She's Not There

Large Tony has passed. 

Allegedly. 

I might be speaking ill of the dead. But perhaps not. Maybe he's dead. Maybe his persona is. If either ever existed. 

Yes. I'm going to be THAT guy. 

GregM alerted me to the fact that this was posted on Twitter, a medium to which I no longer am involved - because they kind of banned me. Throughout the day other bloggers and former bloggers also gave me a notice as well. 

I used to follow Tony and link to him. His writings were decent - almost too much so for a self-subscribed hick from eastern Tennessee. I'm not casting dispersions on folks from there, but he wrote more eloquently than his background would suggest. 

The man would shut down blogs and start them up again under another name / title. I eventually gave up even attempting to follow him. I think he was trying to throw people off the trail, but maybe I'm projecting. 

I am not all about the blogger meet-up, but you've seen I've had my fair share. I never attempted to meet Tony because, well, I was never planning on being in or near Knoxville. But I know others who have attempted and at the last second he'd always beg off or cancel. Not one person I know actually met him. 

His pictures, while very nice and sometimes provocative, were nothing short of professional photographs. Never a single candid picture of him anywhere ever. Very little that was not perfectly lit and shadowed. And Dorian Gray had nothing on this man. He barely aged a day in 20 years. Not one of us who has blogged that long can say anything remotely the same. 

I am also cynical enough as to why a Twitter post like this would show up 3-4 months after the fact, or that someone would have his username and password to that account to post it int the first place. Sure, maybe "the lawyer" did it, but going by his blog and this post, no one in Tony's immediate family is still alive. 

Even if someone being Tony was a persona, maybe it was just better and easier to kill "him" off with a tweet. 

Not a trace of a grave or a marker of existence.  Faking the perfect death. 

Or he fell off a ladder while painting a house and died. Either Or. 

Song by: the Zombies

I'm Gone

None of what you're about to read will shock you. 

I deleted my Twitter account.  

*Shock*    *Gasp*     *Smelling Salts*

I do not believe they were indeed sorry to see me go, and fuck if they didn't get in one last hashtag. 

From the beginning I was annoyed. I couldn't get the handle @Blobby.  I had to settle for @Blobby1. It was a disaster from the start. 

Becky and her husband got me to join so many years ago, but truthfully, I never did much with it. I never know what to do with it. Or what I was supposed to do with it. 

Yeah, I get 'trolling' and while I'm not proud of it, I did my share, especially if a person was the Senate Majority Leader,  a Beverly Leslie homo-not homo Senator from South Carolina, or anyone who shared BLOTUS' last name. 

Oh - and Mitt Romney.  I got banned to 'reading status only'' due to my "inflammatory" words for him after he said they should wait to vote on RBG's replacement, then turned around and voted not to. Yes, I wished him and his family harm - and I stand by that - but I didn't threaten him. I mean, I also wish for $100,000,000, but they didn't ban me for that. 

Twitter was just soul crushing anyways. The vitriol was making me seriously consider doubling my antidepressant, and the joke was, I never came to Twitter, it came to me. I'd get emails to check out someone's tweet - and like a moron / addict, I did. 

I should have deleted it years ago, or at least after the 2020 election. But I didn't. 

My friend Farook asked what I found "soul crushing" from Twitter, and I told him. He just goes, "oh, I'm only there for the porn".   And that is there, but there I have no desire to follow "only fans" or porn "stars". 

Musk made me do it.  He was my final straw. 

Honestly, he did.  I hate to thank him for anything (so I won't), but the idea of that megalomaniac heading that (or any) platform was enough to make me find my settings and delete. 

I am sorry I have a Space X t-shirt, though going to a launch was cool. His polluting the sky with hundreds of satellites is horrid.  Whenever I get an EV, it shan't be from his company.  

Should I not be mistaken, I think I scrolled past a headline today (yesterday) that said he had dissolved the board and he and only he was in charge. 

Lord. 

It's a matter of days before BLOTUS get reinstated, which will be fun to watch - except that I can't.  That means, BLOTUS' platform won't even be his go-to.  Yet another failed venture for the world's most failing "billionaire".   Shock. Gasp. Smelling Salts. 

Granted, Twitter never took a lot of my time, but now it will take none of it, and I think that will do wonders for my mental health. 

