Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Adolph Hitler's Skull

By Jack Brummet, History Ed.

This image is an X-ray of Adolph Hitler's head, presumably shot sometime after April 30th, 1945, when the allies located his body following his suicide. The dark areas around the mouth show his crowns and fillings. . .

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Other recent ATIT articles on Adolph Hitler:


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Drawing: Faces No. 253

By Jack Brummet

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Poem: Dream of goodness

By Jack Brummet



We edge toward goodness;
The time of mindless division
Draws to an end.

We shuffle toward the day
We throw the rifles down
And Moslem, Christian, Jew, atheist,

Infidel, Catholic and Baptist
Stand together,
Shuck the bonds of money, oil,

Lust, ambition, and madness,
And give each other bear hugs
As we watch the leaders

Who trundled off
Onto a boat that takes them away
To that cold island far across the sea.
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Drawing: Faces No. 525 - the interview team

By Jack Brummet

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Monday, July 29, 2013

ATTI Reheated (from 2004): Disclaimers

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor



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Faces No. 524: Scratchboard faces

by Jack Brummet

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Poem: Mission Statement

By Jack Brummet



The fire from above
Shines down upon us
And everyone standing

In the light has a mission
To carry
Their brothers and sisters.

It's up to us
To administer
The benevolent will of heaven.

The light shines
Without prejudice
Upon everything on earth,

On the evil and the righteous.
We're all just customers
Of the sun

With a mission
To leave a little good
In our wake.

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Steampunk novel cover? — Bristol Boxkite airplane flies over Stonehenge

By Jack Brummet, Old Ways Ed.

A Bristol Boxkite airplane over Stonehenge, circa 1910.  This seems like it needs to be on the cover of a steampunk novel.

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Don't mess with a Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti/Abominable Snowman in Washington State

By Jack Brummet, Unexplained Phenomena Ed.
illustration  by Jack Brummet



In my home state, Washington, it is illegal to mess with a Sasquatch.  They're protected. As an interesting sidebar, the state only made sex with horses illegal after the notorious Enumclaw Horse Sex Incident (detailed in ATIT in eight posts, in excruciating detail). 




Undiscovered Species Protection Act

Whereas, there is evidence to indicate the possible existence of an undiscovered species a primate mammal variously described as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, an ape-like creature or a subspecies of Homo Sapiens.

Whereas, reported recent and past sightings, research by anthropologist, Primatologist, biologist, forensic experts, cryptozooligst, independent organizations, private individuals and the famous chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall support this possibility.

Whereas, the absence of specific laws covering the slaying, taking, trapping or harassing of said specimens encourages laxity in the use of firearms and other deadly devices and poses a clear and present threat to the safety and well-being of persons living or traveling within the boundaries of the creatures habitat as well as to the creatures themselves.

Whereas, for the safety of all, the carrying or dispersing of firearms requires a sense of responsibility to all surrounding individuals and animals. It is the shooters full responsibility to correctly identify the species before the taking of aim and or the killing of a species, therefore ignorance will not absolve the shooter of said charges.

Whereas, be it resolved that any premeditated, willful and wanton slaying harassing or any malicious activities upon such creature shall be deemed a felony punishable by a fine not to exceed One hundred Thousand Dollars ($100.0000) and/or imprisonment, not to exceed ten (10) years.

Whereas, in the event of the slaying or capture of said creature any and all (moneys) proceeds and revenues shall be donated to a state college for future studies and or the protection of said creatures. The rights and physical possession to the said creature shall also be immediately donated to a state college, for further studies.
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Poem: Escape

By Jack Brummet




1
Take the worst that could happen.
Add two zeros.

2
High fidelity clouds gather over
The tattered stage flats of a world on fire.

3
There is no one to clear our lift off.
We sort our way between the flak and shrapnel.

4
The ground rolls away behind us.
You and me.
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Two macho men bro-ing it up (Steve McQueen and John Wayne)


Tilda Swinton with rainbow flag in front of St. Basil's

By Pablo Fanque, Russian Ed.

In early July, Tilda Swinton took this photo in front of St. Basil's in Moscow. Don't know if that police car happened to be there or if they were tracking her.

