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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Poem: Li Po in the mountains
By Jack Brummet
painting of Lip Po by Liang K'ai (13th century)
A crow wheels over fogged red pines
Spiring in moonlight.
LiPo shakes wet peach blossoms
From his coat and fills the cup again.
Silver moonlight dances on the golden wine
In green ceramic cup.
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painting of Lip Po by Liang K'ai (13th century)
Four
hundred and sixty-thousand
Moons ago, Li Po sits
Drinking wine on a bluff.
The sun slides into the blue mountains.
Crickets tune up and the first bats
Sail from roost to roost.
I think about Li Po drunk again.
He holds an inkpot, scroll, and brush.
Moons ago, Li Po sits
Drinking wine on a bluff.
The sun slides into the blue mountains.
Crickets tune up and the first bats
Sail from roost to roost.
I think about Li Po drunk again.
He holds an inkpot, scroll, and brush.
Between
the mountains and stars,
A crow wheels over fogged red pines
Spiring in moonlight.
LiPo shakes wet peach blossoms
From his coat and fills the cup again.
Silver moonlight dances on the golden wine
In green ceramic cup.
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Written
1990, Published in Electrum
revised June, 2014
A quirky but effective gun safety video, using dildos in lieu of guns
By Mona Goldwater and Jack Brummet
Jack: Quite possibly the best gun safety video ever! Not anti-gun, just focused on keeping guns locked up. These guys at Evolve are just great!
Mona: No political/2nd amendment ranting, just a funny and kinky PSA about gun safety. Brilliant.
Jack: Quite possibly the best gun safety video ever! Not anti-gun, just focused on keeping guns locked up. These guys at Evolve are just great!
Mona: No political/2nd amendment ranting, just a funny and kinky PSA about gun safety. Brilliant.
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A tour of the C.I.A., led by one of their explosive sniffing K9 dogs
By Jack Brummet
The C.I.A. has always had an outward facing element--mainly the CIA World Factbook, which has long been available and is a pretty standard reference work.
Lately, though, they have jumped into the world of Social Networking, with Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook accounts.
This is a short video tour of the CIA, released on YouTube, conducted by one of their bomb-sniffing dogs, and narrated using the voice of a young girl. . .
The C.I.A. has always had an outward facing element--mainly the CIA World Factbook, which has long been available and is a pretty standard reference work.
Lately, though, they have jumped into the world of Social Networking, with Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook accounts.
This is a short video tour of the CIA, released on YouTube, conducted by one of their bomb-sniffing dogs, and narrated using the voice of a young girl. . .
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Drawing: Faces No. 838 - illuminated first class menu
By Jack Brummet
This is from our trip to Colombia last November, where we were able to upgrade with miles and fly round-trip in first class. With about 20 hours on my hands, I went to work on the menu (the food and drink, BT Dubs, was fantastic).
This is from our trip to Colombia last November, where we were able to upgrade with miles and fly round-trip in first class. With about 20 hours on my hands, I went to work on the menu (the food and drink, BT Dubs, was fantastic).
click images to enlarge
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Run, Rudolph, Run: a reindeer watches a German bomb strike over Russia
A confused reindeer watches German planes bombing Mourmansk, Russia in 1941. Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldey.
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Poem: September 13, 1985
By Jack Brummet
It was quiet as a painting
in Berkeley,
driving at three a.m.
on Telegraph Avenue
toward Oakland,
to the delivery room.
I saw a new moon
hung on our old sky.
We watched the monitor
and waited.
Her robber-stockinged face
came down and one bleat
to the rafters
started us all breathing again.
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It was quiet as a painting
in Berkeley,
driving at three a.m.
on Telegraph Avenue
toward Oakland,
to the delivery room.
I saw a new moon
hung on our old sky.
We watched the monitor
and waited.
Her robber-stockinged face
came down and one bleat
to the rafters
started us all breathing again.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Poem: [don't look back]
By Jack Brummet
Don't
look back
Means no regrets
Look back on the good times
But leave the rest
Just ask Lot's wife
And the other pillars of salt
Standing outside Gomorrah
Like Easter Island statues
Means no regrets
Look back on the good times
But leave the rest
Just ask Lot's wife
And the other pillars of salt
Standing outside Gomorrah
Like Easter Island statues
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President William Howard Taft's sleeping porch on the White House roof
By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.
William Howard Taft was 27th President (1909–13) and later, tenth Chief Justice of SCOTUS. No one else has ever held both offices. This is his sleeping porch on the White House roof.
William Howard Taft was 27th President (1909–13) and later, tenth Chief Justice of SCOTUS. No one else has ever held both offices. This is his sleeping porch on the White House roof.
photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
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