{"id":94638,"date":"2026-01-18T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94638"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:26:17","slug":"dog-fights-and-going-downhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/01\/18\/dog-fights-and-going-downhill\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Fights and Going Downhill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m Norwegian.  We give a Nobel Prize <\/strong>to somebody who
\ndeserves it.  And suddenly that Nobel Prize is going to
\nsomebody else…That\u2019s why I\u2019m happy specifically now that
\nwe have laws that say that if you misuse the Nobel Prize,
\nwe take it away from you.  Somebody in power in the United
\nStates may be disappointed.  He will lose it…I am happy.\u201d <\/em><\/span>
\n\u2013 <\/em>Liv Ullmann <\/strong>during her acceptance speech for Lifetime Achievement <\/em>at
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>the European Film Awards<\/em><\/strong>.  Great \u2013 now we\u2019re gonna invade Norway, too!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You may recognize model Christian Hogue <\/strong>as the face (and body) of Davidoff Cool Water<\/em>. But he sure wasn\u2019t showing model behavior back in August at a Nashville dog park.  According to witnesses, he grabbed a guy from behind \u2013 something that has happened to me in parks on numerous occasions.  Hogue claims he retaliated after the other guy punched his dog.  However, that guy says he simply grabbed Hogue\u2019s dog by the collar to stop it from attacking his dog.  While no witnesses confirm either scenario, they all saw Hogue put the other guy in a headlock.  The \u201cvictim\u201d claims that Christian restricted his breathing \u2013 which I believe is the whole point of a headlock.  But it\u2019s the model\u2019s mugshot causing a stir.  Know your angles, I always say.  He\u2019s due back in court this week.<\/p>\n

By the by, Christian was arrested again just days before Christmas.  Why?  He was driving while using his cell phone.  Hasn\u2019t he ever heard of bluetooth?  As Judge Judy would say, this guy sounds like a real winner!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of hot guys, Gus Kenworthy <\/strong>is hoping to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics <\/em><\/strong>in Milan.  Since we in the gay community always talk about him, we forget that he\u2019s an underdog on the world stage.  After an acceptable showing at the US Grand Prix <\/em><\/strong>in Aspen (he finished 8th<\/sup>), he is in contention to compete for Team Great Britain<\/em><\/strong>.  Because of dual citizenship, he has also competed for the US and won a silver medal in the 2014 <\/em><\/strong>Sochi<\/em><\/strong> Olympics<\/em><\/strong>.  In addition to straddling two countries, here\u2019s something else you may not know \u2013 his legal name is Augustus<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m Norwegian.  We give a Nobel Prize to somebody who deserves it.  And suddenly that Nobel Prize is going to somebody else…That\u2019s why I\u2019m happy specifically now that we have laws that say that if you misuse the Nobel Prize, we take it away from you.  Somebody in power in the United States may be<\/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-94638","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\/94638","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=94638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94647,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94638\/revisions\/94647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}