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Last Friday we took Rosita to the vet for her post-adoption checkup; she’d had all her shots and been spayed, but they ask that you have the new pet checked out.

We were pleasantly surprised at how easygoing she was in car, in the waiting room, and then being poked and prodded by our vet—who is dreamy AF, by the way. But they could not get a stool sample from her so they sent us home with a small tube to, um, collect the sample. And, even with his eyesight, the rule is Carlos takes care of what comes out of the cats, so I put him in charge of collections.

He came to me Tuesday morning and asked if I had time to stop at the vet’s office as he had done his part; and, to show me his work, he held up a blue latex glove with one of the fingers tied off. I tell him the sample should be in the tube provided and he said just take it in the glove and we went back and forth with this until I finally said, somewhat loudly so the neighbors might hear:

“I am not taking a glove full of cat poop to the vet!!”

I never thought that was a sentence I would utter … but the sample was put into the tube, and then the receptionist and I laughed about Carlos, and then every single one of my co-workers and I laughed about Carlos, and the woman at the take-out counter at Masa and I laughed about it,

Good times.

From April 2010, Tuxedo takes his first political stance:

“Tuxedo Says Boycott Arizona

As a "cat of color" Tuxedo sympathizes with those men and women who are subjected to the Show-me-your-papers laws of Arizona and has decided to go into hiding himself because he does not have the proper documentation.”

Luckily, he was never stopped by Arizona PD.

The man—and I won’t name him because he deserves no notoriety—who murdered five people and shot forty-six others at the LGBTQ bar Club Q in Colorado Springs has pleaded guilty to five counts of murder in the first degree, and 46 counts of attempted murder in the first degree. He will five consecutive life sentences without the possibility for parole and will also receive 46 consecutive 48-year sentences for the attempted murder counts.

Good.Bye.

In Delaware, state Senator Sarah McBride, the country’s highest-ranking transgender elected official, announced her candidacy to become Delaware’s next sole congressperson.

If elected, McBride would become the first trans person elected to federal office.

Do this, Delaware.

Earlier this week, stuck in traffic, listening to a local radio station, there was one of those Be Caller 15 contests, and, with nothing to do, I called the station:

“Congratulations! You’re caller 15! Answer this next question correctly and win the Grand Prize!”

“Woo hoo!!”

“It’s a math question, are you feeling confident?”

“I love math, go ahead.”

“Okay get this question right and win two tickets and a backstage pass to see Taylor Swift in Columbia. What’s 2 + 2?

“Seven.”

Oh darn. Missed it by that much.

This week the Supreme Court dismissed Louisiana’s appeal seeking to prevent the state’s congressional map from being redrawn over claims that it unlawfully dilutes the influence of Black voters. The move was expected after the Court’s ruling in a similar case concerning congressional districts in Alabama.

Nice moves by the Court. This time.

Over the weekend our refrigerator decided to go to appliance heaven but we thought we might try to resuscitate it and set about cleaning filters and fans and such to keep the old girl cold. Carlos was on the floor behind the machine trying to remove the back panel to get to the fan, when I asked if he wanted a flashlight:

“What’s a flashlight gonna do for me?”

We laughed but then cut to an hour later when we went off to buy a new refrigerator and as I waited in the car, Carlos came into the kitchen and began … wait for it … it makes no sense … shutting off the lights.

How did he know they were on? I think he’s gaslighting me.

Texas Governor, asshat, Greg Abbott took to Twitter to blast country music icon Garth Brooks for being “woke" ... Brooks is opening a bar in Nashville and he will serve Bud Light, the beer the GOP fears.

But this is about a story Abbott read a story about Brooks on satire website The Dunning-Kruger Times that claims Brooks was booed off the stage at the 123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree in Hambriston, Texas.

Never happened, because there is no such thing as the Annual Texas Country Jamboree , and there is no such town in Texas called Hambriston, something the governor should have known if he was woke, and then he might not have Tweeted:

“Go woke. Go broke. Good job, Texas.”

As soon as Abbott learned, again, that he’s a moron, he deleted the tweet but as the internet is forever and Abbott’s stupidity will live on.

As for Garth Brooks, he has been a longtime supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and his net worth is roughly half a billion dollars so he’s literally wok and nowhere near broke.

PS Fuck off Greg Abbott.

This is out actor and model Brandon Flynn, who stars in a new campaign from Calvin Klein but that’s neither here nor there: Would You Hit It?