{"id":93775,"date":"2025-04-27T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93775"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:30:01","slug":"paul-revere-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/04\/27\/paul-revere-comes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Revere Comes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI mean, he\u2019s…look, the guy\u2019s a pope killer, okay?<\/em><\/span>”
\n<\/em><\/span> – <\/em><\/span>Bowen Yang<\/strong> tells the ladies of The View<\/em><\/strong> his opinion on JD Vance<\/strong>.  Joy Behar <\/strong>was quick
\nto smooth any ruffled feathers.  \u201cHe doesn\u2019t mean it literally \u2013 he\u2019s talking spiritually.\u201d  Is he?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cListen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere<\/strong>.  On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five; hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year.\u201d  That\u2019s how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow <\/strong>began his 1860 poem about Paul Revere\u2019s ride.  Today, the only one still alive who remembers that famous ride is Dame Joan Collins<\/strong>!  This ride has always been celebrated in my native hamlet of Medford.  Fun fact \u2013 Revere never said \u201cThe British are coming\u201d.  After all, everyone was British!  He said, \u201cThe Regulars are coming out.\u201d  Even back then, coming out was big news!  In Medford, he alerted Captain Isaac Hall<\/strong>.  During my childhood, Hall\u2019s home was the Gaffey Funeral Parlor<\/em>.  Someone playing the good Captain would pop out of the second-floor window in a nightcap and ask what all the ruckus was about.  Then he\u2019d invite Revere in for a cup of rum.  Oh, as kids we enjoyed this pageantry…and the rum!  Today, Hall\u2019s house is the Islamic Cultural Center<\/em>.  On this 250th<\/sup> anniversary, Hall still popped out the window, put down his prayer rug, faced Mecca, and the tradition continued.<\/p>\n

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You heard it here first.  Sure, everyone saw the photos of Robert Irwin <\/strong>posing in his skivvies with a python.  But I believe I was the first to get a glimpse of something big.  Lo and behold, he\u2019s been cast on Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/strong>.  Am I the only one envisioning some version of \u201cI\u2019m a Slave 4U\u201d with the snake?  Or, perhaps, whatever song La Toya <\/strong>was singing while a snake was wrapped around her nether regions?  Come to think of it, there may not have actually been a song.  And that video might not have been on MTV<\/em>.  It might have been the Playboy Channel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> has expressed shock that Ellen DeGeneres <\/strong>(and Portia<\/strong>) also left the US.  \u201cI\u2019ve never really known Ellen to say anything political in her life, so I was surprised to read that she left because of President Trump<\/strong>.  Like, that shocked me, actually.\u201d  Without getting into her issues with Ellen (and vice versa), Rosie wishes her well.  \u201cI don\u2019t want to fight against another gay woman.  It\u2019s not like we\u2019re tenaciously opposed to each other.  We\u2019re just very different people.  We have had some stuff in the past that was never resolved.  And not in any way as, as partners or lovers or anything like that.  Just as friends and comedians.  But I wish her the best.  I seriously do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI mean, he\u2019s…look, the guy\u2019s a pope killer, okay?” – Bowen Yang tells the ladies of The View his opinion on JD Vance.  Joy Behar was quick to smooth any ruffled feathers.  \u201cHe doesn\u2019t mean it literally \u2013 he\u2019s talking spiritually.\u201d  Is he? \u201cListen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93775"}],"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=93775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93784,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93775\/revisions\/93784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}