Random Musings

Gosh, I wish people would stop that thing where they ask a question, and then answer themselves. 

Does that bother me? Yes, it does. 

Do I wanna take a large cartoon frying pan out and club them in the head? Yes, I do. 

Do you see what I’m doing here? Yes, you do.

Look at that … Pitcairn Island, wa-a-a-y out in the Pacific, home to just 48 people — the world’s smallest country by population — has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage … even though there are no gay folks living there … yet.

The new law went into effect May 15 but initially wasn't published online because the island’s website had technical issues, but a notice was put up on the verandah of the town hall and a second at the island's general store.

Bravo Pitcairn.

#TakeDownThatFlag, Part One:

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has ordered the Confederate flag removed from its state license plates after a Supreme Court ruling that the state of Texas was allowed to reject a license plate design that featured a Confederate battle flag, and the announcement that South Carolina is working to remove the flag from its state capitol grounds.

Hollywood is doing a sequel to Independence Day and the title was announced yesterday: Independence Day: Resurgence.

Perhaps they chose that title because the one I suggested — Independence Day: We Know You've Already Seen This But We Have Better Special Effects This Time — was too big for the marquee.

Okay, so I have the hots for that Trivago guy; is that so wrong? Is it wrong that I pause and replay the commercials? Is it wrong that I make Carlos leave the room so the Trivago guy — actor Tim Williams — and I can be alone?

I know ….

Looks like Mama Grizzly Bore™ is out of another job … again.

Fox News announced it will not renew its contract with the MGB™ saying they had amicably parted ways with “crazy” — okay, maybe crazy is my word choice.

When Palin was at her peak, she only made a handful of appearances because, again, crazy, and executives consider her less relevant now.

Now? Oy.

Brian Williams is coming to MSNBC after being removed from the NBC anchor and forced to take a six month time-out for lying. It makes me think about the beginnings of the news channel, when Dan Rather said MSNBC was an acronym for Mighty Sorry no Body Cares.

Yup.

#TakeDownThatFlag, Part Two:

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has ordered that four Confederate flags be taken down from a Confederate memorial at the state capitol. Bentley's order came just two days after South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asked state lawmakers to remove the flag from the state capitol grounds. Bentley says the flags were removed because he did not want to distract from legislative issues.

The move, however, is permanent.

Advice columnist Amy Dickinson recently received a letter from a mother who had discovered her son was gay. The mother was worried that their church friends would make fun of her for having a gay son, and she asked her son to change his orientation, and then asked Amy for help. Here’s Amy’s reply:

Dear Feeling Betrayed,

You could teach your son an important lesson by changing your own sexuality to show him how easy it is. 

Try it for the next year or so: Stop being a heterosexual to demonstrate to your son that a person’s sexuality is a matter of choice — to be dictated by one’s parents, the parent’s church and social pressure.

Now in the last half o his last term as President, Barack Obama is clearly not playing with fools any more.

At a White House event celebrating LGBT Pride Month, a heckler interrupted his remarks, and he was not having it and said:

“You’re in my house.”

When the person continued to shout, President Obama simply had them removed.

Bye Felicia.

Random Musings

This week’s Musings are Cat Heavy because, well, I say so … starting with MaxGoldberg, whom I’m beginning to suspect is an alien because he sits and stares at the windows, when the shades are drawn, then up to the ceiling, then at me, then back at the shades.

I think he was sent here as a scout, and he’s waiting for the mother ship … and he’s got big plans for me.

I’m afraid. Seriously; afraid.

It seems that two cities in Texas — Austin and El Paso — are considering whether to rename streets that bear Bruce Jenner's into something else because, well, Caitlyn.

Let me make this queer: the Bruce Jenner streets were named that after an Olympic Gold medal winner, and that hasn’t changed, so why change the names?

It makes no sense, and it’s just plain stupid …

A few of my favorite shows have come back, and one has added a new hottie …

Power has returned to Starz and Omari Hardwick … tee hee hard wick … has the most beautiful body … for a drug lord and murderer. But, hey, I can overlook that, you know, for the hotness.

Taye Diggs is back in Murder In The First and, well, I digs me some Taye.

And then I spotted Brandon Barash as a new detective on Major Crimes. There seems to be a feeling that his make be a short arc on the show; I hope not, he’s delicious.

[Omari Hardwick  Taye Diggs Brandon Barash]

Well, it looks as if Brian “I Was nearly Shot Down In Iraq” Williams might not be coming back to work at the NBC Nightly News anchor desk when his six-month time out for being a Big Fat Liar is up this August.

Rumor has it that Lester Holt, who’s been the anchor since Williams was sent to the corner, may keep the job after all, but don’t feel bad from Williams just yet.

