Bobservations

We buy an eco-friendly laundry detergent that comes with a measuring cap and a spigot for you to measure the correct amount per load. But the last time we bought detergent they had a different eco-friendly soap, and I told Carlos we’d buy that one. Cut to Monday and Carlos washing the towels. I hear a scream…

“Oh … OH …OOOOOHHHHH!”

“What happened?”

“Nothing.”

“What happened?”

“Nothing.”

I walk into the laundry room.

“What happened?”

“I thought it had a spigot so I set the bottle on its side and took the cap off.”

Well, if one capful of detergent cleans the towels, I think 5 capfuls should be even better. Right?

Is anyone really surprised that after living with me for seventeen years Tuxedo is a liberal?

Imagine there’s no countries … at the Olympics. Well, the good folks at Outsports are tracking a subset of Olympians, those LGBTQ+ Olympians, and the information they gathered is interesting.

There are 179 LGBTQ+ athletes in Tokyo, with more perhaps coming out as the fames progress. And out LGBTQ+ athletes have won 19 medals as of this past Sunday: 6 Gold; 7 Silver; 6 Bronze. So, if LGBTQ+ was a country then Team LGBTQ+ is in 7th place for more Gold and 8th place among all countries for total medals won. The only countries with more Gold are China, the USA, Japan, Australia, Russia and Great Britain.

Seriously. And hearing this brought to mind one of the favorite things I’ve ever read. This is from the Preston Reese, a Letter to the Editor of the Sacramento Bee from 1999:

“Is homosexuality a ‘soul-deadening’ perversion? Let’s try an experiment:

I’m going to rip out the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling; burn Handel’s Messiah; slash the Mona Lisa; bury Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’; incinerate every Tchaikovsky score; torch every Greta Garbo film; ban every Bessie Smith song; and grind every Marlene Dietrich performance to dust.

Then we can evaluate what kind of ‘soul-deadening’ world we would live in without gay people.”

Good stuff.

While some music festivals were canceled this year because of a pandemic or something, the Lollapalooza, or as I will call, the Lollapaloser Festival went on as usual.

Oh, the festival team said they took precautions. For example, attendees had to provide a printed copy of their COVID-19 vaccine card or show their negative coronavirus test results within 72 hours of entering. Non-vaccinated types were also told to wear a mask while inside the festival. And as we know—you can’t buy a fake vaccine card and no one has ever taken their mask off when they were not supposed to.

Lollapalosers.

David Byrd, a Tennessee GOP legislator who went from unmasked gatherings with fellow legislators to being placed on ventilator for 55 days after being diagnosed with COVID-19, having his memory ravaged, his muscles and organs ravaged—which led to him having a liver transplant—wants y’all to know that COVID is serious.

Thanks Dave, but I realized as much when the doctors and nurses and scientists and medical professionals told me. I didn’t need to almost die, coming so close that my family, like yours, needed to pray for me to live, and I didn’t need any new organs.

But thanks for the message anyway.

In another example of Republican stupidity, Wisconsin GQP wingnut Senator Ron Johnson says he is not in favor of vaccine mandates, though he says an “incredibly deadly disease” could change his mind.

I guess the more than 610,000+ COVID-related deaths in this country are not enough for this loon to take it seriously.

Former Alaska governor, until she quit halfway through her term,  and failed vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin has said she would run for the U.S. Senate if God wanted her to.

Hey Sarah? God called, and She said we’re good. And She’d like you to continue watching Russia from your house.

Tennessee has sent half a million dollars to farmers who have vaccinated their cattle against respiratory diseases and other maladies over the past two years, but GQP Governor Bill Lee is less concerned about herd immunity for COVID-19 among humans.

He seriously cares more about cattle than citizens.

Harry Rowley is a British model and fitness enthusiast who knows how to rock the blond hair—he gives me sexy vampire—and give good face.

He first got noticed when one of his neighbors in Warwick, England, whose daughter was a model,  suggested he try her agency, Models One in London and that led to a very promising career. He really pulls off any outfit, and could pull off mine if he’s so inclined …

… Or, by the looks of these photos he does quite well pulling off his own outfits. That’s all.