I Should Be Laughing: George Floyd

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Thursday, July 01, 2021

Bobservations

The other day Carlos came out of the sunroom and shouted:

“Well, fuck you, too!”

… and went into the kitchen.

“What’s going on?”

“Tuxedo wants to go outside.”

Sidenote: the cats do not go outside, but we take Tuxedo out and let him sit with us from time to time, and Carlos will carry him around the yard every so often. But it’s gotten to the point where Tuxedo’s ‘Meow’ has lost its first syllable and now it sounds like he’s saying ‘Out!’ And he asks all the time, hence Carlos’s mood shift.

“Take him outside if you want.”

“I told him ‘No’ and he told me to ‘Fuck off.’”

I know this is impossible because Tuxedo does not swear.

Speaking of Tuxedo, he really likes humans, but he definitely doesn’t understand y’all …

A statue honoring George Floyd in Brooklyn was vandalized with black spray paint and the name of a white supremacist group—Patriot Front—last week. The statue had been unveiled just a week earlier, on Juneteenth.

Patriot Front also claimed responsibility for vandalizing a mural commemorating Floyd in Philadelphia.

Note to Patriot Front: you aren’t Patriots, you’re racist, ignorant, uneducated fools, and will stay that way until the day y’all die. Which, and I hate to act like this, cannot come soon enough for me.

Just a thought … if you don’t want to teach kids about slavery and want to preserve Confederate monuments, that’s call it Hypocritical Race Theory.

If you ever wondered just how dumb MAGAts are, these two are on their way to the Thing 45 rally in Ohio last weekend. Does anyone wanna tell them? Or perhaps this means they are Mr. and Mrs. Black?

The temperature recorded in a part of Canada this weekend was 116-degrees, the highest ever recorded in the country. On Sunday, the temperature in Portland Oregon was 122-degrees, breaking a long-standing record.

But, yeah, let’s not talk about climate change.

In the Fucked-Up File … former Oregon state Representative Mike Nearman has emerged as the GOP’s top choice to retake the House seat he just lost after being expelled from the Oregon House once video footage emerged showing him planning a December incursion into the Capitol by right-wing demonstrators and then opening the doors to let the rioters inside.

He was kicked out of office, and now the Oregon state GOP think he’s the guy to take the job … again.

This week the House approved legislation to remove Confederate statues from the US Capitol, as well as a bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision that ruled Black people were not entitled to citizenship. The legislation passed with a vote of 285 to 120.

Nice; nicer that 67 Republicans joined all the Democrats voting in favor of the bill., but shocking[?] that 120 Republicans voted against it.

After vowing not to support GOP lawmakers who perpetuated the Big Lie, nearly three-dozen corporate PACs are again donating to those same RepubliQAnons. Toyota leads the way, giving $55,000 to 37 GQP candidates. And now Toyota is spinning this hypocrisy with this statement:

"We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification."

A 180-degree turn from where they stood just a couple of months ago. Fuck Toyota.

Elliot Meeten is 25-year-old model from the UK. He was discovered by a hairstylist when he was seventeen. He submitted his own photos to modeling agencies and signed with Models 1. I He gives great face … I was gonna say head but, well …

He looks lovely, briefly, and would like you to know that if he wasn’t a model he’d be working in either clean energy development or wildlife conservation; so, he’s smart and aware and hot?

But he does love shiny haute couture, and, obviously, ping pong, as well as the occasional grope.

And that ass … on the nude beach. Elliot relaxes when he’s home in Brighton & Hove, where a good day consists of a nice lay in, a round of golf with my friends at a beautiful golf course, and then to a nice Thai restaurant in the evening with my girlfriend.

He had me at lay in, lost me at golf, picked me up again at Thai food and lost me at girlfriend. Sigh.

Monday, June 14, 2021

Citizen Journalist Darnella Frazier Honored by Pulitzer Board

Another week upon us and I need some good news to get things pumping, and I found it in Darnella Frazier.

She was the young woman who recorded a police officer, aided and abetted by other police officers, murder George Floyd. She stood on that sidewalk with her cell phone filming the entire gruesome vile episode in one single shot, and I believe it was her video that most convinced the jury to find Derek Chauvin guilty of murder.

And now the Pulitzer Board—yes, that Pulitzer—has given Darnella Frazier a special citation for the video that she says has haunted her since that day in May last year. The citation at the 2021 Pulitzer Prize ceremony is a rare instance of the board recognizing the journalistic achievement of someone with no professional experience in the field, something dubbed “citizen journalism”. The Pulitzer Board called Darnella Frazier an example of “the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quest for truth and justice” and recognized her recording as a “transformative video that jolted viewers and spurred protests against police brutality around the world.”

And finally held a police officer fully accountable in the murder of a Black American.

Her video has been compared to the video—made by George Holliday—of Rodney King being beaten by LA police officers during a 1991 traffic stop, and the video of a New York City police officer—filmed by Ramsey Orta—choking Eric Garner to death for celling “loose” cigarettes.

Darnella Frazier was also awarded the 2020 Benenson Courage Award from PEN America, presented to her by filmmaker Spike Lee.

On the first anniversary of Floyd’s murder, Darnella Frazier wrote about the lingering trauma in a message on Facebook.

“A lot of people call me a hero even though I don’t see myself as one. I was just in the right place at the right time. Behind this smile, behind these awards, behind the publicity, I’m a girl trying to heal from something I am reminded of every day.”

Darnella Frazier, in her own way, has started a healing in this country and so, yeah, I’d call her a hero.