July 2010
June 2010
Here are a few of my favorite comments from last week’s Top Chef live blog on Gawker. (Join us for the next one tonight! The post goes up at 8 pm Eastern, and the show starts at 9.)
jillofalltrades I think Sam Kass just got Padma pregnant again behind that apron.
rodmanstreet Tracey has a crush on Angelo? She must be far sighted.
DahlELama An open-face sandwich is like having sex with only one vaginal wall.
Mo MoDo The gaysian moisturizes. With panda placentas.
AnnieSaBu “Peanut butter and celery crudite.” You have got to be kidding me with that. Ok, these aren’t nachos, they’re “fried corn wafers with cheese confit.”
Old Ocho Those middle school boys are going to google “Padma Lakshmi” and be pleasantly surprised at the image results.
Lizawithazee I, I, I — there is no “I” in school lunch, Kelly.
rodmanstreet Tracey’s going to win because she actually looks like a lunch lady, so she has the edge.
twirlywhirly Oooooh this judging is vicious! They are cannibalizing each other!
carlinemom @twirlywhirly: That’s next week’s quickfire challenge.
son of spam I’m gonna throw you under the bus! No, I’m gonna throw you first!
DahlELama Wow, everyone kind of flew under the bus there.
NoFrillsLabelWhore @DahlELama: “Quick! Everyone under the bus. ” Must be a new TC judge’s table strategy.
Brian Moylan IIIIIIII won!
bread_and_potatoes The IIIIIs have it.
son of spam How come the winner always has to deliver the guillotine invitations?
AnnieSaBu Should have gone with banana milk, Jacks.
DahlELama She’s more Julie than Julia, I guess.
Sex complaint against Gore is detailed, credible. [Story]
The masseuse asked Gore what he wanted. “He grabbed my right hand, shoved it down under the sheet to his pubic hair area, my fingers brushing against his penis,” she recalled, “and said to me, ‘There!’ in a very sharp, loud, angry-sounding tone.” When she pulled back, Gore “angrily raged” and “bellowed” at her.
The accuser said Gore maneuvered her into the bedroom. His iPod docking station was there, he told her, and he wanted her to listen to “Dear Mr. President,” a lachrymose attack on George W. Bush by the singer Pink.
Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her “to just suck it up; otherwise, the world’s going to be destroyed from global warming.”
Pink? That just takes it to an entirely new level of creepy. All that’s missing is the “Did you know I invented the internet?” pick-up line.
The Washington Examiner is an extreme-right-wing rag. The only thing that makes this story “credible” is that this paper hates Al Gore.
Gore has categorically denied that any of that ever happened. And over the four years that have passed since this woman made her initial statement to police, she and her lawyer have cancelled three scheduled interviews with the police, and she’s never pressed any charges. Ever since she sold the story to the National Enquirer (reportedly for $1 million), she has refused to be interviewed by police and has said she doesn’t want the investigation to continue.
I figure Gore would have to have gone temporarily insane — or out of control drunk or whacked out on drugs — for any of this to be true. If he wanted a massage and sex that badly, why wouldn’t he just hire a hooker?
“With the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf this summer, oil has been getting a terrible reputation – but what about oil for your skin? I’m sure you’re working on summer skin care stories, and so I wanted to let you know about the hottest and newest “it” ingredient Ylang Ylang which helps to regulate and treat oily skin that is so prevalent in the warm summer months.”
“Don’t let your skin be this summer’s other oily disaster!”
Pardon My Heart - Neil Young
It’s a Zuma kind of day.
This is a really lovely song.
I just installed Google Analytics on a couple of sites I run. JUST.
YM is officially in love with TV’s (and .tv’s) Justine Bateman all over again.
I don’t know exactly who you guys are (and I know you like it that way), but I like your style and am officially honored and flattered.
I don’t know any of you people, but I just want to say: I think we’re ALL wonderful!
To better express just how I feel … here’s a bunch happy cat pictures. Enjoy!
