Random Musings

After the story broke that Kevin Spacey had tried to molest 14-year-old actor, Anthony Rapp, thirty years ago, it was announced that this next season of Spacey’s Netflix how, House of Cards, would be its last.

Now, though, production of the upcoming sixth and final season of the show has been suspended indefinitely:

“MRC and Netflix have decided to suspend production oh House of Cards season six, until further notice, to give us time to review the current situation and to address any concerns of our cast and crew.”

Good. I mean, if thirty year old assault charges against Harvey Weinstein force him out of a job, the same should be done to Kevin Spacey. It doesn’t matter how many victims ... one is too many ... no matter the gender or sexual orientation.

Oh, and let’s add director Brett Ratner, Dustin Hoffman and Jeremy Piven to the list of men who have sexually assaulted or harassed women.

Also speaking out about sexual harassment in Hollywood is actor Gilles Marini, who played Samantha’s neighbor Dante on Sex and the City for two seasons, who says that after his appearance on the show he “became a piece of meat for many executives in Hollywood.”

Without offering any specifics about the unwanted sexual advances, Marini says:

“I didn’t have to talk about it because I told them to their face that this is not going to fly, this is not who I am. … If this job entails me bending over, it’s not going to work for me.”

And he spoke about the difficulty for men to come forward because it’s emasculating:

“I didn’t see many men use the hashtag #MeToo. And the reason is because it’s a stigma, it’s a shame, you lose your manhood. When a young man is affected by being raped, or sexually harassed, or touched … you will never hear [about it] — but those people exist.”

Marini finished up by saying that Harvey Weinstein should have gone to jail rather than a week-long stint in a sex rehab facility.

George Papadopoulos is a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to _____'s 2016 presidential campaign and has plead guilty to lying to the FBI and now _____ and his cadre of liars and traitors are trying to downplay his role as that of a volunteer and a, wait for it, it’s rich, “coffee boy.”

Yes, the coffee boy who arranged meetings with Russia and had contact with The Keebler Elf, Jeff Sessions, and who allegedly wore a wire to work ....

This is getting juicy.

D’ya ever notice how it’s always rather diminutive men who climb down from those monstrous pickup trucks?

Just sayin’ ... overcompensating much?

Oops, is _____ already deciding not to run for reelection?

Senator Rand Paul says that even though _____ is out raising millions for a 2020 campaign, no one should assume he's running. And Paul isn’t the first to suggest that _____ will be a One-No-Hit-Wonder; _____ BFF, and fellow Fast Bastard, Chris Christie said:

"If he runs again I would support him, yes, but I'm not so sure what will happen."

And we all know _____ hates to be a loser, even though he’s The Biggest Loser, so the idea of him leaving office after one term is not so far-fetched.

Now, onto _____’s Little Bitch, Junior ... he went on a so-called “peasant hunt” with racist alt-right asshat, Steve King.

Now, clearly, it was meant to be a pheasant hunt, but Steve King is stupid and can’t spell.

I’m’a just put this out there, because you know who you are ... if you’re unloading your grocery cart on that moveable belt at the checkout stand and someone comes in line behind you, put that plastic bar at the  end of your stuff as a courtesy to people.

I don’t wanna cause a riot in a grocery store ... again.

The One Million Moms—which is more like 40,000 moms—is enraged over the Disney Channel’s groundbreaking introduction of a gay character into its series Andi Mack:

“What is wrong with having family-friendly content that is acceptable for all ages or even leaving a couple of networks solely for children’s entertainment? ... As one of only a few channels catering to children, it cannot possibly be that Disney Channel has a financial need for more adult viewers [but] by choosing to abandon family-friendly entertainment, Disney’s inexplicable choice to move toward more “adult” fare may ultimately prove to be a huge mistake.”

And Disney isn’t budging on this because Disney knows that gay people exist in every single family out there ...

