! The cops warned William Falkingham, 34, to stop wearing the fuzzy rabbit costume in public, according to The Republic.
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Long Beach/Ocean Park/Oysterville
Jack with Jake The Alligator Man at Marsh's in Long Beach
The beach at Ocean Park
Surf fishing at Ocean Park
Cars are allowed on some beaches in Washington State. . .
...which leads to some interesting and tense situations
The Blackboard in the men's room at Doc's Tavern,
where the patrons were upset about the removal of pinups
Karaoke at Doc's
Photos of the many sunken ships in the treacherous meeting of the Columbia and the Pacific
If you're the only one on a street, you can name it what you want
One of the oldest cities in Washington
The church at Oysterville
Hundreds of crab pots in the sheltered bay
The best wood grilled oysters I've ever eaten
The oyster grilling station
The oyster master at work
another shot of Jake
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Monday, August 01, 2011
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