Project Runway-What's Your Zodiac Sign?

This week's special guests are the rejected designers from this season, much to the sour grapes looks of the remaining designers. The challenge is to create an avant gard look from the the zodiac sign of one of the designers. Mostly it's Libra or Aquarius. No one chooses Cancer, hey, I really wanted to see a crabby patty design. For this post, I am only going to rant about the two most auful designs ever and that would be Blayne's and Kenley's. Blayne and Stella get paired up and both choose to do Libra as their sign. The sign should have been not to pair those two odd balls together. When Blayne tries to explain his design to Tim it sounded like he was talking in a foreign language, but somewhere in there the word leathea was uttered so we knew Stella was planting ideas. Kenley and Wesley are paired together and they choose to do Aquarius as their Zodiac sign. Did Wesley utter a single word during this episode? Once again another designer is so in love with their own creation. Kenley's is enamoured of her design thinking it so avant gard, when it is more like a costume for the the Princess of lollipop land, fly away with me Peter Pan! That outfit literally looked like it could take off or were those egg pods on the shoulders housing some grotesque creature? I'm wondering how that hideous designed translated into Aquarius? Where was the illusion of water? This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.... Poor Tim said it was looking very Glenda the Good Witch.

The designer's models will be wearing their outfits at a party hosted at the Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History where the past designers will pick the winning outfit. I'm wondering how they could even see the outfits in that ambient light? So fierce Christian was there, he makes me laugh just looking at him, such an elf! Back at the studio the designers get to finish their outfits with Stella still carrying on with her hammer.

At the runway show, Blayne's model just looked horrible in that outfit and as Michael Kors said, she's pooping fabric. It looked like a birthday party gone wrong. Little manic children ripped at that dress in protest! The judges were not too kind to Kenley much to her irritation. She so had that look of what are they talking about? My design is amazing! Yeah maybe in some Tim Burton scary Over the Rainbow movie. My favorite outfit was Joe's with his fiery Aries, but the winner was Jerrell with his interpretation of Sagittarius. Huh? I just didn't get it. This time, it will be two designers that get aufed and it's Terri, who has terrible anger issues and can't get along with anyone and Blayne, because one can only poop so much fabric. And oh by the way, snaps for Heidi getting an Emmy nod for hosting a reality show, but how hard can it be? Look pretty and say auf wiedershen?-Single D

Big Brother-Luxury Competition

The Sumo wrestler was still sitting on the clue and the house guest haven't a clue what to do. Keesha's terrified and Memphis just doesn't want anything to do with him. Finally Dan spies something underneath the Sumo's bum so he sits near the Sumo on the couch waiting for his chance to pounce. He eyes the Sumo, he eyes his bum, yeah but do we really want to touch whatever is under his bum? As the Sumo stands up, Dan quickly reaches for the clue, yes! Touchdown! We really didn't want Dan's hand to become sushi. The clue was to the luxury competition, which won't be revealed until later. Were those Renny's reading glasses that Keesha was wearing? Jerry is still up to his old tricks by trying to stir up the pot. You gotta give the old guy credit, who knew he would have lasted this long. If he wins, it will be the greatest upset of all. The luxury challenge involved bringing Jesse back in a gorilla suit. I'm thinking why? Jesse wakes up the house guest from their slumber, did they even brush their teeth?yuck! This competition involved figuring out the phrase from the clues in the backyard. They had three hours to figure it out. Three hours? It was like three hours of complete boredom. Jerry is quick to make his three guesses, all wrong. Dan is turning out to be the smart one and waited until all the unnecessary clues were eliminated. His guess, bury the hatchet, which made no sense to me at all, was the winning phrase. I thought it would be a typical BB phrase, you know, power of veto, head of household etc, but this one was in left field. I bet some of the house guest would like to bury the hatchet in someone's head! Dan won the challenge and was notified that it was a trip to a remote beach and that he could bring one buddy either from the BB house or the jury house. After much contemplating which looked agonizing, he chooses Michelle, because she got a trip stolen and he might win points with her. Dan decides to hide it from the rest of the people in the house. I'm like why? Eventually they are going to find out and then what? He's going to need a guardian angel bad! At this point does anyone care? He should have taken Memphis as a reward for keeping his end of the bargain when he took him off the block.

