Project Runway-Suede Seduction

This time the challenge is to make a cocktail dress, but wait, don't whoop it up too much, cause you know there is always a twist. Yes girls, your models will be doing the shopping and buying fabric. They will have to buy "green" fabrics. Yes dearies, environmentally friendly. I guess there's tons of stuff they do with recycled plastics?? Dominatrix is afraid that her model will buy the wrong fabric, hey Stella, anything is a step up from the garbage bags from last week! Three models buy some shiny brown fabric to the horror of their designers. Stella's like, my model wants elegance and class, which she doesn't do. She does urban (in other words, scary and raunchy!). Suede, we discover has the third person syndrome, talking about himself in third person. You remember Elaine from Seinfeld when she fell for that guy at the gym who kept talking to her about him in third person, Timmy would like to go out with Elaine, Tim likes Elaine. Suede's outfit looked like some kind of rag rug with crazy bits of striped fabric sewn together. Stella has the, I only want to work in leather syndrome. Someone calls her leatherface, wasn't he the serial killer in Texas Chainsaw Massacre? When Tim comes in, he takes a look at Korto's outfit with her exposed seams and he thinks it inside out, which she tells him it's not. Tim does manage to keep that look of bewilderment under control. I would have been like, what are you crazy? On the runway, Michael Kors said it looked like the dress had butt wings! Nothing like accenting your rear. Would be good for a female superhero, up, up and away! My favorite was that black little number by Daniel. I think this is my second favorite by him, maybe it's just him? He's cute in a bad boy Astin Kutcher sort of way, yummy! Suede wins the challenge and a very sweet Natalie Portman, who looks like she's ten, says she would wear that. I think she has a penchant for strips of fabric just look at her green cocktail dress. Reminded of me of those chinese enamel fishes that bends at the gills. His reward, selling his dress on Bluefly. Speaking of Bluefly, do you get those Bluefly commercials where the woman who is wearing nothing goes through the airport screening? First of all she'd be arrested and second, what it is that Bluefly sells? It's like have nothing to wear, then think Bluefly. I have no idea what kind of stuff Bluefly sells. From the show, it looks like just accessories. The commercial doesn't tell us anything, but I digress! The two worst dresses had one thing in common, they were out of the same shiny brown fabric, which screamed cheap, cheap, cheap! LeAnn made a dress for Peter Pan, what were those flappy things? And Wesley's brown home economics dress. I think Welsley home ec dress was so poorly made, that the judges probably thought he needs to go back and with that he is aufed. As usual, this one was fun and I hate Heidi Klum, why does she always look so perfect?!-Single D

This week the designers have to make cocktail dresses out of "green" fabrics with the models doing the shopping. Stella immediately starts complaining about sending out someone who has no idea what she is doing. Hello, weren't you the one who bought trash bags? They send their models on their way with some of the designers yelling, "don't forget the closures"! I can see it now, the dress is fitted, almost done and OMG where is the zipper?! Half the designers threw away at least one piece of fabric right away and a few of the girls came back with the same brown satin stuff. Since when is satin "green" anyway. As Tim says, make it work!

Stella starts complaining that her model wants a dress that she just doesn't do and decides to make her own thing. Fortunately for her, her model ends up loving it. Biker chic is not particularly my thing since I'm not exactly a 90 pound, young 20 something.

Suede is emerging as this season's Christopher poodle dog. He has even dubbed himself Team Licious. His dress, so far, is anything but, looking more like a road map exploded with all of those fabric strips. He indeed made it work and managed to clean it up and comes out the winner of the challenge.

I thought sure Kenly would win with her simple elegant dress with the high collar. She got so many complements on it that it looked like a sure thing. It was one of my favorites for what it's worth.

