santa doesn't know you like i do

A few weeks ago, the NYT had an article titled: "Did the World Need a Hot Santa? It Got One Anyway". 

And it kind of did. 

Target has Santa as a Zaddy. 

It works. Kind of. 

The idea is right. The silver fox thing is correct. The Kris K name tag is spot on. 

Still, something about Target's Santa still feels very AI generated to me. He doesn't quite look real. 

I tried to find any other pic than the one I used, and all seemed irregular, not unlike most of the clothes that Target actually sells. I'm assuming. 

Target Kris K. is like Bradley Cooper - looks better in moving pictures than they do in stills. And even in commercials, something about his movements are not life-like.  Maybe it's just me. 

The NYT article amused me mostly for one reason: the only people they talked to about Kris K were women. Kris has gay daddy vibes written all over him, and even if not, you gotta believe the residents of Boy's Town have a few words about him either way.

Kris isn't really getting me into Target any more often than I'd normally go, which is basically for disposable razors and shaving cream - which I get about 2x per year. Oh - and two pairs of sheer pantyhose, but that's another story for a never time. Ever. 

Probably. 

But good job to Target to stray outside the traditional Santa. Yes NYT, we did need that......as semi-creepy as it seems to me. 

Song by: Sabrina Carpenter

Psycho

I will never ever ever figure out (not that I'm trying) why George Conway married that sow, wow, I forgot her first name. I can picture the whore, but not the name.  And I'm not gonna look it up.

Why they stayed married all throughout VonShitzhisPantz's administration is a greater mystery, especially since George talked shit 24/7 about BLOTUS. 

So, it's only with slight hyperbole when I say George Conway might be the greatest man to ever live.  Sorry Ghandi, or Salk. Or Stamos. 

Conway has paid for the below billboard to be put out near Marla-Thomas-Lago. 

Technically, not defamatory. He could be talking about any election. Or anyone named Joe. Or any would-be psycho. 

Song by: Puddle of Mudd

Love For Sale

Eons ago, in the Tri-Village News - serving Grandview and Marble Cliff (think about it......think about it.....), - my friend Jon and I used to read their classified ads. 

You know, stuff you don't really need or want, but it was ok to look. Actually, we probably did need the stuff depending on what apartments we were living in at the time. 

The two I remember are mostly because we laughed and laughed at the people who placed such ads. 

One was for a "colored tv".  We jokingly said it just played the Jeffersons and Good Times. This was a time when those were the only two shows probably on that had people of colour as leading characters. Yes - it was too early for Cosby and too late for Sandford and Son.

The other ad we found funny, but in reality was probably just sad:  "Wedding Dress $75 - Never Worn".

This brings me to Facebook. I know people love their Marketplace, but I've never been there to buy or sell a thing. I did become a member of their 'Buy Nothing Cleveland Hts" area. 

People - for the most part - are good about posting things they want to get rid of at no cost. Most of them are semi-useful to someone.  Yes, you get the person who opened some food item and didn't like it so giving the rest away (ick!).  But even we gave away a king sized mattress and box springs this way. They had to come pick it up and move it themselves (well, we had already gotten it out of the house). 

I mean, they had a son coming home from college who now has a king bed! I didn't have one of those until 1996 after we got our first house. I'm not sure we even had queens. 

Honestly, I can't imagine them having something to give away that I want, but I look just to look.  .....and yesterday, this happened 

You now me and my lack of fashion sense, but "beautiful dress" seems a stretch. Even I knew that marriage was doomed with that dress. 

Even if you loved it, why would you store it for seven years?  Annulment can't be good - ditch the dress when you ditch the hubby (or when he dumped you). 

Free seems about the right price for that frock. 

Song by: Talking Heads

Kill

I'm still on a gun rant.  There is no 5-day waiting period for that. But apparently, no one else seems to adhere to that phony bullshit. 

Just days after the mass school execution, our Sunday paper opted to take money to run this four page ad - three times.............in a row. Not three days in a row.  Ad after ad........for 12 full pages......right before the Mini-Page and comics. 