For the nomination, I guess Memphis and Dan come to the conclusion that in order to throw the heat off their pact, Memphis will go up on the block, so that Keesha and Jerry won't think they are in cahoots. Again why? And again, at this point, who cares if they know they have a pact? It's four players, why not come clean? If Memphis or Dan don't win the POV, then the power is all in Keesha's hand and she might end up eliminating Memphis if Jerry gets his way. -Single D

The Apprentice UK - On the cheap

After only two weeks, Sir Alan mixes up the teams and he picks the project managers for each team. He picks Matthew for Impact and you would have thought Sir Alan had just told him that his mother died. Matthew had that deer in the headlights look, even by his own admission, he has been trying to hide and stay below the radar. Ha, not this time bucko! Sir Alan also picks Adele, who came very close to being fired last week, for First Forte. The challenge is to buy items for the lowest price. Each team is given 1000 pounds (I wish my keyboard had that symbol) and a list. The items include a diamond (clarity and grade listed), a bottle of champagne (vintage and brand listed), a mattress, a dental checkup, a bowler hat (don't ask me), a Freeview (I think that may be like a Tivo) and some jellied eels, those British like to eat strange things. All that and be back at the boardroom by 5:30pm. Adele starts out by assigning everyone titles and tasks. She assigns Miranda the job of Professional Assistant and tells her she is to take notes and do whatever Adele tells her. Adele also says that if they should lose, Miranda will be coming into the boardroom. No pressure there. Ben & Tim go off to buy the diamond and come out smelling like a rose when they got a 200 pound diamond for 130 pounds. Meanwhile, Adele is busy reminding Sebastian that she didn't give him permission to go running ahead of her and to stay with her. Heel boy, heel! Matthew's team fares much better even without benefit of a leader. I really didn't see him do much of anything. Good thing for him he has a great team. Saira gets the mattress for 20 pounds less than the asking price and she didn't even have to drop the f bomb. Her and Raj talk a shop keeper into giving them the Freeview and Paul gets the money exchange for 9 pounds less than the going rate. I'm telling you, Paul could sell you your own car! Adele is still bickering with Miranda, telling her that she is not taking good notes. Hey, the girl found jellied eels on special, give her a break! Matthew's Impact team wins the challenge by 100 pounds even without the bowler hat. Their reward is dinner with Sir Alan at his favorite Italian restaurant. The episode didn't show any of the dinner, it must have been boring. The boardroom was anything but boring. These girls must have taken lessons from Omarosa because the fir was flying, not so politely this time. Everyone blamed Adele for the loss and Adele blamed Miranda for everything. Poor Ben gets pulled into the boardroom with Adele and Miranda and he wisely keeps his mouth shut letting the girls go at it. Even Sir Alan said they sounded like two old washer women. Miranda can't keep her mouth shut and keeps interrupting Adele and Adele can't stop talking. Sir Alan decides to give Adele another chance and Miranda gets the dreaded "you're fired". Double D

Ghost Hunters - Iron Island Museum

The TAPS team is back and they are off to Buffalo, NY and the Iron Island Museum. The museum started life as a church then became a funeral parlor before becoming a museum. When the curators where cleaning out the basement, they found about 40 urns of ashes that were never claimed while the building was a funeral parlor. Reports include feelings of being followed, locked doors which open on their own and full body apparitions.

Kris & Kris experience the front door unlocking itself and opening right after seeing a figure by the door.

Jason & Grant (J&G), in the old viewing room, start to question a spirit boy named Jimmy. They have a K2 meter set up and ask Jimmy if he would light up the lights and they light up like a Christmas tree. Just to make sure it's not coincidence, they continue to ask questions and get lights with every question. Grant finally has to ask Jimmy to stop lighting the lights. Come on, the kid just wants to play!

J&G decide to go to the attic after hearing footsteps coming from there. The opening is tiny so Grant goes as far as he can into the attic and sees that there really isn't a floor, only rafters. He sees something block the window and it starts coming at him. Jason decides he has to see this for himself so goes into the attic opening and also sees a figure walk by the window. They send Tango into the attic either because he is the smallest or most gullible. Tango starts doing EVP work and doesn't get any response so he asks Jason's permission to curse at the spirits. Jason grants permission and Tango goes off on a tangent calling the spirits all kinds of names that can't be repeated here. It was hysterical! He finally his tirade by telling the spirit he's glad he's dead.

During the review, the team gets a lot of EVPs from the attic. One voice was a man asking "what do you want?" just before Grant sees a figure coming toward him. Another EVP is when Tango was provoking the spirits in the attic. As clear as day you can hear a voice say "leave me alone". I'm telling you I had goosebumps from head to toe when I heard that one! Even Tango was creeped out.