NBC still wants him, just not as their anchor, or the face of NBC News because, well, lies. I expect he’ll become the wine steward for Kathie Lee and Hoda this fall.

Cuz he says he’s a sommelier … or is he?

[photo source]

MaxGoldberg and Tuxedo love each other — Carlos suggests they might be homosexuals … not that there’s anything wrong with that — and love to play and eat together, and, well, snuggle up together.

They do not, however, like photographic evidence of their snuggling.

And the Duggaring continues … the Duggar family is once again under investigation by the Arkansas Department of Human Services and police were called when a DHS worker visited the home to check on a minor child and the Duggars refused to allow it.

A representative from the Washington County DHS called 911 on May 27 — after Josh’s molestation became news, and after the Duggars duggared themselves on Fox News — asking for police assistance when DHS was not allowed to see the minor they were concerned about.

This family really needs a time-out … permanently.

What’s this? Marriage equality in Guam?

Last week, a federal judge ended the prolonged legal battle over same-sex marriage in the U.S. island territory and even anti-equality governor, Eddie Calvo, agreed to follow the ruling.  Guam is the first U.S. territory to allow same-sex marriage.

Bravo to Guam, and let the weddings begin!

And, here on the mainland, a judge has ordered Arkansas officials to recognize the more than 500 same-sex marriages performed in the state last year, during that brief window when equality was the law.

It’s like California and Prop 8, y’all. Arkansas will have a tough time defending their marriage ban when 500 Arkansas same-sex couples are now legally wed in the eyes of the state.

C’mon Arkansas, join the other 36 states — and DC — and get on with equality.

She won’t admit it, but Consuelo Roca Jones did not want to be left out of this Cat Heavy post, and so she sat for a portrait.

She does give good face, though she gets bored easily and turns away from the camera, not realizing that you can see her face in the glass.

The real thing or a reflection, it’s all good Cat face.

I Ain't One To Gossip But ...

Down in Savannah, Georgia, the fashionistas were all in a twist because the Queen was coming to town. No, silly, not the Queen of England; Anna Wintour, the real Queen of All Things.

Wintour was in town for just about an hour to see the Oscar de la Renta show that her man Andre Leon Talley curated at the Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD], and it was that one hour — “I heard it was 65 minutes,” sniffed one attendee — that has people in a snit.

See, locals who paid $1,000 a ticket for the event had hoped to meet Wintour at a VIP reception but when they arrived they learned that she’d already left. And that was probably for the best because she did not leave a very good impression.

One insider at SCAD says, “Staff were told not to address her or look at her — like those diva movie stars,” but the bigwigs at SCAD released their own statement:

“Ms. Wintour recently attended the private family preview of ‘Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style’ at SCAD to support her dear friend Annette de la Renta. There was never an expectation that Ms. Wintour would attend any reception in relation to the opening.”

SCAD also denied it was behind the quick renovation of a Victorian house where Wintour  was ALLEGED to have waited before seeing the exhibit though for the three days prior to Wintour entering the house there was a whirlwind overhaul, with buzz saws and furniture movers and painters.

And she was in, and then she was out, and the regular folk were pissed.

So, Kim Kardastrophe. Still making news for the bedazzled housecoat she wore to the Grammys. And now she’s decided to up the ante on her husband’s delusions by issuing some of her own crazy talk in an interview with Love Magazine.

On whether or not her career got its boost from that sex tape her mother — That Woman — pimped out, Kimmy says:

“Maybe that’s how some people heard about me but I didn’t launch my career off of that. That was 12 years ago, no 13 years ago now, so I just try to move on and put it in the past because I think that everyone in life does things they’re not proud of but you can’t sit and dwell on them forever.”

And fourteen years ago no one knew any Kardashian other than the one who defended that murdering ex-football player. Then you went heels-to-Jesus with Ray J and suddenly you’re the big name.

But my favorite Kim K answer was to the question, “What do you do again?"

“Ask my f—king bank account what I do.”

Her bank account? I thought she just kept her money in the nightstand drawer, you know, after the tricks leave it on top.’

Poor Justin Bieber broke his foot over the holidays playing soccer game, though it didn’t require any kind of boot to stabilize it; he wore his regular size four shoesies, but wants y’all to know he’s still in a lot of pain.

I mean, he must be, because he’s using the ALLEGED injury as an excuse for not completing the community service requirements for his probation. Not probation for drag racing, not probation for a temper tantrum, probation for egging his neighbor’s house.

And while he’s been taking his anger management classes as part of his plea deal he has yet to complete a single hour of community service because of that soccer injury.

