No, I haven't heard that, but I'll take it as a compliment since he's not a bad looking guy and he is a fellow member of the tribe, but no one would mix up our politics for sure. And I am about 10-11 years older. I used to have a goatee (too much white in it anymore so I shaved it off) and an uncanny number of people told me I looked like Andrea Bocelli, which I really found off the wall.
Barbecue Becky is racist scum who called police because an African-American family had the temerity to enjoy a barbecue in a public park. This got national media attention because came right on the heels of five African American ladies enjoying a game of golf at a Pennsylvania Country Club having the police called on them (c'mon, if you can afford club dues, you're not from Baltimore or South Philly) and an African American real estate agent was arrested in Philadelphia while waiting for a client inside a Starbucks, without having purchased anything. Trevor Noah on The Daily Show said he should have just had a MacBook and earbuds and told the manager he was working on a screenplay. He said that's all people do in Starbucks is wait - he called it a bus station with an espresso machine.
Lady, it's difficult to eat well when you're living by yourself so I relate. I'm not a leftovers kind of guy, so I don't really cook much for myself because I get tired very quickly of eating the same thing for several meals in a row. So aside from breakfast (my favorite meal anyway), I rarely cook for myself and am probably overly dependent on prepackaged processed foods, but I do try to balance it out since I have a Korean grocery in the 'hood, and they have a lot of prepared food (esp. on Sundays) and it's largely healthy. And I try to have a big salad every day - usually in the evening so I'm not taking in a large number of calories closer to bedtime. I haven't eaten McDonalds in probably a decade, and it's probably pushing 5 years for both Burger King and Wendy's, though when the craving hits for Popeye's chicken, nothing else will do, and it's right around the corner. I even rarely eat pizza and Chinese takeout anymore and I used to live for Chinese buffets. I'm pretty frugal these days, so the only eating out I do is basically when I go to my weekly trivia game with friends from AA (and Sonny likes to go because he gets handouts - it's an open air place so dog friendly) and even then I usually get fish tacos because they're so tasty at this particular joint.
Anyway, fuuuuuuck me. I borrowed my mother's car to drive from Tennessee to Illinois so I wouldn't have to deal with a rental and I had a fucking flat (which was really fun to change on the side of the interstate, let me tell you, with asshole truckers not moving over and whizzing past at 80mph inches away). No problem, she has road hazard coverage. So I thought. Well, I was informed by the inbred at Mal-Wart that the tire was considered "abused" since I didn't immediately change it. WTF? I almost lost my shit, but I'm trying to be better than that. I told him I was going 70mph and when I became aware there was a problem, I stopped and changed the tire, so this idea that I drove for miles on that tire was "patently absurd" (my words, because I caught myself before I said "utter fucking bullshit." So I ask him how long how much a replacement tire is? Well, we can one by Monday. This just reinforces my intense, beyond-words, hatred for the Sam Walton empire. MONDAY? I WON'T FUCKING BE HERE! Thankfully, my mother is smart enough to have a full-size spare and threw out her donut, so I might just wing it and hope for the best. AAA Premier membership is pricey, but I once had to be towed 200 miles, so I'm not going to bitch about it. Anyway, I'm off to the wedding rehearsal, and the dinner after is being catered by another classmate who's now a linguistics professor at Michigan State. I know he's a great chef, so things can only get better from here.
Much love, y'all keep me and my job hunt in your thoughts