Celebrity Apprentice-Finale

I don't know why, maybe because I taped the finale to this season's Celebrity Apprentice, but it was anti climatic for me. It was like all the air deflated out of what was a good season. No drama, only drama queens in the form of the BackStreet Boys, no tension, no shocking ending. I tried really hard not to watch any entertainment TV to not spoil the winner, but I caught a glimpse of Entertainment Tonight and saw Piers drinking champagne so I knew going into it who had won. I don't know why Trump even brought back Marilu, Baldwin, Lennox and Carol. They were just there as room fixtures, ok, maybe Baldwin did serve as Pier's butler after they kissed and made up. Baldwin was pretty useless. It seemed that if this wasn't for his charity, then he wasn't going to work himself. He could only sell 5 tickets. What happened to his 20 brothers? Where were the rest of his Hollywood connections? Poor Carol, after she arranged for the catering, Piers would not let the caterers serve any food. A drunk celebrity equals lots of money spent. So let them drink champagne, not cake! I'm wondering why didn't Trace sic Lennox on the demanding BackStreet Boys? Lennox's could have knocked some sense into them. I think the black nail polish would have send me over the edge! Boy, if I were Trace, I'd say, take your primadonna demands and shove it. He sould have sent them packing and then Trace should have performed. The BSB would have been disgraced in front of millions of people. Now that would have been exciting! This is for a charity, not a concert for you. Poor Trace you did have to sympathize with him for getting the wrong end of the function. The BSB did go on stage and Trace said they sounded really good, "they didn't need any wheat grass after all!" A touching moment when Trace's wife and two girls came to visit him. You could so tell that he loves his family very much. Why are all the good guys taken? It was nice that his country stars came in to support him to the likes of Ronnie Milsap and Lone Star. The auction was the best part of the challenge and they should have showed more. Tea with Fergie went for $100,000 bid on by Cantor Fitzgerald investment firm as well as the dinner with the Osbornes for another $100,000. I thought it was very sweet when Ivanka won the auction with a dinner with Trace for $6,000. Gee if he wasn't married.....? The surprised bidder of the evening was Pier's friend Simon Cowell who won the shopping trip w/Ivanka for $100,000. Trace said that Simon's call was a bit much, I'm thinking he was jealous of all the cash Pier's connections were bringing in. I think Piers took an awful beating in the boardroom for his ruthless playing. This is where I am going to defend Piers. Let's face it, it was a game, a game to raise as much money for charity as possible. This was not a Mr. Congeniality contest. If Pier's stepped on some people's ego in the process so be it. What really rankled me was when Trump asked the visiting military guys what they thought of Piers, Marcus commented "I don't know him, but it's something that needed to be done." It was something that needed to be done? I don't know why Marcus couldn't have said that he did an amazing job raising $350,000 for their organization, and how about a "Thank You" in the process? It showed a callous lack of gratitude. I think Trump went on too long about how Trace was so saintly and the good one and Piers was the evil diabolical one. Please, it was about the game, it was about the money and that's something that ultimately Trump could not overlook when he crowned Piers as this season's winner of the Celebrity Apprentice. Without Piers, this season would have been downright meek. So if no one is going to say it, I will, Good Job Piers, you did an awesome job and any charity should be grateful to have you fighting for them. -Single D So the end is near and Piers picks Stephen and Carol to help him out. Piers offers an olive branch to Stephen saying he never meant to offend him and Stephen breaks out in a rendition of Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Do you think he was mocking Piers? Trace meanwhile is checking on the Back Street Boys who are still looking for their wheat grass and added black nail polish and a knee brace to the list. Poor Trace. As he said, "here is the world's biggest heterosexual and a three time world heavy weight boxer going shopping for nail polish and it isn't for my wife!" I say let's leave the BSB's on the back street from where they came. Back at camp Piers, Stephen is striking out selling tickets and I haven't seen Carol do a whole lot yet, oh yeah the food which Piers said forget because he wants drunk celebrities. Apparently drunk celebrities will buy anything for any amount. Good plan Piers. Trace's family shows up and pretty much reduces the big guy to tears. His girls are so cute, I didn't think he was going to let go of them. But let go he did to go back to deal with the BSB. He finally lets off some steam about them talking about how he did a show with an upset stomach and it turned out he had to have a large portion of his colon removed that very night. Now there's a trooper! Those BSBs should take a page from Trace's book and quit acting like prima donas. They should be glad they have a job because they won't after this. Once everyone sees they are a bunch of demanding has been divas, no one will touch them. And did we mention this was for charity? Ok, I'm done. As the mixing and mingling is going on, the music starts, The Donald makes his entrance and the auction gets underway. Sounded like some pretty cool stuff they had to sell. Cantor Fitzgerald seemed to be buying all the cool stuff, Tea with Fergie and a visit with Ozzy Osbourne as well as a private concert. After the sale, the BSB took the stage and actually did pretty good even though they couldn't get their wheat grass. What's up with that stuff anyway, were they constipated? In the boardroom, all of the contestants are brought back, except one. Cue the music and in storms Omarosa striking a pose in her blindingly shiny suit. I expected to see a big "O" on her chest with a cape billowing out behind her. She got in one pretty lame shot at Piers and her night was over. Thank goodness! The Donald asks for a show of hands as to who should win and most everyone went with Trace. The almighty Gene Simmons chimes in from Tokyo via video. I knew Gene threw his challenge so he would get fired, he is doing a movie in Japan! I just knew it! He gives an all American tribute to Trace Adkins and whole heartedly gives Trace his support. That and a dollar will get you a soda. Piers gets beat up pretty good in the boardroom. Good thing he has thick skin. I never thought he was evil. Anyone who would dress up as King Arthur from Spamalot can't be all bad. So Piers takes the prize for his charity which was for fallen soldiers. I agree with Single D, he did what he had to do to get the job done. Good job Piers! I just hope this is the last we see of Omarosa! Double D