I shit you not. 

I do love the "Father's Day" angle.  Hey Kids - get your "dad" a gun. 

Maybe pops would be less thrilled when he finds Jr. took the gun to school and killed a bunch of kids. But YAY for shooting and killing things!

Song by: Jimmy Eat World

People Get Ready

 Well, we are two full days away from Election Day.  g-d help us all. 

Oddly, I STILL don't have an assignment for work at the polls. WTF.  I'm READY.......oh, and it's TWO DAYS AWAY.  

So today is the final installment of the voter sign series I've been doing. There seems to be no shortage of signs out there. A lot of basic ones (including in our yard), but some more attention getting - and I'm all for that. 

We live in a fairly liberal area, so you're not seeing too much outward support for BLOTUS, but it's there. And at this point, if anyone doesn't have any signage out in and around our 'hood, I'm assuming they are BLOTUS supporters. 

Last week friends Morty and Craig sent me some of their findings. This week, others from this here blog readers have sent in a few as well.  I'm very thankful for those. 

Settle in. I have a few more than I did in the other two.............combined!

While I took this one near work, GregM sent it to me also. 

A street over from us. I loved it. 

Made a U-y when I spotted this. 

Since Pappy Joe WILL be like 78 if he is inaugurated, I'm really kind of voting for Harris anyways. 

To the point. 

Allllllmost alliteration. 

Definitely GregM sent this one. 

It is fucking perfect. 

Go Heights Tigers!

A fuck of a lot more - that's how much. 

A hanger in an alley would be too good of an end for this guy. 

Also sent from Greg M (and one from Morty too!)

A totally doctored sign / photo someone sent me, but I'm allowing it. 

Becky - this around the corner from Anita's place!

German Village - in Columbus, OH.  Thanks Becky for the submission. 

The above two from the same house - as seen on our dog walk yesterday. 

Keeping it large for ya.  Becky captured this down in Columbus and highlighted the less than obvious. 

Fuck the yard sign - they went all billboard in the 216. 

......Ladies........and everyone else. Please. 

Someone's homemade sign in Cleveland Hts. 

...and in Columbus.  via Rebecca. 

Columbus storefront (via Mort) made me laugh. 

Oh, Shaker Hts and their $20 words!

(slow clap)

Fuckin' A.   (also from Shaker Hts)

Scariest Halloween decoration yet! (Shaker Hts)

Hard to argue with this one lately. 

Morty provides this nugget from Columbus

Harder to argue this one. 

And a note for all.  Use it if needed!

Oh - and I took the below in Foggy Bottom (DC) in March of 2018. Believe it or not, I have not used it. And it's the great end for this post!

Song by: the Housemartins

Bye !!!

Round #2. 

Cleveland Hts. 

The number is about 14k higher since I took this picture..........10 days ago!

Cleveland Museum of Art

I'm thinking an internet grab. 

the Plain Dealer. 

This was projected on the Terminal Tower the night of the Cleveland Debate. 

The United Steel Workers got their wrists slapped for doing this without permission of the TT's owners. Boo-fucking-hoo. 

It was funnier when they did it on a BLOTUS property in Chicago.

Cleveland proper. 

Cleveland Hts. 

Down the street neighbor. 

Would be great if there were ever a stronger wind that could get back towards his house, or if the flags were just a bit smaller:  Biden. BLM. Nope. 

Bye!

....because you don't want to touch anywhere else. 

Cleveland Hts. 

#truth in Cleveland Hts. 

This house has been counting the days till election for MONTHS. 

Cleveland Hts. 

Cookie will like this one - but not just because of the Biden / Harris sign. 

From my friend, Craig, in Kansas City - Missouri. Not Kansas. 

Morty made me laugh and laugh and laugh when he sent this. 

This is the best of the entire bunch hands down - and we haven't even gotten to Round #3 yet. 

Can't leave out BLOTUS signs, can I?  

Song by: Tegan & Sara