J&G tell the museum manager not to worry that the place is haunted because it appears that the spirits are used to them being there and won't cause any problems. Double D

The Apprentice UK - Candidates in Toyland

Apparently last week the girls used all the hot water and breakfast food in the house leaving the guys starving and taking cold showers. This time when the phone rings, the guys are ready. They get the instructions to be ready to leave at 7:15am sharp. The guys let the girls sleep in so they can get the showers and breakfast. They were nice enough to wake them up with 20 minutes to go. They meet Sir Alan in a luxury car showroom. Let's see, cars on Project Runway, cars on Apprentice, I'm detecting a trend here. The assignment this week is to design a toy for children. Lindsay is the project manager for the girls and is already braced for conflict. Isn't that setting yourself up for disaster? Raj is PM for the guys and they decide right away to design something for boys. They come up with the idea to update a trading card game by making it electronic. Raj tries to encourage participation to get a name for their game but Matthew is too busy reading Sir Alan's book and says he will go along with whatever the group decides. Raj takes him aside to tell him that he is not contributing to the assignment. Why is that being chewed out sounds so much better with a British accent? Lindsay presents her idea for flashcards with symbols on them that she calls "Secret Signals". Girls are to make up a code for the symbols and flash those instead of talking. Little girls not talk? Lindsay says this is supposed to be pretend texting. How is this even remotely like texting? I think Lindsay missed out on something in her childhood and wants to relive it now. The other girls are just staring, slack-jawed at Lindsay, cue the crickets. They also had an idea of a construction type toy using electricity. Fortunately they see the flaw in that plan and came up with battling robots. Both teams go to a focus group to pitch their ideas. The girls robot idea is a big hit with the kids but Lindsay still wants to produce her cards. She calls for a vote and her team all say they want the robots. Lindsay then says she wants to meet with the kids again. They get two groups of kids, one group is split between the cards and robots while the other group wants the robots. So with three votes, mostly for the robots, Lindsay calls for yet another vote saying the other votes were split (what kind of math was she using?). Even though the last vote came out overwhelmingly for the robots, Lindsay decides they will produce both toys and she eventually didn't listen to her team and went with the cards. You knew she would. The guys are in love with their game, Switch Base. I still didn't see exactly how it worked but they seemed to like it! They present their design to the toy manufacturer and it looked like a hit, even the manufacturer was asking questions and offering suggestions. The girls presentation went over like a lead balloon even the manufacturer was yawning. The guys win again and get to go to a county home for some skeet shooting. They all could shoot pretty good which makes me wonder if all Britons are born with this talent. Sir Alan is disappointed in the girls again. In the boardroom, most of the girls are being polite but they still name Lindsay as the reason for the failure. Lindsay brings back Adele for not participating in the presentation and Miriam for I don't know what since she seemed to be Lindsay's biggest supporter. Adele's reason for not doing the presentation was that she was so against the flashcards and that Lindsay would not listen to her team or the focus groups. Well, you can imagine how Sir Alan felt about Adele not participating, he also was confused as to why Lindsay brought Miriam back. Lindsay stammers her way through the boardroom and can't come up with a good reason why she shouldn't be fired. Sir Alan lets Adele know that she is not entirely safe and fires Lindsay. Double D

Project Runway-Diane Von Furstenberg-Need I Say More?

Again I miss the first fifteen minutes of this episode, I really need to brush my teeth earlier! I came into the episode where Stella is saying that can she make something Diane would like? Now's the time to do something pretty Stella, not during the car challenge! When she said Diane, I knew it was Von Furstenberg, who else? Everyone was saying something about a Shanghai to Berlin story which to me sounded like a sound bite from some Indy movie or like some catalog description out of that Peterman catalog, you know the one where there is great intrigue surrounding a trench coat, which always made me want to buy it. Joe is inspired by Shanghai and is doing something of a Shanghai top with an open back. I was wondering why just a top, couldn't he done a full on Mandarin dress like that? Korto is loving her yellow fabric peeking through her dress which Tim says, it looks like bra straps. Me, I'm loving the yellow to with that striped material which screams Von Furstenberg! Meanwhile, Stella gets the story wrong and ends up in a wrong country, probably a country where they all wear leather. The winner of this challenge will get to sell their design to American Express cardholders online under the Diane label. This perplexes me, why only American Express? Doesn't sound like a wide audience. Kenley is so excited, like I've only sold to Walmart and Kmart, duh. And what was Kenley wearing during the runway show, purple ostrich shoulder pads?

Joe was so loving his outfit, if he could have kiss his ass he would have. I guess love is blind, because that outfit was auful! Blayne did knickers again and identifies with Diane, she's into tanning too! The judges hated Stella's Dracula Cape and Michael Kors said her crotch on the pants looked like there was something missing. Hey Michael, it's a girl for heaven's sake!

I just didn't get Suede's Berlin inspired outfit. What was Berlin about it, the vest made of tweed? Isn't that more British? Michael Kors said it looked like the model got dressed in the dark-ouch! Leanne wins this challenge with her midnight blue evening dress and that I stole my grammie bed jacket. I'm wondering how many orders she'll get for that? Poor Stella was aufed by the judges because she really can't do pretty. Best left designing rocker outfits and biker chics. -Single D

When the designers are told they will be designing for a fashion icon Blayne hopefully asks Mary Kate Olsen (?!) I think the tanning booth has fried a few too many of his brain cells. No Blayne, it's Diane Von Furstenberg and we're going to Shanghai! I was starting to wonder if Kenley was ever going to stop crying. Apparently Ms. VF is her idol and she couldn't believe she was going to meet her let alone design for the woman. Then they are told they get to chose their fabrics from Diane's own fabric room and that started Kenley bawling all over again. Get a grip girl!

