Bobservations

This is less a Tale Of Carlos being funny than it is a Tale of What A Fabulous Human Being Carlos is …

The other night I came home from work in a mood; not a bad mood, but not a good mood. A bitchy mood that I couldn’t explain. And as we ate dinner I wasn’t very nice to him; I was naggy and sarcastic and just plain unfriendly to the most important person in my life for no reason whatsoever. And yet with every snide comment I made he didn’t get angry, he just answered me back.

After dinner I went back to the office by myself and did some work on the computer but I kept going back to my nasty mood. I was about to get up and go talk to him when he came into the office to ask a question, and I said:

“Let me say something first.”

“Okay.”

“You know I love you, right?”

“Of course I do.

“Well, I have been nasty since I got home and there’s no excuse—”

“You have a lot of things on your plate.”

“It’s no excuse. I shouldn’t have said what I said and acted like I did.”

“I know, and I know you didn’t mean it, and I know you’d realize it, and that I love you.”

That’s why he’s the most important person in my life; he takes that kind of mood and understands it and doesn’t get mad but lets me work through it.

That’s the Tale of Carlos I love most of all.

This Tuxedo Memory is creatively entitled ‘#TuxedoInABox,’ and is from November 2017

‘Recently we returned from a CostCo run and set one of the boxes on the living room floor.

Tuxedo loves to sleep in them, but something about this box got him all kerfuffled and he was rolling around it in like a mad man.

Huh. Does CostCo sell catnip in bulk?’

Lynn Conway has died at age 86. She is credited with developing a simpler method for designing microchips that are now used in cell phones  in the 1970s but it’s what happened a few years earlier that’s important.

In 1964, Lynn Conway joined IBM Research, where she made major innovations in computer design; recently married and with two young daughters, she lived a seemingly perfect life but she had a secret: she had been born a boy.

Having struggled with her gender identity since childhood, Conway had made a failed attempt at transition in the late 1950s but in 1967, she learned of the pioneering gender-transition work of Dr. Harry Benjamin and sought out his help, She began the life-changing, and perhaps lifesaving, transition from male to female but  when IBM’s Corporate Medical Director learned of her transition plans in 1968, he alerted CEO Thomas J. Watson, Jr., who fired Conway to avoid the public embarrassment of employing a transwoman.

Not just a transwoman, but a brilliant transwoman.

In 2020, fifty years later, IBM apologized to Lynn Conway and awarded her a lifetime achievement award for her work. Conway has had five U.S. patents, a career at Xerox, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the U.S. Defense Department. She also had honorary degrees from many universities, including Princeton University. But most of all she was trans and she made it easier for y’all, even the anti-trans haters, to use their phone.

Say her name; and Thank her.

The person—and he will never be named on this blog—who murdered five people and maimed nineteen others during a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado, has been sentenced to 55 concurrent life sentences plus an additional 190 years in prison.

Good.

This past week Romans came out for Pride dressed like Pope Frankie, wearing papal hats and T-shirts that read:

“There is never too much frociaggine.”

That’s a reference to the offensive anti-gay slur that Frankie has been accused of uttering … twice … complaining that there was too much “gayness” in the church. Martina Lorina, an Italian actress, called the phrase “the slogan of the 2024 Pride”, using a longtime tactic to turn insults into words of pride.

Homophobic bigot who says one thing about us, and behind closed doors uses slurs against us.

A lady picked up several items at a discount store. When she finally got to the checkout she learned that one of the items had no price tag or bar code so the checkout girl got on the public address system and asked:

"Price check for Tampax super-size."

Sadly, someone at the rear of the store  mistook the word 'Tampax' for 'thumbtacks' and called back over the PA system:

“Do you want the kind that you push in with your thumb or the kind that you belt in with a hammer?"

Ouch.

Four years ago Christian Cooper, an avid birdwatcher and out Black gay man, was in the Ramble in Central Park, birdwatching he noticed a dog running off-leash, violating park rules designed to protect his beloved birds, so he approached the dog’s owner, Amy Cooper, requesting that she leash her dog.

Instead, Amy, er, #CentralParkKaren, Top of Form

Bottom of Form

threatened to call the police and make a false claim that “an African-American man” was threatening her life. Christian captured the incident on video, which quickly went viral and Amy Cooper was rightly vilified in the press and also lost her job.

Then Christian Cooper’s story caught the attention of National Geographic, leading to the creation of his show, “Extraordinary Birder,” which premiered in 2023. The show has since garnered critical acclaim, culminating in Christian Cooper winning the Daytime Emmy Award this week for Outstanding Daytime Personality.

