I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.

Oz ,'Him'


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]


Laga - Jun 18, 2007 10:00:41 am PDT #82 of 23273
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I stayed over night on the Queen Mary this Spring. Nothing scared the heck out of me but I intentionally avoided all the ghostie stuff. There were some very odd clanking noises in the middle of the night though.


NoiseDesign - Jun 18, 2007 10:57:39 am PDT #83 of 23273
Our wings are not tired

Kristin and I have stayed on the Queen Mary. We took one of their Ghost Tours. K felt some very creepy vibes, but we didn't see any direct evidence of ghosts.


Jesse - Jun 18, 2007 11:01:07 am PDT #84 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Just watched Top Chef, and here's my proposition: add Bourdain to the regular roster of judges, and give us two out of three: Tony, Gail, Ted. Right?!?!?


askye - Jun 18, 2007 11:04:35 am PDT #85 of 23273
Thrive to spite them

I was reading the comments in the blog linked to (with Bourdian's comments about Next Food Star) and someone mentioned that Sandra Lee is going to take recipes from the restraunts of Mario Batali and Bobby Flay and make them "semi homemade". While I can imagine the horrors that Sandra Lee will do to those recipes I can't imagine why they would agree to it, what kind of contracts they had to sign.


Jessica - Jun 18, 2007 11:55:53 am PDT #86 of 23273
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

add Bourdain to the regular roster of judges, and give us two out of three: Tony, Gail, Ted. Right?!?!?

Yeah, I'm really not sure why Padma gets to be a judge. I can see why they need a pretty girl to be the host, but seriously, she's a model with her name on a few diet cookbooks written by other people. This makes her a qualified judge of restaurant chefs?

My Tivo didn't get the second NFNS ep and since I was in the hospital (with no FN on the in-room TV) I didn't realize it until they'd stopped running repeats. AND I can't ahem it because I got a very polite note from my cable company letting me know about a letter they recieved about my account from NBC...oh well.


esse - Jun 18, 2007 12:10:55 pm PDT #87 of 23273
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

But doesn't putting out a cookbook make you a top chef of your very own?

I don't know, I like Padma. She's pretty cool, and a huge improvement over first season hostwoman. But excepting the occasions when she gets a little feisty, she's kind of useless as a judge.


Sean K - Jun 18, 2007 12:15:02 pm PDT #88 of 23273
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yeah, as irrelevant as Padma seems, she's still a damn sight better than the poorly constructed fembot they had first season. Still, I think Jess is right. Padma should just be hostess.

I'm glad to see the rumor about no more walkthroughs was spurious. And I like that Chef Tom is still doing them. He gives the greatest expressions when he thinks a recipe is dubious.

Though I would like to see more of Lee Anne, so having her take up a "mentor" position would be cool. Though I do understand the reasoning I've seen in Chef Tom's blog about how it's very difficult to change course once you've started preparing a dish, hence no mentor role on TC.


le nubian - Jun 18, 2007 12:35:46 pm PDT #89 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

add Bourdain to the regular roster of judges, and give us two out of three: Tony, Gail, Ted. Right?!?!?

seriously. He was an absolute delight. I would love to see Ramsay as a judge as well, but it ain't gonna happen.

Give me Bourdain and Ted for sure. Padma is worthless.


Jesse - Jun 18, 2007 12:37:30 pm PDT #90 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, is it no longer the Kenmore Kitchen TM??


Kristen - Jun 18, 2007 12:39:36 pm PDT #91 of 23273

People that are more observant than me said that it looked like the appliances are now GE or something and not the old Kenmore Craptastic.