{"id":3485,"date":"2018-01-02T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2018-01-02T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:12:16","slug":"did-ac-top-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/did-ac-top-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Did AC Top DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to social media, the gays started off the night tuned into CNN for AC Squared <\/em><\/strong>– Anderson Cooper <\/strong>and Andy Cohen <\/strong>ringing in the New Year.  Personally, I was looking forward to the world seeing something that doesn’t often appear on worldwide live TV – two good-looking gay men of a certain age just hanging out as friends.  Alas, Tweets <\/em>indicate that Kathy Griffin <\/strong>was sorely missed.  Viewers were bored with the “bromance”, felt Cohen tried too hard to be like Kathy, and Cooper looked like he’d rather be getting an enema – as if that’s a bad thing. <\/p>\n

Having finally slogged through the entire four and a half hour broadcast, I think it was fine – but it probably would have worked better as a show in a gay bar than on an international television network.  Still, there were revelatory moments.  Anderson criticized Cohen for his excessive use of the word “sweetie” – and then used it more than Andy!  There was a curious interchange with Nicole Kidman <\/strong>and Keith Urban <\/strong>about testicles.  I think that’s when the comment about poppers happened.  The most important thing I learned was that at 9AM in the Dallas Airport, Anderson breakfast was orange chicken from Panda Express<\/em>!  Apparently he just discovered it and thinks it’s “delightful”.  And Coop also shared another tip – if ever one is to be in frigid temps, spend the two grand Coop did on undergarments from The Warming Store <\/em>– a family-owned company in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention two runners-up in the quote of the week category.  First, when Andy Cohen saw the portrait made of him by someone high on marijuana, he was shocked.  “Those age lines – I’m like an old marionette!  And, my God, my eyes are even more crossed than they are normally!”  But Cohen was topped by sexy Bill Weir<\/strong>, who was reporting on the indomitable Key West drag queen Sushi <\/strong>being lowered in a giant stiletto at the stroke of midnight.  “I have been offered so many meals and beverages…and apartments, strangely.”  He then added, “I’ve met so many people who’ve touched me – from Puerto Rico, to the Keys, to Texas”.  Ah, life on the road!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to social media, the gays started off the night tuned into CNN for AC Squared – Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen ringing in the New Year.  Personally, I was looking forward to the world seeing something that doesn’t often appear on worldwide live TV – two good-looking gay men of a certain age just hanging out as friends.  Alas, Tweets indicate that Kathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}