Like this one ... Amber Cantorna, the daughter of an executive at Focus on the Family, a rabidly anti-LGBT Hate Group, has come out as gay in her memoir, Refocusing My Family: Coming Out, Being Cast Out, and Discovering the True Love of God, and stating:

“My Focus on the Family upbringing had taught me that the LGBTQ community were basically the archenemy of Christianity and were responsible for destroying the family unit ... My family and I were always close. We did everything together… So this pressure, feeling like I had to filter everything I did and said to ultimately make them comfortable, was exhausting. I got to the point where I felt like, no matter the cost, I had to be authentic with myself.”

After coming out in 2012 Cantorna was instantly rejected by her family, her church, and many of her old friends.

Focus on Family? Not so much. Welcome out, Amber, you’re better off with the family you make than with the family you were born into.

As we watched television one night, Carlos said this to a character on the show:

Lucy! You have to do some ‘splaining.

Yes, he’s Ricky Ricardo trying to mimic Ricky Ricardo, so I said:

The line is: Lucy! You have some ‘splaining to do.

He said:

That’s what I said.

In other Good gay News ... last week the City of Ferndale, Michigan, became one of the first government municipalities in the country to officially and permanently install the LGBT Pride flag in City Council chambers. The historic move, led by Mayor Dave Coulter and the City Council, was meant to send a strong message about Ferndale’s inclusiveness:

“Our motto in Ferndale is ‘Good Neighbors,’ and we interpret that to include the diversity of our residents and guests and the benefits of inclusive decision-making. My fellow Council members and I strive to act in ways reflective of Ferndale’s shared values.”  

Small-town America gets it, so why can’t the rest of the country?

Last weekend we went to an Arts and Crafts Fair here in Smallville where we saw some very interesting things and a lot of crap.

But this one booth had some cool signs for Christmas, mostly because not one of the signs was actually mentioning Christmas.

They said things like Have A Holly Jolly! And Tis The Season! And Merry Merry! I thought I might like one of two for Casa Bob y Carlos and then I found the perfect one ...

It hangs in our kitchen and suits us to a ‘T’.

Okay, so I’ve mentioned that I find Ben Daniels, left, of TV’s The Exorcist kinda sexy in a creepy devil kind of way, and because I’ve seen him, um, nekkid, and it’s real and it’s spectacular. But this week on the show he met up with Fish and Game Warden, played by actor Christopher Cousins, right, and there was some sexual chemistry. Both Carlos and I looked at each and said:

“Are they coming on to one another?”

We’ll have to wait and see I guess, but the heat between the two—and Daniels is openly gay while Cousins is probably not—is palpable.

Also burning things up is fitness model Eric Turner, a silver fox built like a ... well, he’s built.

Just sayin.

I found three Tweets that  I liked, on three different topics and couldn’t pick just one, so you get all three ...

I Didn't Say It ....

Sean Hayes, on his new sitcom, Sean Saves The World, not being “message driven” like The New Normal:

“Absolutely not. If that’s a byproduct of their viewing experience, fantastic. But it’s definitely not in the forefront of our minds when creating this show week-to-week. It’s making people laugh and telling great stories. I think with me playing a gay dad, the gay part should be the fifth most interesting thing about the character. It definitely doesn’t need to be focused on that just like in real life. So if it’s groundbreaking for being extra funny, great. But there is no agenda here other than to be funny.”

But, as in shows like The New Normal, you can send a message and make it funny. From what I’m hearing Sean Saves The World doesn’t even manage to do that.

I mean, why have a gay character if you’re not going to address the fact that he’s gay?

David Stern, NBA Commissioner, denouncing the new President of the IOC and the organization for not stepping up against human rights abuses.

“I’m gonna behave myself, for the record here, which is unlike me, but you know, the first phone call to the new head of the Olympics [was] from President [Vladimir] Putin, and everyone wants to talk about the Russian law on homosexuality. Think about the opportunities that sports have to make a continuing statement, and the only thing that we’re saying in that context is ‘Shhhh! No one say anything!’”

Sports are one of those things that are universal around the world, and sports can make a great impact on what’s happening in Russia if the athletes, the leagues, the managers, speak up.

