Bobservations

Carlos’ knee has been bothering him and he spoke to his doctor who said it sounds like arthritis. Well, Carlos loathes aging—though the alternative isn’t fun—and didn’t like that diagnosis, so he made an appointment with a Bone and Joint doctor here in Camden.

Last Friday we saw the doctor—and I’ll cut to the end here and say that doctor said it appears to be arthritis—and as we waited in the exam room, chatting, I looked across the room and saw this:

Two different shoes. Two.DIFFERENT.Shoes! Luckily, Carlos doesn’t take himself too seriously, and even showed off his new style to the doctor!

This Tuxedo Says is from May 2020 … still under lockdown:

“I have offered up Tuxedo's services to local agencies as the spokes-cat for the lockdown. So far no takers.”

I was trying to make a few coins from a pandemic, y’all!

As seen on Facebook:

I can’t wait for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to be added to the National Sex Offender Registry.

Aaaaaaaaand scene!

You know, at the end of the day, all you really need are some working-class cakes to relax with at home.

Part of the inheritance from my father’s estate arrived in South Carolina this week—that’s it up there—and I was happy to see it.

This Seth Thomas Mantle Clock was purchased by my mother and father on their honeymoon in 1955 … so it’s been in our family for nearly 70 years.

For a long while the clock didn’t work, though it would mysteriously chime every so often, but when I got my first job in high school, I decided to steal the clock from the house and have it fixed and then gift it back to the family on Christmas morning.

Luckily, no one missed it for the couple of weeks it was missing, and then on Christmas day, I got up early, wound the clock and set the time, and then when it went off at 7AM, and actually chimed the correct number, I told my family what I had done.

My Dad said then and there that the clock would be mine, and here it is.

Rosita is not a fan of the clock. After it arrived at the house I unpacked it and would it and set in on Carlos’ antique desk in the living room—our mantle is a wee bit too shallow for this clock—and every time it chimed that first day, Rosita would tear out of the room and disappear into the master bedroom closet.

For all her bravado, she a scared little Puddy Tat!

Ladies and Gentleladies, the first photo of the new First Family, featuring, right there, circled in red, the new First Lady “Elonia Musk.”

The nickname follows a flurry of palace intrigue around Musk’s, AKA Leon Skum’s, appearance in a “family photo” that featured the X owner but not once-and-future First Lady Melanie.

The “First Lady” moniker picked up steam as rumors swirled that Musk’s online nemesis author, Stephen King, trolled him on X with that new name, and Musk banned him from his rightwingnut hate platform.

So much for Elonia’s calls for Free Speech, eh?

Cooper Koch is an American actor, known for his portrayal of Erik Menendez and a certain nude scene, but this is more about Would You Hit It?

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The other morning I was walking past our bedroom when I heard Carlos talking to Rosita:

“She’s such a pretty girl. Pretty girl. Ohhhhhh, she’s so pretty. Pretty girl. Such a pretty girl. Who’s the pretty girl.”

“Why don’t you two get a room.”

“This is our room.”

I guess I’m sleeping in the guest room now?

This Tuxedo memory is from November 2019 and is entitled “Tuxedo Went To The Vet”

I noticed Tuxedo had licked the fur off the back of his front leg and so, after Carlos did a quick check, we took him to the vet to see what was what. Turns out it may have been a bug bite that he scratched and then cut into his skin, so he began licking to clean it and the fur came off; or, it is the result of a play fight with either Max or Consuelo. Either way, it’s nothing bad and he’s on antibiotics—which he hates—and a twice daily cleanse of the area.

But this isn’t about that, it’s about the joy of Tuxedo. See, he was a bit of an abused cat when we rescued him; he’d been adopted out several times and always returned to the vet’s office in Miami as “mean.” Then we took him and let him acclimate to our house and the five other cats we had at the time, and Tuxedo has become the sweetest, friendliest cat ever.

And that leads us to the vet’s office in Smallville.

While he cried in the car on the ride, once there he was calm and watching the goings on from inside his carrier. When we got in with the vet tech, as she was weighing him and checking him out, he was perfectly calm and easy going. Then came to thermometer up the butt; and he was calm and handled it like any bottom at any gay bar anywhere … or something. But … as she finished with him, Tuxedo stood on his hind legs and put his paws on my chest and rested his head against me. The vet tech squeeed with delight about the hug he was giving me.

When the doctor came in, the vet tech was holding Tuxedo for the exam, and he stood on his hind legs and gave the vet tech a hug, too. The doctor loved that and asked if Tuxedo would give her a hug and, yes, he did. And then they took his picture while hugging the doctor.

Long story a little shorter … as we left with his medications we stopped to pay at the desk and were asked our pet’s name.

“Tuxedo.”

“The one who hugged the doctor?”

“Um, yeah. Do you want one?”

“Can I?”

And she could.

At the Emmy’s this week first-time nominee, for Reservation Dogs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai made a powerful statement by arriving with a red handprint over his mouth, symbolizing solidarity with missing and murdered Indigenous women. It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis.