Song by: Alison Krauss + Union Station

Sensitive

Amen!

What little I used Twitter before just went to zero. I deleted my account. It's affecting single digits of people for sure and none of them tied to accounts that make money, but yeah, it's the principle of the thing. 

$44 BILLION (not $43 the meme says) to buy a medium that seemingly only links people to their Only Fans sites (what? that can't just be my feed, right?) 

I haven't done the math, but I'm thinking $44 BILLION (!!!!) might have kept every homeless and hungry person in the world housed, clothed and fed. 

Honestly, if he had spent just half that amount on Grimes' music, she might have one (singular) halfway (I'm being generous) listenable song. 

Robert Reich - g-d love him - hits the nail on the head. Twice. 

We are not the land of the free. In actuality, we never were, but it just seem so much more blatant now. 

I think Bezos had a buffer period with the Post. He got it before some truly right winged buyers could snag it and sing the praises of BLOTUS. But trust me, he has an agenda too, and reporting the "news" or investigating anything isn't happening. 

BTW - Reich also went on to tweet about how when he criticized Musk, he got blocked. It's only a matter of moments before he gets his account permanently banned. 

I do agree with the quasi-long running memes that we should be calling U.S. billionaires "oligarchs".  Of course, the problem with that is more than half the population won't get the Russian connotation or know what the word means, and the same more than half of the population can't pronounce the word. 

So in case you did miss it - and the story ran once and seemingly got squashed - Tesla is under investigation for it's California plant ostracizing black workers and being demeaned and segregated by the white ones - referring to parts of the cafeteria as 'monkey island'.   No one at the plant - with more than 45 complaints (and that was months ago) are doing a thing about it. 

No wonder they're relocating to Texas. I'd say that behaviour is accepted and encouraged there, but right now, the same can be said of California. 

So yes, now that you own a major communication (let's not call it news) source, you're going to direct the narrative as you see fit, and how it fits you. Black worker hating story, never to be seen again!

Oh - and you can start the countdown clock as to when BLOTUS gets his Twitter account back.  BTW, NONE of this is coincidental for the 2024 presidential run.  

None of it. 

Song by: Robbie Williams

Everyday

So I can't even begin to discuss my disgust and disappointment with the Senate and Congress. Both sides of the aisle. 

The never to be commission on January 6th shows exactly how weak the Democrats are - and how heartless, soulless and brainless the Republicans are.  

None of this is new. Yet I'm still mentally and ideologically crushed. 

The Right had always said, this is BLM and Antifa driven - the people who were storming the Capitol. 

If believed to be true, you'd honestly think they'd be wanting to get to the bottom of it all. But you know - as do they - that this is not true and that finger they're pointing, three more are pointing back at them. So, no way, no how is that happening in a public forum. Ever 

That said, I have to had it to Bob for publishing the above political cartoon in his last Sunday post. I have shamelessly stolen it. Not just for this post.

During the 2020 election, I semi-came out of Twitter retirement. I'm not great at being there, or doing stuff with it, but I have now opted to visit my account daily. 

Once a day, every day, I will be posting this to "Leader" McConnell's Twitter feed.  Until the day he fucking dies.  

I mean, it would be great if I only had to post for another 2.5 weeks, but.......the walking dead are really tough to get rid of. 

I have a feeling by the end of week 2.5, one of his crony interns will have blocked me from his site, but maybe @blobby2 and @blobby3 and then @blobby4 will appear.  One just never knows, does one? 

I am a hateful and spiteful man - or can be. No reason someone shouldn't be the beneficiary of all that excess energy. 

Song by: Buddy Holly

Drugs

It's kind of funny, but it's kind of not.

The poor woman had listen to the actual audio far too often, I assume, so she should get hazard pay.

In all honesty, the day got away from me and prepared nothing.......so you get this?




Song by: Talking Heads

Stepping Out

Well, that was another debate gone wrong. Well, I assume. I did not watch, but by all accounts it was a shit show. While I don't have another solution for whittling down candidates, this seems like the worst job interview ever.

My ballot should be arriving any day now, and honestly, I'm not 100% sure for whom I'm voting. I've narrowed it down for sure, but I'll have to do some soul searching (first, finding out if I have one), to make my final selection.

