Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)
Chaos at the Border
So all of this week yon descendants there have been thousands of immigrants at the border between the United States and Central America. Children, many with no adults accompanying them, are being kept in storage containers with tiny windows with bars upon them. But there are pictures of butterflies on the storage container walls, we are told.
Well I guess that makes it all right.
Investigating congress critters have not been allowed entry and scuttlebutt has it that ICE agents and border patrol guards have been warned not to talk about it.
Many of these people, yon descendants, are carriers of the COVID gene. We hurried and got vaccines for the virus, we scuttle to wherever they are being offered. But when the illegal immigrants want to come in, boom, they waltz in to spread the virus again.
Couldn't they have waited until all age groups had been vaccinated in America?
Better, why even open the borders at all?
Legal immigrants are one thing. Illegal immigrants are.....well illegal.
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Crazy Man Shooting Up Massage Parlers
His name is Robert Long, he's about 21 years old, and he declares himself to be addicted to sex.
First, yon descendants, nobody is freaking addicted to sex. Sure, lots of people like sex and many participate in that activity a bit too much.
But it's not addiction. No more than eating is an addiction.
Addiction is needing something that is NOT needed to live.
We need sex to reproduce the species. We need to eat to live. Claiming an addition to sex is like seeking abdication for something over which we have no control.
It's a dumb damn assertion is what I'm saying here.
But even worse, the Democrats are screaming that this guy is shooting only Asian women and IT'S ALL TRUMP'S FAULT!!!
President Trump referred (and still refers) to COVID as the Chinese virus.
Thus we have guys addicted to sex shooting Asian women who work at massage parlors for his hatred of the Chinese who brought COVID to America.
Or something.
What an awful person. As I am to understand, eight females have been murdered by this creep.
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MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
The Grammys
Trevor Noah was host of this year's Grammy awards. He did a pretty good job.
I'd DVR'd the Grammys so I could watch and fast forward at my convenience.
By me, there were very few songs that held any allure for me. Of course I am older and cannot stand rap music. And then there's the X-rated Cardi B nonsense.
I adored the rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone".....who wouldn't? There were a couple of other songs that captured my fancy, mostly country artists and songs from the past.
What the hell is it with Taylor Swift? She has the voice of a little girl and writes songs about men who have done her wrong in the past.
I don't know about Lady Gaga except she's very loud and did I mention that she's very loud?
This was an ok show to have on while busy writing Blogs like this one. Beyond this show I will not watch any silly award shows that once held me captivated.
Record of the Year
WINNER: "Everything I Wanted" — Billie Eilish
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Album of the Year
WINNER: Folklore — Taylor Swift
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Song of the Year
WINNER: "I Can't Breathe" — Dernst Emile II, H.E.R., and Tiara Thomas, songwriters (H.E.R.)
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Best New Artist
WINNER: Megan Thee Stallion
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Best Pop Solo Performance
WINNER: "Watermelon Sugar" – Harry Styles
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Best Pop Vocal Album
WINNER: Future Nostalgia — Dua Lipa
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Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
WINNER: "Rain on Me" — Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande
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Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
WINNER: American Standard — James Taylor
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The Bachelor
Matt James/Rachel/Michelle
My favorite shows are Competitive reality shows. Survivor would be one such show. The Bachelor/Bachelorette series appeals on some level, once again a show that is easily watched when one is busy on other activities.
This year's Bachelor was perfectly awful.
The Bachelor's name was Matt James. His final two choices to be his wife were Michelle and Rachel. It turns out that there were a couple of Rachels that messed things up. More on this later.
Matt was quite an attractive guy, kind of quiet. One notable observation I made was that his mother was whiter than any white woman on the planet. Matt is the first Black Bachelor on the show and of course it turned into some sort of racist nonsense as these go nowadays.
First, Matt actually chose contender Rachel as his final choice. But dear Lord it would turn out that Rachel once attended some sort of party called an antebellum. The very word antebellum indicates the south before the Civil War. Slaves picked the tobacco in he fields while the white woman wore huge hoop skirts and served iced tea. Rachel, the winner of Matt's affection, attended such a party and there was a picture floating all over the Internet of her wearing one of those hoop dresses.
Then there is another Rachel in the picture. Rachel Lindsay was interviewed by the Bachelor's host Chris Harrison. He defended Matt's Rachel during an interview with Rachel Lindsay, saying it was an oddball incident that she attended the party and was attired with the dress of the era. So Chris Harrison got "temporarily" removed from the show.
Matt, he with the whitest mother in the world, dumped his Rachel for doing such a silly thing as attending an antebellum party and wearing a hoop dress. Because, evidently, in today's world anything you did in your past that even hints at race will bring wrath and anger upon any one of us.
"After the Final Rose" had Matt's Rachel come back and it was pathetically sad. She said that she would always love Matt but he refused to even give her a goodbye hug.
It was a perfectly horrible series. This is a show that is supposed to bring happiness and joy to the contenders.
But it's ABC. They got to make racism out of everything. And if the culture needs to be cancelled, then Chris Harrison has to go.