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly, a photo booth, Waylon's accidental good luck, and the day the music died


Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly (and someone else's finger) in a Times Square photo booth.  A few months later on a tour, Waylon gave up his seat on Holly's plane to The Big Bopper, who had the flu.  The plane crashed six miles from the airport, on what some call "the day the music died."  And the plane was not named American Pie, contrary to the legend; it actually had no name. 



According to Waylon, on a VH-1 Behind the Music special, "The Day the Music Died," he and Holly good-naturedly kidded each other about Jennings' decision. Holly told Jennings, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" and Jennings replied, "Yeah? Well I hope your ol' plane crashes!" For years Waylon would not talk about his time with Holly because it was too painful.

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Drawings: A stack of faces

By Jack Brummet

[Sharpie, pen, ink, and pencil on scratchboard, metal signs, and wooden crates]

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Alien Lore No. 253 — UFO Chased By Jets and Men In Black in an Ohio Park

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.


On July 14, 2013 The Jeffersonian published a story detailing a UFO, aircraft buzzing the area tracking the UFO, and Men in Back packing serious heat and issuing threats.

The anonymous witness is a fisherman who lives close to Salt Fork Lake.  He fell asleep on his boat and was awakened by lights in the sky. On the horizon above a tree line, he saw four sets of orange light clusters. "They looked like Chinese lanterns. Three took off and one fell back into the tree line. A short time later, jet fighters arrived and circled the area."

Later, he drove in the direction of the spot where he had seen the lights. He got out of his vehicle with a camera. An unmarked car pulled up and two men got out and told him to leave.  "They were big guys wearing guns" he said. "I wasn't going to argue with them."


He thought they might be FBI or other federal officials. An FBI spokesperson in Cincinnati said there has been no FBI activity in this area. A dispatcher with the Guernsey County Sheriff's Office had no information and officials at Salt Fork State Park said they had had no contact with the FBI.


The anonymous witness said he had also seen the lights on July 5th. He was with his girlfriend when they observed a similar clustering of lights. Similar UFO sightings were reported in Columbus the next day.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Poem: The Quest

By Jack Brummet


It’s all one story—
A ragged shape-shifting tale
Of incredible coherence and constance,
Encompassing all you know,
All you don’t know you know,
And all you one day will know.


There is more
To be seen, tasted, heard, and felt
Than can ever be known or told.


Our myths flourish and spread,
Person to person,
And the mysteries of the seas and skies and stars
Fill our collective conscience
With mystical scenes,
Quests, and tales of greatness.


These myths, tales, and fables
Cannot be invented, ordered, or denied.


When you strip away the stage flats, makeup, and costumes,
It’s all one story
Starring our private heroes and dreams.
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Hitler's face appears in a pizza box (shades of the Shroud of Turin and Jesus tortillas)

By Mona Goldwater, Germany Ed.

Thanks to reader Jeff Clinton for this one!  No word if it is out on eBay yet.  And, yeah, we also strongly wonder whether or not this was crafted.  /Mona

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Monday, July 22, 2013

The Rapture, revisited

By Mona Goldwater, Religion Ed.
[art by Jack Brummet]

A little over two years ago Jack Brummet created a series of analog/digital art pieces based on the upcoming rapture.  The day came and went, and we're mostly all still here.







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The stages of a failed project





  • Uncritical Acceptance
  • Wild Enthusiasm
  • Dejected Disillusionment
  • Total Confusion
  • Search for the Guilty
  • Punishment of the Innocent
  • Promotion of the Non-participants

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Sunday ride

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Cooking with Jack, Part 5 - Limoncello (lemon zest liqueur)

By Jack Brummet



Limoncello (lemon zest liqueur)

15 lemons (organic if possible/affordable), well scrubbed
2 750ml 100 proof vodka
4 cups cane sugar
5 cups water


1. Carefully zest the lemons, leaving no/very little white pith on the peel.  Pour one bottle of vodka in a large jar or ceramic container and add the peel as it is zested.  Freeze the juice or use it in something!
 
