drawing: faces 1657-1671 — 14 rocks

by Jack Brummet

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RIP, prune tree

By Jack Brummet

Our huge Italian prune tree partly came down in the first wave of the storm Thursday night (it had some serious internal rot). The tree bros came today to take it down before it hit our garage or the neighbor's shop. It took out a gutter on the garage, but missed everything else (including the hot tub by about two feet). The wood is amazing--I'll save a couple of big chunks for maybe lathing some bowls in the future.

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Narcissism explained

A quick video on a personality disorder that has been in the news for the last year.

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A study in contrast: Miles Davis with Kenny G, and with Carlos Santana

click to enlarge

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Welcome to Idaho

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The Boxtops fronted by Alex Chilton perform The Letter

The late great Alex Chilton (Big Star!) sang this song and hit the top of the charts when he was 16.

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Congratulations to Bob Dylan on his Nobel Prize (and thanks to the academy for being brave)

by Jack Brummet

Bob Dylan's team polices YouTube pretty well. There are few album cuts if any (there are thousands of covers, including Miley Cyrus covering "You're going to make me lonesome"--which she surprisingly does well). This clip is from D.A. Pennebaker's documentary "Don't look back."

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drawing: faces 1657 — the swing state strike team

By Jack Brummet

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Reince Priebus reacts to Trump's tape ("Downfall" mashup)

From the YouTube contributor Cranapple.

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The french fry heist

From WUSA9:  "A woman was arrested on September 7th at the Italian Pizza Kitchen restaurant in Washington, D.C. She was chatting up a police officer she did not know, then playfully took a french fry from his plate. He asked her to stop, but she took another, and when the exasperated officer issued an ultimatum, she took yet another. The arrest report for second-degree theft, cited by WUSA-TV, included 'property stolen' as 'three French fried potato[es].'"

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Trump’s claim that debate moderators gave him less time to speak are bogus.

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Trump v Clinton II: A strange and ultimately depressing debate

by Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Donald's at times bizarre sniffing? Is this a tic? Is "I'm not as bad as ISIS" a good defense for Access Hollywood?

Note: Donald—quit running against Bill. Further, now that you tossed your running mate under the bus, do you have plans to drag him back out, or just let him hang onto the bumper for a few miles?

Hillary invoking Lanky Link's 13th amendment fight seemed muy estrano. I didn't get what she was driving at, except maybe buying time (e.g., running out the clock?). My propositional logic skills are rusty; maybe I'll diagram this up.  I suspect Hillary was a bit rattled by the bizarre press conference Trump held just prior to the debate.  

On the whole, this debate made me sad on a number of levels. Sad for us

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