Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, August 11, 2017

Waitin' for the Weekend

6 comments:

Tim said...: Well this weekend I’ll take #3 Bubba; even though he has been photo-shopped. He’s young and fresh, all the things I’m not! LoL. But it does raise the point about what you see is not necessarily what you’d get. In this case his pecs, nipples and shoulders have been ‘ballooned’ but his original wash-board abs have been ‘flattened' to a mere hint of their true glory. This digital tinkering is happening a lot with gay imagery these days...sigh. Its becoming a pet peeve.....one of many! "Caveat emptor" as they used to say. A good weekend to you and yours. Tim; August 12, 2017 at 3:56 AM
Frank said...: Tim, don't rain on our parade! - especially when the possibility of nuclear holocaust looms! # 2 and #3 are just nearly perfect! And reminders that neither life nor genetics are FAIR!
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to walk around having a body like that. Or just having a body like that to play with.; August 12, 2017 at 7:13 AM
Tim said...: Sorry Frank, better get your umbrella up! (Wasn’t there something about a nuclear umbrella once?)

I’m sure some clever fellow could make an analogy between the purveyors of photoshopped imagery, peddling untruths and raising false expectations to Messrs Trump and Kim, but I’m far too dull witted for that.

If its any consolation this current crisis doesn’t (to me at least) have the same feel of intensity, or impending doom, that the Cuban Missile crisis did. But then Kennedy had a remarkable gravitas when required, and Khrushchev was nothing if not a pragmatist. But with the current incumbents who knows? Perhaps History will be kind and photo-edit them out?

P.S. Yes, #2 is quite something, play gently with him!; August 12, 2017 at 12:18 PM
Davis said...: That leaves # 4 for me - is that right fellas? Must have won the lottery! Thanks!!!; August 13, 2017 at 2:05 PM
Tim said...: Davis, you got him, enjoy!; August 13, 2017 at 4:43 PM
Russ Manley said...: Oh dear - fake photos of half-naked men. What is the world coming to?

Ah but they do make lovely dreams, don't they? And pretty thoughts are needed now more than ever, in this ugly world.

At least you all get your top picks this week, so I must be doing something right! Carry on.; August 15, 2017 at 10:42 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu