Bobservations

Last weekend we had a lawn service come out and give the back yard a refresh, trimming trees, cutting branches back, shaping hedges and holly bushes and the popcorn tree. The workers are all Latino so Carlos was walking them around the yard telling them what we wanted done and he didn't know I was there. 

At the side yard, under the trees, was our Pet Cemetery and I heard Carlos telling them that the big stones under the trees are cat and dog graves and not to remove those markers. But when he mentioned Tuxedo, whom I buried under the trees and then placed a rectangle paver over him, he told the men not to move the paver because that was the grave site of, as Carlos said, “El gato más espectacular de todos los tiempos” or “the most spectacular cat ever.”

All the times that Carlos poked at me for my love of The Great Tuxedo and now he says this.

I love that man.

This Tale of Tuxedo is from June 2010 and is entitled “Artist’s Model”:

"Years ago, in San Francisco, a friend and I stumbled upon a cool little furniture store in the Mission, where I saw this piece of wrought iron sculpture called "Twisted Kitty."

I bought it instantly.

This morning, finding Tuxedo on the floor, I wondered if, in one of his Nine Lives, he'd been the inspiration."

Tuxedo was a lot of things but he was most definitely bendy!

Sam Neill, star of the original “Jurassic Park,” died Monday at 78. His death came just two months after he announced he was cancer-free following his battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 

I had a crush on Sam ever since I saw him in “Dead Calm” with Nicole Kidman. As both a younger man and an older man he was always a most handsome fella.

RIP

Lindsey Graham has barely boarded the Handbasket to Hell and already the South Carolina Sludge™ is eyeing his seat … Nancy Mace, whom the entire state just said “Oh Hell no” to when she ran for governor is lurking around, and so is Nikki “I am the Queen of Flip Flopping” Haley.

Oh, and Cankles wants Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a native of South Carolina, to run for the seat and at least with him you’d be trading one sold-his-soul-to-the-Devil closeted gay man for a sold-his-soul-to-the-Devil out gay man.

Dear goddess, let’s get Democrat Annie Andrews into that office!

Remember married Kristin Cabot, the woman caught on camera at a Coldplay concert making out with her married boss, on the Jumbotron?

Well, I guess her fifteen minutes of fame wasn’t enough for the boss’ sidepiece and Kristin is now telling anyone who will listen that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin never reached out to check on her.

Oh Kristin, go sit in a corner and think about what you’ve done, and then get a real life.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if football players dressed like this I might be more interested in watching them, um, “play.”

In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the 80-year-old demented man in the White House claimed that his approval rating was ::: hold for laughter ::: “59 percent” and that “prices [were] coming down along with the lowering of oil and gas.”

Seriously? Could anyone in DC get the straitjacket and haul this doddering old rapist off to the Nut Barn?

Atila Escolano Sanchez is a Spanish male model and musician based in Madrid, and is also an avid trail runner so, if you could catch him Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

The other day Carlos and I were driving through town on a rather narrow road and a guy parked at the curb flung his door open, causing me to swerve to avoid hitting his car.

Naturally, I shouted, “Close your door dumbass,” and Carlos said:

“My door isn’t open.”

He makes me smile.

This Tuxedo Says is from October 2020 … when Tuxedo was been learning to translate English to cat …

Not to brag, but it seems like everyone in our neighborhood wants to be like us. We're having some painting done at the casa and everyone is rushing over to try and hire the painter to do their home.

Last week a 69-year-old man known his entire life as Robert walked out onto a balcony and self-identified as Leo and the entire world instantly began calling him Leo.

See how easy it is to accept, and respect, how a person identifies.

Oh, and he was wearing a dress.*

*as seen on Facebook

All those so-called conservative Republicans who have no problem with The Felon accepting a $400,000,000 airplane from Qatar keep pointing out that in 1886 President Grover Cleveland accepted the Statue of Liberty from France.

But, unlike The Felon who will use the plane while in office and then keep it as his personal property, Cleveland was authorized by Congress to accept the gift and, big surprise, when he left office, he didn’t take Lady Liberty to his home and set her up by the pool.

On his blog the other night, YorkshirePudding, contemplated rap artists and their stage names versus their real names, concluding that Yorkshire Pudding was his own rap or hip-hop name and adding …

“But what about the following: John Gray, Jennifer Barlow, Steve Reed, Bob Slatten, Mary Moon, Graham Edwards, Robert Brague and  Meike Riley? Surely these named blogfolk need  pseudonyms and here are my suggestions...

