River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.

'Serenity'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

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]


lisah - Mar 07, 2008 11:56:33 am PST #3732 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

The ANTMer who got kicked off this week sort of apologizes for her rascist comments. not really though

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Don't read the comments unless you want your head to 'splode, though.


meara - Mar 07, 2008 12:03:14 pm PST #3733 of 23273

Honestly, I was just surprised she HAD two Barbie dolls, y'know? Who goes on a reality TV show and brings BARBIES??


Kristen - Mar 07, 2008 4:47:02 pm PST #3734 of 23273

Whole Foods sent me an email about their At-Home Top Chef Challenge:

Attention Whole Foods Market shoppers AND Top Chef fans! Your At-Home Quickfire Challenge is to create a burger inspired by the word "audacious" with only 30 minutes from prep to serve.


Jessica - Mar 08, 2008 4:56:15 am PST #3735 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

What's the point of that if you don't win anything? (Other than, I assume, your recipe on the Top Chef website.)


sumi - Mar 08, 2008 12:18:54 pm PST #3736 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

What Alton Brown is giving us next summer:

Feasting on Waves, premiering summer 2008, will feature Alton Brown trading the road for the waves to explore the people, cultures and food of the Caribbean. He will uncover the real mom and pop restaurants and food stands, cook on the boat, dive, fish, whatever it takes to find interesting edibles outside of the resorts. From the deck of a boat, it's a modern day pirate's tale searching out history, cuisines and stories.


sumi - Mar 10, 2008 9:45:02 am PDT #3737 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

TC: Harold is on Martha Stewart's show today.


sumi - Mar 10, 2008 12:08:10 pm PDT #3738 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Yahoo has the first 3 minutes of the first episode of TC4.


Jessica - Mar 10, 2008 1:11:10 pm PDT #3739 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

How to make your KitchenAid look like Alton's


Ailleann - Mar 10, 2008 2:12:07 pm PDT #3740 of 23273
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Oh, hell yeah!


Liese S. - Mar 10, 2008 5:59:13 pm PDT #3741 of 23273
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

MMaSM: Yeah, I am over Ben. I think he's totally leading Ronnie on and what's more, I think he knows it. To me, his big snow hatespeech outburst sounded a lot like somebody dealing with repressed homosexuality and struggling to establish his identity.

I was over him after the bashing, but I'm even more over him now.

And how did we not know about the Amanda/Adnan scandal before the show aired? We have the whole internets, surely somebody on it reads the tabloids!

I wasn't really sure what to make of her side of the phone conversation, other than I guess I have to respect not wanting to display your whole eroding relationship on the air, close to realtime. But it definitely sounded to me like she'd be breaking up with him as soon as he got home.

Okay, enough of the meta. I like Casey's look, but I can't figure out why the judges are always "You're so beautiful" about him. They're just smitten by him and not by Ronnie, and that's something I don't really get. Ronnie can do a classic look, but he's way more than that, and I don't really get why they're so hung up on him. I just like him, and I think he wants it, and I think he's probably going to have a moderately successful modeling career whether or not he's the winner. I don't really see him as catalog. My catalogs don't have Ronnies in them. They have more like George Clooneys. Although that may just be a demographic thing.

Holly is gorgeous, and if she can get her emotions in check and develop Shannon's professionalism, she could go a long way. She's just got that thing where the camera loves her, and she's learning to work it. She has the core stuff, and the other stuff I think she can learn.

Shannon sometimes looks gorgeous to me and sometimes looks awkward, and I can't tell when it's going to be one way or the other.