Big Brother-Until Death Do Us Part-Nine Lives of James

I knew it, they brought life back to James and now they can't kill it. He's like the monster that keeps coming back to life. It's like Sheila said the guy's got nine lives. Chelsia finally realizes that she did the wrong thing bringing James back into the house. Boy I bet she's going to kick herself once she gets out. What is the number one rule of the house, never, ever pair up with someone in the house, at least not for real. It would serve her right to get voted out. The veto challenge brought back Evel Dick. He still looks the same, didn't buy any new clothes with all that money he won. He wakes everyone up in the dead of night to his Club Evel. Drink as many awful concoctions and get the equal number of hits on the croquet mallet to score the most points. Picked for the veto were, James, Chelsia, Adam, Sheila (loser!), Joshuah and Sharon. When Natalie and Ryan weren't picked to play, I knew right then James had it sewn up. I have never seen anyone with such determination to win like James. Need I say more? James won the Veto and was jumping with that in your face, take that attitude, I just wanted to slap him. It wouldn't be so bad him winning, but does he have to smear it all around like stinky doo doo? And what's up with those purple stretch pants? He should be evicted out of the house for being a bad dresser!

Now Adam has to find a replacement and ding! Joshuah tells Adam to put up Sharon, because she's like a Saint and no one will vote her out. Joshuah then proceeds to tell Sharon why that's a good strategy and what, are these people hypnotized or what? She agrees. Ok, I'll throw myself to the wolves. She really is a Saint! Do I hear a church choir? Natalie sees what Joshuah is up to and tries to convince Adam to put up Joshuah. Now here I would normally agree with her, but this time I'm thinking that they need to put up Sharon to get Chelsia out, because if they put up Joshuah and he leaves the house, they will not have accomplished anything, the power couple would still be in the house, James and Chelsia. They need to vote Chelsia out this week, then someone from the "good" side needs to win and keep James from winning HOH, and then put up James and Joshuah and get one of them gone next week. Let's hope that works as the good side will out number the dark, evil other side. And James, once again what's up with those awful, ugly maroon Ellie May shorts you're wearing?

In the next episode we see Chelsia crack like an egg under pressure, literally! It's Easter in the house and Natalie, being the creative painter that she is, is dyeing Easter eggs. She tells Sharon to mix orange and green to get purple, when Sharon says it green and blue. Chelsia is venting her anger toward Natalie telling us that she is fed up with how stupid Natalie is. Natalie is talking about Alzheimer's and calls it All Timers, Sharon corrects her, oh it's not All Timers she says, oh Old Timers? Chelsia starts to throw a fit, smashing the colored eggs, squishing them with her hands and calling out to Natalie (she's in the bedroom now) for her to come out as she smashes, screams and throws the eggs all over the room. It's amazing how many friends one has until they have a meltdown. You see Chelsia alone in the kitchen in a swirling raving lunatic cyclone. She is seething and doesn't care if she hurts anyone's feeling. Sharon meanwhile is loving it because it deflects attention away from her being on the block. Chelsia's rant got so crazy that even James distanced himself from her. Bottom line, I think Chelsia's breakdown stemmed from the fact that James took himself off the block and left her alone. She would not have acted this way had she and James went all the way to the eviction together. She harbors resentment against James, just admit it Chelsia! Too bad, so sad.

On a lighter note, the Big Brother profile of Adam showed him in such a positive light, I almost want to marry the guy. Sheila you better get your hands on him. My view on him has totally changed. At first I was repulsed by the guy, but now I view him like a giant teddy bear. He's just all around nice, generous to a fault, and deserving of someone nice well, maybe not Sheila.

