Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Selected Office Types

By Jack Brummet and Mona Goldwater

Every office has a cast of various types.  These are a select list of office types that popped into our heads late last night. . .


The Tyrant


The Saboteur

The Control Freak

The Wallflower

The Space Cadet

The Bully

The Peddler

The Button Pusher

The Coaster

The Lifer


The Petty Bureaucrat

The Undercover Agent


The Success-phobe


The Empire Builder

The Putdown Artist

The office drunk

Smile
The secretary with a heart of gold.

The quiet guy nobody really knows

The girl who takes off her glasses and is beautiful


The dying salesman who shows us the beauty of life
The passionate but alcoholic technologist


The wistful and regretful guy in the stockroom


The bitter tech support engineer


The kooky but benign genius

The mean old guy who really just needs a friend
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Faces No. 340 - The line-up

Drawings by Jack Brummet



click to enlarge

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Paloma Ford's "Dollars" video

By Jack Brummet

My niece Paloma Ford, has been working on this album for a long time now, and just today released this single/video, Dollars. Check it out!

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Seattle's Hat and Boots

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Editor



The Hat 'n' Boots now reside in Oxbow Park in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle.  They were built in 1954 as part of a Western-themed Texaco gas station and are alleged to be the largest hat and cowboy boots in America.  The hat measures 44 feet across and the boots are 22 feet high.

When the "filling station" fell on hard times, it was abandoned for many years, and finally, the City of Seattle moved the fully restored Hat 'n' Boots (they were in rocky shape due to years of neglect) to the new Oxbow Park in December 2003.

When I was young, before Interstate 5 was completed, we used to stop there on every trip to Seattle. It was the coolest thing ever for an eight year old to pee in the boot.  The boots are no longer bathrooms, but are used to store sprinklers, tools, and hoses for the park.

The Hat 'n' Boots even had a star turn--in National Lampoon's Vacation, in the opening credits.








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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Digital Art: Progress

By Jack Brummet


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Faces No. 339 - in the driver's license photo line

By Jack Brummet


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The Zombie Apocalypse drives gun sales...

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Editor

Is fear driving the sales of guns?  People reacting to the Batman massacre, or other mass shootings?  As it turns out, folks are just preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse.

 
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Saturday, December 08, 2012

Alien Lore No. 241 - UFO crash in Japan?

By Jack Brummet, Unexplained Phenomena Editor

photo purportedly released by the Japanese Navy



Several web sites and blogs, including In Other Newz, are posting articles on an alleged report on Nippon Television December 5th that “an Unidentified Flying Object, went down off the coast of Okinawa, an island at the southern tip of Japan. Several news crews, along with police and emergency vehicles, rushed to the scene just in time to see the UFO sink into the water, according to multiple sources.”  

“We saw something like a small vessel with a dome slowly submerge into the water as we arrived at the scene,” said Okinawa Prefecture Police Chief Hideki Suzuki. “We clearly saw smoke rising from it as it went down. There was a tremendous amount of steam generated as it disappeared into the depths of the ocean. We anticipate investigating the vessel as soon as we get the equipment we need to raise it from the water.”


The reports also claim that a recovery mission is underway:  "The Japanese Navy has already cordoned off the immediate vicinity of the crash and is preparing to send divers into the water to get a glimpse of the vessel and take photos for salvaging purposes. No doubt, the Navy will be heavily involved in bringing the UFO up from the depths of the ocean."

A photograph "released by the Japanese navy" shows the vessel submerged underwater, with a possible power source still glowing brightly atop the aircraft’s dome..

Another web web site points out that the the photo looks suspiciously like this Google street view image of Jacksonville, Texas.  Does this image below confirm that this is just another hoax?  


A Google street view image taken in Texas
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The Beatles, amended

By Jack Brummet


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Friday, December 07, 2012

The Seattle Police humorously blog about legal marijuana

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Editor


The Seattle Police Department blog, which has been way out front of the legalized pot issue since the beginning, released their temporary enforcement policy today.  And they capped it with a picture of the Dude from The Big Lebowski.  Read their entire blog post here.

Some choice tidbits:
"Does this mean you should flagrantly roll up a mega-spliff and light up in the middle of the street? No. If you’re smoking pot in public, officers will be giving helpful reminders to folks about the rules and regulations under I-502 (like not smoking pot in public)."
"the police department believes that, under state law, you may responsibly get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a Lord of the Rings marathon in the privacy of your own home, if you want to."
"In the meantime, in keeping with the spirit of I-502, the department’s going to give you a generous grace period to help you adjust to this brave, new, and maybe kinda stoned world we live in."
"As we’ve told you here on the Blotter, if you’re over 21, then starting December 6th you can use marijuana, and possess marijuana—up to an ounce of marijuana buds, 16 ounces of solid marijuana-infused product, like cookies, or 72 ounces of infused liquid, like oil." 
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