LINKDear reader, come massage our tired feet and we will tell you a story, a story about cucumber-lime cocktails and teensy roast beef sandwiches, a story of red carpets and velvet ropes and bathrooms so well decorated you cannot find the stalls, a story about fame and almost-fame and famous-for-Washington, about peering into the darkness of a fabulous party and asking, "Hey, isn't that -- that woman? From that show?"
After the White House Correspondents' Association dinner comes the Bloomberg party, every year. So the heavens have decreed it and so it shall be. The heavens have added: Let there be plentiful liquor and plentiful cleavage. And so it is. There was also, this particular year, great drunkenness, great dancing, and this one long-haired dude who just got voted off "American Idol."
O fame! O greatness! There he was Saturday night, Ace Young -- he of the foppish curls and the smirk of a guy who's been getting a lot of love from the ladies. He was accompanied by older brother Ryan, who has the same foppish curls and the pleased look of a guy whose brother is suddenly famous and beloved by the ladies.
Ryan reported that at the dinner earlier some old lady came up to his brother and "dropped a kiss on his lips."
"Yeah, caught me off guard," Ace said.
Who was it?
"No idea." But Ace said he "definitely got a few" phone numbers.