Random Musings

The first season of FX’s Feud: Bette & Joan hasn’t even started yet—it’s this Sunday, March 5, set your DVRs—but that hasn’t stopped FX from ordering a second season from creator Ryan Murphy.

And season two’s feud? Feud: Charles & Diana! No word on whether this will be the whole marriage, or just the final few years.

But still, since they can’t do Feud: Hillary & Donald, this is the next best thing.

San Francisco has never been a city to shy away from saying what it feels and, well, now this ...

Beginning on February 23rd, and continuing on, San Francisco City Hall will light up with the colors of the transgender flag—pink, white, and light blue—in response to _____’s roll back of protections for transgender students.

I think it looks gorgeous.

So, I was watching GMA this week and they were set to announce the latest contestants on Dancing With The ‘Hey, Didn’t You Used To Be Somebody?’ Stars. And amazingly enough one person who was ALLEGED to have been asked said, “Oh hell no.”

Hillary Clinton. Seriously. They asked Hillary Clinton to appear on their bumbling show.

I mean, who did they think she was: Rick Perry?

In Good LGBT News ... Arizona Wildcats recruit My-King Johnson will become the first openly gay football scholarship player in the NCAA.

King had verbally committed to UCLA before flipping to Arizona possibly, and I don’t know if this is for sure, but possibly because, when he told UA assistant coach Vince Amey about his orientation, Amey said:

“We want you to be a Wildcat.”

And that was what Johnson wanted to hear, and now he’s become a trailblazer of sorts:

“I do feel like when I say that, it can put a target on my back, but whatever.”

Exactly.

Good luck My-King ... ooh, that sounds kinda odd!

So Bates Motel is back for its final season and Mother is dead and Norman’s lost his mind and bodies are piling up at the motel.

And Rihanna is set to play the Janet Leigh role—stabbed in the shower, you know—as the season, and series ends but ...

First we have Austin Nichols, as the husband of a woman, a live woman, that Norman thinks looks suspiciously like Mother.

And Austin might not be such a good guy, but he is deliciously, evilly hot ... Carry on.

Damn it. A week or so ago American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy was on Watch What Happens Live and suggested that the next season of the fright-fest might be the scariest ever because it was going to be based on the election last fall of _____.

Talk about horror! But now Murphy is saying he might have been a wee bit drunk when he said that and walked that idea back:

“The themes of ‘American Horror Story’ have always been allegories. You will not see [Donald] Trump and [Hillary] Clinton as characters on the show.”

He did mention, though, that AHS favorite, Sarah Paulson, would make a perfect Minister of Propaganda and AlternativeFactoid.

While I might have enjoyed a horror version of that horrible election, the idea of reliving that mess for a few months might have been too much even for me.

I love this story ... did you know that when you donate to Planned Parenthood you receive a Thank You letter? And if you donate in someone else’s name they receive a Thank You note? That happened last year when thousand s of folks donated to the cause in the name of Mike Pence and he received thousands of Thank You’s.

And now folks have been donating to Planned Parenthood in the name of Greg Locke, the pastor of something called Global Vision Bible Church and poor Greg has gone off on Facebook ...

‘SINCE PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS TAKING HUNDREDS OF DONATIONS IN MY NAME, I’LL REPOST THIS VIDEO. THIS IS ONE FIGHT I WILL NOT BACK DOWN FROM.”

Easy on the all-caps, Cowboy! Who do you think you are, the president?

Locke is anti-gay, anti-women’s right, anti-choice, anti-transgender, and even went last year posting videos denouncing Target’s gender-neutral bathroom policy.

Locke is also known as a “pervert hunter” though he might not be so good at that because just three years ago he hired a youth pastor who was later arrested on multiple counts of raping a thirteen-year-old girl.

So, if you wish to donate to PP, do it in Greg Locke’s name. Thank you.

So that picture ... of Kellyanne Conway, propped up on the couch in the Oval office looking like a stuffed, dumbassed lapdog, after taking a picture of Hair Furor with representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

What a display of disrespect from the C U Next Tuesday except .... Kellyanne is the victim, y’all:

“I was very busy today and didn’t follow a lot of [the controversy] but I know there are a couple of reports at least showing what happened. And what happened is we had the largest gathering of men and women to date in the Oval Office for a picture. I was being asked to take a picture in a crowded room with the press behind us. I was asked to take a certain angle and was doing exactly that. I certainly meant no disrespect, I didn’t mean to have my feet on the couch. It is venomous, it is vicious, it bothers my children to be frank with you. I have 24/7 Secret Service protection because people do wish us harm and people should take that very seriously. I’m not a victim at all but people should take very seriously the import of their words when I meant no disrespect. This came from a journalist that is not happy that Donald Trump is the President. But I just want people to focus on the great work of the HBCU presidents and how honored we were to have them here.”

Um, Kellyanne, you remarkably dip-shitted tool? No one questions the angle at which you took the picture, but we are wondering why you propped your foul ass on the couch like one of the Queen’s prized Corgi’s and then, after the photo, played tag the picture on Facebook while still sitting on the couch like a dog.

Show some respect in the last days you have in this job. You are an embarrassment. You knew you were being photographed because you said you were in front of a slew of photographers. Seriously, bitch, and I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible, is there one topic about which you will not lie?

