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Okay Deedles … the ‘Wee’ tour.
This is the powder room, remodeled by Carlos and myself, and painted and designed by me. I liked the idea of a man’s pin-striped suit, so I painted pinstripes on a black wall. Then with a new toilet and sink, mirror, light, and artwork—all photos taken by me, everywhere from Snoqualmie, Washington, to Brookgreen Gardens at Myrtle Beach—and we have a much nicer Rest Stop at Casa Bob y Carlos. The mirror is a horizontal mirror that I hung vertically after painting the old frame to match the frame on one of the photos.
  
PS This is the original powder room. I know!
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Friday, January 25, 2019
For Deedles ... Cuz She Asked For It!
I Didn't Say It ...
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Brynn Tannehill, former military member and trans American, on _____’s anti-transgender policies:
“The Supreme Court just ended my military career. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the _____ administration could reinstate its policy barring most transgender people from serving in the military while several cases challenging the policy are being decided. The decision was both a devastating blow to me personally, and a disturbing sign of what is to come for transgender people in the United States. I graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1997, and was on active duty for over a decade. When I began transitioning in 2010, I transferred from the Naval Reserves, which I had joined in 2008, to the Individual Ready Reserves, an administrative status that allows service members to deal with medical issues before returning to full duty. By spring 2012, I had resolved the “issues” at my own expense, and was ready to return to full duty—in my case, as a Navy helicopter pilot. The problem was that at the time, the military’s medical regulations prohibited transgender people from serving. I then set off on years of volunteer work on my own time researching transgender military issues. This included educational outreach, research, policy development and coordinating with the Pentagon to build an evidence-based standard for transgender service, based on the lessons learned from the other 18 countries that allow transgender people to serve.”
I find it disgusting, and yet typically _____, that a draft dodger who Daddy had one of his tenants write an excuse for _____ to get out of military service, thinks he knows what’s best for the military.
He doesn’t; it’s hate; it’s transphobia; and he’s a pig. Brynn Tannehill is ready, willing and able to serve and a bigot is saying ‘No’.
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Gladys Knight, on singing the National Anthem at this year’s Super Bowl even though many black performers have chosen not to perform in support of Colin Kaepernick:
“I understand that Mr. Kaepernick is protesting two things, and they are police violence and injustice. It is unfortunate that our National Anthem has been dragged into this debate when the distinctive senses of the National Anthem and fighting for justice should each stand alone. I am here today and on Sunday, Feb. 3 to give the Anthem back its voice, to stand for that historic choice of words, the way it unites us when we hear it and to free it from the same prejudices and struggles I have fought long and hard for all my life, from walking back hallways, from marching with our social leaders, from using my voice for good — I have been in the forefront of this battle longer than most of those voicing their opinions to win the right to sing our country’s Anthem on a stage as large as the Super Bowl LIII. No matter who chooses to deflect with this narrative and continue to mix these two in the same message, it is not so and cannot be made so by anyone speaking it. I pray that this National Anthem will bring us all together in a way never before witnessed and we can move forward and untangle these truths which mean so much to all of us.”
Oh Gladys, just because you’ve been around a long time doesn’t mean those who came after don’t have a right to protest, with their voices, with their taking of a knee, with any method necessary to draw attention to what’s happened, and is still happening, in the country.
I love your voice, girl, but you stepped in it with this nonsense.
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Lady Gaga, blasting _____ and Michael Elizabeth Pence for the shutdown and their anti-LGBTQ views at her Vegas ‘Enigma’ show:
“There are people that live paycheck to paycheck and need their money. And to Mike Pence who thinks that it’s acceptable that his wife works at a school that bans LGBTQ: you are wrong. You say that we should not discriminate against Christianity. You’re the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian. I am a Christian woman and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice and everybody is welcome. So you can take all that disgrace, Mr. Pence, and look yourself in the mirror and you’ll find it right there.”
Good on Gaga, though haters like Mike and Mother don’t get it because they’ve wrapped their faith in hate and can no longer tell the difference.
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Michael Elizabeth Pence, likening _____ to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr:
“So what the president has directed us to do is to reach out with rank-and-file Democrats in the House and in the Senate. What the president presented yesterday really is an effort to bring together ideas from both political parties. I think it is an act of statesmanship on the president’s part. And honestly, the hearts and minds of the American people are thinking a lot today about [this] being the weekend we remember the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One of my favorite quotes from Dr. King was, ‘Now is the time to make real the promises of Democracy. You think of how he changed America, he inspired us to change through the legislative process, to become a more perfect union. That’s exactly what President Trump is calling on the Congress to do, come to the table in a spirit of good faith.”