The eviction was unanimous vote to evict stark raving lunatic Chelsia. Even her speeches at the end were full of venom, hate and immaturity. She needs to grow up because obviously she has no skills on how to handle stress in this big bad world. Chelsia, go home and rant and rave in the comfort of your parents home, you need some growing up to do!

The HOH competition featured a series of questions, thankfully not a strenght challenge. And all that praying paid off because our airhead Natalie won. One thing about Natalie, she might not be a brainac, but she does have common sense and a wonderful power of observation. Go Natalie, go Natalie-kick some booty!-Single D

American Idol-Birth Year Songs

Another week and I missed the first 5 minutes of the show, so I didn't know what the musical theme of the evening was. It wasn't until about the 7th singer that I finally put it together and why they were talking about the year they were born. Sure makes me feel old! I definitely couldn't see a connection with the musical choices between the contestants. Let's face it, from that odd song choice of David Archuleta, what was that? It sounded like a Christian song. Now don't get me wrong, alot of Christian music sounds great, but why did he pick a song no one knew or could identify with? I guess I have to give him some benefit because being born in the year 1990, yikes he really is young, can you remember one song from that year? Either way, he did an awesome job of it. The best of the evening was and I hate to admit it was David Cook. His translation of Billy Jean was incredible, no Michael Jackson in there. Who knew it could be sung that way? He's either really talented or really smart. I can't really say that there was one singer that was the worst one of the evening, as they are improving with each week and finding their own musical stylings, but I think Kristie Lee Cook and sorry, Ramiele are the weakest contestants. I don't see any star quality about them. There's no WOW, no awesome, no wanting to hear more, sorry girls. Dreadlock Jason is just so low key, will someone give him some caffeine please! Among the best girl vocals so far are Syesha, she reminds me of a young Whitney Houston, pre druggie days and Carly. That last note of her song was awful, but I think with more coaching and training she will be an incredible singer. Michael Johns is so cute, but his song choice, "We Are the Champions" reminds me of Chicken Little singing into his spoon in his bedroom. I will never be able to listen to that song again without that picture in my mind! Brooke White looks so much better with straight hair. Don't change it! But I still don't think you have Idol star power. At this time, I think it's between David, David and Carly to win it. -Single D

The Bachelor-London Calling

One word to describe these bunch of American women-painful! It happened twice last night when watching "The Bachelor". It was a yikes, go hide in a cave moment, when not one, but two women sang for the affections of Matt. Aw come on, I know Matt wanted to double over and pee his pants in fits of laughter when Miss, I brought my clarinet, started to sing a song she made up about the bachelor. It was just awkward and squeamish. What is just so pitiful is that she probably thinks she's really good. She was just so earnest! Another woman attempting to woo Matt with her musical stylings was Robin. Gee, how old is she? She's like twenty years older than him, ok, five years older. The problem with her is that she comes off so desperate! And that opera voice, gag me! Summertime and the bachelor is queasy! Well, enough of my singing. Downright embarrassing and the other girls, especially Marshawn was flabbergasted! Matt divided his time between two dates, one runway modeling group date and the other group date was to Vegas. I'm thinking the first group got gyped. All they got to do was model clothes down a runway, woo hoo! Matt had to give a rose to one of the girls on this date and he chose, Ashlee, because get this, she was the most forward. Ah, now we know what he's looking for! He could have by passed all this and dialed some 900 number and get the same result. Ashlee is way too young for him. She acts like she's thirteen, "can you pass this note to Matt in study hall"? Plus the fact that she likes to stick out her very unattractive tongue, is she related to Gene Simmons? What's up with women and pointing out their tongues, yuck! But leave it to the unabashed trashy Ashlee to get the prize of the first kiss, careful that tongue! Marshawn when she's alone with Matt seems very nice and sincere and not all in your face like she gets when she's in the group. The second group got a date in Las Vegas. Each got 2, 000 dollars to gamble with and the one that ended up with the most money would win a private 30 minutes with Matt. Shayne, the actress, put all her money on red and lost it all in one fell swoop. You can tell, she has no concept of money, while all the other girls played conservatively. Kelly wins the 30 minutes with Matt. I'm wondering if she will remember that date because it looked like she was totally plastered, not a pretty sight. Meanwhile, Shayne is having a meltdown competing for Matt's attention. She's not used to the competition, she says men usually give her the roses. She's usually the one they compete for. Well, honey, why did you sign on, with all your suitors lining up, why bother? But it appears the only rose she's interested in is Matt's. I thought maybe she'd leave, but she managed to collect that blond hair, piled it high on her head, put a flowery headband on and asked for a second chance. I'm not a drama queen, really! Chelsea managed to win the second rose by displaying her ability to swing out her arms in a very repulsive double jointed poses and twirled her tongue which intrigued Matt. Hey Matt, are you auditioning women for the circus? That was just strange. Oh where have the normal girls gone? Poor Matt, it seems his choices in the bacherlorettes are slim. Fortunately he sent packing, Michelle, the singing clarinet player, Carrie, and Erin, the dark haired beauty that really didn't try to compete for his attention, girl what's the matter with you? I thought she was very pretty, give the brunettes a chance! Maybe she should have honed her singing talents more.-Single D

