Dwight Thompson in the Rolling Stone's video "Waiting for a friend"

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.

Screen caps from my friend Dwight Thompson's appearance in the Rolling Stone video "Waiting On A Friend" (he's the one wearing the headband).  It was shot on a stoop in the East Village, where we worked and hung out, and where Dwight lived. . .

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Has anyone considered just having ‪#‎JonStewart‬ and ‪#‎BrianWilliams‬ do a job swap?

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Kurt Vonnegut's graphs of the world's most popular stories

By Jack Brummet, American Lit Ed.

Kurt Vonnegut once said: “The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper, and that the shape of a given society’s stories is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads,” This is similar to The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index  Click here to read a fascinating article on Vonnegut's story graphs.

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Drawing: Faces No. 1002

By Jack Brummet

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Photograph: A Georgetown local at the bar

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Neighborhoods Ed.

A longtime local resident KeeKee and I met in a bar in Georgetown, Seattle.

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Drawing: Faces #1001 - iPad finger drawings

By Jack Brummet

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Blue frog sculptures at the North Seattle Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility

By Jack Brummet

[Photographed February 8, 2015 - click to enlarge]

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Brian Williams photo roundup: visual commentary on the downfall of NBC's Brian Williams

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A salute to the Luddites

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Brian Williams, Pants on Fire

Photo by http://imgur.com/user/Dmax71:

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Mr. Rogers and Mr. (Dalai) Lama

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This week marks both the birth and death of Neal Cassady

By Jack Brummet, Counterculture Ed.

It is the anniversary of Neal Cassady's birth and death this week.  Most articles talk about him being the basis for Dean Moriarty is Kerouac's On The Road. That's true. But Neal Cassady's writing style strongly influenced Kerouac and even caused him to abandon his Thomas Wolfe-style expansive prose for his more rollicking and open ended style of writing. Check out Neal's wonderful, sad, and insane autobiography The First Third (which includes a selection of the letters that caused Kerouac to adopt his "spontaneous prosody"). 

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