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Top Chef is total bullshit.  I’m really tempted to boycott the show.  For real this time.  Andrew getting sent home because he didn’t “follow the rules” is completely f’ed up.  I thought it was beyond unfair when Antonia or Lisa didn’t get sent home when they decided they were above beer and polish sausage and instead made sea bass and chorizo in the improv challenge.  But yet they send Andrew home b/c he didn’t use a whole grain?  Unbelievable.

I just can not stand Lisa.  She is a self-righteous whiny baby who would knock an old lady down the stairs to win.  I mean what a fucking hypocrite!  She wantonly ignores the rules of the challenge and declares “I don’t cook with beer” and then has the audacity to call Andrew out.  And why the hell is Spike still there?  Ok, he can make a squash soup but is that really the makings of a Top Chef.  And you know what? I like Dale.  Sure, he gets far too upset over losing but at least he has talent.  Richard is obviously going to win though.  And he should.  He’s experimental but not as bizarre as Marcel or as annoying  as Hung.

I’m telling you, pull this crap again Top Chef and we’re through!  I mean it this time.

Following the success of SNL Live the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre put on 30 rock Live. I went to try and get tickets but to no avail. Within the first 5 minutes a seemingly nice guy comes out and goes: Sorry, none of you are going to get tickets, there are no standbys. A few people leave…maybe 4 or 5 but the rest of us (for whatever reason) stay in line. 10 minutes or so later a different guy comes out and yells:

YOU ARE STANDING IN A LINE TO NOTHING! THERE ARE NO MORE TICKETS! PLEASE LEAVE!!

Ha! Well, that was all the motivation I needed to head over to Momofuku for some delicious noodles. However, during the time between the Guy #1 and Guy #2 a lady comes over and is interviewing people for CNN. She’s trying to get folks to talk to her and the girl standing next to me volunteers. It went something like this:

CNN Lady: Didn’t you hear the announcement? Why are you still in line? What are you waiting for?
Girl: Well…it’s one of our favorite shows and blah…

Too funny! But hey, I was still waiting in line too so who am I to talk? The only cool thing is that about 2 minutes after I got there Toofer, Josh, and Kenneth walked by me as I was standing in line. Looked like they were heading off to get some pre-show grub. For some reason I imagined Toofer would be taller IRL.

So last Wednesday I saw AvenueQ at the Orpheum. It was hilarious, I’d highly recommend it. Before the play started, I was looking through the program and I saw that a woman named Jennie Kwan was doing was an understudy for Christmas Eve. The name and the face looked familiar but I couldn’t place it. Then I read in her bio “Califorinia Dreams, cast regular”.

I knew it! I’d recognize Sam the exchange student from anywhere. And then, like a long lost dream, it all came flooding back:

Surf dudes with attitudes
Kinda groovy
Laid back mood
Sky above and below
Good vibrations
Feeling mellow
Can’t give it up
Don’t waaaaaana stoooooop

Come on now…sing along if you know it!

California Dreams
Don’t wake me up if I’m dreaming
(California Dreams)
Just let me lie here in the sun
Until my day is doooooooooone

That’s right. Don’t pretend like I’m the only one who watched this unoriginal, less interesting SBTB rip-off.

Sigh. Will Saturday mornings ever be the same?