
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Yay I'm Below Average!

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Yay For This Guy!

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FEDERAL WAY – The principal of a Federal Way middle school is visiting the homes this summer of all 600 students.
Principal Damon Hunter (NOT pictured) sent a voice message to the parents of students at Saghalie Middle School saying he's stop by.
He's dropping off back-to-school information, but he says his real goal is to get parents more involved in their children's education.
The Tacoma News Tribune reports that by Thursday Hunter had stopped at 375 homes. He expects to complete the home visits by mid-August.
To save gas, Hunter rides a scooter that gets 110 miles per gallon.
Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com
Thursday, July 31, 2008
RAPING our country

The world's largest publicly traded oil company turned a profit of $11.7 billion for the second quarter. Its earnings were UP 14% from a year
ago.
Exxon Mobil cannot absorb all of the money it is making now. Exxon Mobil spent 46% more money buying its stock back in the first half of this year ($18.2 billion) than it did on exploration and capital expenditures ($12.5 billion).
This makes me SICK. SIIIIICK and furious! It should make you sick and furious too.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The "History" Begins: W - Elizabitch Hasselcoulter UPDATE!

It goes without saying that Elizabitch Hasselcoulter TRASHED the film this morning on THE VIEW based on the trailer without seeing it. She called the FILM biased based on the trailer. She went on and on about how biased the FILM was and how people should go out an watch a good documentary. How about FAHRENHEIT 911 or ENRON: The Smartest Guys In the Room? Does Elizabitch even listen to herself?! She's TRASHING a film based on a 2 minute trailer. When Sherri Sheppard is looking at you like you are crazy, you KNOW you are!
Happy Birthday #4

Happy Birthday to the always dapper Tim Gunn. My future husband number 4 is one of TV's FEW gentlemen.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Ah But We Can Still Post About It!

Finally got around to watching SYTYCD and now have finally gotten around to writing about it. I’ll start off by saying that I’m sad to see Will go. He is an unbelievable dancer and although I’ll miss watching him each week he’ll definitely go on to have an amazing career. Plus, we may get Debbie Allen back as a judge now. Win-win.
Side note: Toni Basil rocks. I’ll never forget seeing her walk by the Caliente Cab Company in NYC when my entire family was eating there during an orientation weekend before my brother started at NYU. It was a pivotal moment – and lemme just say, the girl has not aged a bit. Toni, not Patrick - although he still looks pretty good. I digress...
Another side note: I love Cat Deely but she should never, and I mean never be shot with the camera unless its at an angle. Straight on and her nose is diagonally down the center of her face. Not cute.
1. Will & Courtney doing the Samba. Muy Caliente! I loved the song choice, too.
2. Comfort doing her stupid krump solo. Yawn.
3. Twitch & Katee doing a Mia Michaels contemporary dance that was BRILLIANT! I totally loved this one. Best number of the night.
4. Will channeling James Brown. Holy crap that was GREAT entertainment. Go Will!
5. Comfort & Mark doing a hip-hop routine. I love watching dancers – not big baggy clothes. There were a few tricks here but I’m tired of the same old hip-hop stuff.
6. Katee’s solo is nice.
7. Chelsea & Joshua doing the Tango. Very sexy. Chelsie’s legs are crazy!
8. Mark does his solo – I love Mark but again, it’s the same old thing he always does.
9. Courtney & Will do another number – this time they are doing some kind of hip hop thing that I like better than the Comfort & Mark detention number. I don’t love it but I like it.
10. Chelsie’s solo is fun. She mixes it up a little bit each time. Maybe it’s the costumes?
11. Twitch & Katee do their second number – again this is so much fun. I love watching both of them.
12. Joshua does a pretty cool popping solo.
13. Courtney does a nice solo, too.
14. Twitch does his solo – he’s just got so much personality!
15. Comfort & Mark do their second which doesn’t do it for me. I feel sorry for Mark – I love him and he just hasn’t been that great since he worked with Chelsie.
16. Chelsie & Joshua close the show with their disco routine which was great.
So now to the results show – we already know who gets the boot. Katie is safe. Will is in the bottom 2 – bummer. Comfort is in the bottom 2 again. Mark is SAFE – what? Shocking. Even he was surprised. Again, I love him but he get’s the Nikki McKibbin award this week. Chelsie is safe. Twitch is in the bottom 2. This makes me sad. Clearly something is awry here. Joshua is safe and poor Courtney who they leave in that back room forever is in the bottom 2. Next a few dances of death (or whatever Cat Deely calls them) and on to the filler entertainment.
While we await the results we’re treated to a snooze of a ballet. Maybe it was good but I fast forwarded through it. And then… Ladies and Gents…
Fresh from his chryonics chamber is L.L. Cool J (no pun intended.) I like LL. I liked him about 20 years ago. His song was awful and his “dancers” were even worse. And on a dance competition show? Really now!
The final results were good news/bad news. What do you want to hear first? Good news? Ok. Comfort’s going home. Bad news? Will’s going home. But someone had to go and I’ll admit that I’m glad Twitch is sticking around for another week just because I love his numbers.
Who is your favorite?
Why Do The Good Die So Young?

