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The Friday Frank

Oct 18, 2024

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Happy Friday!

We interviewed Lamorne Morris on Keep It this week and shared our fall film recs.

As I told you all, I went to Tulsa last weekend with a few friends, thanks to Experience Tulsa. I’d never been to the Southwest / Midwest / whatever you call it state, but as it turns out, Oklahoma is quite lovely. It was Tulsa Pride that weekend, but we mostly spent our time experiencing the city’s arts and culture. We visited the Woody Guthrie Museum, the Bob Dylan Center, the Philbrook Museum of Art, saw an Orville Peck concert, Gathering Place (a huge public park and working space that’s free to use), did a tour of architecture from little-known gay architect Bob Goff, and saw touring one-man show by Tulsa native Palatable Gay Robot (hilarious, with a guest appearance from Hunter Harris)!

Tulsa Food Recs: Noche recently made The NY Times’ annual list of 50 best restaurants in America. The design of the restaurant is bright red and sleek like a Netflix installation, but don’t worry, the food doesn’t feel like corporate event food. Seriously some of the best guac, queso, and aguachile I’ve ever had. And the chicken enchiladas!! Add chicken on the side like I did. Tina’s has the perfect burger. Perfectly cooked and the bread didn’t get soggy at any point while eating it. I added bacon to mine and had it with a couple of Miller High Lifes. Chimera is a café and event space (we saw Palatable Gay Robot there) where we had brunch on our first full day. Perfect Southwestern bites. We stayed at the Brut hotel, which was chic and Tulum-inspired (but what hotel isn’t Tulum-inspired these days). The rooms are HUGE. Like, bigger than my New York apartment. And the bathrooms come with two sinks. And some rooms come with a hammock! The rooftop bar and restaurant, Soma, makes an excellent dirty martini and has great food as well.

If you’re a 90210 fan, then you’re definitely an AnnLynne McCord fan. My queen Naomi Campbell has been entertaining me on Days of Our Lives for the past few weeks, where she’s been masquerading as a back-from-the-dead Abigail DiMera.

The storyline is one of the fun ones on Days recently. It’s still my favorite show to watch every day (usually during breakfast or on my lunch break). And I’ve pretty much done that regularly since 2002. But currently, I skip every episode focused on a recent storyline with several characters filming a soap opera called Body and Soul. Soap opera “parodies” in the year of our Lord 2024… whew.

My boyfriend and I made a trip to D.C. this week (my first time since Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity in 2009!) to see 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Kennedy Center. It was fantastic to see friends Kevin McHale and Noah Galvin absolutely kill it on stage. And of course, I never pass up a chance to see Bonnie Milligan! If you get a chance to see this show before it closes on Sunday, do it!!

Reality Roundup

Here’s a photo from one year ago today, when I met Sai and Ubah from Real Housewives of New York in person for the first time. They were so much fun! I had so much hope for season 2 of RHONY. Sigh.

I attended a live recording of Rob Has a Podcast on Wednesday to watch this week’s Survivor. I could have never imagined it when Andy got Jon Lovett sent home on Monday, but goddamn, I’m absolutely loving him on the show. I guess it was worth losing Jon! His arc has been fascinating to watch and Anika’s blindside this week made this not only the best episode of the season but one of my favorite Survivor episodes overall. I’m thinking that this season might become my fave of the new era. The contestants are gaming again and they’re back to being kind of ruthless and nasty to each other too. It’s feeling like old-school Survivor in the way that Big Brother felt old-school this season. Kumbaya Survivor is gone! But still, we need a few more himbos added back to the cast. I miss them! But Sam and Sol are gorgeous, btw.

There was an after party with over 50 Survivor players and I’ve never experienced this at an event before but, I got extremely anxious being around so many people who I love watching on TV (and also tweeting about). I had to dip outside for a cigarette quickly after arriving and then leave. I didn’t want to linger and try to start awkward convos with any of them. But I wish I’d met Andy and few of the ones who follow me online! Maybe next time.

Bravo recaps: The Real Housewives of Potomac staged a nothing burger of a sit down between Gizelle and Wendy, but at least they’re finally moving past their beef. The Real Housewives of New York aired its worst episode since its ill-fated 13th season. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has finally moved on from Britani’s annoying relationship with Jared Osmond.