Big Brother-Until Death Do Us Part-Adam In Charge

Finally the other side is in charge, but is it? Adam wins HOH and Natalie and Sheila are ecstatic! Sheila says that if Adam takes revenge on the other side she might have to give him a kiss, she says he would be her hero. Gee, let's see how long that feeling last! Adam on the other hand is disappointed in himself for winning, what? Adam no one forced your hand on the buzzer, why did you ring in? He just wanted to lay low and not ruffle any feathers. Come on ya big pansy! You got the right answer so obviously you do have some brains up there. Now do the right thing and nominate the power couple, James and Chelsia!

Adam calls everyone to his room to see his HOH setup. He spies a basket with all baby food in it and in the fridge. He blames his mother, "why would she send all this baby food?" Now we know why he didn't want to be HOH because then his secret passion for baby food would be revealed. OK Adam, it's not like you wear diapers, or do you? Natalie says baby food is delicious and nutritious, gee go figure she would like it. Most adults probably cringe at the thought of eating that pureed stuff, that in itself is a food challenge! Maybe Adam and Natalie should hook up, if only she could get over Matt. Natalie is still weepy over Matt's departure and says that nice Natty is gone and naughty Natty is coming out. When Natalie was reading the Bible and looked up at those pink curtains in her room, I thought she was thinking of James and his pink hair, but she was really counting. The number 8 kept coming up, 8 curtains, 8 wall plaques, 8 this and 8 that. She even said that maybe Evel Dick was coming back since his name had 8 letters and he was on Big Brother, Season 8. Who knew she had that power of observation? I guess when you're stuck in the house for that long, what else do you have to do?

Joshuah is trying to get under Sheila's skin by telling her that Adam wants to put up Sheila and himself. I don't know why anyone listens to Joshuah, haven't they seen through him yet? Apparently Sheila takes everything he says as gospel and gets really upset that Adam would do that. Hey Sheila, what happened to that sensible mom talk that made you so persuasive to other people in the house? Why didn't you try that with Adam or maybe give him that kiss you said you would, what happened to all that warm and fuzzy? Gee, have you ever scene such a love-hate relationship? They should just do it and get it over with!

The movie reward challenge was fun, Vegas Baby! I knew Ryan would be good at this, guys are better card players, especially playing BlackJack. I felt like a dum dum, counting on my fingers and when they announced he could risk it and win a $21,000 trip to Vegas he would go for it. Let's see, watch the movie 21 or win a trip to Vegas and $5,000 in cash? Take the trip, see the movie when it comes out in DVD. He lost the bet and the other side got to see the movie. Well it was a semi-win win.

I was ready to throw my slippers at the TV if Adam was going to nominate someone other than James and Chelsia, but I didn't have to since he received telepathically my nominees! James and Chelsia vowed vengeance on Adam. Pleeze! James is so sanctimonious it's pitiful! Thank you Adam, you did the right thing, now you can eat your baby food!-Single D

Ghost Hunters - Clapp Memorial Library

We are back in the USA with Jason, Grant and team. This week, Clapp Memorial Library in Belchertown, MA. Kind of makes you wonder how they came up with that name. The library which was build in 1879 has been the scene of full body apparitions, books sliding out and in shelves and other such noises mostly experienced by the night custodian. Tango & Kris start out in the basement asking the spirits to lower the temperature by 5 degrees. The spirits comply and the temp drops in seconds. They also hear a sound which turns out to be a child's book that has buttons to push to hear sounds. After pressing a few buttons, Tango comes across the sound they heard. No one else was in the basement at the time. Nothing showed up on audio or video but Jason & Grant feel that this could be a residual haunting possibly by Lidia, the first librarian. On to Attleboro House in Bristol Co., MA a 300 year old that has been turned into a duplex that houses two generations of the same family. Four generations of the same family have reported activity in the home. The children of the families say an apparition of a little boy comes to visit them and adults report seeing a child watching them. Jason & Grant, in the living room, ask the child to make a noise and bells hanging from the entertainment center start to chime. They set up a camera aimed at the bells to see if anything else happens while they are gone. Nothing shows on audio but video caught the moment when the bells on the entertainment center rang showing that there was no one or thing in the room to cause the bells to ring. Research finds that a little girl was found dead on the property in the 1700's and a civil war journal was found in the wall of the house back in the early 1900's. Sounds like the stuff a haunting is made of! Double D