I'm having terrible writer's block this week so I'll suffice by saying Joe's outfit was God awful, Stella tried but apparently didn't get the whole Shanghai thing. My fave was Kenley's dress and I really think she would have won if she had paired it with a jacket. I wasn't digging Blayne's knickers or Jarell's whatever you want to call it. I really liked LeAnn's dress but not the jacket. That said, Stella gets auf'ed and congrats go to LeAnn! Hopefully I'll find my muse, or at least an idol, and be better next week! Double D

Big Brother-POV and Eviction of Renny

I had to crack up when Jerry fell in the pool trying to read the sky writing. Oophs there's a pool there Jerry! That's probably the only time he went swimming! At least he didn't break a hip or something and we never did find out what it was that sky writing was about.

I'm thinking Memphis is getting cocky by playing all sides. He has a pact with Jerry, a pact with Dan the original Renegades, and a pact with Keesha. Dan says that if he uses the POV on him, he should show a signal like throwing out a bandanna or something. What are ya in a gang? Can Memphis be trusted? The POV was the morphing competition where they blend the faces of two house guest together. I always love this challenge, it's funny to see what kind of babies the house guest would make. Renny thought her baby picture was the cutest, her morphed with Jesse. She must have spent five minutes just gazing at her lovely countenance, but she had the hardest time recognizing Jerry-hey who else has a bald head in the house? The ugliest babies by far were Keesha and Steven, as well as Memphis and Libra. Memphis has the fastest time and wins the POV and keeps his word to Dan and takes him off the block. Poor Renny has to go up in his stead. We all know the outcome to this so the next episode they could have fast forward to Renny's eviction, no surprises there. Jerry in his own sly way is trying to stir up the pot in the house by saying that Memphis has a pact with everyone, which is true. Poor Jerry, he's never going to find a true partner to take him to the end. How he's gotten this far is beyond me.

It was a sweet moment when Keesha and Renny were having their last meal together and had a mother-daughter bonding moment. Doesn't Renny look like she always completely drunk on every episode? Entering the Big Brother house must be like going into rehab. This episode there was a lot of laying on the beds. Did ya notice Memphis was still wearing his mic in bed? What a good little house guest!

Big Brother gives us a peek in the Big Brother jury house, not much happening there.

April still hates Keesha

April gets teary eyed seeing Ollie suffer on the swing vine

April still loves Ollie

April says yes to being Ollie's girl-say it with me, awww

Michelle still hates Dan

Renny's exit was gracious as a grand southern dame can be. Was she ever in that Ya Ya Sisterhood movie? -Single D

Blogging Bourdain-Marathon Labor Day

I decided to cook a turkey on Labor Day, which my daughter quizzically says, it isn't Thanksgiving. I promptly tell her that turkey can be eaten any day, any month and any time one needs lots of leftovers for the week. This being only the second week of school and the lunch lines being extremely long for the hot lunch, my daughter is forced to bring her lunch or not eat. So turkey sandwiches sounded good and easy for her lunches, hence roasting a turkey on Labor Day. Therefore, a marathon of No Reservations were in order, since there wasn't much of anything. It was either that or the MDA telethon. How long can one watch people answer phones and an amature talent lineup?

Anthony Bourdain starts out on a road trip where the criteria for a road trip is lots of eating, drinking and of course puking, I would think that's his criteria for traveling abroad. He makes a stop at the Salton Sea where he recites an interesting history, of forgone popularity and of abandonment, of too much salt and lots of dead fish, of government purchase with no government benefits. It is here he makes a lunch stop at the community of Bombay Beach, currently home to 270 residents or in this case die hards living on the edge of the salty sea. He enters probably the only eating establishment where he orders the patty melt which he says he's never had one. Never had a patty melt? Pigeon necks yes, patty melts no. Do these people in there even know who he is? I think not, when one of them says can you eat and drink on the job? To which Anthony Bourdain says that's what I do. Well heck, where do I sign up? Next it's on to some redneck outpost. It is here that I am furiously surfing since this stretch of the road trip is a napper. Here they stop somewhere to eat a 72 oz steak, the sounds of Deliverance banjos in the background and somewhere there's a redneck wedding going on.