Leanne and Wesley end up in the bottom two. They both had the same hideous brown satin fabric and neither one did anything good with it. Even the models looked uncomfortable wearing the dresses. Leanne gets lucky as Wesley gets aufed. Now go recycle those ugly brown dresses! Double D

Big Brother-Driving Big Brother Crazy

Jesse reminds me of a white looking incredible Hulk and is it a requirement that one must enter the diary room shirtless? This episode is the veto competition and it's BB DMV which I thought was very clever. I want to be one of those people who sit around a big table throwing out ideas for challenges. Where do I sign up? I think they could take a few brainstorming ideas from the Japanese, see Double D's posts "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" Hai Majide! Ok my daughter and I say Hai Majide every chance we get. At least this game required BB house to think alittle, use their brains and not their brawn. Unscramble the license plates to reveal a phrase. I thought it was cheating that they had the phrase above, all one had to do was to find it, how hard was that? Ok, they're not rocket scientists! Michelle, Portuguese Princess from Providence (say that five times) wins and gets the coveted POV. Brokeback is campaigning hard and him and Keesha become BFF's, will you be my new best friend? Oh pleeze, he played on her sympathies. Were you an orphan eating fish and rice? I can't decide if Keesha is going to get on my last nerve, but someone who is, is Libra. I thought at the beginning Libra would be the smart player, but she showing her screaming diva side as Jerry confronts her with what she said about the slow old people. First all, I didn't think Jerry would succumb to the masses and start shouting like a barking bull dog.

We were discussing at work who we liked, and it's like I said, it's easier to name who you don't like. Liking has to earn your respect and no one has done that yet. Jeff said he's ashamed of April wearing that Nebraska Tee-representing the cornhusker state. Not! Have you noticed how one minute April looks cute and then in the next ugh? Guess her showmance, Ollie likes it. In the end, Brian's scrambling didn't win Michelle over and she didn't use the POV to save him.

So Brokeback continues to campaigning hard against Catholic Boy. Dan keeps saying that he will keep his word and so far, he hasn't succumb to the devil's play, but I'm sure by the end of the season, he will have to go to confession and say lots of Hail Marys, because he will break his word, everyone does! It seems that the house is getting divided with Jesse and his posse of Michelle (are they an item?) Angie, Memphis & Dan with Libra, Keesha, Ollie, April and Brokeback on the other side. What they didn't show were the wild cards, Renny and Jerry, in fact they were hardly given any air time. Maybe they were attending an AARP meeting? And it totally confirmed my suspicions, Jesse does have little man syndrome. His parents say that Jesse was small for his age, ding, ding, ding! There you have it! That's why the muscles. In the end, Brokeback was voted out and for someone who doesn't announce he's gay, he sure gave a "gay" exit speech by saying, "suck it b*t*hes! What was that about? There ensued alot of filler nonsense with that alien stuff, they could have left that out but they tried to tie it into the HOH competition about alien abduction and missing items. Didn't BB use that abduction word previously? Seaduction? In the end, Keesha wins HOH mostly by not ringing in the wrong answer. Maybe the girl's smarter than we think? Not!-Single D

Big Brother-Muscle Head HOH

I think Brokeback was going to tear up after the departure of this season's first eviction of Brian and it looks like Brokeback, Catholic boy and Renny will have to dodge muscle head for candidates for eviction. It looks like Brokeback on purpose didn't go up to see muscle head's HOH room, which Jesse says was disrespectful. What was there to look at anyway, a zillion pictures of Jesse in muscle head poses. Ok maybe Jesse is a muscle head, but he did put on a good french accent during the food challenge of "Stop your Whining". Libra was complaining that it wasn't fair that the two old people were on her team. Hello, you'll be old one day! This was right up Renny's alley of catching wine in a glass, I was surprised that she just didn't open her mouth to catch the wine! I think I am forgetting most of what happened this episode because the next thing I remember is that Catholic Boy Dan wants to get Jesse alone to do some damage control and ask Jesse if he could use his restroom. Dan waits up there clicking on the monitors, but Jesse is not moving. Sometime later, Jesse and Ollie come up to the room and Dan makes a quick bee line for the toilet, flush! When he comes out a few minutes later, Jesse had that look of why are you in my room? Duh, I'm confused! Hello, you did say he could use your toilet! I think all those steroids have clouded his brain, either that or he has selective memory (or in this case no memory!). Jesse wants to put up his irritant, Renny, but is talked out of it by the group and so it's brokeback and catholic boy on the block. Brokeback was hurt, all I can say is what my BFF Terri, in Jersey would say-"grow a set!". At least Renny had the alcohol soaked brains to keep her mouth shut this round! -Single D

