{"id":93433,"date":"2025-01-12T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93433"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:26:41","slug":"sizzling-hot-three-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/01\/12\/sizzling-hot-three-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizzling Hot Three-Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be in a relationship.  It\u2019s not for me.  It never was…
\nI\u2019m straight; everybody thinks I\u2019m gay.  But I don\u2019t care what I am. 
\nWhatever.  It doesn\u2019t matter.  I really put blinders on…
\nmy work, my work, my work.  Any time something gets in the way,
\nI just kind of block it out<\/em><\/span>.”
\n<\/em><\/span> – <\/em><\/span>Hit songwriter Diane Warren <\/strong>setting the record straight.  She\u2019ll have
\na whole lot to block out going forward because she\u2019s one of the
\npeople who lost her home in the Los Angeles Fires<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For the past 25 years, I\u2019ve called Los Angeles home.  While I\u2019m not there right now, my heart aches for those suffering within spitting distance of my Beverly Hills adjacent abode.  As we learned, spit, a garden hose, or a pump from the pool is no match for dry weather, intense winds, and flying embers.  Still, we must look at the bright side \u2013 which for most people is seeing an outpouring of help from professionals and civilians alike.  For me, it\u2019s seeing ridiculously hot men on TV.  A disheveled Matt Gutman <\/strong>was covered in soot, winding his way through flying ash and debris \u2013 and looking better than I\u2019ll look on my best day.  ABC<\/em> then cut to David Muir<\/strong>, overhead in a helicopter knee-to-knee with a hot fireman, and talking via remote to a cumly civilian named Jakob Brown <\/strong>(see him on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>).  Say what you will about Mrs. Muir, it takes a special kinda newsman to incorporate the famous corset scene from Gone with the Wind<\/em><\/strong> into coverage of a disaster.  That’s Hollywood!<\/p>\n

Lots of folks are stepping up.  People have opened up their homes to those displaced.  Small and large businesses alike are providing goods and services to those in need.  They\u2019re even helping orphaned animals.  Then there\u2019s the Guitar<\/em> Center<\/em>.  \u201cDid you lose musical instruments in the L.A. Fires?  Fill out our request form to get your equipment replaced at zero cost.\u201d  It may seem insignificant to people, but it\u2019s a great gesture.  Naturally, there\u2019s a long history of fires and music going hand in hand.  After all, Emperor Nero <\/strong>allegedly fiddled while Rome burned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be in a relationship.  It\u2019s not for me.  It never was… I\u2019m straight; everybody thinks I\u2019m gay.  But I don\u2019t care what I am.  Whatever.  It doesn\u2019t matter.  I really put blinders on… my work, my work, my work.  Any time something gets in the way, I just kind of block<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93433","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\/93433","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=93433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93447,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93433\/revisions\/93447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}