Would you tell Picasso to sell one of his guitars?

 I

Just

Can't.

Margaux Billard - French Girl Classic

 Is there anything more beautiful and intriguing than a French girl?

The French model/actress Margaux is famously in John Newman's video for Love Me Again.

She is transcendent.

Google it and see if you do not agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfihYWRWRTQ

The Hit Squad: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Dua Lipa on the THR Songwriter Roundtable

 So - our young geniuses of songwriting and composition sit around a table without their magical team of producers and actual people who can read music.

What a missed opportunity.

Send each of them away for an hour in a locked room and say "write a song".

If they are actual songwriters then it should be "no problem".

How do I know that they would all epically fail?

More dual-citizens Canadians "stuck" in Gaza

 So why are these "Canadians" living in  Gaza?

Why do we let these human detritus into Canada to continue their petty internecine wars?

I look around my university and see so very many students whose countries hate Canada and democracy. 

Why are they attending Canadian Universities?

Canada Residential Schools Excavate their Magical Anomalies: Guess What They found Nothing.

 So we have been hearing for years now about the "anomalies". Finally the excavations have started - so far they are revealing. They are indeed prefect - not a single "anomaly led to a body.

Guess our first canadians have been making stuff up. Just like they have been for a hundred years or so now.

"Chief Derek Nepinak said he is aware the results will feed into a denialist narrative but urged people to continue supporting the search for truth"

Western investigating women’s hockey program amid complaints against coaches

 Proving yet again why female athletes can't have nice things.

He hurt my feelings - she yelled at me - yes I am fat but I don't want ppl telling me I am fat.

Collegiate sports is an unforgiving environment - you want to play then you should be prepared to pay.

You want your daily affirmation - go take a womyn's study course where everyone gets an A+.

Po Yuk 'Peggy' Chan took out 2nd mortgages on victims' homes

 Diversity is our strength! lulz

Seriously - how long until Western first-world countries recognize that 3rd world immigrants see us as fresh pickings.

It can take millennia to build a culture of trust and just a few years to destroy a culture of trust.

Hey morons - it is Stay Gold - not Stay Golden

It is:

 “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”

― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

New World Rankings in Understanding Object Permanence

 

178th Monkeys

177th Dogs

180th USA High School students

181th Magpies

182th Goldfish

Those that know - know

“I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore”

 Have more poignant words ever been spoken? Not quite Shakespeare but at least making the effort.

Maybe—“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Horatius - Captain of the Gate - dies well - how many of us can say something similar?

 ''Then out spake brave Horatius, the captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his Gods?''

Isabelle Thomas - another native death that is linked to the broken Aboriginal Culture of Drugs, Crime, and the Sex Trade

 When will the native Canadians quit looking to government hand-outs and extortion and finally accept their culture is fundamentally broken?

The genocide of Native Women is primarily the fault of Native men and the a Native culture that is cancer,

Sinead O’Connor - seriously - who else channels Homer in their debut album?

 What an extraordinarily beautiful, unique voice of artistic creativity.

What a fundamentally flawed, troubled, and wounded human being. That the two can co-exist is perhaps an important lesson for 2023. I just listened to Troy from her debut album and her debut single. What other "pop" singer is going to reflect on modern feminism and modern life via Homer's Iliad. I am trying to imagine if Taylor or Harry has ever read the Odyssey. RIP Sinead - I will always listen to your art and reflect on how you lived your life.

Another Shooting in Greektown and Olivia Chow rushes in to Explain this is not TO

 Can't wait for the new mayor to weight in with bromides about how this does nor define TO when the whole world knows that in 2023 it actually does define TO.

Would - In Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth would have married Darcy without his wealth?

 The most common interpretation is that she would not have married him if he were poor. But the idea that "true love" would have triumphed is not far behind.

My fav interpretation arrives via Rachel Brownstein—who argues that Austen's ironical way of depicting Elizabeth suggests she is simultaneously  a proto-feminist and a fairy-tale crown-chasing heroine and leaves it to the reader to sort out in their our mind.

Basic Greek Dressing using Onion and Garlic Powders

 olive oil- Use extra virgin olive oil

red wine vinegar

onion powder

oregano

Dijon mustard

parsley

garlic powder

salt

Turtles All the Way Down and Quine on Truth by Convention

 At the end of a public astronomy lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist replied "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young sir, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!" 

How can someone be Trans and Non-Binary?

 Ok - so let's unpack:

Trans: [adjective] denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with the sex registered for them at birth; transgender.

Non-Binary: relating to or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that is neither entirely male nor entirely female.

So how can you be trans and non-binary?

The national sports network of Canada produced a special recently: TSN Original: Authentically Quinn about the "mononym" Quin who was a girl and has now decided "they" are non-binary while also claiming to be trans all while playing on a women's soccer team.

Seriously - how can one possible cobble together a basic sentential argument for those three disparate elements? Be trans - play with the guys - be non-binary play with whoever you choose.

Would you ask Picasso to sell one of his guitars?

 I mean seriously....

Read "A Life of Picasso" - all the volumes.... yeah - all four - there are four now.

Picasso is a name that has come to mean greatness—only Einstein rivals it as shorthand for genius.

And yet we are troubled by his "magical" misogyny.

I visited his museum in Arles and ended up spending the day - I could feel the energy - we need more Picassos.

Is Josh Axe a Doctor - googled by so many

 No - he is not he is a back cracker who decided that his rudimentary understanding of human anatomy some-how qualified him to make pronouncements about nutrition.

How did we evolve from humoring these pseudo-doctors who claim to cure cancer via a back alignment to I am a "doctor" - so I can extend your life - minor detail - I have not a shred of empirical evidence to support my wild claims - but hey - buy my book - buy my supplements and all is good.

I always like Canada's approach: you claim to be an "Engineer" - you had better have an engineering degree and you had better be registered as a Professional Engineer with an actual licensing body.

War of Worlds Season 1 Episode 6 An Eye for an Eye - Let's Go Shopping for Party Favors

 So- I am desperately trying to remained engaged with this POS series.

We have arrived at the point where 99% of the world has been killed - there are killer dog-robots everywhere.... and two middle-aged moms decide it is time to go off shopping for party favors so one of the kiddos can have a 'proper' birthday party.

'This is the Way the World Ends: Not with a Bang but a Whimper' 'This is the way the world ends', T. S. Eliot tells us at the end of his 1925 poem, 'The Hollow Men': 'not with a bang but a whimper. ' 

Alas - I fear it ends with moronic white moms in athleisurewear making horrible life-decisions.

I was sufficiently disgruntled that I totally overlooked Daisy's totally irrational slut-turn in the middle of the world ending.