Bobservations

The other day, I was telling Carlos about my Stanley Tucci quote from last week about actors playing all kinds of roles; I told him that Tucci was speaking specifically about straight actors playing gay roles and Carlos said this:

“

Stanley Tucci was in a gang?”

Oh, but he did.

Seriously. A thin piece of cloth out in public … staying away from people …no large groups … and maybe we wouldn’t be mourning lives lost.

Personal note: our good friends, the former Round-The-Way-Gays Neal and David both tested positive for COVID after Christmas. Luckily, they came through it fairly easily, and are both feeling better, but a friend of theirs tested positive last month and he sadly passed away week later.

FOX Business canned its highest-rated host Lou Dobbs in the wake of  a $2.7 billion defamation suit filed against the network, and Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, and Maria Bartiromo, by the voting software company Smartmatic.

Smartmatic claims those FOX hosts perpetuated lies and disinformation about the company’s role in the election, damaging its business and reputation. While Dobbs remains under contract at Fox News, in all likelihood he will never  appear on the network again.

Sorry, not sorry.

Last week Marjorie Traitor Greene faux-pologized about being a QAnon loon, saying she was just a “dabbler” in the conspiracy theory network, but in 2018 she actually endorsed “Frazzledrip,” one of the more sickening of the nutbag movement’s mythology.

Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video purported to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting and disfiguring a young girl, and then drinking her blood. The theory goes on to say that several police officers saw the video, and then  Clinton had them killed.

And that’s Marjorie Traitor Greene. Are you listening Georgia?

In 2016 Terrill Thomas, a Black man, was arrested after firing a gun in Potawatomi casino; family members believe he was having a psychotic episode and was said to be afflicted with bipolar disorder. Thomas was denied water while jailed and died after seven days in custody.

In 2021, Jacob Chansley, a white man, stormed the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn election results, and this week he was moved to a Virginia jail so corrections officials can provide him with organic food.

If you read this and still think there is no such thing as systemic racism in this country, then you are part of the problem.

This week, shortly after the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl, thousands of people flocked to streets of Tampa, Florida, many ignoring mask rules and social distancing,

I imagine the numbers going up in Tampa soon, though there might be fewer people celebrating that in the streets.

Mask it or casket, people.

In sad news, Mary Wilson, one of the founding members of The Supremes, passed away this week, quite suddenly, at the age of 76.

In the 1960s; The Supremes were it: the Motown Sound; the Sound of Young America; the Detroit Sound. The Supremes had 12 Number 1 pop hits from 1964-69 and are the only all-girl group to score five Number 1 singles in a row; they also had 16 Top Ten pop singles and 19 Top Ten R&B singles.

Mary wasn’t as well-known as Diana Ross, but keep in mind, without Mary and Florence and Diana opening the doors, there would be no Beyoncé or Alicia Keys or Jennifer Hudson or …or…or…

RIP Diva. 

Over there to Iran, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian, a cleric in the city of Qom, issued a warning that the COVID-19 vaccine is turning people gay.

Yes. He did. Like other clerics, Tabrizian relates all negativity to sexuality but what many don’t realize is that his actual goal in spreading this ridiculous misinformation is to keep the Iranian people fearful of the vaccine so that only those in power can have it.

Rastislav Tanistrak is a Silver Fox gay male model and LGBTQ+ activist born in Slovakia, but raised in the UK, and he very clearly smolders. He gives good face, but he’s kinda stingy with the hand placement.

And yet briefly speaking, he really delivers ... backwards, forwards, sideways.

Clothed or not … preferably not … he is quite a handsome fella.