HOH has created a monster and it's name is Jesse! He invites everyone to see his "Jesse" room, all Jesse all the time. I'm sure he strikes posses in the mirror when no one is looking. The anti-Brian group moves in on Jesse first thing to have him put up Stephen and Angie but Jesse really can't stand Renny and won't give her up.

Stephen was educating Dan about the gay life while Keesha added her remarks on the gay life. I guess Keesha knows more about being a gay man than Stephen does.

In the food challenge, teams had to plug holes in a giant wine cask to prevent the other team from getting their wine. Renny was the self proclaimed wine catcher, I'm thinking wine drinker, but it's all good. Renny wasn't half bad actually. She figured out to catch pouring wine in a glass to put you hand over it and more will stay in the glass. Leave it to a wine drinker to figure out how to keep more in the glass! April's job was to throw the corks to the people in the cask. Now, this cask is huge and April couldn't get a single cork in it. She overthrew, under threw, they need to throw her. The same people from last week will still be swilling slop this week.

After the restroom debacle, Dan finally gets muscle head, ur Jesse alone and pleads his case not to be put up for eviction. Poor Dan is sweating bullets thinking Jesse had him pegged for eviction from the get go but after his little speech Jesse seems OK with Dan and everyone is happy.

Dan's happiness comes to an end when Jesse nominates him and Stephen. Talk about petty, the only reason Jesse put up Stephen is because he felt disrespected for him not coming up to see his HOH room. God help anyone who is not in love with Jesse. Double D

I Survived a Japanese Game Show - Oh Baby!

The teams have to dress like babies this week complete with diapers. That is just wrong in so many ways! Rome is smitten with Meaghan saying how sexy she looked in her baby costume. Even if Brad Pitt showed up on my doorstep wearing a giant diaper, it still wouldn't be sexy. Sorry Brad. Anyway, some of the team members were really getting into the part even throwing tantrums.

The challenge is to see which team can get the most milk into a large bottle after being spun around in a "crib", filling the milk cups, stepping on spinning disks and climbing over various objects. The yellow penguins get to go first. After watching everyone spin around I thought there was going to be more to clean up then spilled milk! Cathy is up first and gets her cups filled but loses it on the first spinning disk. She has to complete the obstacle course before the next contestant can go. Andrew and Justin tried to keep their heads from spinning by looking at one thing for as long as they could. Looked like they were trying to give themselves whiplash. It seemed to work and they both didn't get as dizzy as they thought they would and both managed to get milk into the bottle.

The green monkeys are up next and Rome says, in Japanese, he just likes watching everyone fall even showing it again in slow motion. I wonder what else he says to the audience? He is really liking Meaghan as he says she looks cute and dizzy. Donnell takes a header and loses all of his milk. Meaghan holds on to a splash of milk and Mary gets both of her cups to the bottle. It wasn't enough to beat the yellow team who is on a serious winning streak.

Back at the house, Donnell starts stirring the pot about Meaghan's immunity deal trying to get Mary to go back on the deal. They have a while to think about it since their punishment is to shuck clams. Those little clams pack a punch of a smell! Poor Mary looked like she was going to heave any minute and Meaghan had her shirt pulled over her nose. They get a quick lesson on shucking and Meaghan realizes the clams are alive. OMG! Meaghan finally gives the clams a swift death while Mary keeps gagging. Most of the Japanese "shuckers" find the Americans entertaining except the one who keeps saying you keep working! She is going to get the most of her free labor!