Very sadly, that means to more SYTYCD clips.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Spaced out on Joel McHale - I Heart Fridays!

Fridays are my favorite day of the week. Fridays offer endless possibilities for the weekend. Fridays are when The Soup is on. I love Fridays. I love The Soup. And I love Joel McHale.
But today, today was even more special than usual.


Not only was I treated to my Joel but in a brilliant promotional plug for Spaced (a Brit com released on DVD today), Simon Pegg (the brilliant star of Spaced, Hot Fuzz, and Shaun of the Dead) made his Soup debut. So despite a rather harried day, I'm feeling much better now.
I'll be watching Spaced next week - yes, it was moved to the top of my Netflix queue this morning! So stay tuned... Until then, I'll post about SYTYCD tomorrow.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Coulda Shoulda Woulda

Patty is on vacation for a bit so he asked me to blog in his stead. A huge undertaking if you ask me but Patty ain't heavy, he's my brother. So I said I'd give it a shot. Let's get started...
I'm already a little behind on my viewing. I'm in for about 4 hours of SYTYCD which I'll get to this weekend. Last night opted for Project Runway - not so sure I made the right decision. Don't get me wrong - I love me some Tim Gunn but I get a little exhausted trying to keep up with all the contestants on the beginning of most reality shows. Take me down to the Top 10 and I'm usually ok. This season of PR, in particular, is especially confusing because most of the contestants look alike, talk alike, and do the same stuff.
Jennifer & Leanne? Same people, right? Emily & Kenley could be in a 40's pin-up girl version of the Parent Trap. And Terry & Korto are like good twin/bad twin.
At the same time, who the hell came up with some of these names? Between the contestants and the models I'm not sure I'm in Kansas anymore: Suede, Blayne, Korto, Tapasio, Jermaine (for a girl), Xaviera? Huh?
Suede was the first featured contestant so you know from the get-go that he's either gonna win or lose. And if you've watched the show you know they ain't gonna let go of the bear with the faux-hawk yet. I'm excited when they announce cocktail dresses. This is something I can relate to - and cocktail dresses are pretty. Yaaaaay!
But after too much drama after the models picking the fabric, one use of "hot mess", Blayne (aka Malibu Ken) talking about leather (he should know - look at his skin) with Stella (um, did Keith Richards and Steve Perry have a love child?), a few people "stepping up their game", and Natalie Portman, I was left disappointed. I'm not even gonna talk about the use of green fabrics because no one on the show did either. It may have been cliche but I wish they had to do cocktail dresses out of hemp or organic cotton or something. I get that they wanted to show that green fabrics can be other things but er, they missed the mark.
My reaction to the runway went something like this: Ew! Boring! HOOTCHIE! WTF? Eh, pretty. Cheeze. Dumb! Ok. Great top - don't look at the bottom. Didn't I see that in season 2? Eh. Stupid! Whoa (in a bad way.) Humph! Did I miss something - are they doing skating dresses? Ug- um - ugly.
My favorite part was Nina's reaction to Korto's dress coming down the runway. Fins! Ha! I actually think she may have broken the botox in her face.
I agreed with pretty much everything the judges said. I didn't like Suede's dress at first but it was the clear winner coming down the runway because of how fun, different (in a good way) and well done it was. On further inspection it was pretty cute. Stella's dress was just plain cheezy but I will give her props for how well done it was. Gross, but well done. Korto's dress was awful - it could have been so good. Coulda shoulda woulda. Whatevs - that girl need to grow a thicker skin if she wants to stay in the competition. Tears?! Puh-leez.
I'm just relieved that Wesley was sent home. Terrible. Stupid short "garment", badly done, and well, he was just a tool anyway. Back to Suede: he's my favorite. Especially after the shout out to his mommy. Adorable.
What did you think of the show? Do you have any favorites?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Auf and Running


Weekly BITCHCON Wrap-Up
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FRIDAY
Everyone was too exhausted from the emotional rollercoaster of Thursday to raise much fuss today. Don't forgt to check out hunk-du-jour for the weekly wrap-up of THE PRICE IS RIGHT hot guy contestants that I missed while I was watching ELIZABETH'S VIEW on ABC.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Your Vote Is Your Voice