But dating is like a job interview, no?  Someone on Twitter wraps up in word each candidate as if  they had gone on a date. She's not entirely wrong on any of them.



I have not displayed these in any particular order.  No lie: the Tulsi Gabbard one made me laugh out loud.

Song by: Joe Jackson

Bible

Do you think BLOTUS reads any of the tweets that come his way - or the ones that respond to his 280 character vomit?

I'm thinking now. I think his communication is outbound only. If it's not about him, why even bother, right?

The problem I find with folks who do respond to him is they don't use the @BLOTUS so it not only goes back to his account, but to everyone who follows that buffoon.  Make sure they all get the message.

Case in point - look to your left.

It's a great response.  Period.

Those who allege to be Christian can't even argue with this. It's true. 

Well, as true as one book can be, I suppose.  But since said Christians use the bible as their life manual - except when it's not convenient for their current / past / future behaviour - if any of them tried to slam the responder, what could possibly be their rationale?

BLOTUS committing adultery isn't an alternative fact. It's just a fact.  Much like the rules for haircare are simple and finite, so are the laws of the bible.

Of course, people cherry pick the parts of the bible they want to be believe or go by - so I'm assuming that is why evangelicals and the likes will say that part of the book is outdated.   ....but the gay thing is not.  It's why planting certain crops side by side is outdated.  .....but the gay thing is not.  Can't touch the skin of a pig is outdated.  .....but the gay thing is not. A woman being silent in church is outdated.  ....but the gay thing is not. (I could really keep this going for days, but I won't.)

Still, I love Rabia's response........whomever she may be.



Song by: Ghost

Skeletons

I had nothing planned.  I could have written about Pelosi in the Oval, but then I'd have write about Pelosi.  I don't see that meeting as the big take-away for the Dems as they think.  Sure, there is now a clip of BLOTUS saying he'd take credit for the government shut down - which he'll deny later, and even with the multiple clips being played, his supporters will see it as "fake news"

So - today you just get this A+++++ tweet.

I could not stop laughing.



Song by: Rickie Lee Jones

WTF?

.....the thing is - it was only a matter of time before someone from the BLOTUS administration stuck their foot in mouth from the Thailand cave thingy.  The question wasn't really if, more like when, but definitely, 'who'?

It was the Feckless Cunt........no, the other one........KelleyAnne.

It is my assumption that she floated some kind of fucking test balloon for the administration - though I don't know why. They don't care what most Americans feel and their base will cheer them on no matter what.

My first thought? 

Surely this is a fucking sick joke, or seeing how far this administration can push folks in its absurdity in what they do on a daily basis.

Surely they are not so stupid - - hard as it is to believe, I don't think they are.   They're just assholes. 

Of course there were the 1400 twitter replies. While amusing, somewhat predictable. I tried to find some I liked more than others.

....I love you Trish Thornton. 

I love you Sienna..............and Regina George!

Song by:  OK Go

Lazy

It's a "holiday" week.  I am in training for two days of this week, which in a way only makes it a two-day work week.

Still..........I'm being lazy in blog activities. I could write something profound - for the first time in 4935 posts (including this one), but then expectations would be set for other profound posts, and honestly, who has the time?

Today I've decide just to do not-so-random tweet and memes I've been snagging over the last few weeks that pretty much tell what you already know.  Not all are super-timely as I'm trying to stay away from social media.  Just overlook that.

(totally stolen from Bob)

Song by: Love & Rockets

How Can I Refuse

Poor "little"  (see, it's in quotes because she isn't!) Sarah Fuckabee-Sanders got her plus-sized panties in a wad because she was denied service at a restaurant in Virginia.

Of course there is / will be the right outrage and the eventual on-line and probably physical backlash to the restaurant and its owner.

Of course the same people outraged won't see the irony the whole gay wedding - cake shop refusal thingy.

Yes - while SCOTUS did the ruling, Fuckabee-Sanders praised it and the baker's right to free speech.

Naturally I'm biased here. I hate this administration, I hate this woman and every single thing for which she stands. Sure the bakers based their refusal on 'religious freedom', but the owner of the Red Hen could do the same thing. It's now the law of the land.  All they have to say is under the Ten Commandments they view 'lying' as a sin and the second biggest liar in the land was in their establishment which they could not condone by g-d's law.

