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Check out this write up of Marc Jacobs show, one of the last ones of the 2015 resort collection shown in New York City this week. The intensely military theme, down to reducing some of the prettiest women in the world to all looking (spectacularly) alike. If you’ve got free time, flip through the slideshow and see if you can spot Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid.
It’s a crazy combination of pink and militaristic, and an odd theme to choice for the second week in September.
Should Scotland Stay or Go? Yea or Nay?
In the blue (Pantone 300) Aye/Yea/Yes see you corner, is secessionista extraordinaire, Alex Salmond. He is the current First Minister of Scotland, a former member of the House Commons on behalf of a Scottish constituency, member of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and a former friend of the Westminster controlling Conservatives/Tories. Counted among his celebrity supporters are: Sean Connery (007), Gerard Butler (The 300) and various people from the Harry Potter movies including Robbie Cotrane and at least one X-Men , er X Man?, Alan Cumming aka Nightcrawler. Continue reading “Vox Populi Scotti”
If I’m not going to be able to do an hour of stand-up, do not revive.
Even all the plastic surgery in the world can not stop time. Joan Rivers, a revolutionary/pioneering comedienne and snarkmeister, died today at age 81. Complications from a medical procedure caused cardiac arrest and a coma from which she could not be revived.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Continue reading “Meryl Streep Crying in Five Different Accents”
Sometimes your sources don’t call you back, and you need to waste time. So a game is a good way to wait.
Demonym and Nations Game.
VOX recently published a map identifying the richest person and largest company in each European country. In The Netherlands and France, the richest person is a woman; Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken of Heineken breweries, the largest company and the world’s third largest brewery for the Dutch and for France, L’Oreal and daughter of its founder, Liliane Bettencourt. In Ireland, these honors go to Palloonji Mistry, chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji Group. Continue reading “Ay Caramba, I-Kiribati, Oy Vey”
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