(Yes, I’m recapping America’s Most Smartest Model. Every Sunday’s episode goes up Tuesday morning. This week was an exception.) The clanging pipe-bells of we’ve-gotten-serious here chime over the opening credits as Producer Cris Abrego wants us to know that the end is nigh for someone, even though it’s the first crack of morning after the [...]
I got called very early this morning to a job interview, where I sat, drugged-up and caffeinated, for three hours and watched people come and go. (If I wasn’t so in need of work, I’d have left a lot earlier than that. Grub first, then dignity.) Also, I’m coming down with something. I started the [...]
For those of us who have no money to spend, the concept of Buy Nothing Day is a simple one to uphold. (Note to all who are close to me: the Wii you waanted? It’s not haappening, at least from mii. Sorrii.) Certainly it’s a lot easier than Black Friday, which to me is little [...]
What last night may have been missing in numbers, it made up for in volume. Having done this over two Thanksgivings now, it’s clear that there are a whole new group or two of people who seem to come in just for the one week and get a little crazy. It’s nice. There were a [...]
(Yes, I’m recapping America’s Most Smartest Model. Every Sunday’s episode goes up Tuesday morning.) The normal montage of post-purge festivities among the survivors seems to have been cut this week. Mary Alice’s little scared-straight exercise at the end of last night’s episode seems to have stuck with everyone for the moment. (Ooh, look! Butterfly!) Episode [...]
I’m not terribly sure why, but my escape of late has been in game shows featuring physical competition. I guess the thin end of the wedge was MxC, but it’s mushroomed out in all kinds of directions. (Certainly the whole Smartest Model business covers the pretty end of this spectrum. I can’t really explain it, [...]
