Planet Earth related: National Geographic article about pygmy hogs.

Oh gawd yes: the baby pygmy hogs!

DCista Project Runway fans - Tim Gunn's going to be appearing and signing books tomorrow (4/21). 11:00 (I think) at Lambda Rising (Dupont Circle) and 2:00 (?) at Olssens Penn Quarter.

Shear Genius: Well, however subjective the judging appears to be -- so far I have agreed with it!

Th judges seem to have different opinions but the decisions they've come to so far have made sense with what we've heard of their critiques. It's not as random as what I saw of (yaaawwwn) Top Design.

Concur - I agreed with both the winners of each round and the people eliminated.

Well, I didn't see the first ep, but Bravo's been running the second one around the clock, and I do NOT agree with the judges decision. I liked the bright red, and thought "Oh shit, I'll just put your hair in an updo and hope nobody notices"-girl should have gone home.

Here's a question - do the mannequin heads they're using have human hair? Because if not, the coloring challenge was even less realistic than it seemed.

I want the Halle Berry cut the redhead got, except I know from experience that my hair doesn't do that shape when it's that long. Still, I really do need to get it cut. Maybe tomorrow.

Well, I posted initially about the subjective judging, and it wasn't like I disagreed with the judges-- but that Project Runway had a better base of objectivity about where the judges were coming from. I mean, they didn't even have a language for why one hairstyle was better than another. Was Hershberger going to say, "in all my years evaluating hairstyles with found objects this one is really breaking the mold and this one looks like a student's work"-- no. To some extent degree of difficulty was involved, but it seemed to ultimately come down to what degree of mess the stylists created.

Oh, and Survivor! Wow! I love how complicated everyone's alliances are this season.

Shear Genius: They must have human hair, and they must be reasonably bound, or surely we'd hear the contestants grumbling about it. I thought it was funny that they got the same amount of time for the quick challenge as for the full challenge, and they only had to do color for the first one. It seems like they should have worked out that they were going to have clock management issues with the second one.

I think I was reading in the Chicago Tribune's The Watcher TV blog that Project Runway isn't going to be back this summer, that they're delaying it until the fall for some reason unstated.

Oh, and if anyone else is like me and missed a few eps of Planet Earth, Discovery's doing a six-hour marathon on Sunday morning/afternoon (from 9:00 am eastern time onward). I think that's all the episodes broadcast so far, but I could be wrong.

In cute cat stuff, I was watching Animal Precinct tonight, and they had a cat being operated on due to his swallowing a needle who was named "Romeow"--love it! (He was fine after they operated on him to take the needle out of his stomach. He had so many furballs inside that they prevented the needle from puncturing anything.)

I almost never watch Animal Planet, but I caught the coolest show the other day -- Divine Canine. It's about a The Monks at New Skete, which is in upstate New York, and how they train (and also breed) dogs. They sell DVDs and everything. Pretty cool.