Monday, November 17, 2014

All This Is That Turns 10 Years Old Today

By Jack Brummet, Mona Goldwater, and Pablo Fanque, Eds.



We've published 7085 posts since starting in 2004, and have published every single day for the last ten years, mostly from Seattle, but also from India, China, Russia, Mexico, England, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Korea, Idaho, Montana, New York City, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Oregon, Arizona, and Wyoming.

All This Is That is often syndicated , purloined, linked to, and referenced by other blogs and websites, and our articles and art have been reprinted in books and magazines about The Web, alien lore, folk lore and folk ways, poetry, and politics.  We've even published a few recipes by Jack.

All This Is That began ten years ago with a poem by Jack Brummet posted the morning of November 16, 2004:

Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer 
Drink from the Skookumchuck River


by Jack Brummet

A rainbow loops over
the alder cathedral.
Dark clouds are sinking.

The Lamplighter
loans them a patch of land
and a heartbeat.
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The one rule of ownership

"You don't really own anything you can't carry on your back at a dead run." — Daniel Keys Moran

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Drawing: Faces #953 - pigpile

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Five Poems: The Golden Rule; The Glass Is Not Half-Full; It's Getting Crowded; Limits; Surviving

By Jack Brummet 


The Golden Rule

Listen to the songbirds
Trill
But keep an eye 
On the buzzard section. 



The glass is not half-full

I saw our dreams
Disappear 
Like a white pony 
Over 
A low grassy hill. 




It's Getting Crowded

We cover the earth
With Venn Diagrams
As our steps
Bisect old steps. 



Limits

We like to believe
We could endure anything for five minutes 

But that theory, cooked up 
In your hermetic study or bedroom, 

Comes apart at the seams 
When you imagine being on fire 

Or having crows feast 
Upon your eyes. 



Surviving

Salvation lies
In remaining unblinded 

To the treachery 
Massing around you:

The enemy without,
Calculating your fall 

And the traitor within,
Beating in your chest.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Science!: A feather and a bowling ball fall in a vacuum

By Jack Brummet, Amateur Physics Ed.


I remember from physics class that all objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum.  But I'd never seen it.  The money shot starts at 2:50 on this YouTube video. . .

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