Bobservations

The other morning, as I was preparing to drive Carlos to work, he came into the kitchen wearing a snappy little ensemble of blazer, bowtie, and nice slacks. He reminded me that in the afternoon I’d be driving him to Columbia where he was going to do a radio show for the Hispanic community.So, I looked him up and down in that outfit and said:

“It’s radio. You know they can’t see you, right?”

“I know that! But I’m getting my picture taken for the newspaper today.”

Now, being a sarcastic ass, and hating to have used snark only to watch it fall flat, I smiled and said:

“Make sure they use that Lucille Ball Mame lens when they take the picture.”

“What does that mean?”

“it’s the lens they used on Lucy when she did Mame and they seared Vaseline all over it to make her look about three decades younger. Ask for that lens.”

Yep, still got it.

PS Here's Lucy without the Vaseline and gauze, and then Lucy with the Vaseline and gauze.

It appears that Democratic Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado is considering a run for president.  My one question is: who the eff is Michael Bennet?

Here’s a nice story … a sacred pipe, given as a peace offering by a Dakota chief White Dog to Lieutenant King, a U.S. soldier, while the chief was being held prisoner after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, has been returned to the tribe one-hundred-fifty years later.

The pipe, which had been owned by a Boston family since the 1880s, was put up for auction last week over the objection of the Prairie Island nation, which regarded it as a sacred object, but the auction went ahead as planned. The pipe expected to fetch $15,000 to $20,000 but sold to an anonymous bidder for nearly $40,000.

And then the anonymous bidder returned the pipe to the tribe. Just in time for Christmas.

Now, he may not want you to know this, but Mick Mulvaney, set to become the _____'s Acting Chief of Staff, is another _____ lapdog who once felt differently about the Fat Bastard; in fact, after hearing that "Access Hollywood" tape, Mulvaney:

"My guess is worse stuff is going to come out in the last 30 days. They've got more videotapes. Everything the guy's ever said is on a videotape or an audio tape. There is going to be some atrocious things that are gonna come out. [But] that’s not going to make Hillary Clinton a good candidate for president. Should either of these people be, be a role model for my 16-year-old triplets? No. In an ordinary universe, would both of these people's past activities disqualify them for serving for office? Yes.”

Cut to 2018 and Mulvaney is _____’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and soon to be acting CoS.

That’s politics in a nutshell.

More good news … this week, former and best, President Barack Obama doled out present to children at Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC.

That’s my president and, well, I’m just gonna say it, it’s also my Hot Santa.

Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court, is no longer a registered Republican because of the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the _____ Administration’s treatment of immigrants.

Cantil-Sakauye was appointed in 2010 by then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but is now registered as a no-party-preference voter and as she put it:

“I felt compelled to make a choice now. It better suits what I do and how I approach issues.”

Brava.

I may not know art, but I know what I like … and that painting, by out gay artist David Hockney, is expected to sell for $38 million at auction.

The portrait features Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler and his then-boyfriend, painter Christopher Scott.

If I had $38 million, I could find better uses for it. Just sayin’.

Before we get to some Hot Men …though we’ve already swooned over Hot Santa, that’s ______’s worst nightmare up there.

Three strong women—The Notorious RBG, Hillary Clinton, and Gloria Steinem—at the premiere for On The Basis of Sex, a movie about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life.

Oh, and since we talked hot men, the film also stars My-Husband-In-My-Head, Armie Hammer, as RBG’s husband Martin. And since it does, here he is …

Um .... Yum.

Three men from Nightflyers, some kind of science fiction show I recorded for Carlos because he loves that kinda stuff.

I’ll be there for the man candy … Eoin Macken, David Ajala, and Phillip Rhys.

That’s all.