John Gray - scotchegg4U

Jennifer Barlow - marcomama

Steve Reed - OlgaSlaveFL

Bob Slatten - rabblerouserFU

Mary Moon - Mer-maid54

Graham Edwards - cro.malletNZ

Robert Brague - vague41etc.

Meike Riley - dataqueen68"

 Yes, I am RabbleRouserFU … if you had a rap name, what would it be??

Emmanuel Alli is a chartered physiotherapist and model, and while I don’t get that, I do need to ask: Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

The other night as we ate dinner, the kids of the family who live behind us were playing in their yard, and as kids do there was a lot of shrieking and screaming and laughing and yelling which spurred Carlos:

“I’m going to call over there and ask them to quiet down those kids.”

“No you are not. When I was that age [and these kids were 12 and 10 or so] we used to play with our friends and scream and shriek and yell.”

“Well, I don’t like it.”

“That’s because when you were an only child and at that age you were probably wearing a tutu and giving a piano recital.”

His sly smile told me I was probably correct.

This Tuxedo Says is from October 2020:

Tuxedo has discovered Twitter and really enjoys finding people’s Tweets and sharing them. This is one of his Favorites …

The owner of an Idaho bar and restaurant plans to host a two-day “Hetero Awesome Fest” outside of the state Capitol in Boise in June to coincide with LGBTQ Pride Month because there is no more oppressed group in the entire world who need a celebration to stoke their egos than straight people.

I may start a GoFundMe for them, but I’ll call it a GoFuckYourself.

After that last snippet, I’m’a need me some Summertime Beach Cakes to cleanse my palate.

Let’s try this again … because of the tariffs there are fewer ships arriving from China which means less work for dock workers … for truck drivers … for retailers and fewer dollars circulating.

It’s a cascading effect and will affect all of us.

RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Jinkx Monsoon, left, is eligible to be nominated for a Tony Award in the category, “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical” for her performance in the musical ‘Pirates.’

Yes ma’am.

On the flip side, we lost the wonderful Jiggly Caliente, right, AKA Bianca Castro-Arabejo this past week.

May I call you Jiggly.

RIP

This is model Brennan Aldred and I don’t know how old he is or where he’s from or much of anything else so we’re flying blind here but: Would You Hit It?

The Funny Papers

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Bobservations

One of the wonderful things about Carlos is his ability to adapt to situations—such as losing his eyesight—and the make light of those situations as well.

Case in point: at the grocers this week we were headed to the cashier when Carlos bumped into something and said:

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

I told him he’d hit a display case and a bag of Pork Rinds fell to the floor:

“You just apologized to Pork Rinds.”

“Well, just because you’re a Pork Rind doesn’t mean you should get knocked to the floor.”

And that’s reason #137,467 why I love that man.

This Tuxedo Says is from May 2020:

"I say this to him on a daily basis … ever since he informed me of the law. But Tuxedo really does the big arching back tail straight in the air stretch!"

This week you get two views of cakes … Man Cakes and Stallion Cakes … though maybe the man could also be a stallion?

On January 9, 2009, Linda McMahon filled out a vetting questionnaire to serve on the state board of education in Connecticut. On it, she indicated she earned a bachelor’s degree in education, according to a copy of the original form the governor’s office; that was a lie. McMahon, a billionaire and wrestling executive, graduated from East Carolina University in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in French.

Wouldn’t mean much except that The Felon has nominated this liar to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

I find his picks to be less of a cabinet and more of a Junk Drawer.

First Lady Elonia Musk hinted he might explore buying MSNBC after it was reported the network would be spun off from NBC News and potentially sold by Comcast.

One more thing he can ruin, set ablaze, or allow to blow up.

Surprisingly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, ReTHUGlican, and a MAGAt sweetheart, has a new fan since it was announced she would lead a new House Oversight Committee Subcommittee that will work with First Lady Elon Musk and DEI Hire Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘DOGE’ commission to “eliminate government waste.” And one Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is quite pleased with the announcement, Tweeting:

“This is good, actually. She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading.”

Snap! Another AOC takedown of MTG.

I can already hear Maddie screaming and then falling to the chaise lounge in a sweat clutching her pearls because … Cowboy Boot Crocs.

Charles Melton is a 33-year-old actor born in Juneau, Alaska of all places, and the current Inductee into Would You Hit It?