The winning yellow penguins get treated to a soba noodle dinner. They go to a beautiful temple where Japan's best soba noodles are made. They get a noodle making demonstration and all the noodles they can stuff themselves with. That's my kind of reward!

Back at the studio for the elimination challenge and Donnell is working Mary to go back on the deal. At the very last second, Mary decides to keep her word and it's her and Donnell in the elimination. The challenge is called chicken butt scramble. That would have frightened me especially when they told Mary and Donnell to take their clothes off. They are conveniently wearing sports "undies" and they are given chicken heads to wear. They have to cover themselves in oil, slide down a ramp, roll around in feathers then pop giant "eggs" using only their butts. That challenge looked painful. Mary went first and after popping a few eggs, which made the mat slippery, couldn't stand up for very long and also kept sliding off of the eggs. She managed to pop 10 eggs and then it was Donnells turn. Donnell thinks he can do better since he has a bigger booty. I think he was liking the oil part a little too much, the judge had to tell him that's enough! Donnell busts through the eggs like nobodies business and wins the challenge.

So we say sayonara to Mary as she is carried out by the Japanese mafia. Majide! Double D

The Next Design Star-Family Affair

Final three, Trish, Matt and Jen. Last year this challenge was to design a room for a family in need, which I totally liked. You know giving back and all that junk. But this year, the contestants get to design a room for their families. I guess the judges thought designing for a family member would be challenging, well maybe for Matt. It seems his mother has her own ideas of what she wants and apparently is an avid crafter. Matt will be decorating his mother's basement and turn it into a craft/gameroom. Matt's main focus is to hide the kiln, I guess mother is a potter also. Trish's family lives in Detroit and she is decorating their living room. Her mother seems nice enough telling Trish whatever she designs, she'll love, while dad sits mutely. Jen is designing a living/dining room for her sister that lives in Iowa. Each one has a handyman to help them with the renovations. Trish's handyman is apparently new to his craft, when she ask him how long has he been doing this? duh six weeks. I thought for sure Trish would come back and the wood floor would be laid in a mismash design. Jen's design for her sister's house is to possibly refinish the wood floors, but decides that they are too messed up to do that and resorts to carpeting. Didn't her sister say they ripped up the carpet in the first place? I don't care if it's made with recycled stuff and is green for the environment and is so soft. I would want wood floors. I definitely thought the room had way too much carpeting. I did like her signature hand painted walls, which Vern said, be careful or you might become a one trick pony. Out of all three rooms, Matt was the most innovative, although Ms. Martha didn't understand why he chose 4 black leather club chairs for the seating area. I thought that was genius and looked great in that space. In the end, I knew for sure that Trish was going to be cancelled since she didn't bother to move the living room furniture in a different direction. She basically kept the same layout but just resurfaced the fireplace and added decorative pieces and got new living room furniture. Well I guess Dad got a new recliner out of it. Basically this episode lacked the drama, suspense, pizazz! Essentially, everyone lacks personalities. Heaven help them if they pick Matt, while a great designer, do we want to continue to look at that bald head and Trish's personality was mostly flatliner. Jen's the best candidate for this but is she really that talented? Well, we'll see what happens in finale, somebody, dazzle me!-Single D

The Next Food Network Star-Vegas Baby!

