'Beneath You'
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
sumi, it's no problem. I happen to think their paper is superior to ours.
Do you like Shinsei?
It's good, but honestly nothing beats Teppo for me. That may have less to do with the quality of chef though, and the overall quality of restaurant.
Abacus is in Uptown which kinda has a rep for overrated clubs and restaurants. That may have colored some people's experience. I'm pretty sure it has better ratings than Shinsei.
This week's WNTW is nice -- she's a philosophy PhD student, so has the full gamut of issues: I don't know how to do this/it doesn't matter anyway/my hips are so fat! And she looks great at the end.
Next Iron Chef: How fun that they got to use the high tech equipment and industrial chemicals!
How rough to expect them to turn out a really excellent dish using that stuff after only 90 minutes practice.
Also, I really thought that there wasn't going to be a winner because of the way they went through the candidates.
How rough to expect them to turn out a really excellent dish using that stuff after only 90 minutes practice.
And none of the dishes came out excellent or even all that good -- but what made it an interesting challenge was the way it took all of them out of their comfort zones, with none of the usual "oh, yeah, so-and-so's The Seafood Guy" advantages. I continue to love this show.
1. Harold was on Better Half???
2. some tidbits from Grub Street including a video demo of Hung's knife skills.
OMG, Rich's video-in-lieu-of-recap for last week's ANTM might be the funniest thing I've seen all year. [link]
Yay, Danielle. She's still so pretty
Oh, Tyra. Ice skating . . . you do love me.
Lisa really does look like a poodle with that haircut. And Bianca's bitch is back. Right on!
I gotta post about Survivor right now! Even though I've had a glass or so of wine, this demands discussion!
To some extent, I admire the strategy-- taking a big risk in Survivor, playing the game qua game, is really what it's about. But I don't think I would have agreed with Peih Gee (aka P.G.). It assumes way too much-- it assumes that the merge takes place at ten (why not eight or nine?); it assumes Frosti and Sherea don't get turned, and it assumes that Aaron and James can't be turned. I just think it's *always* a mistake to put yourself in tribal council. Your strategy at base has to be to avoid going to tribal, to avoid drawing votes. I've never seen a team come back stronger from tribal-- they always come back stronger after *winning challenges.* Maybe I'm wrong, and this strategy is too conservative.
Just this: never throw a challenge!
Dammit! Still at work. Now I want to get home even more.
Oh, while I'm here, I have two random reality tidbits.
One of Bob Bob's colleagues is a poker player who has played with Jean-Robert. He says JR is not a good poker player-- he takes too many risks. He has no idea how JR made a living at poker unless he breaks even or is a "trust fund poker player."
Reality tidbit #2. This morning I was in the Starbucks in my work building and I saw a young guy in a suit that kind of hung off him, with two other guys. The guy looked really familiar , but I couldn't figure it out-- if I went to law school with him, why did he look so fresh-faced? If he was a first-year associate at my firm, why didn't I remember seeing him before, and who were those other guys? Finally, as I left the S-bucks, I saw he was in a different elevator bay than mine, so not a co-worker. I realized who it was-- Lee, the extremely young observant virgin from The Apprentice! I felt kind of bad for the guy. He must get people looking at him quizzically (like me!) all day.