Pet projects

 

I realize the debate is old news now and I missed most of the "they are eating pets" trends. But I couldn't resist getting in a few digs. Because just when you think things can't get more bizarre, Trump ramps it up a notch. Part of me wants to believe that deep inside he is just playing a big practical joke and still wants to see how far he can take it. 

It is sad to believe that anyone would take the notion of immigrants eating pets seriously. But then again we have Bobby Kennedy Jr. happily confessing that he has taken road kill home and cooked it up. And this is the same man who found a dead (we hope) beached whale and cut it's head off with a chainsaw and strapped it to the top of his mini van to take home. So I don't think immigrants are the problem.

I'm just counting the minutes before the intellectual property police force teepublic.com to take this one down. I was actually surprised that Gemini would generate an image of Batman since it is so prissy about so many other things. I asked it to generate an image of a kangaroo smoking a cigarette and it informed me it couldn't do that.

Why did I want an image of a kangaroo, you ask? You should know better. I, of course, had this idea to do a spoof of the movie "Midnight Cowboy" with a kangaroo as Ratso, the character Dustin Hoffman played. A taxi nearly hits him while he's crossing the street and Hoffman improvised an iconic line, "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"  All of this was inspired by Kate Bush's song "Moments of Pleasure" and the lyric, "Bang went the kanga on the bonnet of the Rover."

Here's what I ended up with.

I'm not convinced it works. I wanted the kangaroo to be dressed more like Ratso and have slicked back black hair.  But this is the best Ideogram could spit out. And ChatGPT told me that an Australian cowboy is called a ringer or a stockman. I like Midnight Ringer better than Midnight Stockman.  Regardless, unless someone reads this I seriously doubt anyone will get it.

With that dismal failure I'll end with an image inspired by today being National Linguini Day.

It helps put the whole kangaroo fiasco in the past...or pasta.