Thursday, December 04, 2014

Beginning a Faces drawing

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: The islands from eight miles high

By Jack Brummet



Beneath a chiseled frieze of cerulean blue
Islands recede into the water
To settle on the sea floor

Like an archipelago of Atlantises.
Islands come and go,
Bobbing up and bobbing down

Like lost corks
Drifting seven seas,
Treading continents,

Threading between islands and straits.
They crest the waves
Beneath gathering clouds

As flocks of birds
Circumnavigate the globe,
Shuttling from landfall to landfall.
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#YouCouldOrderAFewMore: Air Force shares one wrench to attach nuclear warheads between three missile bases (they Fed Ex it back and forth!)

From The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2014:

"Pentagon studies of America’s nuclear missile infrastructure released in November included the revelation that nuclear warheads had to be attached with a particular wrench, even though the Air Force only owned one with which to service 450 missiles housed at three bases. Consequently, one official told the New York Times, 'They started FedExing the one tool' back and forth."

No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made,” typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”

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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Poem: The Grey Ambassador

By Jack Brummet



Flybys, crop circles, and other maneuvers
Were executed
To demonstrate their capability.

After the flybys, came landings, and contact.
The visitors
Did not appear hostile.

Some say we were softened up
By E.T., Klaatu, and ALF
And thought this was a mission of mercy.

If they figured out how to get here,
And have come to make war,
We can't stop them.

If they "come in peace"
To teach what they learned
The Hard Way,
Let’s get started.
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Drawing: Faces #960 (scratchboard/reversed scratchboard) - weightless training

By Jack Brummet


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Monday, December 01, 2014

Congressperson Michelle Bachmann covers Macklemore's "Thrift Shop"

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

Michelle Bachmann, the soon to be retiring U.S. Representative, posted a video today in which she quotes/covers Macklemore's Thrift Shop.  I'm going to miss The Representative.

 
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Drawing: Faces #958 - Rhonda

By Jack Brummet


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Poem: [you can’t see earth]

By Jack Brummet


 
You can't see earth
From the dark side of the moon
But maybe that changes

With the accelerating deceleration
Of the moon and earth.
A waning Gibbous moon

Dangles 1.3 light seconds away,
The Sea of Tranquility
A menacing sinkhole.

2
The moon
And the fog
Are in cahoots

And the fog slithers in,
Wraps itself around houses,
Trees, shrubs, and churches,

And threads its way
Along the ground,
Like a horror movie fog.

I wonder if the fog and moon
Really trigger
Mayhem, madness, and murder?

3
Do our brains have tides?
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