Top Chef - Block party

The quick fire challenge was to reinvent the taco. There was everything from Chorizo tacos to squash tacos. The top 3 faves were the duck tacos, jicama tacos and pomegranite tacos. Richard wins with his jicama tacos and they will be featured on the menu at Chef Rick Bayless' restaurant Topolobanpo (don't ask me how to say it).

For the main challenge, everyone splits into two teams to cook for a block party. I love Chicago and it was fun watching the teams drive through the city to their destination while I said I've been there or I've seen that. OK back to the show. The teams find out to get their ingredients, they have to go door to door in the neighborhood where they will be cooking for the block party. How would you react to a bunch of people in white coats asking to look in your fridge? One woman had a pantry so big that Spike wondered if she was stocking up in case of war.

Both teams get good supplies and start on their menus. One of the girls (I'm still learning the names so I can't remember who) gets stuck making pasta salad and is complaining about it saying it won't win Top Chef. I say make the best darn pasta salad you ever made! At least you won't lose.

The block party looked like fun with pinatas, dunk tanks and games, plus food. What more could you want? Ribs, sliders, corndogs, mac & cheese (are you hungry yet?) about the only things you wouldn't normally see at a block party was the paella and chicken waldorf salad. One team did smores on a stick, marshmellows heated and rolled in graham cracker crumbs then chocolate shavings, pretty clever!

Spike thinks his red team did so well that they chilled out by drinking beer and playing some of the games with the kids and sitting on the dunk tank. The blue team sees this and thinks they are sunk since the red team is so relaxed.

The judges had a hard time since both teams had problems with their food. The smores on a stick didn't stick real well with the judges and the mac & cheese turned into a brick. The paella was not so much paella as it was rice pilaf and Erik had the sog factor going on with his corndogs. The pasta salad was terrible and the waldorf salad apparently wasn't very appetizing either. With the judges ripping on the food, I wondered if the party goers left hungry and went to McDonalds. They all seemed pretty happy with the food, maybe they are used to hard mac & cheese and soggy corndogs.

Trying to save themselves, an obviously tipsy Andrew stands up to the judges saying he isn't going home and Spike starts trash talking the blue team by saying his team was the hit of the block party and nobody liked the blue team. Well the judges liked the blue team and declared them the winner with Stephanie's "sexy drink" and dessert and Erik has to pack his knives because of his soggy corndogs. Let's hope the talent starts to show next week. Double D

Survivor-Fans vs Favorites-Goodbye Ami

Gee, it seems like it's been a long time since Survivor has been on, preempted by basketball, what no figure skating? We find the tribe returning from their tribal council and Ozzy is getting worried that he is a target. Yeah Oz, wake up. Airai tribe is desperate to eat something other than coconuts and Jason manages to catch a rat. Yikes, that's desperation. They string up the poor rat like a pig for slaughter. Parvati looks at the rat and is turned off by the rat's mile long tail. And who could blame her, that tail was just too gross, it looked like a long piece of rubber. Ew! It isn't enough that they don't have enough to eat, but James wishes he was back at the other beach as this camp is, he says, just terrible, it's just for the criminals. The Airai camp has just a short rough surf beach area and definitely doesn't look like a post card for the blue lagoon. Both tribes get tree mail which states that they need to pick one person from the other tribe to sit out the reward/immunity challenge and who will also have immunity should their tribe lose. Of course we knew they would pick Jungle boy wonder, Ozzy to sit out, but Airai choose Alexis? That might and does come back to bite them. The challenge was about balance and coordination as the survivors ran a gauntlet of beams, rolling drums and rope ladders to retrieve flags. Erik, trying to an Oz-like stunt, would take giant leaps to the platform and one time towards the end when all his energy was spent he missed and hit his chest on the boards, ouch that's gotta hurt! Malakai would have been better off, choosing Jason to go to exile island than Alexis, because Jason won it for the other tribe.

Back on exile island, Ozzy is curious to see if someone found his fake idol and lo and behold, he finds someone did. Should be amusing when Jason if and when he is forced to play it.

