OMG...how could I forget?
Project Runway: Two words: Sheer Genius. *Spoiler Alert!* ALL FOUR DESIGNERS are going to Fashion Week! Even though I kinda knew what was coming up (having painstakingly perused their slower-than molasses website and looked at the picture gallery), it was still great to see how this episode unfolded. They are all disparate designers and personalities, yet you can tell that they're a closeknit group. And when Tim Gunn confessed he had been on pins and needles the entire day, dreading having to send the unlucky 4th designer home, I almost cried.
Everyone struggled with trying to wow the judges, represent their design ethic AND do it with absolutely no parameters, no guidelines. Harder than you think. Here's Tim's blog:
The designers are instructed to choose three words that describe who they are as designers. Their outfit must convey these words. They are also asked to think narratively; that is, to communicate a story. In addition, this design should provide a window on their collection for Olympus Fashion Week -- a tall order, indeed. Later, they learn that the winner of this challenge will have their design photographed by Giles Bensimon and featured in First Look. Thrilling!
I have to give Uli props�she got stuck doing the same old-same old, the ulitmate no-no (we're talking wild prints, flow-y fabrics, very Miami). But she tore EVERYTHING down to zilch and started over with only 5 hours to execute. Talk about pressure!
Can someone PUHleeze tell Laura that we really don't need or want to see concave chests�neither hers nor her model's�exposed on national television? Its hard to imagine anyone more concave than I but she keeps highlighting it each and every week. No mas, por favor! Looks like others feel the same way; from the Comments section of Tim's blog, Miss-Metalmouth:
First off, I really think Laura should have gone, simply because the dress she made looks exactly like that one white, sparkly, plunging neckline dress she has that frightens me to no end with the prospect of a boob-shot. It's tailored well, yeah, it's pretty, yeah... blahblahblah. But it looks exactly like Laura's own dress. I think its pretty shocking that the judges didn't notice that...
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! I thought the exact same thing about the white dress�oh pleasegawd, don't let the cameras catch Laura bending over...I think America would demand the return of Janet Jackson's nipple shield if that happened. 
Can someone at Bravo TV please-please-please buy a faster server? Banana slugs zip in comparison. I think you guys can afford it...and gawdknows hard disks cost next to nothing now. You're making me CRAZY!
In spite of these quibbles, Project Runway is truly The Best. 
BTW, starting anew on the Reduce Television Watching program. Thankgawd PR is ending soon. Don't really have to see the myriad of CSIs, Law&Orders, etc., etc. Not really. That leaves What Not to Wear. GlamGirl apparently nominated me as a fashion victim but I don't think she made it dire enough. Don't hold back�tell it like it is! I WANT the $5000 shopping spree and to be publically skewered by Stacy and Clinton...this would be an absolute dream come true! Seriously!
Announcing a New Feature!
After due consideration (and considering she will never get off her keister and have her own Xanga), I have decided to introduce Ms_Lellis as the Cyber Bacon Goddess. Well, perhaps we should have a contest to come up with a different monniker (this one was hers, not mine). I was going to attempt a French translation but given that she's concerned the title might make her butt sound big, the term "lardon" was not appropriate. Will ponder. In the meantime, I'm going to be strewing (strowing...strawing...why do words look odder and odder the more you stare at them?) the pearls of widsom gleaned from Her Majesty, the Kitchen Queen. 
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These are the best things since frozen bacon! You can effortlessly squish the crap outta the citrus half of your choice�and oh so cleverly color-coded for the Kitchen Moron (which is moi-self). And thanks to patticass, I have been introduced to the sublimeness of Key limes (no pun like Key Sublimeness intended�really)....those little suckers pack a punch o' flavor!
And yes, in case you're wondering, I AM avoiding the accounting which I didn't finish this weekend. Well, off to the salt mines... 
Can someone PUHleeze tell Laura that we really don't need or want to see concave chests�neither hers nor her model's�exposed on national television? Its hard to imagine anyone more concave than I but she keeps highlighting it each and every week. No mas, por favor! Looks like others feel the same way; from the Comments section of Tim's blog, Miss-Metalmouth:First off, I really think Laura should have gone, simply because the dress she made looks exactly like that one white, sparkly, plunging neckline dress she has that frightens me to no end with the prospect of a boob-shot. It's tailored well, yeah, it's pretty, yeah... blahblahblah. But it looks exactly like Laura's own dress. I think its pretty shocking that the judges didn't notice that...
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! I thought the exact same thing about the white dress�oh pleasegawd, don't let the cameras catch Laura bending over...I think America would demand the return of Janet Jackson's nipple shield if that happened.
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Is there really such a thing as FROZEN BACON??? Please say it is so, it would make my life so much easier! Props on PR -- I want Michael to win, but after I saw a sample of his line in EW, I decided that he should not win based on the sole fact that he thought putting an Afrian American in gold lame hotpants would ever be a good idea. He's smoking something!
Yes, Ms_Lellis proved (in an older post) that cooking an entire package o' bacon is not only practical but highly recommended. Cooked bacon freezes perfectly so whenever you have a hankering for fried pork, you pull out a couple of slices from the baggie in the freezer and by the time they 1) enter your mouth or 2) get firmly esconced into a BLT, they'll be defrosted and delecto. Sublime!
Oh oh oh...I was at William Sonoma tonight and saw the juice squeeze thing, you can now get the lemon and lime squeezer in ONE. Handy, eh?
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