Last Day of the Year Bobservations

Although 2020 certainly wasn't the year I was expecting, it was the year I got, and looking back on this last day of 2020, I can say it has been a tremendous year for reflection and growth and understanding. I have some Bobservations …

After lockdown, and being out of work for a few months, I learned just how I much I love and adore, and sometimes, quite honestly, loathe Carlos. We have spent more time together in the last nine months, just the two of us, than probably in all our twenty years, and I still want for nothing, and no one, else. He makes me laugh and smile and love and get angry, and there isn’t a place I’d rather be.

And, sure, Tuxedo is my boy because we bonded, just the two of us, in the first couple of weeks after we rescued him, so he’s got a very special place in my heart. But I do so love MaxGoldberg on my lap, Ozzo at my feet, Consuelo chasing me through the house at feeding time, Tuxedo staring at me while I sleep. It’s love, it’s real, and it’s unconditional.

After four years of a fake Christian in the White House, and the ones who crawled out of the slime to do his bidding, I have come to realize that Good Christians don’t tell you they’re good, they just are good. Anyone who feels the need to announce their deep faith is actually pretty shallow.

I love this blog, and all of your blogs, too, because we all have this chance to speak up. Speak all the way up. After four years of domestic terrorism, when someone says something crazy, or outright lies … COVID is just like the flu … read them for filth. Don’t let the lies stand or the liars win. If someone says, or worse does, something racist, call it out. Make sure they know you know.

In 2020, I saw a gay man run for president and win a primary, and I saw him kiss his husband on the campaign trail. Even better, I voted for a gay man for president, and hope to do it again.

SIDENOTE: this also gives me another reason to post Hot Pete Pic.

And this time we did it; we got up, got out, and voted. More of us than at any other time in history. And in doing so, we have rid this country of him. Sure, he fussed, fought, lied, sued, whined, and bitched, but we are a few weeks away from getting sanity in charge again. I know Joe Biden wasn’t everyone’s choice, he is the choice we made, and we will, stand behind him as America goes back to being a leader, to rejoining the Paris Accord, to being about all of us, and not just the 1%. And it doesn't hurt that we have our first ever female person of color as Vice President in Kamala Harris!

And while I have more opinions than hairs on my head—and to be clear, I have a ridiculously full head of hair—I listen to others; sometimes just listening can lead to understanding; sometimes the understanding is that the other person is a complete lunatic but listening confirms that. And while I may not have come for the lunacy, I have learned sometimes to forgive it; when it’s not hate-filled crazy. Forgiveness isn’t a sign of weakness and does not mean forgetting. I can forgive but I cannot forget, and I will come for you if the madness steps out again.

It has been a year but, while we may have bent a little under the stress of a pandemic, the horrors of a racist, incompetent leader, the stupidity of those who follow mad men, we did not break. Being out of work did not cost us much; we have a home, a car, our bills paid, our health, our pets, our family—those we come from and those we chose—and a circle of friends who are there for us, as we are for them. I’m ready for 2021, and hopefully the lessening of COVID, a leader who understands the pandemic and the country and our place in the world,  and how to work that. A president who has built a cabinet that represents us all, not just the rich, the white, the male.

And so, speaking of male … here are the Bobservations Hot Men of 2020

Matt Smith, Luke Evans, Sh’Rae Marshall, Mena Massoud

Taylor Phillips, Dan Zsolt, Alberto Garcia Cabrero, Eoin Macken

Andrea Casalino, Chino Darin, Joshua Lee Cummings, Emmanuel Macron

Denis Suraev, David Taylor, Ryan Barrett, Dustin Milligan

Gil Soares, Nicholas Pinnock, Mauro Lopes, Ben Miles

Henrique Hansmann, Charles Leclerc, Lakeith Stanfield, Karlwiz Gutierrez

Christian Cooke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tone Bell, Valter Passos Silva

Brian Loud, Eyal Berkover, Alexandros Kaltsidis, Michael Ferraro

Jay Gould, Jordan Calloway, Isaac Moreno, Will Higginson

Chris Folz, Justin Marcel McManus, Alexander Breck, Lovell Adams-Gray

Marc Buckner, Piotr Gruszewski, Tom Berklund, Gregg Avedon

Tom Zalac, Graysen Quinn, Giuseppe Giofrè, Gerardo Celasco

Eric Rutherford, Levi Bradley, Jules Horn

Finally, A Way To Hide Those Extra LockDownPounds™

 

It's That Time ...

Well, I am back to work today, for at least a few hours each week. I’ve been doing some things from home, but there are things that cannot be accomplished that way, and clients who need to be updated on what’s happening an, just stuff that has to be done in-house; not my house, that house.

They are slowly opening things up here in Smallville, and we—even while being the epicenter of COVID-19 back in early March when the first South Carolina case appeared here—have flattened our curve. So, we reopen some things, slowly, still with precautions and masks and social distancing in place.