That’s a rhetorical question.

Now get off the couch and get back in your kennel.

Random Musings

Well, this is good news, even if I don't watch the show.
Michele Bachmann has declined the offer to appear on the next season of Dancing With The Stars. And in her own, Crazy Eyed Robot way, she released a statement detailing her reluctance to dance: "In full disclosure, I did win a polka dancing competition when I was in the tenth grade at my alma mater, Anoka High School....But, despite my tenth grade polka success and my lifelong love of ballroom dancing, the recent rumors are false. I will not be joining 'Dancing with the Stars.'"
Crazy Eyes and Two Left Feet! That might have been fun to watch.
In related news, Herman Cain turned them down too. Which is sad, because he would have been paid to grope.
Just sayin'.

So, the New Jersey state Senate on passed a bill this week to recognize same-sex marriages, even though Governor Chris "Krispy Kreme" Christie has vowed to veto it. should it cross his desk.
Because he's fat. And a homophobe. And a panderer to the right-wing. And fat.
Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality: "It means the world isn't changing, it means the world has already changed. So wake up and smell the equality."
But, even if Krispy vetoes it, and even if there aren't enough votes to override his big fat veto, the tide is changing.
If not this time, then soon, eh, New Jersey?

And then in Maryland, two House committees have voted to send Governor Martin O'Malley's bill to legalize same-sex marriage to the floor. The full House is expected to debate the bill.
Supporters have predicted that the bill would move to the floor only if House leaders thought they could win there. Last year the bill passed in the Senate but was pulled in the House when supporters concluded that they were a few votes shy of passage.
If the measure wins approval, Maryland would become the eighth state to allow same-sex marriages. And with Illinois and New Jersey moving forward, we have a push for equality like we've never seen before.

And then there's Ohio.
Two prominent Democrats--Columbus City Council President Andrew Ginther and Franklin County Commissioner John O’Grady--signed on to lead a statewide effort to give gay people the right to marry.
Ginther and O’Grady are two of the three chairmen of Ohio Leaders for Freedom to Marry; the third is former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan.
In 2004, Ohio voters approved an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, and Ginther said it’s too soon to discuss whether the group would aim to overturn that amendment.
About 45 candidates, government officials and businesses have signed on to Ohio Leaders for Freedom to Marry, according to a list issued by Equality Ohio, and, naturally, almost all are Democrats.
Go Ohio. Join the march toward equality.

And then, out in Colorado, in his State of the State address, Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper urged lawmakers to pass civil unions, and more Republicans have expressed public support for the measure.
Republicans? Republicans.
Hundreds of gay couples packed a hearing room last week at the state Capitol to plead with lawmakers to give them the same legal protections as heterosexual couples. A Senate committee approved civil unions legislation after hours of emotional testimony on a 5-2 vote, with one Republican senator joining Democrats. The bill is expected to easily clear the full Senate. The real challenge will be in the Republican-controlled House.
Republican Senator Kevin Lundberg, one of the opponents of the bill, said it undermines traditional marriage--but, of course, does not say how because there's no truth to that old chestnut--and said that it goes against the wishes of Colorado voters, who banned gay marriage in 2006--when fear ruled the ballot box.
Hey Ricky? Get with the program. Marriage equality is happening and if you keep up this idiotic stance, you'll find yourself unemployed, and unelectable.
But, that works for me.

And now, off the marriage equality topic, a wee rant.
I am sick and tired of the news media and even people on the street commenting about "poor" Whitney Houston's death from drugs. How that "poor" girl was a victim of...something. Bobby Brown. The music industry.
These are the same folks who said nearly the same thing when Michael Jackson died.
But when Amy Winehouse died, she was a drug addict....a crack addict...something that was all her fault and she probably deserved to die.
Houston, Jackson and Winehouse were all drug addicts, whether street drugs, prescription drugs, or booze. They were all addicts and in some way shape or form, their addictions lead to their deaths.
Drug addicts? Yes. Victims? Perhaps, but victims of their own demons and choices.
Sidenote: Quit blaming Bobby Brown for Whitney's issues. They have been apart for several years now and she's had a couple of trips to rehab since then. If she was suing prescription drugs--and other things--that's on her. Not him. 

While Chick-fil-A denies having an "agenda against anyone," an investigation by Equality Matters revealed that Chick-fil-A's charitable arm, WinShape, has donated nearly $2 million to anti-gay groups in 2009 alone. And in New York City, the only Chick-fil-A is located in a cafeteria in an NYU dorm.
And since NYU prides itself on being a diverse, open and inclusive campus community, maintaining a contract with an anti-gay vendor like Chick-fil-A undermines what makes this university so great. Now. while the NYU Student Senators Council voted not to remove vendors for political reasons, they did retain that the school could remove vendors that violate human or labor rights. And since, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced, "gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights." students at NYU are asking that Chick-fil-A be removed from the campus.
Good for NYU.

I am loving RuPaul's Drag Race this season, mainly because the one dragtestant I thought was never gonna get anywhere is now my absolute favorite.
i am loving me some Sharon Needles.
Though I hope she doesn't because the one-note, kinda always being creepy Drag Queen.
She's faboosh.

DWTS Gets Politcal!???!?

Huh? What?

Niecy Nash and Louis van Amstel dance "The Struggle"many of us have had to face.