Next it's on to Cartagena, romanticized in the "Romancing the Stone", eating ceviche and strolling through the local market for a lunch at Cecilia's. Cecilia herself is cooking seafood rice in black kettles on an open flame which looked absolutely delicious, where Anthony Bourdain and his guide, Jorge are lunching on endangered turtle stew. Poor turtles, what did they ever do to you? Slow cooked and perfect. Next a precariously rough boat ride from Columbia's shore to an island time forgot, for some freshly caught lobsters for lunch. I imagine if you have steady sea legs one might be able to enjoy the fresh catch, me, I'd be seasick for 3 days. Anthony Bourdain ask a local if he prefers to live on the island or live there as he points out to Colombia with it's skyscrapers and big city life. The guy says he rather live there on the island. Who wouldn't? No jobs, no responsibilities, just dive for your supper.

Next it's on to San Antonia for the deep fried lower intestines of the pig, could that be pig rectum? I'm not too hot on that even if it's deep fried, but the cornmeal cake with fresca cheese and sweetened condense milk looked awesome, although as a child, I remember I threw up on sweetened condense milk. I ate so much poor man's pudding I puked. Poor man's pudding recipe to follow. The next day Anthony Bourdain ate a breakfast of rice and beans and fried eggs and fried plantains which made my mouth water with hunger. It is those moments I live for, because, Columbia for all it's fighting back against the drug cartels makes my bucket list as one of the last places on earth I plan to visit. -Single D

Poor Man's pudding-one can of sweetened condensed milk. Put can unopened in a sauce pan, add water and boil for 40 to 50 minutes. Let cool, open can and eat.

Big Brother-OMG! Jerry Wins HOH

After the hasty departure of Michelle and Ollie, poor Jerry is a man without an island. He's telling his fellow house guest talk to me which Renny promptly ignores. She claims she has nothing to say to him because in the world according to Renny, it doesn't involve in the insane, the absurd or the kooky. She can't even make superficial chit chat, but she does go round and round with Dan about how it's two hours behind California time. What planet is she from? Oh yeah, planet Renny.

I knew things would be going too smooth if one of the four would win HOH and of course, Murphy's law prevailed or in this case Jerry's law. We all knew Renny's answers would be in left field, but come on Memphis, he can't remember dates or aim straight! If Keesha would have played I'm thinking she would have won. Dan tried his hardest to make the correct slot but he over shot one answer which to his detriment ended up making him lose to Jerry. This game was right up Jerry's alley, I guess all that shuffleboard practice came in handy! I hate to admit it because our side lost, but it was a good game. Up in his HOH room, his fellow house guest has to listen to the story of Hissy the toy snake, which of course seemed to go on and on and on, thank God for fast forward. Funny how once Jerry won HOH, Renny is all smiles up in his HOH room. Renny why don't you tie that feather boa a little tighter? After Memphis seals his deal with Jerry not to go on the block, the question would be who would sit next to my bofriend Dan. This episode was boring in that there was little drama, now that all the drama queens have left the building. His choice for nomination, Dan and Keesha which proved good strategy on Jerry's part, dividing the house votes and since he wants my bofriend gone, he would cast the deciding vote if tied. Poor Dan, now I have to hope that Dan will win the POV and Jerry to replace it with Renny. Question is will Dan win and will Jerry do that?-Single D

Big Brother-Dan's the Man

Didn't ya all think, what was Dan thinking when he made those three promises to Ollie. I thought Dan better start praying for a miracle. Oh, did I tell you, Dan's my new boyfriend? (well at least in my dreams!) Don't cha know it, when a house guest starts to brag about being in the sweet spot, his time is up? Ollie don't get too comfortable. The call from home goes to Jerry as my daughter says, he should get it, he doesn't have long to live. Nice! The POV is 2001 Space Odyssey, put the puzzle pieces together. Keesha surprises everyone by winning the first heat and Memphis wins the second one. I guess God must be listening to Dan, because Memphis wins the POV and takes himself off and everything is going Dan's way. I cracked up with Dan's little calling out who would you nominate POV replacement roulette. It all happened so fast, I think Michelle and Ollie's heads were still spinning when he named Michelle as the replacement. Michelle was so shocked, smoke was coming out her ears. Her eyes bugged out and I thought she was going to spit up nails. I wouldn't want to cross her in real life. She'll take a contract out on you. Michelle and Ollie think Dan is a BB plant and not of the green kind. Julie tells the house that this evening will be one weeks worth of house playing, a double eviction. First, it's Michelle evicted, then HOH has Keesha winning again, just by shear luck at guessing and then the nominations by her of who else is left? Jerry and Ollie. Poor Jerry, can his heart taking another nomination? Give the poor old guy a break. I do feel for him. He's kinda reined in his hot temper and mouth. Dan came out gangbusters trying to find that veto in a haystack and Dan wins the POV giving the house the perfect set up for getting rid of enemy number 2-Ollie.-Single D

I'm late again, but only because my cable company decided I didn't need the Internet for a few days. That said......Yes, I too wondered what was going on in Dan's mind when he offered so much power to Ollie. I figured he must have a grand plan. It didn't go so much as he wanted but it all worked out in the end. With everyone dressed up like rejects from The Right Stuff, Memphis wins POV and Dan tries to pit everyone against each other with his elimination roulette which I thought put a big hairy target on his back, but no, he ends up smelling like a rose, again. Which is fine by me, I would like to see him win. Dan seems to be the only one really playing a game but, unfortunately for him, everyone in the jury house, with the possible exception of Libra, is out for his blood. Now that Ollie is in there, you know he will try and turn everyone against Dan.

