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I don’t really have a Carlos story this week, but I have one about Rosita and Tuxedo and MaxGoldberg, and a conversation Carlos and I had. It feels like a reincarnation story, except that Rosita was born before Max and Tuxedo passed, so maybe it’s more of a friendly possession tale?

We have decided that Rosita is somehow possessed by both Max and Tuxedo because of very specific things she does that they did. Both MaxGoldberg and now Rosita love to crawl onto Carlos while he’s sitting in a chair, put their butts down on his stomach, and then lay their front paws across the arm of the chair while he pats them. I look at them and I see Max … and then the other morning while having breakfast, Rosita them jumped behind Carlos on his chair, which is also something Max used to do.

As for the Tuxedo connection, one of his favorite spots to nap, and he was the only cat we’ve had do this, was to jump onto the clothes hamper, and then leap to a closet shelf six feet off the ground, curl up and nap; and not too long after bringing her home, I found Rosita in the same spot. And this week, Rosita has been disappearing for a few minutes and then coming back out to us with wet paws and a wet head; just like Tuxedo who would get into the tub after we’d showered and let the water dripping from the shower head drench him, which is what I found Rosita doing this morning.

Add all that up with the fact that Rosita looks a little like a Tuxedo cat, except she’s gray, and that MaxGoldberg was a gray cat and … yes, Carlos and I are slightly nuts.

This Tuxedo Repost is from March 2011, shortly after we adopted Consuelo Roca Jones and wondered how the two boys would take to another cat:

"Tuxedo Caturday

I LOVE  that face!

We were worried about Tuxedo getting on with Miss Jones when she came to live with us. He was leery of MaxGoldberg when Max first came along—though they are best buddies now. He was leery of Tallulah when she first moved in and is still leery of her now because she's one crazy bitch. So, when Consuelo moved in, we watched him, but then he started playing with her and chasing her and letting her chase him; it's like he's her big brother.

Just adorable."

Tuxedo was always easy going with the other cats and with people who came into our house; he was never the cat who hid, he was the cat who came out to say ‘Hello.’

Hundreds of law enforcement officers responded to an active shooting situation in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood yesterday after Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies went to a residence to serve an eviction notice and the suspect began shooting.

Just another day in the United States of Guns.

In South Carolina, where it’s not the heat but the stupidity, the state’s new all-male Supreme Court reversed course on abortion and upheld a near-total abortion ban.

Women, rise up.

Yesterday Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and Jenna Ellis turned themselves into Georgia police for their part in The Big Lie to circumvent a free and fair election.

Rudy looks three sheets to the wind, while Sydney has mastered the Kraken face, and Jenna Ellis seems to be reliving her prom photo. Now we’re just waiting for Mr-former-fake-one-term-twice-impeached-currently-four-time-criminally-indicted-not-my-president-gurl—hat tip to Randy Rainbow—to step up for his mugshot and there are already bets on what color orange his mug might be:

Marm-a-Lago Orange +500

Geriatric Ginger +600

Presidential Pumpkin +600

Ballot-rigged Bronze +700

Twitter Tan +800

MAGA Mango +800

I kinda like MAGA Mango personally. What’s your bet?

Kristi Maris, a teacher at a Christian school in Texas, was fired for attending a drag show and sharing pictures of it on social media.

Yes; Maris was fired from First Baptist Academy, where she had taught physical education for 19 years, after watching a drag show at the Houston’s Hamburger Mary’s restaurant with a coworker and her adult daughters; her co-worker was also fired … for what they do on their day off with their grown children.

Fuck Texas.

Hamburger Mary’s has organized a GoFundMe to support Maris and her colleague, raising over $10,000 so far. In addition, the restaurant will also host a fundraising event for the pair on August 3.

Laura Ann Carleton, a store owner in Lake Arrowhead, was murdered in her shop after a man shot and killed her over her displaying a Pride Flag. Deputies found Carleton dead, and then chased the suspect, armed with a handgun, down and shot him and killed him.

This is Hate, y’all, plain and simple, and I’ll explain why: had that guy killed Carleton because he wanted the money in the cash register, which would have been hateful, but he murdered her because she flew a Pride flag; that’s Hate. And what makes it even more vile is that Laura Ann Carleton was a straight, married woman with nine children who just happened to be an LGBTQ+ ally.

This is a Hate Crime.

This overweight guy was watching TV when a commercial came on for a guaranteed weight loss of 10 pounds in a week. So the guy, thinking what the hell, signs up for it.

The next morning an incredibly beautiful woman is standing at his door in nothing but a pair of running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads:

"If you can catch me, you can have me."

As soon as he sees her, she takes off running. He tries to catch her but is unable. This continues for a week, at the end of which, the man has lost 10 pounds.

He then opts for the next weight loss plan, 15 pounds in a week. And the next morning an even more beautiful woman is standing at the door, in similar conditions. The same happens with her as the first woman, except he almost catches her. This continues for a week, at the end of which he, as suspected, weighs 15 pounds less.

Excited about this success, he decides to do the master program but before he signs up, he is required to sign a waiver and is warned about the intensity of this plan. Still he signs up and the next morning, waiting at the door, is a hulking ripped muscle man with nothing but a pair of running shoes, a raging erection, and a sign around his neck that says:

"If I catch you, you're mine!"

The man was supposed to lose 25 pounds in the week; he lost 34.

Funny, it didn’t work that way for me …

This is Marin Barba-Rosie who was spotted by a photographer while working as a waiter on a beach in Italy but that’s not important … Would You Hit It?