If you didn’t know about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and how little help is giving by local authorities and government agencies to tribal police, take a look at Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA MMIWUSA

A friend posted to Facebook that according to PureWow she, as a Virgo, is one of two excellent cult leaders, with Aquarius, which is me, being the second. I commented that I needed my own cult, and she posted what my cult would be like according to PureWow:

"Fixed air sign Aquarius leads a stylish cult. Ruled by Saturn, planet of discipline and structure, Aquarius is a sign that others naturally look up to as an authority figure. All of the air signs are social and very into spreading knowledge and ideas. But unlike their fellow air signs [Gemini and Libra], Aquarius loves the info, but also has a lot of style in their approach to travel, education and cult-ivation. This is because Aquarius’s ninth house is Libra, another Venus-ruled sign. Aquarius is very strategic when it comes to starting their cult. The PR is always on point. Who can resist a great logo in a cute font? Or a targeted merch drop? Joining the cult of Aquarius is like joining a scene that never goes out of style."

Oh, I need to jumpstart my cult.

Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder recently changed the lyrics to their song “Daughter” to make a politically charged statement.

At a Wrigley Field show last month, in the middle of their song “Daughter,” the band played a portion of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” but fans noticed a slight variation as Vedder took the opportunity to change the lyrics to something a little timelier. Where the song would normally say, “Teachers leave them kids alone…” Vedder sang:

“Politicians leave our daughters alone.

A woman’s right to choose is her own.”

Just another way to get the message out that one party is pro-women and the other is own women.

There is nothing like having some cakes as a midnight snack; and you all know exactly what I mean.

Speaking of musicians doing good work, Jon Bon Jovi, known for helping the unhoused, the hungry and America’s vets, talked someone out of taking her own life in a video shared by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

The video shows Bon Jovi slowly approaching a woman on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. Bon Jovi happened to be filming a music video for his song “People’s House” when he and his team noticed the woman standing on the outer ledge of the bridge and clenching onto the handrails. He stopped a few feet away from her and spoke to her before moving closer alongside another bystander.

It’s unclear what was said, but Jon and the other individual convinced the woman to return to the main part of the bridge; they helped her back over the railing and then the trio walked away.

Bon Jovi has extensive training in interacting with people in crisis due to his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation. He has chosen not to make a statement regarding his actions out of respect for the woman  but the Nashville Police Department has praised him for his actions.

Y’all know Diddy got nabbed, right? Well, according to the grand jury indictment, during that raid on his homes in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles the feds discovered “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant” for his ALLEGED Freak Off parties.

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Diddy was charged with three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution. In addition Combs is currently facing at least eight lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault, rape, sexual misconduct and more. He remains in jail.

No word on what happened to all that lube but, in a world of Diddy’s be a Bon Jovi or a Vedder.

Atila Escolano Sánchez is a Spanish model and singer which is all very nice, but Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

No Carlos story this week, so we’ll have to make do with a Rosita tale.

A stray cat has been wandering through our yard lately; it is not a feral cat, far too well-groomed and such, so we think she’s a neighborhood cat just roaming through the yards. Still, Carlos decided to feed her so she’d keep snakes out of the yard ... not that we are overrun with snakes, Carlos is just terrified of them.

Trouble is, Rosita doesn’t like the strange cat on our deck and when the cat comes by Rosita runs into the sunroom hissing and howling and spitting at the glass.

Then the other night, Rosita sat at the front door, looking through the windows at the front yard, and began howling and hissing and spitting; I got up and looked but saw no cat. Later that night, Rodita was looking through one of the bedroom windows at the back of the house and began her tirade again. But, I said to Carlos, how can she see a cat out the bedroom window when that window is roughly seven feet above the ground; what is the stray cat standing on as Rosita hissed and spit and beat the window with her paws.?

Turns out it was not a stray cat but … and this is kind of embarrassing … it was Rosita’s own reflection that caused her angst. Yes, she was hissing and spitting and howling at herself, something we noticed she did as she walked past a mirror, or really anything that showed her reflection.

Seriously, the girl has lost her damned mind.

This Tuxedo Memory is from September 2014

“Dog and Caturday

We have a dog bed in the office, and when one of us is on the computer, Ozzo comes and gets into the bed for  a nap.

Tuxedo, on the other hand, sits on the desk, and after a while starts going Gargoyle: hanging over the side of the desk, staring at the dog. And, because Tuxedo is the second love of my life, I have a habit of saying to him, as he sits gargoyle, "Get Ozzo out of your bed, Tucky. Get him! Get him!"

And, as though he was my personal Flying Monkey, Tuxedo jumps from the desk and crawls into the bed, pushing Ozzo out to the floor.

Then one day Ozzo decided he'd had enough, and he would reclaim his bed. He failed. So he did the next best thing, by lying down next to, but not touching, never touching, Tuxedo.

Notice though, that Ozzo stays awake, ready to flee, while Tuxedo simply sleeps.”