The reward for Airai, pizza and beer, for Malakai, a scrambling for Erik to save himself from being voted off. He goes to Cirie (gee she's still there?) and Amanda and tries to tell them that Ami was quick to turn on them, but it was funny how Ami comes back to camp and overhears Erik telling them about her. She tells Amanda and Cirie that she wants to be a part of them, so they make a pack, give each other a big girl hug and Ami feels for once like she belongs. When Ozzy comes back, Eric runs to him like a lost puppy to tell him what the girls are conspiring. When Oz hears that Ami tried to get him out, he convinces Amanda and Cirie to vote out Ami. At tribal council, no amount of tears could save Ami from elimination. In the end, Ozzy's hold over the girls was still steadfast and Ami departed with grace and good wishes. Looks like next week the tribes finally merge which should prove fun and interesting.-Single D

When we join our survivors, Ami and Cirie are out crab hunting. Cirie was so nice to let Ami do all the work and work she did. You would have thought that crab had done something to her and her family the way Ami was whacking away at it. At least the tribe had a good meal that night. Back at camp Airai, James is down on the camp saying it is the place they send the criminals. It does look pretty dismal, no wonder those people have low moral, even Parvati looks like she is getting a mustache.

Ozzy & Alexis are sent packing to Exile island. Alexis didn't seem very sorry to be spending alone time with Oz the great and they had matching shorts. Ozzy finds out that someone found the fake idol and can't wait for them to play it. No pictures of Exile island so you get a picture of Jeff cutie instead.

The rest of the survivors go on to the reward challenge which was an obstacle course with heavy bags being thrown at one as they go across the course. No one could hit anything with those bags and most everyone didn't have much trouble with the course, not very graceful but whatever works. Erik takes a nasty fall and catches a platform in the chest. I saw it on the preview and it looked so painful that everytime he tried to jump to the platform I had to close my eyes so I wouldn't see it again.

Airai wins a pizza and beer party so I guess they can save the rat for another time. Good thing they won, Eliza and Jason need some food, they both look like walking skeletons. He man James opens everyone's beer with his teeth. Doesn't he know that 9 out of 10 dentists do not recommend that?

Erik, trying to save his skin, tells Cirie & Amanda all about Ami's exploits in hopes they will turn on her. Ami returns to hear and pleads her case, "I don't feel I'm part of anything", "no one includes me", I get picked last for kickball, wah, wah, wah! Suck it up you little schemer it's coming back to bite you! She leaves thinking she has a deal with the girls. Ami walks up to Erik with the machete on her shoulder saying I owe you and thank you. If I was Erik, I think I would ask her to step away from the machete and then we'll talk.

At tribal, Ami starts in with the crocodile tears when she thinks Ozzy is talking about her. She pretty much grovels to stay in the game but no one trusts her anymore and out she went. Double D

Ghost Hunters - Cashtown Inn

Cashtown Inn, Cashtown, PA near Gettysburg. There is a lot of history here from the civil war. The basement was used as a makeshift hospital where a lot of amputations took place. Scenes of actual operations are seen here, like watching a movie. That's a new one on me. In the guest rooms, people get their feet tugged, furniture moves and sounds of people running in the hallway are frequent complaints by guests.

Jason and Grant start off in the upstairs suite with Grant sitting in a chair and Jason sitting on the sofa across from him. They hear footsteps coming from the bedroom coming closer to them and Jason says he feels someone sit down next to him on the sofa so much so that the sofa cushion depresses. That gives me chills!

Tango and Chris, in another guest room, run into the TV that turns itself on and off. Turns out the walkie talkies are on the same frequency as the TV and everytime they use the walkie talkie, the TV turns on or off. Ok, one thing debunked.

Tango and Chris head for the basement where Chris begins to feel sick and has to leave. After she recovers, she goes back for a second try and gets sick again. Upon further investigation, the basement has extremely high EMF readings (electromagnetic field) which some people are sensitive. It can cause nausea and paranoia prompting a space like this to be called a "fear cage".

The teams gets to sleep at the inn which lets them keep investigating by setting up cameras in their rooms. Grant is in the room with the moving chair and aims his camera at the chair. He is in bed about 2 minutes when he hears something moving or being moved. He gets up but doesn't turn on the light so he can't see what is moving.

