Saturday, October 30, 2010
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear - well attended. One sign says, "I doubt this will change your opinion." Obviously a sane person right there.
Project Runway - Oh Nooooooo!
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| Mondo might not have won, but he's the star of the season |
Season 8 has been kind of awful in terms of a lot of the designs and the unfathomable and inconsistent judging. It's been a winner in terms of psychodrama, however, that's what's really important in reality TV. There has been one break-out star in the season's crop of designers, though. Mondo Guerra showed week after week, challenge after cracked out challenge that he could always make it work, getting stronger every week. He could have won more challenges than he did, but that's not how the show works. After winning a number of challenges in a row they had to start to give the win to whichever other designer came close just to keep it a horse race. Thursday night was the finale. And Mondo didn't win. Surprising? Not really.It was close if you compare the winner's (Gretchen Jones) strongest looks with Mondo's weakest. And reality TV doesn't want Secretariat. It wants suspense and surprises. Meanwhile, check anywhere on the Internets for a series of tubes full of outrage and anger. Project Rungay is this family's favorite source of fashion angst, but it's pretty much everywhere this week.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
No World Series For Us
Image via WikipediaGame One, World Series! Not so fast, Cablevision subscribers. We don't get to see it on TV. It's on Fox and they're in dispute with our Cable company. Now it's not like we have a dog in this hunt. But it's the World Series! It's for every baseball fan, isn't it? Plus, the Giants vs the Rangers seemed like a fun match-up. What's next, News Corp? Has Rupert Murdoch figured out how to steal Christmas from small children yet? Curse you, News Corp, for taking away access to an American institution because of your greed. Well, for that and, of course, also for helping to destroy everything we hold dear. This is just the icing on the shit cake you've been baking for years now.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
First Post
Every blog's got to have a first post. This is the umpteenth first post I've done. I've switched blogs way too much and I do apologize to various blogging friends. I tend to leave without planning to. I never think a hiatus is going to turn into abandonment but every so often a blog just stops fitting. Much like my jeans. I still have most of them, too, always planning on fitting back in. The last blog was my favorite, but it was almost all political. It never started out to but in the Bush Era I went from being interested to being obsessed. It was easier to stay inspired as a member of the opposition. Once we had something to lose, I kind of lost heart for the in-fighting and whatnot. Also, political blogging tends to be newsy, naturally. If you're not posting pretty fresh stuff you're just writing letters to the editor on your blog. The time is probably better spent writing to actual editors. I can't keep up with that anymore. Every few years I find that the productive part of the evening gets shorter. It's getting pretty damned short.
All that said, I really, really like blogging, even if no one is reading. The thing is to keep this one more flexible.
All that said, I really, really like blogging, even if no one is reading. The thing is to keep this one more flexible.
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