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REPOST from May 6,2020

Court Painter Inspired a Main Character in a Steamy 2020 Romance Novel, Says Author: ‘I Fell in Love With Him Bigtime’

Steamy steamy…grab me some smellin salts!

Missy X Mayhem , author of the steamy 2020 novel  Wow Wow Bow Wow, revealed that the “sexy” artist her sizzling protagonist falls in love with is inspired by none other than Court Painter.

Missy X Mayhem  told The NewYorker magazine that she first met Court Painter while at an art function in the Bronx., where the two sat next to each other as dinner partners.

“I just fell in love with him,”Missy said. “Usually those dinners, you make polite conversation, and that’s it. But we had this intense conversation, personal conversation. I thought, ‘Wow wow bow wow this guy is amazing.’”

In the novel Wow Wow Bow Wow, Missy X Mayhem’s fictional celebrity artist Pentine Terp III discovered an art therapy for divorcees, which once again links back to Court Painter’s true accomplishments  as a preeminent portrait practitioner north of the 49th parallel.

Terp III is introduced into the novel as an artist painting the president, who secretly has mumps. This is how he meets divorcee Lady Shady, who was the president’s diarist and nurse.

Lady Shady immediately begins to lust after Pentine Terp III, but he is hesitant at first, because he is secretly married and a card shark, while she is neither. These obstacles ultimately fail to prevent a passionate love affair that unwinds, rewinds and spools throughout the novel.

Missy describes Terp III’s voice as “high, discordant, sexy, almost despondent,” while he recites art-based yet romantic lines such as, “You are like a paint stroke in my frontal lobe which oozes onto the canvas of our lives each day, one after the other one, like the last one.”

Court Painter apparently knew that he was the inspiration for Mayhem’s forbidden love story and was “not a bit embarrassed,” but mainly, “just thought it was a horny hoot.”

Work has started on auditions for a film adaptation.The following images are recently released stills from the auditions.

Cameos galore!

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer targeted the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) and the student financial aid program as offering incentives for people to stay home rather than return to work.

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is designed to provide temporary income support. The CERB provides $500 a week for up to 16 weeks.

Andrew Scheer’s salary of $259,000 as a Conservative MP and leader of the opposition has been uninterrupted by COVID- 19 while a great number of other Canadians are left facing perilous financial circumstances.

 Scheer was reported in 2017 to have ownership stakes in three real estate limited partnerships (RELPs) a tax-sheltering investment vehicle that is apparently only available to the rich. RELPs allow investors to write off up to 50 percent of their initial investment. To participate, he had to show $75,000 in personal annual income and a net worth of $400,000 or more.

“Now, as we turn to the healthy companies to help us revive the economy, it could be that the only ones with real immunity are the tech giants. In this way, Covid-19 has accelerated their rise and tightened their grip on our lives. And this consolidation of power, combined with Big Tech’s control of data, automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, media, advertising, retail and even autonomous tech, is daunting.”

Big Tech stocks, which were hit in the first weeks of the pandemic, are on an upward march to the top of the market-cap heap. Microsoft at $1.32 trillion. Apple at $1.26 trillion. Amazon at $1.14 trillion. Alphabet at $900 billion. Facebook at $577 billion.  This group now makes up just over 20 percent of the S.&P. 500, which is a flashing yellow signal of what is to come.

Excerpted from

The Immunity of the Tech Giants

By Kara Swisher May 1, 2020 New York Times

Four-in-five Canadians support complete ban on civilian possession of assault style weapons

The results of the latest public opinion survey from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute show an overwhelming majority – nearly four-in-five – support a complete prohibition on civilian possession of the types of weapons used in the Montreal Massacre in 1989, and most recently, the rampage of an assault weapon-carrying murderer who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last month.

Source: Angus Reid Institute: May 1 ,2020

UPDATED from March 8,2018 post

Saturday nite with the boys catching a bit of Saturday Night TV

Updated in November 11,2020 post.

Donny Sardonic says comments that disinfectants could treat coronavirus were sarcastic.

Speaking from the White House during his daily press briefing, the former real estate mogul and reality TV star floated the idea of injecting oneself with bleach or blasting the virus with ultraviolet light and heat as potential tactics for killing the virus that causes COVID -19.  He also raised the possibility of shining light inside the body to kill the virus.

More recently this jokester turned sore loser insists he won the November 3rd Presidential election .

Hilarious!

Kim has been on Court Painter’s mind for some reason….

With thanks to René Magritte