Now for the burning question, if a telephone rings in the BB house, does anyone answer it? Michelle comes running when she hears the phone ring and just stares at it and asks, should I answer it? What do you think?! You know there's going to be a phone call, how did you think it would happen? I guess she got telephone and telepathic mixed up! Jerry ends up with the phone call from home, reducing most of the other house guests to tears.

After Dan puts Michelle up on the block, Ollie goes on a rampage destroying the house which made Renny so nervous that she asked the producers how long they were going to let this go on. According to the live feeds, Ollie didn't stop at throwing lollipops but went on to throw chairs, more food and we all saw him in the backyard with the workout equipment and a table. Did anyone bother to tell Ollie that this is a game?

Keesha wins the next HOH which she kind of gets screwed since it's only for a day and she doesn't get the perk of having her own room. I know, it's not like she hasn't had it already. Anyway, she puts up Jerry & Ollie, Dan wins POV but doesn't use it and Ollie is evicted. At least now he can go cry to April. Double D

Project Runway-Fashion Driven

I come down after missing 5 minutes of this episode to find the designers tearing apart cars for materials. Ripping seat belts and smashing headlights. Gee what a waste of good cars. I felt the pain, since I do have a Saturn Vue which by the way I love, except that the air conditioner is not all that great for Las Vegas. Dominatrix Stella's like, "I don't want to do leathea this time, I want to do something beautiful!" Hey Stella, wrong challenge for beautiful! Can one find beauty in a air filter skirt? Kenley can. She made a very inventive outfit out of air filters in which she hand painted the pleats to look like zebra stripes. It would have work had it not looked so stiff to walk in. The model looked pained and if a big gust of wind rushed in she would have been rolling down main street. Terri had a little bit of a hysterical laughing fit at the expense of Korto's Jeepers Creepers kimono jacket of seat belts, which sends Terri into peals of laughter on the floor, to which Jerrell remarks that Terri has two faces and 4 patterns, meow! Ok designers we're getting giddy! For the runway, Korto is dressed up in her best African princess cocktail dress and her seat belt jacket did turn out incredible, which guest judge Rachel Zoe coos that she would wear that. Who the H is Rachel? Keith tells his poor model not to sit because that would rip the seams. His outfit is so poorly designed that if she sneezed it would rip. Keith is determined not to do a fringy, sticky note fabric outfit again which sends him into a fringe withdrawal and he does something he's never done before, he created a normal, plain, off to the office outfit. I really thought that the judges were going to eliminate Stella for her mismatched outfit. It was like Stella made a top and then got tired so she decided to wrap the seat belts around her model in a ring around the rosy move. That was ghastly and the judges said that the two pieces didn't go together, but instead they decided that they had had enough of Utah boy complaining that his creativity was stifled and aufted poor Keith. Well Keith, it's back to Utah for you-now go cut up some more fabric! LeAnna was judges favorite with her frayed seat belt trim and her I have room for my cellulite skirt. -Single D

This week, Hiedi gives the designers an address and tells them to go to the rooftop where Tim Gunn is waiting with the color designer for Saturn along with Saturn vehicles. The challenge is to make an outfit out of materials used to make cars.

Kieth is coping an attitude thinking he is all that. He sends his model off to hair and makeup with instructions not to sit down. Who gets their hair done while standing up? His model tears the skirt anyway which pisses off Kieth. Just put some fringe over it! Stella didn't do her normal leather thing, which I found kind of odd since the interior of a car could be mostly leather. She did say that it won't happen again. Just as well, her outfit was mismatched. Her model looked like one of those tops that you pull the string to make spin.

Most of the outfits were nice, I especially liked Kenley's air filter dress and Korto's coat dress. Kieth showed us all that he can't take criticism and that he is still stewing over the messy chicken dress comment. Oh, grow up! He can't pull off the simple dress look and blames the judges for making him make that decision not to do his normal stuff. The judges are tired of his attitude and is auf'ed. So it's back to Utah and obscurity with Kieth and LeeAnn wins with her car seat hip dress. I wonder if it has that new car smell. Double D

The Apprentice - UK Edition

I couldn't help it. I was flipping channels and came across the British edition of The Apprentice. I loved The Donald so I thought why not. In The Donald's place we have Sir Alan Sugar, founder of Amstad Computers. He is just as tough talking as they come. He also has his trusty side kicks to be his "eyes & ears". The applicants are 7 men and 7 women all from business backgrounds. Some have degrees, some don't and some had left high school early to pursue a career.

