Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Survivor-Tocantins

In a land very far far away, a warrior king once ruled his tribe. This king was named Coach. He liken himself to a dragon slayer, warrior king, wearing his hair in a top knot like ancient Asian sumo wrestler, ancient dragon slayer. He spoke the language of great warrior kings. He spoke of strength and power. He mediated and performed ancient warrior Tai Chi, mastering his own internal Chi and spewing his philosophy for anyone who would listen. Those he chose were hand picked to be in the army of the warrior king. Those that were not favor by the warrior king, lived in fear and isolation. This warrior king had an second in command, Tyson. Although Tyson was his commander, Tyson was really the strength of the warrior king's army, winning challenge after challenge. The warrior king created a cult of worshippers willing to follow the warrior king's prophecy of the creation of the strong and like mindedness. But not all was well in the cult. There emerged a boy, JT, who was strong and had a secret knowledge. He knew he had to bring down the warrior king before the king would take over the entire kingdom and win the greatest prize of all, the title of warrior king of the universe and then no one would be free from his grandiose boasting ever again. The warrior king already slayed one dragon, his fiercest opponent Brendan, and with Tyson, his winner of challenges, time had come to bring down the warrior king by cutting off his most valuable possession, his right arm, Tyson. So, JT, the would be David, slaying Goliath, hatched a plan to cut the arm off the king. With perfect and unexpected precision, the arm was sliced and removed much to the king's surprise. The question remains, can the boy, JT wear the crown and be king?-Single D

Monday, April 27, 2009

Celebrity Apprentice-Rightguard

I know it's just a game, but I can't stand Annie. Haven't I said this before? What I'm wondering is why didn't Melissa volunteer to be the PM for this next challenge after the Donald moved Jesse over to Athena. Instead Brandi volunteers for Kotu with Clint for Athena. This challenge is to create a 4 page spread for RightGuard deodorant centering around David Lee of the Knicks. I guess he must be a right guard? This weeks guest judge is loud mouth Jim Cramer, sell, sell, sell! Once again poor little homely girl Melissa is left out of the hip girl's group. It was just too painful to watch and typical of the dynamics of girls everywhere, the pretty girl, the bossy girl and the homely girl. As I've always told my daughter when she wants to invite 2 of her girls over for a sleep over, if they are not all best friends, then there will always be a 2 against 1 balance and someone will always feel left out. Clint has soften his bossy side, a little, but still is getting on Jesse's goat. Here I think the dynamic is the two alpha males want dominance with Joan trying to play peacemaker. I thought both ads were awful, but in the end, Clint's choice of color was what won it for them, by a hair according to Jesse. At least Jesse manned up that theirs was better no matter how much he hated their ad. I knew which one Trump was going to choose in the end, between Melissa, Brandi or Annie. He couldn't get rid of Annie, she's the villianess we love to hate. Trump's lust and affection ruled by his pants got the better of him in this boardroom. He came short of saying, Melissa you know beauty always wins over homely, which totally sucked. Instead he blamed Melissa's lack of fund raising. Aw come on, just admit it Trump, you would rather gaze at the flaxen haired beauty of Brandi than Melissa's botox forehead anyday. Mother Joan was raging when Melissa was fired. She spits out scorn to Annie Duke, saying with such disgust, "You're just a poker player, a pokaa playeer!" like Annie isn't worth the dirt on Joan's high heels and left with her daughter. Melissa left bitter and scorned like I'm sure it was not the first time in her life. At least she could have bowed out graciously and not let the mean girls win this one. Well once again, reality TV at it's finest! -Single D

Amazing Race-Chinese Torture

The 9th pit stop in China, Kisha and Jen are the first to leave at 1:48 pm, heading for Beijing. Tammi and Victor-1:48
Margie and Luke- 1:50
Jamie and Cara- 2:12
Tammi and Victor's bragging about their edge in knowing Chinese has yet to help them get ahead in their own country. They speak in Chinese to the ticket agents in the airport and tell them to put them up front and the rest in the back of the plane. Our parents would be so proud! Out first are Victor and Tammi, go figure, heading for their cab, but funny that, it is Jamie and Cara first at the roadblock, to get a foot massage. Cara tells us that she doesn't like people to touch her feet, but I'm thinking she's like, wow, finally a spa treatment, but it's more like spa torture. It's an ancient Chinese pressure foot massage which looked more like ancient Chinese torture. I was laughing out loud through the whole segment. My husband doesn't get it when I laugh out loud and there's no one else in the room. I can't help it. Laughing is like sneezing to me, you just have to let it out! Cara is writhing in pain, towel between her teeth. Next to arrive, Kisha and Jen. Kisha immediately says she wants to do it but then has second thoughts when she sees Cara in agony. Both looked hysterical with towels and hats between their teeth and screams of owwww! Tammi takes the pain in stoic Chinese style, although I thought her breathing looked more like she was doing Lamaze and birthing a baby. Come on Tammi just let that scream out! Luke ends up doing it, how does a hearing impaired scream? Jamie kept telling Cara you better not scream uncle which meant that she would have to do it all over. Who would want another 10 minutes of torture? Next it's on to a Natatorium which Jen correctly thought mean an aquatic gym. Here the detour is, Sync or Swim. Teams have to high dive in sync or swim 400 meters in a pool. Tammi and Victor are thinking the dive has got to be easy right? Wrong! I guess it does sound easy, but not so easy to sync. Kisha and Jen are having breakdowns since Jen doesn't know how to swim. Mom and son team are both experienced swimmers, but can't stand the Olympic style swimsuits that made them look like big eels.
First Kisha and Jen try the swim, hey we get to wear floaties, but then Jen has second thoughts, then they try to dive, but hey, if Tammi and Victor can't sync one dive what makes them think they can? They try to dive several times, and Tammi and Victor after what seemed like 30 dives decide to do the swim. Jamie and Cara are the first to finish and are praying that they will be the first to step on the mat and finally claim one first place finish. I was kinda hoping they would win their first, but Phil's like "Jamie and Cara, you're to first to arrive but you need to keep racing". Ah man! And I was so hoping that Kisha and Jen would be knock out this round. Looks like all teams get part two of this challenge. Right now, it's any body's game. -Single D