Bobservations

Tuesday night Carlos and I had one of our rare spats; I’ll spare you the details but it’s one of those things that, were it to continue happening and not spoken about, it would go from spat to brawl—not a real brawl—kind of quickly.

I came home from work the day after the incident and told Carlos how I felt and how, if I didn’t say anything, this might continue to happen and fester and then we’d be really arguing about something that isn’t really an argument, so I will tell you how the conversation started:

“Okay, I’m not mad at you but let me tell you why I’m mad.”

And about three minutes later, after listening and talking, the spat ended with:

“So, that Liza documentary. Oy, what a clusterfuck.”

And that’s how it goes at Casa Bob y Carlos.

This Tuxedo Says is from February 2021 …

Clearly when a cat gets the idea of Separation of Church and State, people will understand it, too? Oh, who am I kidding.

Sidenote: I was closing the blinds in the living room last night and looked out the window and saw Tuxedo sitting on the front walkway. Now, it wasn’t my Great Tuxedo, but it was a younger look-alike … who was given some food to see if he comes back.

Actor David Boreanaz spoke at the recent Bones: 20th Anniversary Retrospective panel—seriously??? A Bones Retrospective?—and recalled meeting Betty White in 2015:

“Emily [Deschanel] and I are waiting for her. And she’s like, ‘Good to see you. Oh, good to see you. You’re so nice. You’re so pretty.’”

And then he says Betty White said to him:

“She looks at me, she goes, ‘Holy s–t, I want to f–k you. I want to f–k you!’”

Funny that in ten years Boreanaz never told this story even once before White passed and even more telling is that his Bones co-star Emily Deschanel had no memory of the interaction at all. I mean, Betty White says she wants to f*ck your co-star and you forget about it? Sounds like Boreanaz is trying to make himself relevant?

Here’s a look at the always popular “Booty Call Cakes,” and I must say I will be answering that call.

Straight from The Felon’s mouth:

“San Francisco was a great city … fifteen years ago.”

Fun fact: fifteen years ago Gavin Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco and Kamala Harris was the District Attorney.

In a very timely response, Broadway performer and RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, Jinkx Monsoon called out the GOP and The Felon for their attempts to whitewash history.

Speaking to Good Morning America about her new role as the lead in Cole Escola’s Tony Award-winning hit Broadway show Oh, Mary!— described by its creator and original star as "a dark comedy about a miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination”—the hosts proposed a rapid-fire game they called “Oh, Jinkx!”

GMA hosts Gio Benitez, Janai Norman and Whit Johnson threw "crazy White House" situations, or at least the Oh, Mary! version of it, at Jinkx to get her immediate reaction and the final situation was:

"You’ve just been told you’re the understudy for Mary’s husband and the show starts in five minutes."

Without hesitation, Monsoon—a transgender woman—responded:

"Well, everyone, this is how it goes. Abraham Lincoln is now a trans woman, and that’s all there is to it … Since lawmakers get to rewrite history, why can’t I?"

Monsoon then let loose her signature cackle.

Snap.

More stupidity from The Felon? Well, he said this week that the US is the only country that uses Mail-In Voting.

Well, except for the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Canada, India, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Russia, and 22 other countries ... and Florida which is where The Felon and his Slovenian Hooker Wife vote by mail.

I know very little about Carlos Machado who says he was born from the Earth but do we really need any information other than Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It ...

Chris Bryant, British MP, speaking in the House of Commons about the importance of Pride:

“I should start by declaring an interest in this Pride debate. The Daily Mail once referred to me as an ‘ex-gay vicar.’ I am an ex-vicar, but the other stuff is coming along quite nicely. In fact, I am a practicing homosexual—one day I will be quite good at it. People ask me, ‘Why on earth do you need a Pride Month? Do you really need LGBT History Month? What’s the point of Pride marches and Pride flags? Hasn’t the world changed? Haven’t you already got same-sex marriage and adoption, gays in the police and the military, and laws that protect people from discrimination on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender reassignment? What more do you want?’ That is what I hear all the time, even from really well-meaning, liberal souls. But we have always needed Pride. We needed it when people lazily assumed that a short haircut meant that you were a lesbian or a lisp meant that you were gay. We needed it when people laughed at Larry Grayson and John Inman but forced them to hide their sexuality. We needed it when people said that we should be harassed, arrested and locked up for loving who we wanted. We needed it when the police wore rubber gloves to arrest us, just in case we gave them AIDS. We needed it when we were called queer, faggot and arse bandit at school. We needed it when we were sneered at, spat at, punched, kicked and beaten up. And we need Pride now—when kids are still bullied because they are camp or butch; when families still throw their LGBT children out of the home; when many are so worn down by abuse that they take their own lives; when so many are so terrified of coming out that they live lives of terrible, crushing loneliness; when people are abused for wanting to transition. When our cousins in Hungary are denied the right to demonstrate; when the state police in many countries deliberately entrap homosexuals; when trans people are treated as less than human; and when homosexuality is still illegal in 63 countries, including 38 that apply those rules to women, and including more than half the Commonwealth.  Yes, we still need Pride.”

Bravo, sir, bravo!

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Sean Casten, Democrat Illinois Representative, on impeaching The Felon for his bombing of Iran:

“This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No President has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense. I’m not saying we have the votes to impeach. I’m saying you do not do this without Congressional approval and if [Mike] Johnson doesn’t grow a spine  and learn to be a real boy tomorrow we have a problem that puts our very Republic at risk.”

All because no one came to his birthday party.

And then you have Little Mike Johnson, so desperate to be a part of the bully squad, that he sold that little black spot he once called his soul to the most unChristian human who ever lived.

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Rabbi Marisa James, on wars and wars and warmongers:

“May Iranians, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May Palestinians, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May Israelis, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May US citizens, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May all the war-mongering authoritarians be deposed and may they one day experience real justice for all the suffering and death they cause.”

It’s the innocent people and the children who pay with their lives when fascists and authoritarians want to prove their manhood.

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Stephen Fry, comedian, actor, writer, on JK Rowling being “radicalized by TERFS”:

“She has been radicalized I fear and it may be she has been radicalized by [Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist] TERFs, but also by the vitriol that is thrown at her. It is unhelpful and only hardens her and will only continue to harden her, I am afraid. She seems to be a lost cause for us. She started to make these peculiar statements and had very strong difficult views. She seemed to wake up or kick a hornet’s nest of transphobia which has been entirely destructive. I disagree profoundly with her on this subject. I am angry she does not disavow some of the more revolting and truly horrible, violently destructive things that people say. She does not attack those at all. She says things that are inflammatory and contemptuous, mocking, and add to a terribly distressing time for trans people. She has crowed at the success of legislation in Scotland and elsewhere, declaring things about gender. So, I am very happy to go on the record to say that I am really angry. My view about all things of [a] sharp and difficult nature is that it is much more important to be effective than to be right.”

Fry sparked controversy in 2022 when he failed to condemn Rolwing and her beliefs about trans people despite saying his transgender friends had been left “deeply upset” by her views so it’s nice to see him step up and voice his anger at his, I hope, former friend..

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Jinkx Monsoon, AKA Hera Lilith Hoffer, American drag queen, actress, singer and comedienne, on her idol, Lucille Ball:

“I want to be remembered in the way Lucille Ball is remembered; where, on the surface, she made us laugh, but when you peel away the layers she was so much more than a comedienne on television. She was punk-fucking-rock. I want to be like that. I want to be remembered first pleasantly and then when you really sit there and think about it, you think, ‘That badass bitch really did some fucking shit. She really rattled some cages and ruffled some feathers.’ ,I guess I want to be remembered for disturbing the status quo.”

Lucille Ball wasn’t just funny, she was a savvy businessperson. And she took on the status quo and set Hollywood and television on their collective ears.

