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Project Runway All Stars Season One – Meet The Judges

Before we go a moment further, I want everyone on the interwebs to know that this header image was The Worst to deal with. So there.

Now that we have that biz out of the way, here comes a cold reality. No Bitchy Orange. No Meana Garzilla. No Heidi. No Tim. But we do have Isaac Mizrahi, doyenne of value priced Target fashion lines, and we do have Joanna Coles, a lovely lady who works at Marie Claire and who was a judge on the last regular season of Project Runway.

We also have Georgina Chapman (who?), a former model, a designer, and oh here it is, wife to Harvey Weinstein. Ring a ding ding. Can’t imagine how she got the job. Continue reading →

I Really Wanted to be Uncle Arthur

I often use the one-liner that “I was raised by a pack of rabid televisions.” It’s either not as funny as I think it is or most people just don’t get it. But in any event the truth is I was raised by the television and before the dawn of Glee. You know there didn’t use to be any role models for an impressionable gay youth, such as myself. I once thought I’d found one in Paul Lynde.

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‘Cake Boss: Next Great Baker’ Contestant Wesley Durden’s Death Revealed to Fans

Many fans of TLC’s competition show The Next Great Baker got a shock last night after contestant Wesley Durden was eliminated from competition. The reason? TLC included an in memoriam note for Durden, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound nearly two months ago.

Durden, a former paratrooper and veteran with two stints in Iraq behind him, was found dead on October 25 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Apparently only one news story, this Worchester Telegram article from December 2, mentioned both Durden’s passing and his part on the show before last night. TLC waited until nearly a month into this season’s competition to acknowledge Durden’s death.

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The Walking Dead Recap: Love in the Time of Zombies

And we’re back! Please be chock full o’zombies, please be chock full o’zombies, please be chock full o’zombies.

We open with Lori and Carl at the chicken coops, where Lori throwing chicken feed at Carl. He seems fully recovered yet unnaturally pale. Carl observes that “everything’s food for something else.” So true, Carl. You are no longer the top of the food chain. The camera cuts to Mrs. Hershel in a dark corner of the chicken coop. She breaks a chicken’s legs and stuffs it into a burlap sack. We then see her bringing a wheelbarrow full of broken-legged chickens to the zombie barn. She dumps them on the ground for a zombie feeding frenzy, and we are all secretly disappointed that it’s only chickens. Continue reading →

Life After Project Runway

Now that Project Runway Season Nine is safely put to bed, let’s take a look back towards last season. The judges decided, for some reason, that Mondo Guerra was not to win Season Eight, even though he was clearly in the lead and favored to win. Let’s catch up with Mondo and see what he’s been up to and answer the question: Is there life after Project Runway? Continue reading →

The Zombies Are Back!

Shhh! Can you hear it? That low growling moan off in the distance? Either the neighbor’s cat is in heat (again), or there’s a second wave of zombies headed right for your living room. Yes, zombies. After a long hiatus, the second season of The Walking Dead premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on AMC. And, since zombiism is a real threat facing modern society, I suggest you watch and learn. Continue reading →

Should You Watch Terra Nova?

Hi! I'm that guy from Avatar! Welcome to Terra Nova!

Fox’s dinosaur time travel family drama premiered this week.

Here’s the basic premise: In the year 2149, Earth is a polluted, overcrowded, dystopian crap-hole. Families are limited to two children. People wear breathing masks. Street urchins watch broken ipads. Everything is dirty. Fortunately, scientists discover a crack in time! What? Yes! A crack in time! And we can ease the burden of the surplus population by letting people go through the crack, to colonize the past. Not just any past, though–it’s the Dinosaur Past! You can become one of the lucky colonists in the Terra Nova settlement by winning a lottery, or by having special skills. Continue reading →