The group is still in Las Vegas for the second half of their challenge. This time it's a 30 second promo and they have Lisa strung up on cables at the wine tower where wine angels pluck bottles of wine for the diners, only in Vegas baby! Seems like Lisa can't fly and talk at the same time. Out of all the promo spots, this one should have been cake, but I guess it takes coordination to talk and be hoisted at the same time. Lisa could have been Tom Cruise's accomplice in Mission Impossible which was more like promo impossible. Not to mention that Lisa's coach was Guy Fiere. What better lay back personality can you get? He's just like one of the cast, which he was only a short two seasons ago and now he's a food network staple. Aaron has to walk through a casino and stop at a craps table then shoot the dice, much more harder to make it look natural but he manages to bring out that personality. Adam didn't fare too well as he did his shtick with two Vegas showgirls on stage. He looked like a clumsy Pee Wee Herman, with two left clodhoppers. Next they are told to bring their A game and cook up a monster buffet for their food challenge, so it's off to Whole Earth. While there, Lisa buys two packages of monk fish and accidentally drops one out of her cart as the camera pans to it on the floor. I just wanted to scream, Lisa your fish! Adam's buffet will be as he says a smoketacular and Aaron is making pasta 7000 different ways, ok maybe 5 different ways. Not only do they have to cook it all and thank goodness they had the help of the other cast offs, but they have to entertain and serve it up to Vegas personalities. Lisa and Kelsey start cooking when Lisa realizes that where's the second half of her monk fish? It's now fish rot on the floor of Whole Foods. Thank goodness she had her crown roast pork which looked impressive but unfortunately she managed to burn half of it. Hey haven't you heard of rotating the meat in the oven? I even know that! I would just like to see her cook something flawless for once, I know she can do it. Lisa makes her presentation by singing a song, which surprises everyone, since she does have a great voice. Who knew the lady chef could belt? The chain male cast of Spamalot were in love! Next it was Aaron's turn on the mic and all he managed to do was to embarrassed himself and the entire audience. He mumbled something in audible in the mic cue the crickets! His food was the plain step sister of the three buffets. They said make something over the top and all Aaron made was picnic food. Adam's smoketacular was the crowd favorite. What's not to like about BBQ? Smoked chicken wings and smoked pork chops, am I making you hungry? But does that show that he can really cook? I think this was the quandary when it came down to the judges. Who would they get rid of? Each one of them has major flaws, Lisa can't pull it all together to create a masterpiece, Aaron's food and persona don't quite hit the marks and Adam, Mr. Personality, but can he cook? I guess it remains to be seen next week as this week the judges throw out the rules and keep all three of them, where someone next week will be name the Next Food Network Star.-Single D

Project Runway Season 5-Grocery Shopping

While on my short hiatus, I did manage to watch Project Runway in my hotel room, gee is it that time already? Seems like each season comes so quickly. This season it's the usual suspects with quirky personalities. Here they meet up with Tim Gunn and Project Runway, season's one Miss Thing with more makeup than your Elizabeth Arden makeup artist. He makes his grand entrance by sashaying across a busy NY street, traffic stopping and not because of the red light! Tim announces that it's the grocery challenge, which our Miss Thing won, and the rest is history dahling! I'm like what, make fashion out of melons and pasta? Some of the designers did take it literally like Kroto buying kale and cherry tomatoes? Nothing like rotten vegetables on your dress, ok maybe a mid morning snack. Mostly everyone ran to the plastic tablecloth section and the housewares. Daniel used blue plastic cups for his dress which he melded into a bustiere cocktail dress. I wouldn't know whether to drink from it or wear it. Stella, dominatrix from Queens, immediately headed for the garbage bag section. Yep, she definitely is the garbage bag queen except when she opens the bags at the studio, they were the thin cheap type, she shoulda bought the Glad. Instead she got junk or in this case garbage. Then there is Suede, with his mohawk of royal blue states in his bio a good hoodie is a must and I agree. Suede designed a rather demure blue tablecloth dress something I would wear to work, except plastic might be too hot in Vegas in the summer. Terri took mop heads and braided a top out of it which seemed to work that is if you can resist the urge to stop, drop and roll. In the end, it was Jerry that was auf with his white on white trench coat which the judges said looked like some kind of serial killer out fit. Granted the yellow gloves were a bit much, but at least he sewed something, unlike dominatrix's draped garbage bag disaster. Wrong wrong wrong judges!! In this case it was garbage in and Jerry out, too bad we didn't get to see more of your talent! -Single D

This season we have a diverse group of designers half are hard edge, all are cut-throat and a few look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, personality wise anyway. This should be good. We have Stella who is down right scary and designs for rock stars or pimps, OK. Blayne has an obsession with tanning, can you say skin cancer waiting to happen?