His lawyer, Attorney Shawn Holley, who was in court last week trying to clear up the reason why her other client, Lindsay Lohan didn’t complete her community service, issued a progress report in his egging case: Biebs has completed 9 out of 12 anger management classes but as for his 5 days of community service, well, Holley said, his bad foot made it impossible for him to pick up trash or remove graffiti.

Holley submitted a doctor’s note to satisfy the judge, though I wonder if the doctor was the same one who diagnosed Lohan with that Chimichurri bite she got in Bora Bora.

Just sayin’; same lawyer, same doctor, same lame-ass excuses for bad behavior..

Will Smith has done pretty well for himself; I mean he had a hit TV show and then parlayed that into a successful run at the movies until recently, when he learned that not every film he makes turns out a winner.

Like, um, After Earth, which starred Will and his crazy son Jadon, and bombed at the box office. Apparently that thud caused Will Smith to lose.his.mind. something he talked about while promoting his latest film, Focus:

“For me, [Focus] really marks a transition in my life and emotionally and in my career. After the failure of After Earth, a thing got broken in my mind. I was like, ‘Oh, wow. I’m still alive. Oh, wow. Actually, I still am me, even though the movie didn’t open number one. Wait. I can still get hired on another movie.’ I realized that I still was a good person, so when I went into Focus, I completely released the concept of goal orientation and got into path orientation. This moment, this second, these people, this interaction … It is a huge relief for me to not care whether or not Focus is number one or number 10 at the box office.”

Gosh, he makes it sound like the failure of After Earth was so devastating; you know, like he hadn’t gotten a $20,000,000 paycheck for it, and so he couldn’t keep the lights on at the manse, and he couldn’t afford the insurance on all twenty cars, and couldn’t keep Jada in designer Herve Leger bandage dresses or something.

Get a grip, Smith. You’re a multi-millionaire who still got paid for a job not so well done.

Sheesh.

This story kills me, because, had it happened, we wouldn’t be celebrating week two of Brian Williams Is A Big Fat Liar.

See, apparently, NBC News anchor — for now, at least — Brian Williams made a bizarre bid to quit the serious world of mainstream journalism — and I laugh at the idea that he will ever again be considered a journalist — to try his hand at late-night comedy by replacing Jay Leno as host of “The ­Tonight Show.”

Seriously? Imagine Diane Sawyer asking ABC to give her a shot turning letters on Wheel of Fortune. Imagine Rachel Maddow wanting to open the big box on Let’s Make a Deal. Imagine Brian Williams back at a news desk in six months.

None of those things will happen.

Yeah, I know, we’re still talking Kanye’s panties-in-a-twist moment at the Grammys, as well as his rant at an after-party where he demanded Beck give his Grammy to Beyoncé, but now it’s Kanye’s turn to talk about Kanye, his favorite subject. When asked why he raced up onstage, as though he was gonna pull a Swifty-VMAs repeat, he said, ahem, and I quote:

“You know, I felt like just the whole Grammys, right when that happened, everybody was looking at me, and then people started screaming, ‘Kanye! Kanye! Go do it!’ Okay, that didn’t really happen, these were voices in my head. So the voices in my head told me to go up, and then I just walked up, like, halfway up the stage.”

Actually, you half-wit, you walked all the way up onstage because you were standing next to Beck. Perhaps the “voices in your head” give bad directions? Then he says he likes Beck:

“Beck is one of the nicest guys and one of the most respected musicians in the game. So there’s nothing that I would want to do as a fellow musician to disrespect him in any way.”

But you did, Blanche! You did disrespect him, because your big fat Krazy Man ego—as well as those voices — got in the way. And then he was asked why he went on that rant after the show where even his wife looked at him like he was a lunatic:

“Well, you know what happened? It’s because I sat there and I kind of let that [smolder] and I was asked my opinion and I was given a platform. And when given a platform, it’s very hard, as we know — and I’m going to talk in third person like I’m a crazy person …” ... and we’ll stop, because, again, y’are a crazy person, Blanche, y’are crazy ... “... but it’s very hard for Kanye West to not be very true and vocal to what he feels… [But] I think it came off the wrong way, and that was a mis-wording on my part … I felt — and this is my opinion and he’s his own man and he’s not wrong and we’ll still go play basketball and stuff [unless] he doesn’t want to do it — that even though the Grammys sometimes give awards to people who you wouldn’t think should win in the category, as a respect to artists, we mention the other artist’s name in our speech…”

What the hell is this word soup all about? He’s sorry; he’s not sorry. He wants to play basketball; he doesn’t want to play basketball. For a man who’s made a living of rapping — and acting the fool — he cannot even string together a coherent sentence.