Oh, you delusional fuckmonkey, if you think for a nanosecond that MLK was about a border wall, about keeping people out, about calling anyone of any color other than white, less than, and less deserving, than you need to go fuck yourself.
Racist POS.
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Bernie Sanders, on the racism of _____ at an MLK event in South Carolina:
“Today we say to Donald _____—We are not going back to more bigotry, discrimination and division. Instead of bringing us together as Americans, he has purposely and aggressively attempted to divide us up by the color of our skin, by our gender, by our nationality, by our religion and by our sexual orientation. We, today, have a President who is a racist.”
Something most of us knew after Charlottesville, after The Wall, after the Muslim ban, after ….
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Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC political commentator, ridiculing Rudy Giuliani’s constantly evolving defense of _____ and the Russians:
“Rudy Giuliani, making a mess out of Donald _____’s always-shifting story about his ties to Russia and his lies about how long Donald _____ engaged in negotiation over _____ Tower Moscow. While one can never be sure what Rudy is up to, he clearly established a brand-new fact pattern as it pertains to the timeline of Donald _____’s discussions with his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, over that deal. Cohen had claimed in testimony to Congress that those discussions about _____ Tower Moscow ended in January of 2016—he later admitted that was a big, fat lie in a guilty plea to Robert Mueller. Now he’s offering up a new version of events. [And] Rudy’s latest comments stand in such stark contrast to the president’s previous version of that story, Rudy had to spend the day today trying to clean it up.”
Rudy needs a shovel for all that sh*t.
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Adam Kinzinger, Illinois GOP Congressman, on the continuing government shutdown:
“This is an idiotic shutdown. The American people deserve far better from those of us that are elected to represent 750,000 people—to be adults, to be grownups, to understand that we’re not going to get our way. This is to Republicans and Democrats by the way. And let’s just solve this. There are a lot of people hurting right now.”
Nice, except Kinzinger basically absolved _____ of any blame for the shutdown—even though _____ begged to be blamed—and called _____’s compromise offer a bold move. He then attacked Democrats for not taking that deal, which really wasn’t a deal but a few crumbs.
PS For an asshat, he’s kinda hot.
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Bobservations
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When we lived in Miami, I created a special whistle for our outside cats so they would come when dinner was ready. Over the years, as those cats left us, and our cats have all been indoor cats, that special whistle is one I now use on Carlos—and, to be fair, he uses it on me, too.
I use it in stores when he wanders off, so that he can find me; I use it at home when I’m too lazy to go to him with a question or comment.
Like the other day, while on the computer, and I came across a high-larious cat-and-dog video and wanted to show him; so, I puckered up and blew … he didn’t come right away. So, I did it again, and kept doing it until he appeared at the office door, snarling:
“No need to the whistle. I am not the dog, you know.”
I replied:
“And yet, here you are.”
I won that round.
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Show of hands …who saw this coming? Gay conversion therapist, David Matheson, has quit the “ex-gay” torture movement because he wants to date men.
Seriously. The asshat who believed you could torture away the gay is now flamboyantly out and proud and swiping right with all his might. Yet he still claims he was straight after therapy, until he became bisexual, and then all the way gay … again.
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We all know _____;likes his ties long … possibly to use as a red road map over that extended belly to find his zipper when he has to pee. But Chris Christie says there’s an altogether different reason for the look … _____ says a long tie makes him look thinner.
Sure, if we’re looking at him from space.
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In a week where we saw smug little MAGA hat wearing racists face down a Native American veteran, I prefer this story …
Fifty students from Hingham Middle School in Massachusetts spent a month rehearsing a song, and then traveled 30 miles by bus to perform it for their favorite teacher, choir director Christopher Landis, at his wedding rehearsal brunch. Christopher’s fiancé, Joe Michienzie, was in on the surprise which was planned by two parents of the students.
One parent, Joy Foraste, said:
“It was so wonderful for the kids to see him with his family and his close friends, and they saw him as a person, not just their teacher. They saw how much it meant to him. He immediately started crying and the kids started crying. It’s something they’ll never forget.”
And I’m crying … again.
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The government shut down is entering its fifth week of federal employees going without pay. And, while some in Congress are donating their salaries to food bank and charities set up to help those workers, the Fat Bastard responsible sits in his Barca lounger eating Big Macs and offering nothing.
Fortunately, there are people who care … like Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorthea who run the JBJ Soul Kitchen, a restaurant that allows people to pay what they can for their food or volunteer for the meal instead.
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Bon Jovi, in partnership with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and his Murphy Family Foundation, fed all federal workers and their families for free at JBJ Soul Kitchen.
And they are not the only ones. Chef José Andrés has organized #ChefsForFeds who are partnering with restaurants, kitchens and food trucks across the nation to try and keep federal employees fed.
