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Vogue’s ‘Red Queen’ Throws Shade At Melania

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Vogue Fashion Writer, Lynn Yaeger, A.K.A. “The Red Queen”, unloaded this piece of snark on Melania Trump, “Melania Trump’s Hurricane Stilettos, and the White House’s Continual Failure to Understand Optics”.   Shall we compare and contrast Lynn’s “Fashion Sense” with Melania’s?

This morning, Mrs. Trump boarded Air Force Onewearing a pair of towering pointy-toed snakeskin heels better suited to a shopping afternoon on Madison Avenue or a girls’ luncheon at La Grenouille

Melania Trump(L.), her Vogue Fashion Critic, Lynn Yaeger (R.)

Segue to Houston….

Hmmm?? Air Force One Must have been supplied with ‘Venue Appropriate’ attire.

While the nation is riveted by images of thousands of Texans wading with their possessions, their pets, their kids, in chest-high water desperately seeking refuge; while a government official recommend that those who insist on sheltering in place write their names and social security numbers on their arms, Melania Trump is heading to visit them in footwear that is a challenge to walk in on dry land.

Now Let’s review some of Lynn “The Red Queen” Yaeger’s most ‘fashionable’ moments…

Je suis ‘Charlie Hebdo’, Weisels de Merde

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My guess, Charlie, is that no one within 2000 miles East or West of Houston would give a good fuck whether or not Abdullah and his Merry Band of Throat Slitters paid a return visit to your Offices.  Hard to believe, isn’t it, after that misplaced Kumbaya moment a couple of years ago.

From the Washington Post, “Charlie Hebdo cover suggests Hurricane Harvey victims are neo-Nazis“.

The newspaper’s latest issue takes aim at a new target: the victims of the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas on Friday, killing at least 35 people, displacing thousands and causing billions of dollars in damage.

The art on the Charlie Hebdo cover shows swastika flags and hands raised in what looks like Nazi salutes poking out above floodwaters. The text reads: “God exists! He drowned all the neo-Nazis of Texas.” The illustration is an apparent reference to Texans’ support of Donald Trump, who won 52.6 percent of the state’s vote in the presidential election.

Cricketeria, Too

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From FastCompany, “This Giant Automated Cricket Farm Is Designed To Make Bugs A Mainstream Source Of Protein“.  Eeewww!!!

Inside a new building in an industrial neighborhood near the airport in Austin, a robot is feeding millions of crickets, 24 hours a day. The facility–a 25,000-square-foot R&D center that opened this month for the startup Aspire–uses technology that the company plans to soon duplicate in a farm 10 times as large. It’s a scale that the startup thinks is necessary to begin to make cricket food mainstream in the United States.

 

Eating bugs–or at least products made from bugs–has been growing in popularity. For a few years, it’s been possible to buy cricket snacks such as protein bars made with cricket flour or cricket chips (like Chirps) at some grocery stores or online. But for insect food to fulfill its sustainable promise of supplying protein without the massive carbon and land footprint of beef, it will have to be much more widely available, and more affordable. Aspire believes its farms can make that possible.

Here’s the actual ‘Automated Cricket Factory’. And I thought all you needed to do to ‘farm’ crickets was drop some crumbs on the floor and turn off the lights.

‘Stop Action’ Genius or Poster Child for International OCD Foundation

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You judge, but do watch. His project is wonderful.

Phil Tippett has spent a lifetime in the film industry, working as a model-maker, visual effects supervisor, director and stop-motion animator.

He’s been involved with big-name productions such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop among others. But his real passion lies in handmade stop-motion animation. For over 30 years, Tippett has been working on an incredibly detailed film called “Mad God”. He describes it as being set “in a Milton-esque world of monsters, mad scientists and war pigs.” Amazingly, each character is painstakingly constructed by hand from foam, clay, latex and wire. Despite all the arduous toil, Tippett sees “Mad God” as a form of therapy and a way to reconnect with a time when special effects and animation were all done by hand.