Tim Gunn wakes the designers at 4am to go to Gristedes grocery store. Austin Scarlett from season one greets the designers. You think that was a name change? All that was missing was the hoop skirt and lacy umbrella. The designers have to design an outfit from what they can find in the grocery store for $75.00. Everyone pretty much avoids the produce section. Did they learn nothing from Scarlett, I mean Austin, who won that challenge with a corn husk dress? I was thinking Romaine lettuce bodice, with cardboard backing when it wilted, with maybe a Pepsi carton skirt.

Stella buys trash bags, which is right up her alley, and says her "fabric" is garbage. Need I say more? Almost everyone else bought table clothes for their material and are called out by Tim who says the judges will think they are slackers. That seemed to kick them into gear. Leann started covering her table cloth dress in candies and Stella started sewing her garbage bags. Blayne's model had more curves than he thought and had to hand sew his "girlicious" outfit.

After the runway show, Jerry got a bashing from the judges when they said his outfit was freaky and looked like a handy wipe gone wrong. Blayne's outfit looked like something out of a bad ScFi movie. I loved Kelly's vacuum cleaner bag dress from the start. I thought it was one of the most original creations. Daniel's plastic cup dress was also very cute. Kelly's vacuum cleaner bag dress is the winner with Jerry being Auf'ed. I guess the judges wanted to see if Stella could actually do something. Double D

Ghost Hunters International - New Zealand & England

We start out at the Wellington City, New Zealand Opera house where the architect, Albert Liddy, committed suicide and apparently is still hanging around. Why kill yourself if you're going to keep coming back? I don't think the benefits are any better.

Andy, Brian & Dustin go into the catwalk to do EVP work. While Brian is provoking the spirit of Albert to make an appearance, takes a picture of a black mass. In the balcony, Donna talks to the spirits and sees flashes of light. Donna is so sweet, she even asks the spirits if they have are comfortable in their seats before she continues.

After all of their work, all the team gets is a woman's voice whispering "no" in response to the question, did you just make that noise. Rob says there is paranormal activity but not haunted.

Next is Gloucestershire, England and the Woodchester Mansion. We find out that Donna has to leave Europe due to having Crohn's disease. The story of the mansion is that while it was being built, the workers were spooked by something so badly that they dropped their tools, left the job and never came back. Sightings include full body apparitions, voices, blue lights, black clouds and the spirit of a dog in the basement. Sounds like a lot!

The team sets up and Rob goes to the basement, puts down an EMF detector and asks the spirits to show themselves and the EMF goes off. Rob then asks is the spirit wants to talk and the EMF goes off again. Rob brings Barry down who asks the spirit to show itself and they hear a loud bang.

Brian and Andy see the blue lights in different parts of the mansion. During the review, they here what sounds like a dog growling from the tape taken in the basement. Another tape yields a tin whistle sound and on video they catch one of the blue lights. Even Andy got excited on this one. Rob seems more conservative this season and does not declare a haunting, only paranormal activity. Hope you are feeling better soon Donna! Double D

Big Brother - Honey Bears

It's the Jesse and Renny show! They are trash talking each other to no end. Jesse says Renny didn't apologize for waking him up but the editors are standing by and flash the tape where Renny does indeed apologize (see previous blog posting). All that muscle has gone to his head!

Dan and Brian start setting up everyone to vote to evict Renny by promising each one that they will not be put up themselves. Oh what a tangled web we weave! I just hope they remember the promises they are making. Everyone was going for it except Memphis. Brian starts shooting his mouth off to Ollie and Dan saying that he is calling all the shots. Careful Brian, he who shoots off mouth usually shoots self in foot!