Siddown.

Charlize Theron and Sean Penn were out and about with her son Jackson over the weekend looking all lovey-dovey and stuff, but then this happened:

Rumor has it that Sean was, ahem, getting’ busy with Charlize’s stunt double. At least according to a  new story in the National Enquirer — hey, they’re half right half of the time — suggests that Penn spent several “romantic” nights with Fleur van Eeden, who happens to be his girlfriend’s stunt double on the set of their new movie, The Last Face. And Fleur is talking …

“I find Sean very sexy still, even though he’s older, [and since] Charlize didn’t come. I was alone with Sean and a few crew [members] ... They put up a tented camp for the crew, and offered Sean the guesthouse. But he refused and insisted on sleeping with us. One night we all stood ’round a bonfire, and suddenly Sean said, ‘I want to read you my poems, my private collection. Would you mind?’ It was phenomenal – awesome – under the big starry sky. He’s a great poet, a very deep, romantic guy.”

Wait. What? He read poems? Well, no wonder he did it with Fleur. I mean, c’mon, Charlize has probably heard those same poems a thousand times, and decided it was too risky to hear ‘em again, so she sent in the double.

Makes perfect sense to me …

We don’t hear much about Cuba Gooding Jr. anymore, but apparently he’s a douche, and a misogynist and makes waiters cry; let’s dish …

Back in 2012, Cuba ALLEGEDLY punched a female bartender in New Orleans, and then took his drunkenness to New York City where there was a child tossing incident on GMA, and after that his 20-year marriage has collapsed and now it seems the douchebag-itude is back.

Cuba was dining with pals one night at the Mercer Hotel in SoHo and invited two women from another table — Danish model Ammalie Overbeck and Dutch beauty Bo ‘t Jong — to join him. Once they did, Gooding kept “pulling up his shirt to show [them] his abs” until he wanted more drinks and couldn’t find a waiter. That’s when he  hopped over a banquette and got in the man’s face:

“He grabbed a waiter by both shoulders and gave him a verbal shellacking,” said a source—possibly Lohan, because it’s a club and folks were drunk—who added that the waiter was found by two members of Gooding’s group “sobbing” in the rest room. 

Gooding’s pals explained that the Selma star’s going through a divorce — his wife filed for divorce after 20 years of marriage last April. But does that excuse the asshat behavior? Or does it excuse the fact that when Gooding returned to his new friends, he asked the women to engage in a sex act with him. They rebuffed the loser, so he instantly went to another woman at the bar and tried to woo her with his abs and bad behavior.

Cuba’s representative denied this story, but it seems to fit in with other drunken escapades of Gooding’s, like last December when he was “like a freshman at a college party” and telling women his name was “Dick McWilly.”

Well, he’s a dick, all right.

I won’t say anything about Bruce Jenner’s recent car accident that resulted in a woman’s death. He has been very co-operative with police, was tested for being drunk at the scene — he wasn’t — and was questioned about whether he was texting at the time of the crash — his people say he was not.

Still, please to explain, Bruce, why on Tuesday, mere days after the crash, you were spotted out driving and chatting on a cellphone while behind the wheel.

It’s not clear what he was doing on the phone, except he was very clearly breaking California  law by using a non-hands-free phone while driving.

You’d think the last thing he’d be doing, after what happened over the weekend, is to be on a phone and behind the wheel of a moving car at the same time.

Knock it off!

This one reeks of publicity stunt or truly disturbing story ...

Actress Victoria Rowell is suing CBS, “The Young and The Restless” co-producers Sony Pictures and Bell-Phillip Television Production Inc. and other parties ALLEGING that she’s been repeatedly snubbed while trying to reprise her role on the soap because she’s been a longtime advocate for more black characters on daytime soap operas.

Her suit accuses executives of retaliating against her by not welcoming her back — despite numerous requests over the last three years — because of critical comments she’s made both on and off camera about lack of diversity in the soap industry.

Rowell — who was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards and earned 11 NAACP Image Awards starred on the show for seventeen years — even alleges on-set racism went on for years with any repercussions. She claims that white actress Melody Thomas Scott, who plays Nikki Newman, once ran onto the set “dancing wildly and wearing an oversized Afro wig to mock” Rowell’s “Afro-styled hair” and that another white actress, Michelle Strafford, once allegedly “collaborated” with a white producer and a white director before spitting on Rowell, calling her a “freak” and saying “no one likes you.”

Man, if any of this is true, it’s ugly and disgusting, but then one asks the questions: why stay there for nearly two decades and why tell those racist stories now and not at the moment they happened if you’re such an advocate for black actors on soaps?