During review, the tape in Grant's room catches a picture frame moving on its own. Tango, doing EVP work, asks "do you miss your family" and gets a "yes" response. The footsteps Jason and Grant hear in the suite show up on audio.

The team says there is paranormal activity as well as a residual haunting. It made a believer out of the owner!

UFO Hunters

May & June 2007 - pictures of an unusual flying craft show up on the internet. Someone named Isaac claiming to have worked for a secret government program called CARET, Commericial Applications Research for Extraterrestrial Technology, says he posted the pictures. He claims the government was trying to come up with a use for the extraterrestrial artifacts they had in their possession. Great, let's build something out of something else that may have crashed and see if it works! Sounds like the government might have a space chop shop somewhere. Anyway, the team talks to an engineer who worked at NASA during the Gemini flights. The astronaughts of the time reported seeing UFOs but never filed reports. Apparently doing so would make them seem less than sane. The engineer spilled a lot of information except for who has the technology and what it is being used for. Just the stuff we want to know! He did make comparisons to the Roswell crash and the sudden advancement in the technology of aircraft. In 1964 the SR71 was unvieled. Some thought the design was linked to the engineers' seeing a UFO. He made sketches and took detailed notes of what he saw and his aircraft looked similar to those sketches. Other aircraft have had questionable origins. The B2 Stealth bomber and F117 Stealth fighters with their lack of radar detection have also raised eyebrows. A lot of people claim the craft that crashed in Roswell was a flying "cresent", not a saucer. Mmmmm. Another crash in Kecksburg, PA in 1965 suggests the military retrieved an intact craft (UFO), told the public it was a meteor and used the craft to create a flying drone using parts from the downed craft. There's that chop shop in action again. This episode was very interesting and raised more questions than it answered. Is the government making aircraft based on captured UFOs? Could be..........Double D

Hell's Kitchen-Premiere

I love Hell's Kitchen, why? Being a restaurant owner once, I love the challenge of the kitchen, I love food and I love, love, love Gordon Ramsey. He's such an adorable Sharpei with a mean bite. 15 aspiring chefs gather in the bus to take them to Hell's Kitchen. Little do they know, Ramsey is also on the bus but in disguise and what a disguise. Long scraggly hair and a big nose. On the bus, Ramsey gets a up close look at the would be chefs. Bobby, a tall handsome black guy names himself as the black Gordon Ramsey. There is one guy, Craig who boards the bus with a 10 gallon chef hat. You mean to tell me he wore that thing on his trip, in public? He is apparently suffering from little man complex and as Ramsey says to him later, are you suffering little boy syndrome down there?

Once at Hell's Kitchen, Gordon removes his disguise much to the chagrin of the contestants. Then it's off to cook their signature dishes. The one crazy dish that stood out was the Cornish game hen in a cooked pumpkin. What is this, Halloween? Why would you want to put a game hen in a pumpkin in the first place? Ramsey's reaction was, I would have been happier with a candle stuck in it. Jen, a garde manger, said she could carve Ramsey's face in a watermelon, yeah but what about cooking? The scallop dish made by Vanessa was the one that Ramsey gave a thumbs up to. Ramsey informs them that the prize of Hell's Kitchen is the executive chef position of Ramsey's new LA eatery, called LondonLA. Once again the teams are split men vs women. Immediately the girls chose Vanessa as team captain and Bobby chooses himself as captain of the guys team. Bobby needs to be taken down a few saute pans. The guys go to bed and the girls stay up to study the menu which pays off the next day when Ramsey ask them what are the five entrees on the menu? On the guys side, sound of crickets, while the girls recite and could probably make the entrees blindfolded, well maybe. Go girls! The first dinner service is as expected, a disaster. Bobby and Vanessa have no leadership skills in the kitchen, while Jason is outside picking his feet and smoking. Finally frustrated, Ramsey chooses Jen and Louross to take over, does Louross pluck his eyebrows? The girls manage to get out appetizers but not before the crowd begins to leave, but are declared the winners. The losing team with Louross as team captain, has to nominate two for the hot seat. Louross nominates Dominic and Bobby to be fired. I think Ramsey's rationale for firing Dominic, the stay at home dad, is because he has no professional experience cooking and ultimately, Dominic knew that. So long Dominic, it's back home to cook for your kids and family. And Bobby, close call, get your act together, because a firing would do you good. -Single D

Big Brother-Until Death Do Us Part-Foiled Again!

