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.

Next week, Animal Planet is going to start showing the British version of Animal Precinct, called "BSPCA." If they have interesting officers involved, I might stick around and watch. Animal Precinct is the only one of the American series that I watch regularly (Houston and SF are only occasional watches), mostly because I like the ASPCA agents that they follow.

I can't watch Animal Precinct because real animals being mistreated gives me nightmares. Even, as my good friend points out, they're all fluffy and happy at the end of the show.

Whereas I can watch Intervention which involves a whole lot of human suffering, and quite frequently, the addicts involved AREN'T all fluffy and happy at the end.

Not always, unfortunately. Though I do still watch from time to time.

Huh. Personally, I can watch Animal Precinct but not Intervention.

Although a) watching Animal Precinct is why we have the Biscuit. When he showed up on our doorstep I knew he was in grave condition because he looked like some of the dogs I'd seen on tv. Most of the strays we get we tried not to feed, but then most of them weren't about to die, either. and b) since the advent of Seabiscuit, I can't watch Animal Precinct anymore, because he feels bad for the other animals and whines when they cry. It's very very sweet and also heartbreaking, so I don't put him through it anymore.

The DH and I have been avidly watching what has to be the nerdiest show not on The Weather Channel. It's called "How It's Made" and is about, well, how things are made. Each half-hour show picks three or four unrelated items (Golf balls, drawer pulls, mozzarella cheese, room dividers) and follows the manufacturing process. It's all close-ups of vats and presses while lame upbeat electronic music plays and the narrator says stuff like "The material is placed in a press for 17 seconds while heat is applied." We both really like that stuff, and always try to go on factory tours when we go on vacation, so it's right up our alley. Bonus--it's produced in Quebec, so you sometimes get cool bilingual products, like stop signs in French and English. It airs on the Science Channel.