Flames burn near power lines in Sycamore Canyon near West Mountain Drive in Montecito, Calif. Utilities may bill customers for future legal damages and for settlements from the deadly 2017 wildfires that caused a record more than $10 billion in insured losses, even if the utilities' mismanagement caused the blazes. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP, File)
A Month’s-End Associated Press (AP) Photographic Celebration Of: FLAMES
It’s the end of the month as we know it, which means our 30-image allotment of Associated Press photos is about to expire along with the rest of this miserable year. If we don’t use up our images, they don’t roll over to the next month, and that’s a waste of good Associated Press imagery, so right here right now we’re gonna burn up the balance of this month’s subscription! In honor of the year that kept going up in flames and is now going down in flames, our search theme is FLAMES. Aieee!
The French certainly do seem to favor the construction of barricades in the service of protest, and here, consumed by FLAMES, is a barricade courtesy of the French “Yellow Vest” protesters. We figure many of these AP photo captions are written by photographers, so we’re not going to give them a hard time about their prose, especially if it might be translated into English, and more especially if the caption writer was in the vicinity of tear gas, “flashballs,” and water cannons.
A barricade in flames. Act VI dubbed ‘Revolt’ of the Yellow Vest movement begun peacefully but the protest turned rapidly to riots for hours. Gendarmerie Mobile and riot police launched volleys of tear gas canisters, fired dozens rounds of flashballs and used two police water cannons. The Yellow Jackets movement begun on November 17th by a protest against the rise of taxes on oil products. The rise of taxes was the detonator of their wrath against French President Macron and his governement and their demand of his resignation.Toulouse. France. December 22th 2018. (Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Here is an alternate image of the infamous Graf Zeppelin Hindenburg‘s lethal immolation, jarringly dissimilar from the more widely-circulated photo, which is indelibly imprinted on our consciousness as an image of horror, disaster, and failure.
DEU USA HINDENBURG JAHRESTAG ** FILE ** The German dirigible Hindenburg crashes to earth, tail first, in flaming ruins after exploding on May 6, 1937, at the U.S. Naval Station in Lakehurst, USA. Sunday, May 6, 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the disaster. (AP Photo/Murray Becker) ** B/W ONLY **
Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. The first word that something had gone terribly wrong with the Concorde came from the control tower which told the crew that they were trailing flames, according to a preliminary report made public Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000 by French investigators probing the crash. A Japanese businessman took this photo from inside another plane while he was on a business trip and offered it to a Japanese newspaper after returning home early August. (AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato) JAPAN OUT
Some folks say “don’t tweet.” Here at Hmm Daily, we also say “don’t go to Air Shows.”
A burning plane hits the ground after three Italian jets collided at an air show in Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Aug. 28, 1988. One jet exploded in flames and plowed into the large crowd, killing 70 and injuring more than 400 people. (AP Photo)
Our final aviation-related FLAME is this non-lethal incident involving a French daredevil who decided it would be daring to land on top of France’s gift to the People of the United States. It’s fair to speculate that he probably wouldn’t have tried this a few weeks later.
A parachute hangs from the torch of the Statue of Liberty Aug. 23, 2001, as a rescue helicopter hovers over the New York landmark. Using a motor-driven parachute to glide above New York Harbor, Frenchman Thierry Devaux was arrested when he became snagged on the statue’s upraised torch and had to be rescued by police. (AP Photo/Chad Rachman)
In a pose similar enough to the above image of Lady Liberty that we’re happy to use it as a flimsy connective device, here’s a shot of Warren Buffett, billionaire.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, throws a ball as part of the traditional activities taking place during the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting Saturday, April 28, 2001, at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb. Buffett warned Saturday that people are expecting too much return from their investments, and that investment consultants are fanning the flames. (AP Photo/NatiHarnik)
Because they are oddly similar, we’re pairing these images entitled JIFFY LUBE 300 and PIPE BOMB EXERCISE, and we’re also announcing that we are starting a Hardcore band called PIPE BOMB EXERCISE.
LEFT: Flames leap and car parts fly as a pipe bomb is detonated inside it Tuesday, May 6, 1997, in Rosemount, Minn., where bomb technicians and investigators from Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, the ATF and other agencies took part in a training exercise which involved conducting a post-blast investigation of the explosion. The bomb was placed under the driver’s seat. (AP Photo/Jim Mone). RIGHT: Micheal Laughlin, driver of car (45), explodes in flames after his auto hits turn 4 during a qualifing race for the Jiffy Lube Miami 300 Saturday, Nov. 2, 1996, 1996, in Homestead, Fla. Lauughlin sustained third-degree burns on his hands and first and second degree burns around his neck. (AP Photo/Ron Anzivino)
There were lots of fires in California in 2018, but there were also lots of fires in California in 2017, and this gives us an excuse to run a photo of Charles Schultz, creator of the beloved comic “Peanuts.”
FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2000, file photo, cartoonist Charles Schulz displays a sketch of his beloved character “Snoopy” in his office in Santa Rosa, Calif. The home of “Peanuts” creator Schulz burned to the ground in the deadly California wildfires but his widow escaped, her stepson said Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Jean Schulz, 78, evacuated before flames engulfed her hillside home Monday and is staying with a daughter, Monte Schulz said. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
The below image of hockey’s Craig Berube is AP-captioned to contain 3,515 penalty minutes, Flames (Calgary), blood, and melting ice!
FILE – In this Jan. 16, 1992, file photo, Calgary Flames’ Craig Berube readies to throw a punch at New York Rangers’ Tie Domi during during first period action at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Berube accumulated 3,149 penalty minutes, seventh all time, as an NHL player from 1986-2004. Domi accumulated 3,515 penalty minutes in his playing career from 1989-2006, third all time. The fights that were as much a part of the blood-smeared fabric of the game and had hardcore fans whipped into a frenzy all around North America with bouts more worthy of the squared circle are melting from the ice. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)
Back to real flames! This time belching from a German chemical company hellscape.
A flame emits from a chimney at the BASF chemical company in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
We’ve held off on the FLAMES of War, but here we go:
A Taliban gunner fires his 122mm artillery piece with a roar of noise and flames from his position some 15 kms (9.3 miles) north of Kabul, Wednesday, October 30, 1996. He was firing at the forces of General Masoud and General Dostum who were attempting an advance on Taliban positions some 15 kms further north. (AP Photo/Santiago Lyon)
Russia was tangled up in a pointless war in Afghanistan for almost 10 years. A lot of us here in the United States still can’t believe we beat their record, 17 years and counting.
Flames rise from a government building after an explosion and attack by gunmen, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The United States used to be good at war, right?
Flames erupt from targets during joint live fire exercises by the United States and Kuwaiti militaries at Udari, Kuwait, 20 miles from the Iraqi border Sunday Feb. 25, 2001. The exercises were held on the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, with former President George Bush and General Norman Schwarzkopf in attendance. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
The only FLAMES we want to see in 2019 are Feet of Flames, such as those possessed by the self-described Lord of the Dance, Michael Flatley!
Michael Flatley announced his return to the world stage today in spectacular style with a sensational media launch. Rising from the depths of a flamming lake at the foot of the picturesque Castle Satzvey near Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, September 21, 1999. “Feet of Flames 2000 World Tour” will be the dance extravaganza for the new millennium bringing together some 50 dancers for the first time since his ground breaking one-off “Feet of Flames” performance in London. Flatley will perform before one million fans in five countries during the first 100 shows of the European leg of the world tour beginning in Spring 2000. (AP Photo/Roland Weihrauch)
FLAMES in the service of Entertainment are the good kind of flames. We’re just getting over our Holiday Music Hangover, and the bazillionth involuntary listening to “Santa Baby” as performed by Eartha Kitt, and we forgive her, and we’re sorry we missed her performance as the Wicked Witch back in 1998.
Actress Eartha Kitt, portraying the Wicked Witch of the West, uses her flaming broom in an attempt to set fire to the Scarecrow during her opening performance in “The Wizard of Oz,” Friday, May 1, 1998, at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Actor Mickey Rooney plays the title role in the play, which is scheduled to run a month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Here are tens if not hundreds of fans of the late musical entertainer Elvis Presley, who, 33 years ago, would have been 50. That means he would have been in his eighties round about now. Let’s ponder the idea of Elvis Presley as an octogenarian and light a fart on the flame of our memorial wick.
Elvis Presley fans hold lighted candles late Thursday night, August 16, 1985, during a candlelight memorial service at Graceland, Presley’s Memphis home, to commemorate the eighth anniversary of Presley’s death. Presley would have been 50 years old this year. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Clowns are also entertainers! Here is a once-ubiquitous Ronald McDonald character in a photo entitled RONALD MCDONALD IDENTITY CRISIS, which will be the first album from our band PIPE BOMB EXERCISE.
FILE – In this file photo taken April 6, 1988, Ronald McDonald watches as about 20,000 balloons head skyward at the opening of the 10,000th McDonalds restaurant worldwide, in Dale City, Va. Some branding experts think the McDonalds Corp. clowns floppy red shoes and flaming-red hair are too hackneyed for iPod-savvy kids. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, file)
“Some branding experts think the McDonald’s Corp. clowns’ floppy red shoes and flaming-red hair are too hackneyed for iPod-savvy kids,” to which we say, see you in Las Vegas in 2019!
Scott Thompson, 29, performs as Carrot Top during his prop-based comedy routine Thursday, Oct. 30, 1997 in Clearwater, Fla. His mop of flaming red hair is the signature of the Cocoa Beach, Fla., comedian on the rise. Thompson chose the stage name Carrot Top because “that is the only thing people used to call me that you can say on TV.” (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)
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