Of note is that Tuxedo has zero f**ks to give while Ozzo is a slightly neurotic ball of f**ks.

I don’t follow the sportsball but I am hoping that the Kansas City Chiefs go to the Super Bowl because it will make the MAGAts so pissed off to see Taylor Swift’s face throughout the game.

After questioning Thing 45’s former deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, special counsel Jack Smith’s team was told that as the violence began to escalate January 6, that Thing 45 “was just not interested” in trying stop it. In fact, another former aide, Nick Luna, told Smith that when Thing 45 was told then-Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed to a secure location, he said:

“So what?”

Lock that bitch up.

I got called "pretty" today! 

Well, okay, to be completely fair, the full statement was "You're pretty annoying" but I only focus on positive things.

I’m.Pretty!

A new study from Pew Research shows that when Americans are asked to check a box indicating their religious affiliation, 28% now check ‘none.’ Atheists, agnostics and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” are now the largest cohort in America.

In 2007, Nones made up just 16% of Americans.

If you don’t think misogyny still exists in Hollywood recognize that the Barbie movie’s biggest nomination was for Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, and no nod at all for Barbie, AKA Margot Robie or the film’s female director Greta Gerwig.

Republican politicians in Kentucky are rallying behind a new bill that would authorize the use of force—and potentially deadly force—against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property. The bill—AKA the “Safer Kentucky Act”—would target homelessness, drug possession and mental illness by drastically increasing criminal penalties for a range of offenses.

They will shoot the unhoused in Kentucky.

Aleksandar Rusić is a German fashion model who is the face of Giorgio Armani's Acqua di Gio Profondo fragrance campaign, but … Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

As is usual around Casa Bob y Carlos I do the Christmas decorations. One could say it’s because of Carlos’ eyesight, which could be true; or it might be because he doesn’t enjoy it like I do, which is also somewhat accurate; or you could say it’s because I become a demon at Christmas and direct him where to put ornaments and such because one time he lined up three … THREE … blue ornaments in a row; the paramedics took an hour to revive me.

So Carlos says I am a combination of Martha Stewart, Joan Crawford and Adolf Hitler when I decorate the tree so for these past several years he disappears when the ornaments come out. But, he does his part; we have an artificial tree—we are surrounded by pine trees and so I don’t want a dead one in my house—and he puts it together before he disappears. This weekend we got the tree, the ornaments, the decorations, lights, holiday bric-a-brac from the garage and I went back to blog as Carlos assembled the tree. I was minding my own business when  I heard him say:

“Hey Jon Stewart, the tree is ready!”

Jon Stewart? Comedian? Political activist? Christmas? Then it hit me … Joan Crawford sounds a little John Crawford with his accent and then  he’d stirred in Martha Stewart.

John. Stewart.

Carlos, the gift that keeps on giving.

This Tuxedo memory is from April 2012:

"Caturday

This is the Smallville version of Neighborhood Watch.

Not as much Yin-and-Yang as it is Yin-and-Yin."

There was always something in the yard to keep Consuelo and Tuxedo watching, and I miss my two boys and their cuddle time.

I swear when I saw this post on JoeMyGod I thought someone had purchased Hawaiian Air for $1.98 and instantly wondered why I missed that chance.

In Pennsylvania, while most of the newly sworn in members to the Central Bucks school board chose to swear their oaths on a bible, incumbent Karen Smith brought a stack of other books to the ceremony … and took her oath of office with her hand placed on top of six frequently banned and challenged books.

The tide may be changing; keep that in mind and vote accordingly.

The same crowd that has carried a grudge against Jane Fonda for 50 years think we should "get past" Jan 6^th.

A man died and went to Heaven. As he stood in front of St. Petere at the Pearly Gates he noticed a huge wall of clocks and asked:

“What are those clocks?”

St. Peter answered:

“Those are Lie Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie Clock and every time someone lies the hands on their clock moves forward.”

‘Whose clock is that?”

“That’s Mother Teresa’s. The hands on her clock have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.”

“Incredible.”

“And that’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Lincoln told two lies during his entire life.”

“Where’s, um, Thing 45’s clock?”

“Oh, Jesus took it to his office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”

How fast is your clock moving?

The New Hampshire GOP just introduced a bill to ban abortion after just fifteen days; days, not weeks. 

Remember that when you go to the polls; most Americans believe in a woman’s right to choose but still the GOP stands in her way.

She’s quite sweet and affectionate and loves to be petted and held but, man, does Rosita have Resting Bitch Face or what?

Moms for Liberty Bigotry and Hate co-founder Bridget Ziegler has left her position at the conservative Leadership Institute, which has already removed her name from its website in wake of a three-way sex scandal and criminal probe involving her husband.

Ziegler and her husband liked adding another woman to their sexual escapades, which is not a bad thing among consenting adults, but when you paint yourself as the model of Christianity and Liberty and all that other balderdash, you just look like a lying, hypocritical fool. Bye.

Alexandre Faucon is an Italian artist, originally from Tuscany who now lives in Brussels; all well and good, but Would You Hit It?