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I watched just fifteen seconds of The Bachelor and it told me all that I need to know about women, television, and roses. Continue reading
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We find Stiles whimpering in bed, but then who is stuck in a locker? Stiles? Don’t stop at the water fountain! It’s evil! What, it could be. Erm, what’s growing in the classroom? Killer vines! It was only a dream within a dream, which Lydia helpfully diagnoses as “a nightmare.” Continue reading
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There’s a raccoon soap opera in the trash bin as Linda yammers away on the phone to her friend Ginger who has to take her kid to a slumber party. Louise thinks slumber parties are like diarrhea, but Tina says they are the cats pajamas, especially when she wears her cat pajamas. And she knows, because she has been to one-and-a-half slumber parties (she gives half credit to falling asleep at a regular party). Continue reading
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It’s the second season of The Taste, and *gasp* they’ve replaced the weasley little guy with dreamy-eyed Marcus Samuelsson! For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, there are four “mentor” chefs who choose teams of cooks to compete against each other for…bragging rights? Money? Both? The mentors are: Continue reading
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There are only four designers left on Project Runway All Stars – Christopher, Korto, Elena, and Seth Aaron. It’s time for ready-to-wear, and the challenge is to design an outfit for Milly’s collection that retails for under $400 using Milly designer Michelle Smith’s custom fabrics which are often gorgeous in a bizarre modern-vintage kind of way. She manufactures all of her clothes in the New York garment district, so good on her. Continue reading
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We’re back, and we’ve dragged seven chefs with us through the bayou. The Quickfire Challenge is an impossible task—cook crawfish etouffee for John Besh. In forty-five minutes. The task is made even more impossible for Stephanie, who has a severe shellfish allergy. Continue reading
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If you thought that I stopped watching television, you’d be wrong. So wrong. It’s just that there’s nothing new to watch. So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been gobbling up the first three seasons of Downton Abbey, and I am nearly through the first season of American Horror Story. And with every new year comes a new season of television, ripe for recapping. So starting in January, there’ll be all new recaps: Continue reading
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So last week on Project Runway All Stars, we got rid of Irina, or Elena — I can never tell the two apart. And what kind of spectacular challenge will the remaining six designers face this week? Make an outfit for a fashion blogger in the next big trend for 2014. Hey! How come nobody is making me an outfit? Grumble, grumble, grumble. Continue reading
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