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Jason Isaacs, actor from The White Lotus and Harry Potter, on playing the lover to a then-25-year-old Daniel Craig in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America at London’s National Theatre in 1993:

“We had a lot of sex. And then I kissed Daniel and he was so easy with it. And then I was easy with it and we were really easy with each other’s bodies and I thought, oh, it’s just that. God, I built this up and, and we had to lie naked on under the sheet for an hour every night. And it was easy. He’s very easy in his body. [But] I used to drag him to showers to make him shave because I got a stubble rash off him. We used to pinch each other’s bits under the sheets to make each other laugh.”

Okay, now all I can think about is Jason and Daniel in the sheets pinching each other’s bits.

Lucky bastards.

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Bobservations

The other night as we ate dinner, the kids of the family who live behind us were playing in their yard, and as kids do there was a lot of shrieking and screaming and laughing and yelling which spurred Carlos:

“I’m going to call over there and ask them to quiet down those kids.”

“No you are not. When I was that age [and these kids were 12 and 10 or so] we used to play with our friends and scream and shriek and yell.”

“Well, I don’t like it.”

“That’s because when you were an only child and at that age you were probably wearing a tutu and giving a piano recital.”

His sly smile told me I was probably correct.

This Tuxedo Says is from October 2020:

Tuxedo has discovered Twitter and really enjoys finding people’s Tweets and sharing them. This is one of his Favorites …

The owner of an Idaho bar and restaurant plans to host a two-day “Hetero Awesome Fest” outside of the state Capitol in Boise in June to coincide with LGBTQ Pride Month because there is no more oppressed group in the entire world who need a celebration to stoke their egos than straight people.

I may start a GoFundMe for them, but I’ll call it a GoFuckYourself.

After that last snippet, I’m’a need me some Summertime Beach Cakes to cleanse my palate.

Let’s try this again … because of the tariffs there are fewer ships arriving from China which means less work for dock workers … for truck drivers … for retailers and fewer dollars circulating.

It’s a cascading effect and will affect all of us.

RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Jinkx Monsoon, left, is eligible to be nominated for a Tony Award in the category, “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical” for her performance in the musical ‘Pirates.’

Yes ma’am.

On the flip side, we lost the wonderful Jiggly Caliente, right, AKA Bianca Castro-Arabejo this past week.

May I call you Jiggly.

RIP

This is model Brennan Aldred and I don’t know how old he is or where he’s from or much of anything else so we’re flying blind here but: Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It

Jinkx Monsoon, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7, on the current strike from the Screen Actors Guild [SAG] and the Writers Guild of America [WGA] and asking drag performers to strike in solidarity:

“I want to talk to all my fellow drag entertainers and queer artists, content creators, and influencers. I am a member of SAG, so I have a vested interest in the actors and the writers’ strike right now. But I am also a drag artist and queer entertainer who’s worked in this industry for 10 years now. And I know firsthand that drag artists, queer entertainers … we are not fully taken seriously yet. Especially drag artists. Lots of times we’re treated like a novelty. We’re treated like we’re interchangeable with each other. I know as a drag artist and queer entertainer that you never know when your next gig is coming and we live off our gigs, so it’s scary to turn down work. But if a company approaches you right now to promote new work, to act in new work, to write for new work, and you take that job, you will be considered a ‘scab.’ What that means is that SAG will no longer consider you eligible to ever join the actor’s union. This could affect your career in the long run when this strike is over. Taking a job right now could prevent you from getting work in the future.”

Monsoon also noted how important it is for LGBTQ+ performers to stand strong right now in order to prove how valuable our community is to Hollywood studios.

​A few commenters criticized Jinkx for supporting the strike but still going on the road with her current Everything at Stake Tour but she reminded them that the strike does not apply to live entertainment that has no connection to any major studio, film or TV show, which is Monsoon’s case.

So see a drag show, but stand with all the actors and writers, straight and LGBTQ+ who are on strike.