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I think this is wrong. I’m certain Gaga is hurtling toward an honest-to-goodness fatigue attack that might incapacitate her for a little while. But I don’t see her wallowing in excess the way so many starlets of her age have in the past. I could be wrong of course, the…
Unlike Winehouse, Gaga isn’t just a singer - she plays piano and composes her own songs, and is brilliant at writing catchy pop hooks. She is also a clever creator/manipulator of avant-garde wierdness to both enhance her art and gain commercial attention.
Also, as far as I know, she isn’t an an out of control drinker and drug abuser.
So there’s really no valid parallel here at all … is there?
Following his team’s 1-0 loss to the United States Wednesday at the World Cup and last-place finish in Group C, Algerian soccer player Rafik Saifi slapped a female journalist in the face in the interview zone. The reporter, Asma Halimi of the Alergian newspaper Competition, retaliated by striking Saifi in the mouth.
Holy shit.
That is, based on FIFA rankings, they are. The seeding that the U.S. team got in the round of 16 is amazingly soft … No team the U.S. team could possibly face before the semifinal is ranked higher than they are.
On Saturday, Team USA (FIFA rank: 14) plays Ghana (ranked 32). If they win that, they face either Uruguay (ranked 16) or Korea (ranked 47). If they win htat … they’re in one of the two semifinal matches, playing for a spot in the FINAL GAME.
I mean, I hate to jinx things by being overconfident, but this is really kind of unbelievable. The U.S. team should be able beat any of the three possible teams standing between them and the semifinals with one hand tied behind their backs! (Yes, I know they don’t use their hands. It’s a figure of speech.)
DON’T BLOW THIS, TEAM USA!!
Here are a few of my favorite comments from last week’s Top Chef live blog on Gawker. (Join us for the next one tonight! The post goes up at 8 pm Eastern, and the show starts at 9.)
Jessizca “I may not be the most flashy person out there.”Lynne, I did not get that from you at all.
DahlELama Jacqueline looks oddly Meryl Streep-like. Here’s hoping she’s more Julia and less Julie.
belltolls What kind of hairnet could John possibly wear?
Botswana Meat Commission FC Who let Hippie Lurch into the building?
robina the first Not even ten minutes in and we’ve got a bleeder.
katekate is squared First blood!
Jessizca That’s something you should never put on a dating site profile - good knife skills.
unclevanya Is there gonna be room in the chefs’ suites for everyone and Kenny’s balls?
QueenoftheHarpies “I’m gonna give judges a piece of who I am.” That food’s gonna have the scabies.
paul7777 Maple Mousse Napoleon — wait, no… Hairy Maple Mousse Napoleon!
Brian Moylan I used to live right up the street from that Whole Foods. I once picked up a guy in the frozen foods section there.
Lizawithazee @Brian Moylan: Was he jolly, and green?
sweet_communist “Hit the meat counter.” I feel like this should be a euphemism, spoken by Arnold.
unclevanya @sweet_communist: Wait till you try his dry rub.
Dot Deconstructed borscht is just a beet, right?
robina the first That chicken liver sludge looks like something Mrs. Lovett would serve.
92BuickLeSabre I would never eat that terrine. I’d quit as a judge first and get arrested like that matador.
robina the first Gail and Padma are both rocking the cleavage…
I’m Waitin’ for Dolemite Team Décolletage!
Max Wasserman I’m surprised Padma didn’t follow in Heidi Klum’s footsteps and flash her massive breasts at the gaysian.
Pjsparkles A “chicken sphere”?!
92BuickLeSabre I had spaghetti and meat-spheres for dinner!
Jessizca As a rule, deconstructed food should be served in partitioned plates, the kind you used when you were a kid and nothing could touch.
katekate is squared Well, since I came up with a good nickname, that means Judge Dread is out.
robina the first I can’t think of any phrase more disgusting than “chicken liver mousse.”
sweet_communist @robina the first: How about “grainy chicken liver mousse”?
rina There is waaaay too much sexy happening at that judges table. God help me if Bourdain shows up, too.
ghiagirl “Unlike Cleveland, this did not rock.” Is Toby Young still writing for this show?
son of spam John, please cut your hair and go.