This episode has Sheila whispering to James in the sauna. First of all, why is Sheila in the hot sauna with her clothes on (how do I know it was hot, because James was sweating)? And second why is she giving James words of encouragement? She's telling James, you can do it, you're strong, blab, blab, blab. I'm like, Sheila are you crazy? She's like the twenty personalities of Sybil. James feels so much better after that conversation, maybe it was the sauna? He goes to take a nap, when next we see Sheila, talking to everyone else in the house, saying that no good rat, James, needs to leave. Sheila is talking so loud, Natalie says keep it down or James will hear you. She's says she doesn't care. Well, this leads to James hearing everything, of course. He comes out and goes off on Sheila. They have a verbal smack down. I think the most disturbing thing with this whole scene was not the verbal backlash, the screaming, the yelling, but James in his black Victoria Secret panties. Yuck! James goes back in the diary room to cry about how alone he is without Chelsia. Two words-boo hoo! Now if only the house can keep James from winning the Veto, everyone, including myself will be happy.

The veto competition involves guessing how much weight is involved with certain items, popcorn, gumballs, blocks, etc. Object of the game is to outwit the other house guest, by either folding or staying with your answer. At first it seemed James was going to fold every time. The definite blunder of the game was when Sheila and Ryan went up against each other. Ryan is really, really stupid. He should have folded when his only other opponent was Sheila and let her win that round, but no, he goes up against her, so one of them is eliminated. So of course you know where this is leading, yes, I had to throw myself on the floor in fits of frustration! I pounded my feet and fist and screamed No, No, NO, why, why, why?!!! James, the veto king won the veto again! I know my friend Jeff was so happy when that happened, he's a James supporter. Well I guess there has to be one person in America rooting for him!

A dreaded fear creeps over the house, as James is jumping for joy and Joshuah plummets to despair. Gee this sounds like some kind of soap! Sharon is crying in her slop thinking she will be put on the block with Joshuah. She runs in the bathroom with Sheila in tow. Sheila goes in to comfort her. "Sharon, Joshuah will be your best friend forever, he loves you, blah, blah, blah," while Joshuah is already plotting against Sharon. Are we women so dumb, well, I know Sheila is dumb. They say Natalie is the dumb one, but it's Sheila that doesn't have a clue. She has the word "Gullible" tattooed on her forehead. She believes everything people tell her. Even when James used the veto and took himself off the block and gave Sheila, some harsh words, she thought he was giving words of encouragement to her. Hello? Anyone in there?

Joshuah decides to play up the sympathy card and is crying in his pizza. Hey, I thought the house had to eat slop? And the Academy Award goes to Joshuah for Crocodile Tears. Adam, I hope you are not buying into this! Ryan is still trying to protect Joshuah, which makes me scream at the TV, you turd! I hate all the scheming and planning before the eviction. It makes me so nervous. But, at least Natalie has come to her senses and tells Sharon that Joshuah wants her evicted, so the girls form an alliance to get rid of Joshuah. Finally, one plan comes through and Joshuah is evicted. What's up will all the departing speeches? Joshuah gives his holier than thou speech and walks out, take that, beeaches! Hey Joshuah, your mother was cringing at all your bad behavior, so don't give me that holier than thou attitude!

The HOH competition was a numbers challenge, which I thought great, the one person into numbers, Natalie can't play. Thankfully, the odds were against James to win and Adam came through for the other side. Better Adam than James or Sharon, but I'm thinking he might be a loose cannon and who knows anything could happen.-Single D