Winning.

Money raised by The Felon’s 2024 campaign is being sent right back into the con artist’s pockets in various forms, according to a The ALLEGED billionaire criminal has not donated any money to his 2024 presidential campaign, $4.6 million worth of donations has been transferred to his business empire. And MAGAts keep sending checks.

Tell me how this isn’t a cult.

Matty Carrington, a UK based model who once worked as a roofer and rugby player before walking in shows for Astrid Anderson, Givenchy, Sibling and Bobby Abley is this week’s Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

Every so often Carlos likes a little hot chocolate late at night, and I will have some as well because it knocks me out when I go to bed. But I may have found a new sleep aid: science. See, there are times, as we’re chatting before going to sleep that Carlos will talk molecules and DNA and science, and the other night I said to him:

“This is better than the chocolate, because it puts me right to sleep with no sugar or calories.”

Now there are three sleep aids in our house: hot chocolate, science and bad jokes.

This weeks’ Tuxedo is from December 2009, when he decided to sit in the guest room and gaze out the window.

A lot of you commented on how regal Rosita looked in some of her photos the other day, and when I checked this blog post people had also commented on Tuxedo’s regal-ness.

He was a good poser, and she is a good poser.

Remember Christian Cooper? He was the Black man birdwatching in Central Park when a Central Park Karen—Amy Cooper, obviously no relation—called 911 to say he was threatening her.

Well, Amy Cooper lost her job, but this week while Christian Cooper got a new one … as host of National Geographic's new show "Extraordinary Birder".

Karma.

PS Christian is a hottie.

A friend of mine just started working at an, ahem, “adult” store. After his first few hours on the job, his boss said he needed to leave and asked my friend if he could manage the store and he agreed. A few minutes later white woman comes in:

"How much for the white dildo?"

"$35."

"How much for the black one?"

"$35 for the black one, $35 for the white one."

"I think I'll take the black one. I've never had a black one before."

She pays him, and off she goes. A while later a Black woman comes in:

"How much for the black dildo?

"$35."

"How much for the white one?"

"$35 for the white one, $35 for the black one."

"Hmmm...I think I'll take the white one. I've never had a white one before..."

She pays him, and off she goes. About an hour later a young blonde woman comes in and asks:

"How much are your dildos?"

"$35 for the white, $35 for the black."

"Hmmmmm....how much is that plaid one on the shelf?"

"That's a very special dildo...it'll cost you $165."

"I'll take the plaid one, I've never had a plaid one before...." 

She pays him, and off she goes. Then the boss returns he asks my friend how everything went and my friend says:

"I think I did good, I sold one white dildo, one black dildo, and I sold your thermos for $165!"

Could’a happened.

After The North Face, an outdoor clothing, footwear, and equipment chain, released its new Pride month collection, which included a video featuring drag queen Pattie Gonia, a bunch of snowflakes MAGAts got their grannie panties in a  twist and complained on social media and threatened a boycott; The North Face isn’t here for that and responded with:

“The North Face has always believed the outdoors should be a welcoming, equitable and safe place for all. Creating community and belonging in the outdoors is a core part of our values and is needed now more than ever. We stand with those who support our vision for a more inclusive outdoor industry.”

The North Face noted that their Summer of Pride series is now in its second year and has helped “individuals from all backgrounds” experience the outdoors.

Because the outdoors is for everyone.

PS Target? This is how it's done.

I do pick on Carlos but I love the man madly and I love when, given his eyesight issues, he finds something new.

This week the Foundation Fighting Blindness sent him a books on tape reader and all he needs to do is check their website, order up to three books at a time and they are sent to the house, After he listens to them, he puts them back in the box and mails them back, all at no cost.

Carlos loves to read, loves knowledge, and that was one of the things he’s missed dearly in the last few years so my joy at his being able to “read” again is only exceeded by his joy.

Need another reason not to vote for Ron DeSantisFascist? Try this …

There was a mass shooting on Memorial Day in Florida that left nine people, including children, wounded, yet DeSantis, campaigning in Iowa, failed to utter a word about it. He has not said a word on his Twitter accounts, has not posted a statement on his government website, and it does not appear he has spoken to reporters about it.

His campaign is more important than dead Floridians.

PS Ron DeSantis signed a permit-less carry bill in April that removes requirements for background checks, instruction, training &oversight.

PPS The shooter was not, I repeat not, a drag queen, which DeFacsist thinks is the greatest threat to the US.

Charly Poirier was born in Paris and is a fashion model and a social media influencer, though the big question is: Would You Hit It?