Friday, July 18, 2008
Thank you -- all 3 of you -- for your support


In order, here are my favorite pair numbers:
3)Joshua & Courtney's first number which featured great choreography and HOT dancing.
2)Gev & Kortnee's second number was SUPER!
1)Kattee & Will's first number was BY FAR the best of the night. I LOVED it. Tyce rocketed to the top of my husbands list based mostly on this number (see right column).
Solos:
10) Chelsie - Zzzzzz
9) Kherrington - ZZZZZZ
8) Gev - Started slow, but ended pretty good.
7) Comfort - Zzzzzz. No energy. Lame.
6) Joshua - great tricks, BUT laaaame transitions. like he walked from trick to trick.
5) Katee - not nearly as good as I was expecting
4) Courtney - BAAAAD song. Gooooood dance!
3) Will - BAD music, but good leaps. He has power, but also attitude.
2) Mark - Thayne who? Loooove Mark!
1) Twitch - BEST SOLO of the night, and I would have sent him home last week.
One of my favorite numbers from this season was the Bollywood number on the results show this week.
The Mia Michaels number with the top 5 girls was soooo beautiful, but the direction was downright shitty! It almost ruined the number for me. Ugh and MORE Celine Dion. Christ! Can we have a legal LIMIT on the amount of Celine per episode. I'd prefer the limit be ZERO, but that's just me.
So, as evidenced by the fact that they were both in my personal "Bottom 3" (see above) I'm perfectly happy to see Gev and Khrerrington go home.
My Favorite Site of the Week - omnomnomnom.com
Kathy Griffin is actually too funny. It is possible, and it is happening weekly on her show.
BIG BROTHER 10 - Renny must die. Jesse must strip and be ridden by Gay Rodeo Racist (with or without a saddle, I don't care)! Good lord the puppet show was hilarious. There are HOURS of puppet shows on YouTube. Yay! More Jesse! I hope his HOH room has many half-nude photos of him. That dude who went home bit off a little more than he could chew. He needs to learn lesson #1 in Patty's Reality Show 101 Guide: Lay low, loud mouth!
If you live in West Seattle, be sure to stop by my soon to be growing Zombie Garden.
Coming soon: Tori & Dean & Rob & Big
Coming sooner: Project Runway (I'm busy, people! No time for TiVo -- heresy I know!)
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Please Stand By

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Stay Tuned, Potatoes

Bon Jour, J.R.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
So I (still) Think You're a Douche

Also, Cat Deeley's hair,make up, and wardrobe were all FLAWLESS.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
I Enjoy Being A Gurl

The Sectional YouTube Video Player
Friday, July 4, 2008
Jesse Helms is Dead... FINALLY!

Kathy Griffin IS Like Jesus Only Prettier

There is NOTHING but CRAP on TV lately, and I would watch an hour (40 minutes on TiVo) of this EVERY morning! More Rosie, PLEASE!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
So I Think You're a Douche

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
SYTYCD


1st number-Jive-Zzzzz, and just OFF. I think she was off for the whole first section. They got it together, but the number never made me feel anything. The camera work was weird too.
2nd number-Broadway-Thaaaayne! I loooove you! His technique is beautiful to watch!! Comfort is getting better and better. Great choreography too!
3rd number-(Lyrical) Hip Hop-I liked the performance, but I couldn't tell you why. I didn't love it. Can someone explain to me how "Lyrical Hip Hop" is any different than "Contemporary"? Nigel was close with, "...hip hop on sleeping pills."
4th number-Jazz-Their costumes do NOT say "jazz" to me, but daaaaamn they can dance! They could have danced that number in Hammer pants and still rocked it. Mark is soooo goooood and soooo cuuute.
5th number-Paso Doble-Oops, almost dropped her. Then the capes were a mess. But after that, they certainly gave it their all. Kherington looked spookily like Sharon Stone on a diva tirade, which was kinda perfect considering how over the freakin' top it was.
6th number-Contemporary-HOLY CRAP! How does Mia Michaels DO it?! She's the best! I'm in tears. This was one of her best numbers. I have GOT to see a feature-length Mia Michaels dance show. Also, Katee is the best female dancer on the show, and Joshua isn't bad either.
7th number-Hip Hop-This piece was poorly directed and just not hot. You could see both dancers counting in their heads. Is "hip hop" a catch-all term for any dance that isn't ballroom?
8th number-Contemporary-Ugh Mandy Moore! Hate her. Very cheesy but good shirt-work. Nigel made an interesting comment about backstage "meltdowns." Is Will a big drama queen?
9th number-Smooth Waltz-The music was too "Irishy" for my liking, but I really loved the choreography and the dancers were so graceful and smooth.
10th number-Ma'am bo-It was OK, but I didn't really believe it.
11th number-Foxtrot-I love me some foxtrot. I'm glad they are doing more this year. This one wasn't as good a last week's foxtrot, but it was FUN! Fun to watch. Mark looked so damn suave and debonair.
12th number-Contemporary-Sharonstone and Twitch danced a Mia Michaels piece which wasn't as good as the first one, BUT it was still excellent. If Mandy Moore had used rose petals and a bed in a dance piece I would surely have thrown up. This piece was engaging.

14th number -Broadway-Yikes! I thought this piece was a disaster. It seemed so "Disney Themepark."
Overall, the costuming department should be shot in the face for this weeks crazy array of costumery.