2.  Let sit for at least ten days and up to a month in a cool dark place.

3.  Combine the sugar and water and bring to a boil.  Cook about 5 minutes until the syrup thickens.  Allow to cool.

4.  Add to the limoncello mixture with the second bottle of vodka.  Allow to rest for another 30 days or more.

5.  Strain using a fine sieve or cheesecloth and bottle.  Keep one bottle handy in your freezer.  Serve it cold and straight, on the rocks, or in a cocktail with seltzer and bitters.  People also use it on ice cream and in other desserts.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

J.R.R. Tolkien watercolor of Rivendell

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It's inspiring that, despite all the garbage that has gone down, the Peace Corps survives

By Jack Brummet, Volunteer and Public Service Ed.


And then, there is the Peace Corps back in the day (when I was prime recruitment material). And they were putting out heart-tugging persuasive material like this late 1960's advertisement:


   "Of all the ways America can grow, one way is by learning from others.
   There are things you can learn in the Peace Corps you can't learn anywhere else.
   "You could start an irrigation program.  And find that crabgreass and front lawns look a little ridiculous.  When there isn't enough wheat to go around in Nepal. 
   "You could be the outsider who helps bring a Jamaican fishing village to life for the first time in three hundred years.  And you could wonder if your country has outsiders enough.  In Watts.  In Detroit.  In Appalachia.  On its Indian reservations.
   "Last year, for the first time Peace Corps alumni outnumbered volunteers who are now out at work overseas.
   "By 1980, 200,000 Peace Corps alumni will be living their lives in every part of America. 
   "There are those who think you can't change the world in the Peace Corps.
   "On the other hand, maybe it's not just what you do in the Peace Corps that counts.
   "But what you do when you get back."
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Painting: Study for "Lies"

By Jack Brummet

This is a study I did for a painting I was working on called "Lies."  Circa 1997...

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Why is milk so far from the door in grocery stores?

By Jack Brummet, Consumer Ed.


This is interesting -- we know grocery stores generally keep their whole foods around the perimeter of the store.  One of those foods--milk--is almost always placed the maximum amount of distance from the entrance...apparently so you won't stop in only to buy milk.  This is definitely true of the three stores I most shop at for sure--Ballard Market, Central Market, and the Holman Road QFC.  And I can think of other places where this is true too:  the Crown Hill Safeway, and even the 7/11.

From the Notre Dame website page on grocery store psychology:

"Grocery stores stock the items shoppers buy most often at the back of the store, forcing them to travel through other tempting aisles to pick up the essentials. Items such as meat, eggs, dairy and bread are strategically placed in the back of the store, making it hard for shoppers to resist grabbing other items when making a quick trip to the grocery."
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

ATIT Reheated: The time Jack got drunk with Roy Rogers

By Jack Brummet, Roots Ed.

[Ed's note:  From All This Is That August 3, 2005.   Perhaps the most  interesting part of this story is in the comments section, where a cousin I had never met somehow surfed up this post, and posted in the comments section:

Hi Jack
I was Gould's son. The only one that I know of. My name is Kevin Brummet. I believe we are about the same age. We look like we could be brothers.
I never met my father while I was growing up. But when I was 24 I remenbered my mother telling me that he lived in California.
So I set out one day to find him. It took 3 phone calls to the operator at the local Drunken Donuts to get his number.
I was quite surprised how easy it was to find him.
I went back to have a cup of coffee to collect my thoughts.
I guess it was was 10 AM in NY when I called him.
He was quite surprised to hear from me.
Asked me what I wanted and I really had no answer for that. I found out years later that he had been to a party the night before and I had woke him up.
I never tried to reach him again and moved to Florida.
One day I got a letter from the SS office to call them if I wanted him to contact me.
He called and I met him 1 week later in Orlando at a 50 year reunion for the army.
I remenber his ranch, the avacados and oranges.
We drove around in his jeep and had a great time together.
I quess this would make us cousins.
Would love to hear from you. You had a very interesting story.
Kevin]


In July 1971 I had just graduated from Kent Meridian High School. My Uncle Gould (1919-1988) and Aunt Henriette Brummet (the bride he brought home from Germany in WW II) invited me to their ranch in the desert between and east of Los Angeles and San Diego. They grew avocados. I had never been outside the northwest before. A 25-hour Greyhound ride deposited me in Oceanside. Road runners scurried in front of the jeep as we drove up to the house which was circled with orange trees. I spent my days swimming in their pool and driving their jeep, and hiking in the barren, rolling hills. I drove to the nearby observatory at Mt. Palomar [1] one day, where the students and scientists gave me the grand tour.