The veto competition is to retrieve stuffed bears from feather filled pillows piled on a giant bed. The catch is getting to the bed the house guests have to crawl through a pool of honey, find the bears by tearing open the pillows, crawl back through the honey and deposit the bear in a jar. The first to get 5 bears wins. No need to tell you what happened when the feathers started to fly! I guess that what getting tarred and feathered looks like on a more comfortable scale. Jesse and Michelle are neck and neck and poor Renny couldn't get through that honey for nothing. At one point she just rolled over and I thought is she going to try the back stroke? In true muscle head fashion, Jesse tears his shirt off after winning the veto. Everyone is covered in honey and feathers. I wonder if someone hoses these people down before they go back into the house.

After seeing Jesse win the veto Brian has to do some scrambling and tells Jerry that Memphis has to go. Again Jerry says Memphis will go bananas, does Jerry have a thing for bananas? But says he will do it. Meanwhile downstairs, Ollie is telling April, Keesha and Libra that they are safe because Brian is telling Jerry to put up Memphis. Brian walks in and confirms this which gets Libra thinking. April & Libra confront Ollie who caves then tells the girls to flip it on Brian.

The whole group decends on poor unsuspecting Jerry and beg him to put up Brian. Jerry isn't believing them. Come on dude, all these people coming to you telling the same story? You have to see something is up! Jerry did listen and put Brian on the block.

Ollie and April are getting all cuddly and Brian is still trying to keep what is left of is grip on controlling the game by saying that the girls need to be split up. At the same time, April tells the girls she is sure Brian will try to get them against each other. Stephen tells Brian he will help him any way he can (maybe a little crush?). Brian decides to go the "I'm too entertaining to get rid of" route and puts on a sock puppet show. Ollie plays himself with a black sock and April's sock has boobs. It was hysterical! So much so, it looked like Brian had swayed enough votes to keep him in the game.

The next head butt session begins. This time between April and Keesha. Keesha hears April saying she thinks Keesha has flipped and that's all it took. The claws started to come out but the guys turned referees and broke them up.

Brian gets evicted 9-1. I guess his puppet show didn't work as well as he thought. Jesse wins the HOH and April wastes no time throwing herself into his arms to congradulate him. Maybe she is going to pit Jesse against Ollie. Double D

Ok, I've been gone for a week and came home to watch all three episodes online and I always think, maybe this season I will be bored with the trials and tribulations of 12 people stuck in a house for several months. Not! Not only am I an addict, I don't think there is any treatments out there to wean myself off the capricious viewing of other people's outrages behaviors, how dull is my life? How quickly they suck you in! I need to join BB anonymous. At first it's like, I don't know or care about any of these bimbos with bosoms and muscle heads. But then, in the first episode, you're swallowed up like quicksand. Of course all the young people look the same to me, but it's the older guy, what is he 73? Jerry and the quirky redhead salon owner, Renny that piqued my interest. And as usual, I always root for the older ones on these things (go figure!). In an unusual beginning, they have to vote someone as HOH cold turkey. Who else to vote in, someone that is more like your grandfather than the bitch next door, good move. After watching episodes 2 & 3, I took an immediate dislike to Brian. Anyone who has the arrogance to think that he is the Godfather of the house granting immunity and suggesting that he will call on them for a favor in the future needs to be put out of his misery. His immediate pact making and side dealings eventually did him in and as he said, he tried to play three weeks of strategy into one week, like duh? Didn't he know it was going to come back to bite him in the tush? Glad he's gone! Looks like we're in for a wild season-someone check me in!-Single D

Prime Time Emmy Nominations

Well kids it seems our faves are everyone's faves! Nominees for the prime time outstanding reality competition shows are Project Runway, Top Chef, American Idol, Amazing Race and Dancing With the Stars. I was so excited when I saw Project Runway and Top Chef nominated! All that was missing was Survivor. At least our favorite cutie pie Jeff Probst was nominated for outstanding host of a reality series along with Heidi Klum, Tom Bergeron and Ryan Seacrest (sorry Howie, we don't blog your show but good luck anyway). Good luck to all!!!!!!! Double D

Big Brother 10

As we see the house guests come in and hear their taped comments, I can already see potential head butting. So many people who think they are all that in one house and you can be sure the fireworks won't be far behind.