Period.  Boom!

All this aside, why should these clods expect to ever get an excellent customer experience?  Fuckabee-Sanders went to a town that overwhelmingly did not vote for BLOTUS. She had to know that. And she has the second most recognizable face in this administration (yeah, that includes you Pence).  Why the fuck did you think you'd be accepted in this place.........or any?

This administration is finally starting to see how disliked they are. Take this headline from Friday:

How how I laughed and laughed and laughed.......inside....where it counts.

I think the most reprehensible thing of it all is Fuckabee called out the restaurant and her experience on twitter...............but not her own personal account.  Nooooo - it was on the Press Secretary account, which basically saying the government condones a praise or tear down any singular personal business, helping to sway public opinion.  Even I'll give that fat-ass president the nod that he uses his own account and not the POTUS one for his buffoonery.

If the Red Hen wanted to publicly shame Fucakbee, they could just say didn't have enough food - they had to decide to feed her or the rest of their customers.  That might shut her pie-hole.



Song by:  Heart

Shooting the Moon

Almost no real need for text today.  Almost.

This last one really says it though. IMHO, of course.

Song by: OK Go

Bleed Like Me

The tweets were unfortunate.  They were rude. 95% chance they're not accurate or true at all.

Were they "one of the most vitriolic insults", as NPR stated?  Not even close.


Here is what they are:   a distraction from something else that is going on.

RESIST!

Are they a shiny object to steer you aways from what "they" are doing or planning?  Most likely.

RESIST!

That seems to be their M.O. :   send crazy tweets or have Twat Conway open her ugly pie-hole on camera.......and then watch people react and miss the real story, whatever that might be.

RESIST!

I mean are any of us surprised or shocked by this display or his written word? I didn't even raise an eyebrow and I have no idea who this chick even is.  The things is:  now Morning Joe will get a boost in the ratings and in a few days SCROTUS will take credit for it.  

Mark. My. Words.


Of course, my question of this whole thing?    I want to know why it took 6 minutes between twats.  Surely it can't take him that long to type out a text.....unless he's using his Nokia Razor.

But seriously, between all the TV he "doesn't watch" and twatting.....when does he have time to govern?   Ohhhhhhhhhhh........right.  Answered my own question.





Song by: Garbage

Erotic

First off - what the fuck is wrong with the guy's face on the right?  Chaw? Stroke?  Smells something bad? All of the above?

I said yesterday, I had little to say about this, but
well, what's not to love about these dipshit ornithology terrorists in Oregon?

They have guns, but no food. Aren't most stupid-ass gun-owning justifications: they're for hunting.

Well - then go hunt for you fucking food you lazy-ass morons. Of course, they don't have the women-folk there to clean and cook it, so.........what's a man to do?

I'll tell you what......

No. No......Colin Meloy from the Decemberists will tell you what......

That's right: Bundy Erotic Fan Fiction.


This is better than Betty White reading Peterotica.




and Mr. Meloy is't the only one chiming in......oh no no no.....

And if these rebels don't have wi-fi they are lucky. I'm guessing if they saw this stuff, they would fucking freak, because you have to believe nothing is worse to them than being considered "faggots".

They'd fly from the sanctuary (get it?  get it???) faster than fast to take out anyone who questioned their masculinity....or insinuated anal sex.

And my lord - the jokes all around being made at their expense. They can call themselves whatever they want, but 'laughing stocks' probably isn't one of them.



Song by: Madonna

War Child

Ok - just a dumb little thing in College Humour. But it speaks to me as a Star Wars geek.....and a somewhat newish Facebook member.

....and it keeps this blog going past those 365 blog posts (ok, I've got to stop with this entire year reference, right?).

Of course, not to be outdone by just one social networking site, it seems Darth Vader posts on Twitter. I'm not a follower, but I was amused at some re-tweets people posted on or around Thanksgivng:

Darth Vader: Will be celebrating Thanksgiving this year with my son & his friends on Cloud City. I just know they'll be dying to meet me. 1:49 PM Nov 25th from Twitterrific

Darth Vader: These aren't the drumsticks you're looking for. #starwarsthanksgiving about 4 hours ago from Twitterrific

Yes, I'm queer - but how did you not know this already? I mean, seriously........


Song by: Blondie