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We recently received a recall notice for our car, and so Carlos called the dealership and set up the appointment; he said, and I quote:

“They open at 7 AM.”

The night before the appointment, I reminded him we needed to leave the house about 6:45 to get the car in, and he was quite unhappy not to have a leisurely breakfast. But we got him up and dressed and ready to go and arrived at the dealership about five minutes early. The place was pitch dark, and there were no other cars around. I asked:

“Are you sure the appointment is at seven?”

“Yes, I put it on my calendar with Siri … Hey Siri, do I have any appointments today?”

“You have one appointment scheduled. 7:45 AM recall on car.”

And yes, we sat and waited the forty-five minutes so I could torture him about his memory.

Here’s another Tuxedo story, and pictures, from March 22, 2009

“A Sunday Tuxedo raises his eyes toward Heaven and prays to the cat gods that there will be fish for dinner.

And when he realizes it'll be a dish of dry stuff like every day, he pouts.

And does his best Camille impression.

Or Tuxedo of the Jungle....or Bond Tuxedo Bond.”

Sidenote: The other morning I went to the bedroom to make the bed and started patting down the covers because Tuxedo used to crawl underneath and sleep. Carlos came in and asked what I was doing and I started to say, ‘Looking for Tuxedo.’

And the tears came again.

That darn cat will always be in my head and heart.

In Denver yesterday a student shot two high school administrators, Good thing he wasn’t reading a banned book … or learning history … or saying gay … in the United States of Guns.

The Walt Disney Company will host a major conference promoting LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace in Central Florida this September, in a defiant display of the limits of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis De Fascists’ campaign against diversity training.

Joining Disney will be Apple, McDonald’s, Uber, Walmart, Hilton, Amazon, Boeing, Cracker Barrel and John Deere who are all sponsoring the Out & Equal Workplace summit.

And they will be saying Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender.

A man and his wife, along with their three small children, were checking into a hotel, and after getting the room key, the father leaned over the counter and whispered to the front desk clerk:

“I hope the porn is disabled.”

And the desk clerk replied:

“It’s all regular porn, you sick fuck.”

It’s all in the phrasing.

I haven’t talked much about our lone cat, Consuelo, since we lost Tuxedo. She’s been somewhat different; before she was a solitary cat—though she played with Tuxedo and Max when they were still with us—but she's become more social, sleeping on the floor of the living room while we watch TV or read. And while she has never been the kind of cat who likes being picked up, she has taken to letting me put her in my lap, where she will fall asleep after a while.

Still, we think she needs a companion, and after having, at one time, seven cats, having just one feels strange. So we’re getting set to look for a new cat, and a friend who works at an animal shelter was asking what kind we wanted: age, color, gender, all those questions. My only criteria: it cannot be a Tuxedo because we’ve already had the best one and anything else would be a letdown.

But we’re hoping for a younger cat that can keep Consuelo busy but will also get along with an aging tiny dog and a couple of queens.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act which expands basic protections for the LGBTQ community, prohibiting discrimination at schools, offices, and housing, based on a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity.

Whitmer said, as she signed the bill, thanks to a Democrat controlled legislature:

“In the words of Detroit native Lizzo, it’s about damn time!”

It’s about damn time we all vote Blue to end the bigotry and make equality the law.

Thor Bulow is a former fashion model from Germany, and that’s about the end of my knowledge, so I will ask: Would You Hit It?