Below is Matt with the whitest mother in America words about his decision: I will NOT watch this series again. We need to stop making every damn thing about racism.
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“The past few weeks have been some of the most challenging of my life, and while there are several episodes left of the season, it is important that I take the time to address the troubling information that has come to light since we wrapped filming, including the incredibly disappointing photos of Rachael Kirkconnell and the interview between Rachel Lindsay and Chris Harrison. The reality is that I’m learning about these situations in real time, and it has been devastating and heartbreaking to put it bluntly. Chris’s failure to receive and understand the emotional labor that my friend Rachel Lindsay was taking on by graciously and patiently explaining the racist history of the Antebellum South, a painful history that every American should understand intimately, was troubling and painful to watch. As Black people and allies immediately knew and understood, it was a clear reflection of a much larger issue that The Bachelor franchise has fallen short on addressing adequately for years.
“This moment has sparked critical conversations and reporting, raised important questions, and resulted in inspiring displays of solidarity from The Bachelor nation. It has also pushed me to reevaluate and process what my experience on The Bachelor represents, not just for me, but for all the contestants of color, especially the Black contestants of this season and seasons past, and for you, the viewers at home.
“I will continue to process this experience, and you will hear more from me in the end. My greatest prayer is that this is an inflection point that results in real and institutional change for the better.”
(social media explains so much)
REVIEWS TV SHOWS
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
Clarice
Thursdays at 10 pm....CBS
Clarice is a deep dive into the untold personal story of FBI Agent Clarice Starling as she returns to the field in 1993, one year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs. Brilliant and vulnerable, Clarice's bravery gives her an inner light that draws monsters and madmen to her. However, her complex psychological makeup that comes from a challenging childhood empowers her to begin to find her voice while working in a man's world, as well as escape the family secrets that have haunted her throughout her life.
I do not understand this show at all.
I do know that by me it is an awful show and I shall not watch it again.
I did read the book "Silence of the Lambs" but I don't remember much about it. Clarice Starling was the woman assigned to interview Dr. Hannibal Lector who, I recall with ageing memory, liked to eat people.
This series revolved around this same Clarice as she ventures back out to get involved with the bad guys.
I have watched two shows featuring the infamous Clarice, who is having a hell of a time convincing her fellow FBI agents that she is all normal after her experience with Lecter.
The show has a sort of spooky overturn. I am not at all clear what happened in her past that has caused her such pain. I have no idea why the crazy people are attracted to Clarice.
The show does go through an episode that has Clarice dealing with spooky and scary criminals but to me it's confusing and, frankly, a bit unbelievable.
I read Silence of the Lambs as a teenager and I remember really liking the book.
I don't like the show about Clarice Starling.
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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Richard (Rachel) Levine
Kind questions to Assistant Sec of Health-Rachel Levine
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I have provided a picture of Rachel Levine (born RICHARD Levine) below.
I want to be kind. I shall try.
Rachel, you don't think when you walk around looking like that people don't laugh at you? I mean there are lots of males (and females) in our society that dress and act like the opposite sex.
But Rachel, you look like an old guy who got drunk and put on that stringy wig for a Halloween party.
I have seen plenty of cross dressers and there's no rule you have to look like an idiot.
You could find a more attractive wig, for example.
How about more feminine looking glasses?
Has anybody ever shown you how to artfully apply make-up?
I see this guy's picture often and I just can't believe he can't come up with a better look than he goes out in public with.
And I have to cover my mouth with the laughter that springs upon.
THE FLY ON THE WALL
Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.
Meeting With the President
This fly must tell yon readers of a meeting I chanced to attend. Because your President, what's his name? Biding?
Anyway, he and Valeria Jarret and another guy were at this meeting, which I chanced to attend as I flew around the White House looking for crumbs.
They were discussing an upcoming press conference to be held by President Biding and I only heard just a little bit of it. But it was most interesting.
Let us begin with informing yon readers that Biding slept through the whole meeting, at least the part where I was at.
The other attendee jumped up suddenly he scared me, the fly.
"So," he said to Valeria, "we got all the questions lined up? We got his answers? Do we have people assigned in the press corps to ask the question? Most importantly, what are we doing to get him ready for this?"
The guy regarded the sleeping Biding, who was beginning to snore quite a bit.
Valeria too stood up, straightened her skirt, and reached over to gently jostle the President.
"He will be taking his special medicine all day for three days prior," Valeria responded. "You know how perky that makes him."
The other attendee nodded that he did, indeed, know how perky it made Biding.
"The NY Times is planting about five people in the room and they've been assigned their questions. He knows who they are and will call on them," Valeria continued as Biding struggled to sit up and figure out where he was.
"I can't tell you how important this is obviously," the attendee said as he gathered his overcoat to prepare to leave.
"We've got it all worked out," Valeria said as she helped Biding slip on his jacket, then shrugged on her own as she prepared to leave.
They damn near locked this fly in the room.
So there's a press conference next week yon readers and it looks like your president has it all under control.
If you all are lucky, he might stay awake for the whole press conference.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
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