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Charles Barkley, NBA legend, standing up transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light in a bar and in his own inimitable style:

"So I’m gonna buy some drinks for y’all and I’m gonna buy Bud Light. All you rednecks or assholes who don't want to drink Bud Light—fuck y'all. Hey, y'all can't cancel me. "I ain't worried about getting canceled. If y'all fire me and give me all that money, I'm going to be playing golf every fucking day. I got three cases of Bud Light. If you're gay, bless you. If you're trans, bless you. If you have a problem with that, fuck you!"

This is what we … and I’ll channel my inner Charles Barkley … fucking need is allies to stand the fuck up against the bigots and the haters and fucking shut them down every fucking time they spew their ignorance.

Fuck them; and bless Charles Barkley.

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Robert Garcia, out Democrat Representative from California, calling out Large Marge for her publicity stunt of trying to humiliate Hunter Biden by showing naked pictures of him in a Congressional  hearing:

“Today’s hearing is like most of the majority’s investigations and hearings: a lot of allegations, zero proof, no receipts, but apparently some d**k pics. Now, at a certain point, the American people need some actual evidence, actual evidence, but we’ve seen absolutely none. This is, of course, in stark contrast to the _____ crime family. The majority conveniently glazes over the _____ family’s foreign dealings. The _____ family, who, of course, were actually appointed to White House senior jobs, from Ivanka’s Chinese trademarks to Jared’s Qatari real estate bailout and two billion in Saudi private equity money. So where’s that investigation? They were actually in the White House.”

Of note: Hunter Biden doesn’t work for the president or have a position in the White House, but Marge thought it a good idea to show nude photos of him during another hearing on Hunter not paying taxes.

They have no evidence that President Biden did anything wrong but, like Benghazi, they will beat this dead horse. Yet, sadly, the dead horse I refer to is not Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Ted Cruz, going after Barbie because … of who the hell knows … for the attention:

“There’s a scene in Barbie, where there is this map of the world, and it’s drawn like with crayon. I mean, it’s really a very simple cartoon. And so they have this blockish thing that is called ‘Asia.’ And then they’ve drawn what are called the nine-dashes. This is Chinese communist propaganda in which the Chinese are asserting sovereignty over the entirety of the South China Sea. And they don’t have any right to it under international law, but they are trying to take it away from their neighbors there.”

The image in question that has Rafael’s panties bunched shows a crude map of the world with Barbie standing in front of, and an outline of land labeled “Asia” with eight dashes drawn in the sea.

And this has Rafael pissed; not the excessive heat in his home state that’s been going on for weeks, or the murder of immigrants in the Rio Grande, or Climate Change or anything else.

It’s Barbie.

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Vivek Ramaswamy, businessman and GOP candidate for the presidency, proving he’s perfect for the GOP by flip-flopping on January 6 and the Thing 45 indictments:

“My concern is unless we reconcile ourselves with what the truth of the matter was that led to Jan. 6, that’s really just going to be a friendly preview of what’s to come in this country. I think every American has to look, especially much of the Left in this country that denounces Jan. 6 and the supposed threats to our democracy. Everyone in this country has to take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves what role each of us played in getting to that day.”

Well, Vivek, I played no role in it; I didn’t amass a mob at the White House and rile them up and tell them to march to the capitol and “take back our country.”

And what’s funny is that your change of heart about January 6 occurred mere hours after Thing 45 talked about you as a possible running mate. And what’s especially funny is that you felt very differently about Thing 45 and 1/6 right after it happened:

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Kerry Kennedy, sister of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaking out about his conspiracy theory that Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are most immune:

“I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting. His statements do not represent what I believe or what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stand for, with our 50+-year track record of protecting rights and standing against racism and all forms of discrimination.”

Kerry Kennedy is president of the non-profit group Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.

How lovely to have a brother like that and to constantly distance yourself from his inane ramblings and half-truths.

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It's Monsoon Season, Bitches!

Condragulations Jinkx Monsoon!

You are this seasons Drag Superstar! 

And after seeing your Little Edie impression,

I had no choice but to join Team Monsoon!

Check out JinkxMonsoon.dot.com HERE