George Michael died of heart failure, according to his longtime manager Michael Lippman.
LONDON, Dec 25 (Reuters)
British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980’s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday.
He was 53.
In the mid-1980’s, Wham! was one of the most successful pop duos ever, ahead even of Simon & Garfunkel, with singles like ”Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, ”Careless Whisper”, “Last Christmas” and “The Edge of Heaven”.
Pepe the Frog has emerged as an unofficial mascot of the alt-right, a loosely defined group of white nationalists who congregate online to debate IQ differences between the races and joke about burning Jewish journalists in ovens.
Trump Camp’s Pepe Meme First Appeared on White Supremacist Sites
An image circulated by Donald Trump Jr. and informal adviser Roger Stone was first hosted on a white nationalist website.
Donald Trump’s sandy-haired head is superimposed onto Sylvester Stallone’s muscular neck. On his right is the Pepe the Frog version of the real estate mogul, an iteration of a popular Alt-Right meme that has become a persistent visual aid to the fever swamps of the 2016 internet.
It’s a play on the poster for the 2014 film “The Expendables 3” and an intentional ribbing of Hillary Clinton’s remarks at a Friday fundraiser, September 9, where she characterized some of Trump’s supporters as “deplorables.”
Rounding out the rest of the row of “The Deplorables” is a crazed-looking Ben Carson, InfoWars radio host and Trump acolyte Alex Jones screaming his head off and a pumpkin-colored Donald Trump Jr. smiling mischievously.
Also included are Chris Christie, Eric Trump,Rudolph Giuliani, Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Pence.
The undertaking began in April and required over 1,500 hours of work over the course of four months. Monroe, who works “an average of 15 hours a day, six days a week” at a “day job” he declined to describe, told The Daily Beast that he was averaging “three hours of sleep a night.”
The process of creating the sculpture consisted of two stages, according to Monroe. The first was sculpting the original, 700-pound model in specialty clay using a 6-foot-2 “hired model with similar proportions” to Trump.
After the prototype was complete, Monroe made a giant silicone mold so that he could create identical replicas.
In all, the project required 300 pounds of Monster Makers Oil Clay, 400 pounds of Concrete and Rebar, 400 pounds of Walter E. Disney Clay (for the mold), one gallon of smooth cast 300 (liquid resin), and 10 gallons of Foam It, costing around $6,000.
The INDECLINE spokesperson said the studio had “never worked in this medium before” and found it quite “time consuming.” After finishing the sculptures in an undisclosed studio on the West Coast, Monroe and INDECLINE team members shipped them to the five locations where they would be unveiled.
The five locations were chosen based on where the “activist collective” has existing collaborators, the INDECLINE spokesperson told The Daily Beast.
Purposely “designed to be torn down,” the replicas were lightweight and “anticipated to last about a half-hour at most,” said Monroe.
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