This won't be a daily thing, but it'll be done just to keep us up on what's happening, what needs to be done as we get into Summer and Fall, and how we're gonna continue to work during this mess.

One upside? My racist co-worker ... whose name, ironically, is Karen ... and who has been posting conspiracy theories all over Facebook about the death numbers being exaggerated and the virus being created in a lab in China and _____being the greatest leader of all time, has chosen not to leave her home. That’s right, this is all a lie, but she’s not leaving her house.

Hypocrite racist, say what?

Anyhoo, I’m off for a few hours to see what can be done, make a few calls blibbety blah blay blue work.

Take care. Stay safe.

Bobservations

Earlier this week Carlos looked lovingly at me and asked:

“Are you ever gonna change out of your pajamas?”

“When I go to bed.”

Didn’t happen. Wore them to bed and, yeah, still wearing ‘em. Sometimes I like the lazy.

Under lockdown, I grow bored, so I have been making a series of ‘Tuxedo Says’ posts for Facebook. He is gathering quite the following and so I thought I’d share some here.

Last week Saturday Night Live comedian Michael Che announced that his grandmother had died of COVID-19. The following week, to honor her memory, Che said he would pay the rent for the month for all 160 units in the public housing complex his grandmother used to live in in New York, saying:

“Obviously I can't offer much help by myself. But in the spirit and memory of my late grandmother, I'm paying one month's rent for all 160 apartments in the NYCHA building she lived in. I know that's just a drop in the bucket, so I really hope the city has a better plan for debt forgiveness for all the people in public housing. AT THE VERY LEAST."

Word.

I’ve always thought CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond was hot and this week he became even hotter. At _____’s coronavirus briefing propaganda campaign, Diamond called out IMPOTUS for congratulating himself on his response to the pandemic:

“More than 22 million Americans are unemployed … Today we hit the grim milestone of more than 40,000 Americans now having died from the coronavirus. Can you explain then why you come out here … showing clips of praise for you and for your administration? Is this really the time for self-congratulation?”

And then _____lied:

“[What] I’m doing is I’m standing up for the men and women that have done such an incredible job. Not for me, for the men and women, admirals, vice president … I’m sticking up for those people. Those people have been incredible. I’m also sticking up for doctors and nurses and military doctors and nurses.”

And Diamond pushed:

“But the clips that you played and what you read earlier was praising you and your administration. Why is now the moment to do that? On the day more than 40,000 Americans have now died?”

And _____ snapped:

“You’re CNN. You’re fake news. And let me just tell you, they were excoriated by people like you that don’t know any better because you don’t have the brains you were born with. You should be praising the people that have done a good job, not doing what you do.”

What he’s doing, you ignorant fuckwit, is pointing out that you are standing on the backs of dead Americans and proclaiming your greatness. What he’s doing, is showing the world, and people in this country with brains, that your days are numbered.

And he’s looking hot, while doing it.

Oops, sorry not sorry IMPOTUS, but it appears that most Michigan residents favor Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of the coronavirus over your response.

Even after protestors terrorists descended upon Lansing with their Swastikas and Confederate flags and _____ signs.

Reminiscent of the protestor in Tiananmen Square who stomped a tank while blocking the road, two nurses in Denver, Colorado stood in the street in masks and scrubs and blocked anti-quarantine protesters.

A woman can be seen brandishing a ‘Land of the Free’ poster at the worker while screaming at him and raising her fists from inside her car. The woman yells at the nurse, asking him why she wasn’t allowed to go to work while he could.

Um, he’s a nurse, and you probably sell swatches at Hobby lobby, Freedumber.

Good on the nurses. Stand strong. Stand back.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was mocked as “Nancy Antoinette” last week for showing off her freezer filled with boutique ice cream that goes for $13 a pint.

Republicans went apeshit, though they say nothing about _____ and his gold toilet.

More sorry, not sorry … the _____ Family of Con Artist and Grifters who old one of his cheesy hotels there in DC has inquired about changing its lease payments to the federal government; the rent is approximately $268,000 per month.

The _____ Organization owns and operates the luxury hotel, but it is in a federally owned building and as part of its deal to open the hotel, the company signed a 60-year lease in 2013 that requires the monthly payments to the General Services Administration.

Oops, sounds like another bad investment to a family of thieves and liars. Sorry, not sorry.

And finally, a Lockdown Hottie … Gil Soares, international model and now … realtor!

After moving from his home in Portugal to the US, Gil spent 7 years traveling the world as a model, living in New York and Los Angeles before settling down in West Hollywood.

And loving life there, he chose to become a realtor, selling homes in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. I wonder if he has open houses in his undies.

Or less.

Just sayin’.

Tuesday Thought #2