The suit also claims that Rowell has been blacklisted from reprising her Y&R role on CBS' sister soap The Bold and the Beautiful and can’t get another job on daytime TV because of her outspokenness.

But the nuttiest part of her lawsuit is where she claims she was not consulted before a storyline was developed where her character went insane and was “placed in a straight jacket and dragged to an asylum.” Rowell’s character was written off the show later that year at her request but since then she has been lobbying for her job back.

Y&R execs claim Rowell wasn’t brought back due to creative reasons that had nothing to with race, and CBS issued a statement saying it’s “disappointed to learn that, after leaving the” soap “on her own initiative, Ms. Rowell has attempted to rewrite that history through lawyers’ letters and a lawsuit that has no merit. We harbor no ill will toward Ms. Rowell, but we will vigorously defend this case.”

I smell a whole lotta ugliness about to come down the pike.

I Didn't Say It ...

Roy Moore, Alabama’s loony anti-gay judge, on his gay ‘friends’:

"I've had many friends who are homosexual. I've treated people just like other people. This is not about how I treat people or how I go to a wedding or a marriage or anything. It's about the constitution of Alabama and the constitution of the United States and specifically the sanctity of marriage amendment. I would not go to a same-sex wedding."

First off, let me say I doubt he has ‘many’ gay friends, and secondly, he does not treat people like other people, he works to treat gay people differently.

He’s a bigot who thinks he can play the gay friend card and I bet he played the black friend card in the 1960s, too.

President Obama, on welcoming the Supreme Court's upcoming consideration of four marriage equality cases:

“My sense is that the Supreme Court is about to make a shift, one that I welcome, which is to recognize that — having hit a critical mass of states that have recognized same-sex marriage — it doesn’t make sense for us to now have this patchwork system. I am time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution, same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.”

I mean, does it really seem American and free and equal and patriotic that Carlos and I can be married in South Carolina, but if we move a couple of hundred miles west, to Georgia, suddenly we’re not?

We need to be equal, and included, everywhere. Simple. I can’t make it any more queer.

Kanye West, ranting about Beck’s win over Beyoncé at the Grammys:

“The Grammys, if they want real artists to come back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain’t gonna play with them no more. Flawless, Beyoncé video, and Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé. And at this point, we tired of it because what happens is, when you keep on diminishing art, and not respecting the craft, and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration. And we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day and they listen to that Beyoncé album, they feel like it takes them to another place … That’s the reason I didn’t say anything tonight. But y’all know what it meant when ‘Ye walks on that stage.”

First off, you delusional tool did you realize for one second that you are disrespecting Beck’s artistry? Of course not, because it’s all about Kanye, and his lips on Beyoncé’s ass.

PS Look at Kim's face while he rants; even she thinks he f**king nuts.

Brian Williams, announcing he will be stepping aside from his NBC Nightly News anchor position amid allegations that he is a liar — UPDATE: NBC suspended him without pay for six months:

"I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days; [It] has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions."

Due to your lies.

Say it with me, Brian: You lied. You didn’t “misremember” you lied.

Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Governor, on not changing his opinion on marriage equality:

"My faith teaches me that marriage is between a man and a woman. I don't believe in discrimination against anybody. I'm not for changing the definition of marriage and that's why I hope the Supreme Court decides not to overturn what the states have decided. In Louisiana it's in our state constitution. My hope is that the Supreme Court will respect what state legislators and states have already decided."

I love how he can say I don’t believe in discrimination “against anybody” while reaffirming his discrimination against The Gays.

Oh, and Bobby? About your faith and the changing definition of marriage? Listen to this:

Reverend Ellin Jimmerson, a Baptist minister, on why she will perform same-sex weddings in Alabama:

"One of the issues for many is whether same sex marriages comport with biblical ideas of marriages. The truth is that people in the 21st century would not be comfortable with the kinds of marriages which are represented in the Bible. For example, we would not be comfortable with the biblical model that is one man, one woman, one concubine. Nor would we be comfortable with the idea of a widow being compelled to marry her brother-in-law. There is very little in the Bible which reflects the modern idea of one man & one woman united by love. That is where we have been comfortable for a long time now.

Today, we are being asked to move even further down the road of marriages being based on love. We are being asked to expand our ideas to include one man and another man united in marriage by love. Of one woman and another woman united by love.

It was not too many years ago that we in Alabama at last understood that the long-held ban on interracial marriages was hurtful and wrong. We moved further down the road of love. Now, most of us think nothing of interracial marriages.”

Faith; it changes, it adapts, it understands that the world today is not the world of 2,000 years ago, or even the world of twenty years ago.