Phyllis Schlafly, calling for the government to end all funding for, well, everybody and everything:

"We must shame and cut off taxpayers' money from the groups that killed the American family, including feminists, judges, legislators, public school teachers and administrators, so-called child protection agencies, professors, psychologists, college courses, government handouts and Democratic politicians who want big-government spending in order to win votes. The problem cannot be remedied by prohibiting same-sex marriage (even by a constitutional amendment) or by telling men to 'man up.'“

All I can think of to say is: “What a delusional, ridiculously stupid, Pat Robertson-in-a-dress-and-a-fright-wig, out-of-date, relic from the 50s.”

Oh, and I’d add, “Shut the f**k up.”

Gilles Marini, on if he would ever lie to help a famous gay friend stay closeted:

"We're in 2013. I think it's very uncool to be in the closet nowadays. I never was a witness in any wedding in my life, and the first time I was a witness in a wedding in my life was for my dear friends Philippe and David — same-sex couple — and I think it was fantastic. Don't stay in the closet. You'll only hurt your heart and, down the line, probably your family. They need to know the truth about what you like and what you want in life."

Word. From a hot guy.

Cher, on turning down an invitation to perform at the Sochi Games:

“I can’t name names but my friend called who is a big oligarch over there, and asked me if I’d like to be an ambassador for the Olympics and open the show. I immediately said no. I want to know why all of this gay hate just exploded over there. He said the Russian people don’t feel the way the government does.”

Seriously? In 2013 there’s a person in the world that thinks Cher … CHER … would perform for an anti-gay country like Russia.

Now, if they’d asked JLo and the check was big enough ….

Rachel Maddow, on the sudden crush that conservatives and anti-gay "pro-family" groups have on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"It’s one thing for the right to fall in love with its own politicians, to make Reagan a saint, Sarah Palin their own collective girlfriend, but the president of Russia, he is not that into you. Seriously, I know you guys hate President Obama, so it feels good to have a man-crush on somebody else, but this guy is the president of Russia. Zip it up, you guys, seriously. Have some respect."

It’s that conservative rightwingnut racism at work again. Putin and Obama have issues so the GOP falls all over themselves to align themselves with the leader of a country which seeks to punish people for being gay.

Remember that the next time you vote.

Bill Maher, on the GOP and their battle against all things Obama, including First Lady Michelle Obama’s programs to have kids eat healthy and drink more water:

"I saw in the news that Michelle Obama has a new program. You know she tried to get kids to eat better and Republicans were against that. And now she wants people to hydrate more, I’m not kidding, she says ‘Drink more water.’ I think this is a test to see if the Republicans will come out against water. That’s not water, that’s socialism juice!"

Apparently, the blowhards are already speaking out. Rush Limbaugh, who never met a chain of McDonalds that he didn’t want to eat and then wash down with illegally prescribed medications, while calling the First Lady “Moochelle” says, "We have real trouble, real problems in this country and around the world. What is this push to drink more water?  Now, we know that Bloomberg doesn't want people drink sweetened soft drinks, limiting the size to 16 ounces.  I'll tell you what I think it is.  I think there's an all-out assault on soda pop, soft drinks."

Funny how the fattest man on Earth, with a head filled with cheese and a gut stuffed with lard, can call the First Lady of the country a derogatory term.

Imagine if a liberal journalist had done the same to Laura Bush.

Isaiah Washington, former Grey's Anatomy co-star, on returning to acting and his claim that "an agenda" ruined his career following those anti-gay remarks — he called co-star TR Knight, a ‘fag’ — he made in 2007:

"I didn't have a choice. After the incident at the Golden Globes everything just fell apart. It literally stopped. Whatever the agenda, whatever the plan was it worked. I lost everything. I couldn't afford to have an agent. I couldn't afford to have a publicist for the crisis management to continue. I couldn't afford to continue. I went from 2 million dollars a year to residual checks. Zero. I couldn't get another apartment after I turned in my lease for my $3 million home. I had to put it in my wife's name. No one wanted to touch the name of Isaiah Washington for three years."

And it’s all someone else’s fault, eh, Isaiah? Then why did you apologize if you never said it? And why wait three years to expose this “agenda”?

The fact is, you made a mistake and called someone by a derogatory name, and people, in the industry stopped wanting to work with you. I’d hoped you would have learned from your mistake but you’ve gone back to the lie that it never happened.