Sir Alan comes right out and tells the applicants not to flip their hair for him or pull a "handsome" attack, he doesn't like it when people try to use their looks to influence him. He also doesn't like bull sh!tters or liars. Aren't they the same thing? Among the applicants is a property developer, a charity fundraiser, a head hunter and a hotel manager among others.

It's guys against the gals and the guys pick Impact as their name while the women are already at each other over a name. They finally settle on First Forte. After a little libation, the applicants get a call to meet Sir Alan across town. Good thing they have drivers. They meet at a newspaper printing shop and Sir Alan gives them their first assignment - sell flowers. They are given 500 pounds to buy flowers at a wholesaler beginning the next morning.

They go back to the house and the guys come up with strategies with Tim as their project manager. Saira is the PM for the women and they again start arguing thinking one knows better how to sell flowers than the next. If anyone would know flowers, you would think it would be the women.

At the flower mart, the women take way too much time choosing the flowers. Adenicke tells Saira that she wants to target funeral homes and hospitals. Saira flat out says no and opts to sell the flowers on a not very busy street. If you are going to sell flowers on the street, would'nt you pick one that has some traffic?

The guys are having better luck with Paul selling door to door. Paul is begging people to buy his flowers. If begging doesn't work, he resorts to sympathy or down right guilt to get his flowers sold. This guy is good, he could sell ice to an Eskimo!

After 3 hours, the women have only sold 3 bunches of flowers. Miranda panics and goes against Saira and sells her share of the flowers to another wholesaler well below cost. Saira finally kicks into gear on a busier street. With a "in your face" sales style (politely, of course), she sells the rest of the flowers.

The guys win the challenge by 200 pounds. Their reward is a champagne catered ride on the London Eye. In the boardroom, Sir Alan is disappointed that the women didn't figure out their strategy the night before instead of wasting time that morning. Saira chooses Miranda and Adenicke to go into the boardroom with her. All three throw each other under the bus but Adenicke is the one who gets fired for not selling enough.

Sir Alan does a good "you're fired". This is going to be a good show, British style. Double D

Blogging Bourdain-Egypt

Let me start off by saying that I don't usually blog on Anthony Bourdain, fact being is that I never know when he's on, maybe I don't watch the Travel Channel enough. This I do know is when I do watch him it's for a marathon length of time, usually on Sundays when I am cooking Sunday dinner. There are only two things I watch on the Travel Channel and that is Samantha Brown and Anthony Bourdain. I sometimes watch that Andrew Zimmern character, who reminds me of a boil that needs to be popped. How much bbq goat rectum can one eat? I would like to utter here and this maybe my dreams of grandeur talking, but I did noticed that on the first post ever of Anthony Bourdain, we got a hit from Distrito Federale, Mexico searching "Bourdain". A day later a direct hit on our blog and then another day later another direct hit from the same place. While reading on Anthony Bourdain's own blog, I read his latest entry which said that he was in Mexico City getting ready to leave the next day and guess what...? Distrito Federale is Mexico City! Could the Gods have possibly been so kind? Do I dare hope that he could have possibly stumbled on our blog! Is it possible in a world of weird coincidences that we are somehow all connected by the Internet? Could actually the Anthony Bourdain, read my own words? (Wistful sigh!)....Nah, the odds are about the same as winning the Megabucks! Now on to Egypt, where we find Anthony Bourdain, who always introduces himself as Tony (do I dare call him that?), strolling around Cairo in a crisp white shirt and jeans, he really is a tall drink of water. Anthony Bourdain makes Egypt look inviting (well the market place that is where they sell those knick knacky tacky things). I'm wondering where were the women in this vast oasis? Seems like the Egyptians might consider them second class citizens, best left in the kitchen cooking and tending the goats and kids. While there as irreverent as can be, Anthony Bourdain, disses a visit to one of the wonders of the world, the Pyramids viewed only from a dusty cab ride whose driver's name is Abdul (are all cab drivers named Abdul?). Can one be so bold as not to travel thousands of miles and not make a visit to the Pyramids? I think only Anthony Bourdain could get away with this, instead opting for a lunch of roasted pigeon neck on skewers, cooked to a perfect golden brown, with the crisp skin crackling with every bite he took, fingers and lips glistening with fat. Next it was on to a 1000 year old dish of Korsheria, which looked a little suspicious to me. A totally uncohesive mixture of beans, lentils, rice and spices, topped with tomato cumin and doused with spoonfuls of vinegar and garlic. I'd be sick for days after a meal like that. While there, I did notice that if Anthony Bourdain were to walk among the Egyptians, he would fit right in, a less swarthier version of Omar Sharif (is he still alive? Love him!). Although he tells us that he quit smoking 11 months ago, he does partakes smoking the water pipe which to me looked more lethal than cigarettes. He started out not liking the taste but in the end all that smoke sucked him, like Egypt itself, in all it's rapture of the balmy desert air, the vast emptiness of it all, leaving him with the feeling of peacefulness in an "ocean of sand". -Single D

