It is with a joyful heart I inform you that instead of watching the Obama/Clinton debate last night I watched Top Chef (x2) and The Real World-Hollywood (Premiere). After glancing over a few blogs/news reports this morning it is apparent that I made an excellent choice. At this point debates are completely silly. We know their positions on the major issues (at least to the extent they are willing to talk about them). More debates only open the door for personal attacks and straight up ridiculous statements. Oh yeah, having a former Clinton staffer (someone who owes having his current job to Bill and Hillary) as the "moderator" for a debate is absurd.
On more important topics. The Real World is fucking awful, but for some reason I still get drawn in. Greg just makes me feel sad. What the fuck makes a 20 year old kid act that way? As for the other roommates it is just more of the same. This house is definitely going to be a hook-up house. No doubt.
On the Top Chef front it is about time for Ryan to go although I think Mark and Nicki have tobe booted soon as well. The judges have hated Ryan since the beginning when he didn't know how to make chicken picata (WTF?). Nicki can only cook pasta and Mark looks like he is doing lines of coke every night. Also, it was great to see Gail Sayers and William Perry on the show last night...they should have brought those guys in as special guest judges. That would have been hilarious!
One complaint about last nights show...if you are going to do a beer challenge then at least use come fucking good beer. Are you kidding me? Michelob is the only person willing to sponsor the show. Fuck, at the least you could have gotten Sam Adams or if you wanted to push the envelope get Dogfish Head or some other kickass craft beer.
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Totally in agreement about Stephanopolous (sp?) moderating the debate. They should get my man Lou Dobbs in there...
The Real World: This show has not been "real" since season three, when Puck was accused of being an asshole by one of his housemates "just b/c [he's] on tv". As soon as that fourth wall is busted down, they stop casting people and start casting character archetypes; the jock, the hot bi-polar slut, the less-hot jealous slut, the angry minority, etc. The only two people to have adequately escaped the shit-storm maelstrom of continuing MTV "reality" programming (is there any show, other than The Hills, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and That's Amore! more pointless than RW/RR Challenge?) have been Pedro (b/c he died) and Judd Winick, who actually is living his dream and writing two of the best comics DC is putting out right now, Green Arrow and Batman and the Outsiders.
Top Chef: I'm a vegetarian, and I know what chicken piccata is. Ryan's been a smug douche for weeks, and judging from his personality, will continue to be so for the rest of his life. Nikki sucks, and I totally agree with Gail (which I am loathe to do): She clearly didn't think very hard or put forth much effort at all for this challenge. Mark has some decent ideas, but he really fucked up last night. I don't think he'll be around much longer, b/c he seems like more of a "really good cook" instead of a world-class chef.
And getting The 'Fridge and Gale Sayers to guest judge is a bad idea. Witness: rapper Bone Crusher judging Iron Chef America. These chefs are working with flavor profiles that the average person is not accustomed to (including myself), and pretty much anything that doesn't taste like Manwich is going to seem awesome. So in the interest of objective and informed criticism, leave this to the professionals.
Completely agree on the fact that only a few people in the world can really tell the difference between the food being presented on top chef. But you have to admit that it would be a trip to hear the Fridge's take on everything that was served. I mean he only had two lines in last night's show and I was laughing at both. Perhaps they would be good for the outtakes section online...
I completely agree that Nicki deserved to get slammed last night. Not making your own sausage is like picking out pre-made hamburgers form the deli counter, basically the cook at Whole Foods made her dish last night.
The Real World absolutely isn't "real" so why did I continue to watch last night!
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