“These are the hands of Michelangelo…”
It still doesn’t make sense, but it sure as hell never stops being funny. I love how much the cast of Work Out loves themselves. Jackie’s narcissism, Rebecca’s narcissism, Jesse’s narcissism and Brian Peeler’s über narcissism are kind of confusing in how they’ve survived two seasons of seeing how atrocious […]

The writing is on the bluefly.com accessory wall. This season of Project Runway is just not making it work, and my faith that they’ll pull their act together is only slightly boosted by this evening’s looooooooong overdue ousting of melodramatic bra-maker Ricky (pictured, awkwardly, above). Ricky wore ugly hats he found in S&M […]

You may have sensed that muted excitement in the streets this morning - everyone on their way to work, in their unseasonably light clothing, with a bit of a spring in their step. They know that the sooner they make it through this day, the sooner they can head back to their homes, kick […]

Wait, it’s over? I must have dozed off back in… it’s October already? This season of Top Chef wasn’t exactly the easiest pill to swallow - mostly because the pill was really big (we started in mid-June!) and kind of boring. The first month was particularly rough. Trying to figure out […]

Jeff on forcing employees to pick up human feces: “I realize that was never in the job description, but, you know, your description expands. You’ve got new responsibilities all the time.”
Wow. No reality personality gave us more profound sound bites and YouTube fodder this summer than Flipping Out’s Jeff Lewis. A Los Angeles speculator (house […]

If there’s anything I like and know better than television, it’s burgers, so the fusion of the two on last night’s Top Chef Quickfire Challenge was a reason to smile indeed. Too bad the contestants were given the menu at Red Robin as a model for what they were expected to make. The […]

It’s been a hard week to talk about TV - mostly because there’s nothing on. Notable preempts for more patriotic fare were Top Chef and So You Think You Can Dance (our favorites!). What there hasn’t been a lack of this week is discussion of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s recent split from literato/cradle […]

Embarrassingly enough, Paula Abdul’s Spellbound was my first non-Disney related cassette tape. So whenever I see her slur her speech or clap like her nails are wet, I just think of my time spent singing along to “Vibeology” and it’s too hard to judge. Besides, Paula Abdul is a fairly innocuous kind of […]

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I’ve been looking forward to last night’s match-up between the first two seasons of Top Chef for some weeks now, and not just because Sam Talbot (pictured above, with french fries) might be the most charming (and cheated!) contestant in the history of competitive reality programming. I wanted to see […]

There is no greater feeling in life than seeing your American Idol contestant of choice make it this far. It is a pleasure that has eluded me year after year - once under shady circumstance but mostly because the people I like aren’t often very good. But all that changed this year when […]