Here we go, starting with Toronto painter Amanda PL who says “phooey” more or less to the new prohibition on painting like someone else. It’s a recent invention called cultural appropriation. Amanda says she guesses a few people might have been influenced by Picasso. Do you think? Below that, charcoal-flavoured ice cream is now available at a place called Little Damage in San Francisco. Nuff said. To the right, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being seared in this composite for going to riot-torn downtown Hamburg to address a left-wing rally hours after an NYPD policewoman was assassinated by a bullet through the window of her vehicle. Lower left, Ivanka Trump briefly got to sit in for her father at the G20 meeting in Hamburg and seems to have enthralled seat-mate Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. To the right of that, a rather beat-up looking “hybrid” car with a Fiat badge seen on a Dupont St car lot. And finally, Ya Hoo from the Calgary Stampede, 105 years old this week.