Big Brother-Father Dan HOH

We last left the house guest hanging on a jungle swing getting body slammed by BB. How many challenges are going to spill over on to the next episode? I hate that! Not that I lose sleep over it or anything, I just like getting to the business of whose the next HOH. I guess for the guys it must have been a nut numbing experience, squeezing one's thighs to hold on like that, that's gotta hurt. Dan was the smart one wearing that windbreaker, like Double D said, did he get an inside clue? Eventually, one by one fell off and almost had to be carried off the ground because their legs were useless, leaving Dan and Ollie to battle it out. Dan was determined and a little pale I might add and Ollie was shivering like crazy, guess he didn't get the insider tip. I'm so sadistic, I wanted the rain to be continual, someone would have fallen off real quick! I guess if you're tortured long enough one will make any promise to the opposing side to let them win and in this case Dan gave away the house, promising Ollie that he'll get one choice and the pick of POV. I guess Dan is too saintly to ask for exemption from eviction for the next go round since he didn't even lobby for himself. He's either stupid, not very smart or too sanctimonious, I'm thinking the latter. And with this Ollie lets Dan have the HOH room to let him see his precious Monica (I thought he was making that up since he seems so virginal), but Ollie will be calling the shots. There was a moment of doubt (good editing) whether Dan would keep his promise to Ollie, but we knew he would have to go to confession and beg for redemption if he broke his word, so in the end, Dan put up Jerry and Memphis for eviction. Now it remains to be seen if Renny will keep her word to keep Memphis. She has a thing for him and I'm not talking about sex! She doesn't want him around, as she says, "he's a dog" Hey is that Renny's pink hair dryer in the sauna room?-Single D

That whole jungle vine thing didn't look like much fun especially when they started slamming into the wall. At least the house guests had water balloons to throw at each other to keep their minds off numb body parts. I hope no one did any irreversible damage to their nether regions! I'm sure CBS has those waivers handy.

What was Dan thinking giving Ollie control like that? Did he really have to see a picture of his girlfriend that bad? Dude, it's just a picture, it's not like she is really in the HOH room waiting for you! I hope it was worth it. Dan did keep playing the game seeming the weak, whipped puppy and turned on the fake water works when he read his letter from Monica. He really does deserve an Oscar! Later, Ollie tells Dan his pick for elimination is Memphis and you could see the blood run from Dan's face. Dan goes right off to solidify his alliance with Keesha and Renny and tries to put Memphis at ease about going on the block.

I know we have said time and again that Renny is strange, but what is up with her and wanting to know about Dan's love life? I'm thinking she wants to find out if he really is a virgin and she is going to pull a Mrs. Robinson.

Dan keeps his word to Ollie and puts up Memphis and Jerry. Wait until they find out it's a double eviction this week. I have a feeling that Dan's house of cards will come tumbling down. Double D

Gone Country Season 2

Cast of Characters: Germaine Jackson-awesome and still in good singing form, but will someone powder puff his shine? Mikhaila Gordon-whose she? and is that a stud in her cheek or a stick on diamond? Sean Young-Menopausal raving woman that needs to find her hormones, didn't she flunk out of films? Irene Cara-claim to fame-FAME! Sebastian Bach-token rocker dude. Lorenzo Llamas-he sings? Chris Kirkpatrick-boy band singer from, humm from some disbanded boy band-oh yeah, In Sync. Ok, I so totally recognized JR in that Andrew Jackson hillbilly fat suit, didn't you? Irene, lose the sunglasses. I guess her no show was she couldn't find her sunglasses. Hey Sean, you are out of your element-how much are they paying you to be the fool? Will she be this year's Maureen McCormick? Nah, I think not, she lacks the sweetness. Mikhaila wants to revive her singing career, she had a career? Bach, should stick to rock, say it with me...Bach should stick to rock. Lorenzo must need some cash to keep his daughter Shayne Llamas in Manolo Blaniks. Germaine Jackson, one word, why? and Chris Kirkpatrick-didn't recognize him, neither could Bach-he's like whose that dude? Guess everyone else from In Sync is living off their recognition, except for Chris, he must have been their sound guy? Looks like another funny season....we'll see-Single D