Before they enter the house or even speak to each other, the house guests have to elect an HOH. What a twist! As we find out later, they end up electing Jerry, a 75 year old great-grandfather. Yeah, that's a safe bet. During the introductions, Michelle says she is 28 but looks more like 38. Renny, from New Orleans in a total nut case and will be annoying. I think someone must have accused April of having a boob job but she was very proud of them even letting everyone feel them. I thought sure Jerry was going to have to have mouth to mouth after that.

The first challenge is a food challenge. House guests split into two teams and have to pile into upside down VWs which are suspended on a track, pull the VW down the "road", pick up gas cans and deposit them on the other end. One house guest gets kicked out of the VW for each circuit. The last one left in the VW wins a classic car. Sweet! It comes down to Memphis doing rock, paper, scissors with Stephen. They tie and when it was evident that Memphis wouldn't give up, Stephen jumps out leaving Memphis the winner of a '69 Camaro.

Muscle head Jesse goes to bed early and gets awakened by Renny who apparently can't get her door opened. She keeps screeching, "it's locked, it won't open!" and running around laughing, at least I think it was laughter, who knows with that one. Jesse gets up all mad 'cause he isn't getting his beauty sleep, he needs it! Jesse is all wanting to trash talk Renny to her face but she keeps saying she's sorry but he isn't having any of it to which Renny offers to give him her cotton balls since he doesn't have any. It's instant hate between these two.

Having made an early alliance between himself, Dan and Ollie (sounds like an old kid's show), Brian goes to Jerry and tells him he should put up Jesse & Renny. Jerry says he likes Jesse and that he would go bananas if he is put up but does it anyway. Ummm. Double D

Ghost Hunters International - New Zealand

They're back! GHI heads to Dunedin, New Zealand and Larnach Castle. New Zealand's only castle was built in 1871 by Aussie William Larnach who committed suicide after finding out his second wife was cheating on him. Dude she wasn't worth it! Reports include an apparition in the ballroom, feelings of dread, objects moving and the manager of the castle was shoved down the front steps. Another worker also received a shove in the back and at the same time saw a door open that he had just closed.

The team sets up and Rob & Andy go to the first floor landing which is a hot spot and start EVP work. They hear someone say hello and the thermal camera gets some strange color changes.

Donna & Dustin go in the ballroom to do EVP and right away they see a shadow in one corner and a flash of light in another corner. Dustin tries to reassure the spirits that no one is going to hurt them and they hear plates rattle. They leave a camera in the galley part of the ballroom and leave.

Andy & Dustin debunk the cigar smoke smell by heating a table and chairs with a hair dryer which released the smells. Just like a scratch and sniff! Barry, in the ballroom with Donna (reminds me of a song), wants to try the Singapore theory which is to recreate the period of the house to prompt paranormal activity. They play 1800's classical music and immediately hear noises.

Barry & Brian go into the ballroom and also hear plates rattle and the EMF detector goes crazy. Andy finds wiring under the floor which explains the EMF readings. Andy is really good at debunking but doesn't seem real happy when something can't be explained.

Reviewing the tapes, the team finds the camera that was left in the galley didn't catch the plates moving but did catch audio of bottles rattling when no one was in the room. Barry had been using a new wide spectrum camera and gets a good shot of a man looking at the camera in the ballroom. Either they got a new investigator they didn't know about or they caught a ghost on camera!

Rob is pretty comfortable saying the castle is haunted. He even turned the manager into a believer. I did notice the subtitles disappeared at the end. I guess the editors finally realized Kiwis speak English too. Double D