American Idol-Dolly Parton Songs

I thought I was a big Dolly Parton fan, however, I didn't recognize any of those songs except that "Bodyguard" song by Whitney Houston. I thought Brooke singing Jolene was the perfect choice, but David Cook singing some song about a little sparrow was weird, I just didn't get it. David must have had a makeover, because he looked really good, even Paula said his haircut looked great, then again, it is Paula, she's always swayed by the male species. Jason looked like he should be singing in some subway station for tips. Oh Paula, have another vodka gimlet. Simon's comments on Jason were right on. David Archuleta had the come back song of the evening, don't know what it was, all I know it was amazing. Even Dolly Parton said that he will be a great star which she didn't say about anyone else. She knows talent! I knew Seyesha should not have chosen the most famous Whitney song of all, but she did try to do it her own way. I still think she has an amazing voice and will someday be a great talent along with Carly. Simon was right about who does the dressing for Carly Smithson. She looked awful. The thing about her is that she has those tattoos on her right shoulder arm area which is really distracting from her entire appearance. She constantly wears sleeveless tops which just emphasizes the tattoo. So when she wears something down right plain and awful it is 10 times more plain and awful when dressed up with those tattoos. Sorry, all you tattoo lovers! Maybe she'll get the hint next week, wear sleeves!-Single D

The Bachelor-London Calling All Bimbos

I just can't help it, the women on this show are either bowsers or bimbos. I wish I could say that he is weeding out the bowsers and bimbos, but it's seems that's all there is. This weeks episode featured two single dates and one group date. Holly and Shayne were picked for the single dates and the pack got the group date of playing Rugby. Oh help, the last thing I would want to do is sweat in front of a would be boyfriend. Holly, the children's book writer, ok, she's cute and has a real job, got the movie date with Matt. I'm so stupid, maybe even borderline bimbo mentally, I really thought it was the actual premiere of the "Made of Honor", until they went into the theater and there was no one there except them. What a fabulous date and apparently a perfect evening for Holly and Matt. She's cute but is she Matt material? I'm curious as to why every date ends up in a hot tub. Is the location scout's only criteria a hot tub? Do they tell them to bring your swimsuit because you're getting wet? Holly managed to profess her love to Matt and was given a rose.

The group date was to play Rugby. Why is it that every guy says he digs it when a girl is all tough and sporty? Like I tell my friends at work, the only sport I ever watch must have the participants wearing sequins and have ice skates attached to their feet. Yes, I'm a figure skating junkie. I was so in heaven when all that Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding stuff was going on. So much real life drama, I didn't even have to watch reality TV then! But I digress. What was up with Marshana? Oh I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding. Ok so she bit her lip, what a ploy to cling to Matt! After the game of Rugby, the girls were treated to massage, where Kelly displayed her massaging talents. Is that women drunk or what. She seems like she's always in a state of inebriation. She tried her hardest to get that rose, but Matt gave it to Robyn. What does Matt see in Robyn? She reminds me of some plain Jane Austen character waiting for her Mr. Darcy. There is always one woman that is hated in the house and Robyn is this season's choice. I can't stand her pushiness and weaseling her way into other girl's time. Will someone just slap her! woof, woof!

Shayne gets ready for her date as she wishes out loud that she could get a tan before her big evening. Much to her surprise, Holly tells her that she brought her spray tan. Now, I'm thinking spray tan in a bottle, not! She really meant a tan spray machine! How do you travel with one of those things? That's devotion.

Matt takes Shayne to a winery at Ojai. Hey, I used to live there! It's a sleepy bedroom community in the hills east of Ventura about 60 miles north of LA. It's beautiful there, very quite and serene, gee why did I ever leave there? Matt tells Shayne that he wants to know about her family, to which she says that you probably never heard of my father, Lorenzo Llamas, but he's really well known in the U.S. I'm thinking yeah, about 40 years ago, until, Terri, my BFF in New Jersey corrected me and said that I was thinking about her grandfather, Fernando Llamas, dud!....... I'd like to give a shout out to my BFF Terri, hey girl!

Matt seems hesitant with Shayne until they kiss and all is well with the world. Of course he's going to keep Shayne, as he said, she's your typical LA sex kitten. I'm wondering why did she leave on those boots when they were lounging on the blanket in front of the fireplace (no hot tub here)? So far, I'm rooting for Shayne. Any girl who admits she's high maintenance, loves cars, shoes, handbags, sunglasses, and watches is ok in my book!