My Aunt and Uncle gave me a choice: we could go to Disneyland or visit Tijuana. I chose Tijuana, of course, and made the first of many trips to Mexico.

Gould had retired from the Army and was able to go to El Toro, and use the P.X. and officers club. We went there twice for dinner. My long hair was just as popular with the retired officers as it was with my Uncle.

The Vietnam war raged on under President Nixon. I had recently been trained as a draft counselor, and had applied to my draft board for consideration as a conscientious objector [2]. Needless to say, this did not sit well with my uncle. After jousting the first couple of nights, we finally reached a most tentative impasse; an armed truce.

Most days, my Uncle worked the ranch, and my Aunt worked at her beauty parlor in Bonsall. I was on my own. My Aunt's mother--Muti--was there and we spent our days swimming, puttering around the house, picking avocados and oranges, and drinking beer. We knew about five words of each other's language, but made it work. She called me the milch-brudder (because I liked milk) and I called her Bier-frau because every day at 5:00 she brought out the stoneware mugs and poured the first of several Lowenbraus as we sat in chairs and watched the sun slowly recede over the dusty orchards and the hills filled with coyotes, jackrabbits, and roadrunners racing around.

Out in the orchard (or whatever they call an avocado plantation) one day, Uncle Gould and I bumped into Roy Rogers, whose estate bordered my uncle's ranch. I was a little in awe, of course, I had grown up watching Roy, Dale, Trigger and Bullet Saturday mornings.

My Uncle was going into town for parts and Roy decided to join us. We jumped in a dusty station wagon and headed down the long trail that led to the road into town.

After making various stops in town, and waiting as Roy signed autographs for a family of tourists, we hit the package store where my Uncle purchased various potions, including a few bottles of Mateus [3], one of which we corked and passed back and forth on the ride home. Roy told us a story about a couple of movies he had starred in with Trigger.

I was not an experienced drinker. Yes, I got drunk with Roy Rogers, but to the best of my recollection, he remained sober as a judge. I was shocked when one of them lobbed the empty Mateus bottle out the window into an arroyo. I did not make a total ass of myself or demand to be taken to see Trigger at the Roy Rogers Museum (I would go there later in the week).

I know--you all expected me to tell you a story about how we got trashed and headed into a San Diego bordello. We didn't. All I really remember is that Roy was a sweet man who told some great stories. He was remarkably upbeat for a guy whose life was marred again and again by tragedy.

We saw Roy Rogers a couple more times while I was there, but nothing memorable happened. He was just a very nice, corny guy with a heart of gold. Look him up on the internet. Roy starred in dozens of horse operas (that is, low budget films) and had a long-running show on television. His excellent country recordings in the 30's and 40's with the Sons of the Pioneers became best sellers. You may have heard "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." The music is solid roots Americana (I have two of their albums on my iPod). Roy also recorded a wonderful LP about Pecos Bill, with song interludes by the Sons. I had a dub of that album and played it many times for my children Colum and Claire. I don't think I even told them Roy and I spent a little time together in the desert.

[1] Palomar was famous because the the (5.1 m) Hale Telescope (f/3.3)-- was the world's largest telescope for 45 years (1948-93).

[2] In the end, the Draft Board never gave me a hearing. I had already sent them a copy of The Bible and numerous other documents, as well as a long essay on why I didn't believe in making war. It's just as well my case never came up because it was always difficult for me to be 100% conscientious objector. It was The Nazis that poked holes in my philosophy. I could never truly reconcile my pacifism with the fact that shortly before I was born we had to stop The Nazis. To successfully press your case as a C.O., you needed to be against all war under any circumstance. I could never make that complete leap. In the end, my draft lottery number was 186, and I was off the hook unless President Nixon went bananas and escalated the war. By 1972 that was no longer an option for him, since he would spend the rest of his Presidency embroiled in the Watergate Cover-up.


[3] A Portuguese "rose." Portugal actually makes some great wines (their No. 1 customer is France), but Mateus is not one of them. It is probably not even good enough to call a gateway wine. But this was 1971.
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