{"id":94148,"date":"2025-08-24T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94148"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:58:41","slug":"no-rest-for-the-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/no-rest-for-the-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"No Rest for the Wicked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cI love playing gay.&nbsp; I\u2019ll play gay.&nbsp; I\u2019ll play straight.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI\u2019ll do anything.&nbsp; I am very versatile.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Luke Macfarlane <\/strong>toots his own horn.&nbsp; Now, that\u2019s something I\u2019d pay to see!<\/span><\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Picture it \u2013 Boston, 1995.&nbsp; A young man, who looked significantly younger than his chronological age, got a call from his best friend on a hot August afternoon.&nbsp; The friend worked for a gay newspaper in San Francisco, and they were in desperate need of a gossip column.&nbsp; I don\u2019t remember all of the details \u2013 it was something about someone being fired, embezzling checks, a 5PM deadline, and blowing a job at the printer.&nbsp; That young-ish man was me.&nbsp; The SF paper is now defunct.&nbsp; The friend is retired in Las Vegas and working as one of the more successful <strong>Siegfried <\/strong>impersonators (on arthritic days, he plays <strong>Roy<\/strong>).&nbsp; Against all odds, that column is still here \u2013 30 years later.&nbsp; The moral of this story is, damn, I look good for my age! Oh, yeah, and I\u2019ve spent these three decades entertaining the masses.&nbsp; Week in, week out. &nbsp;52 weeks a year. &nbsp;For 30 years. &nbsp;That\u2019s&#8230;well, it\u2019s a shitload of columns! &nbsp;Now, when I go to the printer \u2013 well, the blowjob is on the other foot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I started out in 1995, the <strong>Menendez <\/strong>boys were already young adults and the murder of their parents was 6 years earlier.&nbsp; Some stories keep on giving.&nbsp; Last week, the brothers got their very first parole hearings \u2013 and were both denied.&nbsp; They can try again in three years (unless <strong>Gavin Newsom <\/strong>grants them clemency \u2013 which is probably something <em>El Presidente <\/em>would do if he were in Newsom\u2019s rather large shoes).&nbsp; While the murder of their parents is a big part of why they\u2019re still in jail (the risk assessment listed them as \u201cmoderate\u201d), the main sticking point during the parole hearing was around a cell phone!&nbsp; <strong>Lyle <\/strong>was asked why he was in possession of an illegal cell phone in prison.&nbsp; Lyle said he used the phone to stay in touch with relatives.&nbsp; It was then pointed out that he already had access to a tablet for that purpose.&nbsp; Which begs the question \u2013 prisoners can have tablets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love playing gay.&nbsp; I\u2019ll play gay.&nbsp; I\u2019ll play straight.&nbsp; I\u2019ll do anything.&nbsp; I am very versatile.\u201d \u2013 Luke Macfarlane toots his own horn.&nbsp; Now, that\u2019s something I\u2019d pay to see! Picture it \u2013 Boston, 1995.&nbsp; A young man, who looked significantly younger than his chronological age, got a call from his best friend on<\/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\/94148"}],"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=94148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94149,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94148\/revisions\/94149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}