The evening of the elimination, Robyn is on the prowl to keep the women away from Matt and Amanda gets nervous and starts hiccuping. Did I tell you my father has had the hiccups for 4 years now? Amanda's hiccups sounds like she swallowed a chipmunk, is Alvin in there?

Matt sends Amy, Kristine and the hot dog vendor, Erin home, humm..... hot dog vendor, I didn't know that was a real job?-Single D

For Holly's one on one date, they go to a movie premiere, I too thought it was a real premiere and thought how cool is this? Then they went into an empty theater and it's like OK I get it now. Well at least they got their hands in cement, what a keepsake! Holly is cute, maybe not so smart as she is dragging her suitcase down the stairs backwards and can't figure out why it isn't rolling. But, hey that seems to be what most of these bachelors want.

Rugby time! The girls catch on pretty quick how to play the game much to Matt's pleasure. Does he want soft and cuddly or hard and dirty? Maybe soft and dirty. I think he just liked watching girls in short shorts tackling each other, another guy thing. After the match, they go back to Matt's house and are treated to massages and, you guessed it, a hot tub. Kelly, who I think looks like a crack head, was trying to get down and dirty while massaging Matt. If he had rolled over he would gotten an eye (as well as a lap) full. Robyn gets a little alone time with Matt and says she doesn't want to do anything stupid but will do whatever it takes to stay in the game and get to know him better. Matt gives a rose to Robyn saying she had the best moves on the Rugby field. Chelsea thought she was the best player and Kelly thought she should have received the rose for her moves in the massage room

I thought Holly was being pretty gracious to spray tan Shayne for her date with Matt. Most girls would have put blue dye or something in the spray thing but not Holly and the two had a bonding moment. Shayne goes on her date with Matt to a winery, how fun! Shayne tells Matt she has never done a wine tasting before. I find that very hard to believe, something tells me she has tasted quite a bit of wine, or something. Shayne admits to Matt that she is falling for him and would live in a shoebox if that's what it would take to be with him. Something tells me that wouldn't last too long.

Amy, Erin and Kristine are sent home. Kristine says she usually sits back and waits for the man to say he is interested in her before she opens up. Hey, this is a competition girl speed dating at it's finest, you can't wait for him darlin' you have jump in with both feet and come out swimming! Just ask Robyn. It does still amaze me, the women who profess their love for a man they have known for about 10 minutes. One of my girlfriends married her husband after knowing him for 6 days but that was 6 days of quality one on one dates, still a little short for me but it's working for them. Double D

Big Brother-Until Death Do Us Part-Smashing Melons

I was so happy when loveable Natalie won the HOH, now all she has to do to seal the deal is put James and Joshuah on the block for eviction. Natalie is big on numbers but she has forgotten which number it is. Last episode it was the number 8, this time she's thinking the number 7. Seventh week (no it's week eight, Nat), seven this and seven that. Which is it Natalie, 8 or 7? When Natalie read the letter from home, I don't care how much the house says that Natalie is dumb or stupid, there wasn't a dry eye in the HOH room. The pictures of Natalie were amusing, "oh here I am when I won a bikini contest, here I am hugging a tree (she's from Oregon), here I am this and here I am that". James was particularly annoying this episode, especially wearing that little red riding bathrobe. The guy has such bad taste in clothing! James tries to make a deal with Natalie not be put up this week. Natalie agrees to the final two. What? Natalie if you make a deal with him, it will be like making a pact with the devil!

The food challenge was a tame psychological guessing of what the housemates would choose, eat slop or food. Everyone over psychoanalyzed the whole thing. Houseguest had to put their token in a watermelon, then smash the watermelon to retrieve the token. Of course each houseguest chose slop except for Adam, good choice because only he and Natalie will be eating real food this week.

James has a melt down and gets up in the middle of the night to play solitary pool and cry in the hammock. Go ahead James have a good cry, where's that big tough righteous self? Not so big and bad in your red riding hood? You just need to leave because I hate your taste in clothes!

I thought for sure maybe Natalie would try to backdoor James as Ryan suggested, but thinking of all the different possible outcomes, that would be risky at best. Thankfully, Natalie put up James and the block virgin, Joshuah up for eviction this week. Hopefully, James, the Veto King, will not win the veto again!-Single D

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