I focused on JBJ because I think he’s adorable, and compassionate, and that’s a winning combination.
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Spike Lee has been making movies for over thirty years now … She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Malcom X, School Daze Jungle Fever, Crooklyn, Mo’ Better Blues and BlacKkKlansman.
This year he was finally nominated for his first Oscar as Best Director for BlacKkKlansman.
It’s about damned time … and if you haven’t seen BlacKkKlansman, please do so, and if you can get through the last several minutes without crying, there’s something wrong with you.
Just sayin’.
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And since we are talking awards, and awards shows, Grammy nominee Bebe Rexha—that’s her up there and over there—has come out to say that many fashion designers that she has reached out to for a dress to wear to the Grammys have told her they don’t dress ‘big girls’.
First thing … Bebe is a size 8; and even if she was a so-called big girl—fashion designer code for fat, I guess—who cares?
Not Bebe; she took to Instagram to make it known that she’s got a few extra pounds on her and there’s nothing wrong with that at all:
“A lot of times artists will go and talk to designers, and they’ll make them custom dresses to walk the red carpet, right? You go to any big designer. I had my team hit out a lot of designers, and a lot of them do not want to dress me because I’m ‘too big.’ Literally, I’m ‘too big.'”
I say too bad to those designers with minds too narrow to see that Bebe’s a beautiful girl, and they could have gotten some free press by dressing her.
And maybe win the hearts of women everywhere who are a size 8 and above … which is most women in the world.
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Finally … Hot Men!
Chris My-Husband-In-My-Head Pine is coming to TV next week in I Am The Night. Inspired by true events, it tells the story of Fauna Hodel, given away by her teenage birth mother, who begins to investigate the secrets to her past, and finds out she’s related to George Hodel, a Hollywood gynecologist connected to the legendary Black Dahlia murder.
But first there’s Chris … and then Justin Cornwell, and finally, Arlen Escarpeta, who probably won’t have his shirt off, but, hey, I can dream.
Also included in the cast is George Hodel’s actual home, the Sowden House, a Frank Lloyd Wright design … a kind of ancient Aztec temple in Hollywood.
Gosh, hot men and an FLW home?
I’m in.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Architecture Wednesday: Desert Courtyard House
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What to say about this house ... I love it's austere exterior, the monolithic style of the front that seems to suggest a dark, cavernous feeling inside, that seems to suggest that there's nothing to see here.
But when you enter the 7200 square foot home, it's glass and tress and courtyards and water and desert landscapes. It's your own world, almost.
Wendell Burnette Architects built the home using soil excavated from the site, creating a structure of concrete and rammed earth walls surrounding a central courtyard. During the day, that open space is defined by a ribbon of glass, while at night the glass seems to vanish, and the steel plate ceilings become one with the night sky.
And I love that about this house; it’s like several different vibes all in one space.             |
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A Wee Tour of Casa Bob y Carlos
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I got nothing for today, so I figured we’d take a small tour of the house and some of my favorite things …
We bought these three prints from a USC art student at a Farmer’s Market in Columbia. I love any kind of ethnic art—because I am so white even milk calls me whitey—and I love the vibrant color. I hope to add more of her work because it’s really beautiful.
These are bark paintings done by Native People’s in Mexico—a gift from Tia Gloria. Again, the vibrant color and the organic technique make these some of my favorites.
This is the foyer; we found these three Asian prints, in gold bamboo frames, in an antique store here in town. They set the tone for the room, as I then painted an old hutch in greens and golds to showcase Carlos’ collection of teapots—the man adores a teapot. On the floor is a ceramic cat that Carlos brought from Mexico; he used to live in our garden in Miami, but now he’s an indoor cat.
This is a photo of the Japanese Maple at the Portland Japanese Gardens. On a trip out there a couple of years ago, we found an artic who had photographed the tree selling his work in Pioneer Square; we liked it, we ordered it, he framed it and shipped it and now we have it always.
The top two prints we found here in town and were surprised that they has a Consuelo and a Tuxedo … we looked and looked but there was no accompanying MaxGoldberg. Maybe one day we’ll find him The bottom piece is a calendar and kitchen blackboard; you set the date by moving the magnets to the correct day, date and month. Now, I never have to buy another kitchen calendar.
My father used to do stained glass, and this is a piece he made for me practically a lifetime ago; I have moved it everywhere I’ve moved, and now it’s got a good sunny spot in the sunroom.
Lastly, the Flying Cat from Pike Place Market in Seattle. It’s a cat and it flies …’nuff said.
And so there you have a quick tour of some of our favorite things at Casa Bob y Carlos.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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