In April, I was complaining about some TV shows, and turns out one of my wishes came true! I'd forgotten that I had predicted stupid Marissa Cooper's death on The OC...

"Every time Marissa and Ryan flip open their phones, stare at the screens and heave a great sigh of anguish, I want to seriously throw something through the TV. I want to see Marissa's phone get crushed by a car, and then I want to see her crushed right after it."

Well, it sort of came true. She was crushed IN a car, not exactly BY a car, but it's practically the same.

play dress-up using Jay McCarroll's awesome Project Runway outfits

Project Runway Season 3 is starting in JULY! Not December! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

p.s. if anyone wants a free month trial of Netflix, let me know...

Oooh, it's a meaningless post about what I'm watching on TV. But in the past several weeks or so, I've had some pretty strong reactions to what amounts to a whole lot of fiction-that-doesn't-really-matter-and-yet-it-does-because-I-waste-time-watching-it. My criticisms of late: how stupid are these TV characters?

Example #1: Rory on Gilmore Girls
This apparently "smart" girl is incredibly dumb. Way to go getting back (for the second time) with your douchebag of a boyfriend -- after he admitted to sleeping with not one, but MULTIPLE girls while they were "on a break" (gotta love how Ross and Rachel eternalized that phrase). Never mind that he's some yuppy kid with a haircut circa boy band 2000, but he's also a dick (specifically, "the blond dick at Yale." Haha, I love Jess). Wouldn't Rory have freaking learned at this point to stop letting her boyfriend act like an ass? And speaking of that, how long did it take her to forget the wake-up call from her formerly dicky boyfriend Jess? What a breath of fresh [and highly attractive] air he was, cluing her in to how dumb she was being. Yet once he leaves and she is no longer entranced by his hotness and pearls of wisdom, she goes right back to the current dickface. Ugh, I officially can't stand Rory after Tuesday's episode: "Oooh, I'm going to be a total bitch to my boyfriend instead of addressing our issues like a mature person might, then I'll go visit my super hot ex-boyfriend in another state and pretend I'm single again so I can get revenge on my current boyfriend, but wait, I actually love my current boyfriend? And I'm using my old boyfriend, who is no longer a dickface and who obviously wants me and thinks I want him too, to get back at the other one? But I'm going to change my mind and piss all over his feelings too because that's what I do best! Isn't that sort of bitchy of me??? This is all so hard! When did I turn into a total brat????" Come OOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN. What happened to the cute, likable Rory? I'm watching older seasons on DVD now because I missed a lot of it, and it struck me that back then, she was so cute and interesting. Oh, and Luke is being an ass for keeping an entire part of his life -- his newly discovered kid -- separate from Lorelai, who is in turn being stupid for letting him do it. Seriously, the only voice of reason on this show seems to be Mrs. Kim.

Example #2: Just about everyone on The O.C.
I am so annoyed over how this show has progressed in the past year ("progressed" actually implies growth and development, so it is not the best word here). I have so little respect for most of these characters. Seth keeps lying to Summer, despite his 235 apologies and promises in the past to never lie to her again. And he does it only because he is selfish. Period. Even though I want them to be together, I don't think he deserves her. He needs to grow the hell up. And Ryan is not so far behind. He wastes so much of his life dating the piece of crap that is Marissa, and then when he finally comes to his senses and finds a girl who actually makes him happy, what does he do? He breaks up with her. Why? Umm, just because he's going to college in the fall and she isn't. And it's amazing how in the course of one episode, they go from making plans to live together to breaking up. Marissa is just Marissa -- always an idiot, always annoying, self-absorbed and a ruiner of lives. Just go away already. She is the leading culprit in my biggest pet peeve on The OC: highly dramatic one-sided cell phone calls. I HATE the overuse of this stupid cell phone thing. Every time Marissa and Ryan flip open their phones, stare at the screens and heave a great sigh of anguish, I want to seriously throw something through the TV. I want to see Marissa's phone get crushed by a car, and then I want to see her crushed right after it. And my favorite person on the show, Sandy Cohen, is being all weird and doing shady things at work. At least I think he is; his plotlines are so freaking boring that I've stopped paying attention.

Example #3: News executives at NBC and CBS
Granted, these are not fiction folks (well... we'll let that slide for now). But they still annoy me. I'm sorry but I am not a Katie Couric fan. At least not when it comes to anchoring the evening news. I think she's fine for The Today Show, but for an actual serious news program? It's just another step in the direction of getting "stars" to anchor the news instead of actual "reporters." The Today Show is full of fluff and is a completely separate entity from a nightly news show. However, it has at least a smidgen of news value, unlike The View, where Katie Couric's replacement is coming from. Meredith Vierra???? Not only of The View [of hell] but also of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?? How insulted do the other reporters from The Today Show (and a whole bunch of other shows) feel at being beaten by her? What could be next? A new reality show, "America's Next Top News Personality"? This is all going downhill fast.


conclusion: I miss Project Runway. And at least there's still Lost, Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy.

If you use iTunes...

do yourself a favor (quick, before it goes away) and get the current FREE download "Hide Away" by Rock Kills Kid. I think it's really freaking awesome, plus it's freaking free, so why not? (free downloads are at the bottom left corner on the Music Store homepage). I love it when free downloads are so addictive.

I think I'm feeling the need to unload a little rant about some TV characters that are really bothering me these days. Yes, because I am that invested in stupid TV shows. Venting coming soon...

I don't know about the rest of you, but isn't it really annoying when someone accidentally steals your pen? And you don't realize it until after the fact and then if you go back to retrieve it, it looks like you are stealing their pen. Especially when the original pen thief has PLENTY of unused pens, while I have a much smaller supply.

Even worse is that I know I've been the pen thief before -- but at least it only happens very rarely and I carry the guilt with me (while enjoying the new pen of course).

**on a completely random note, I have officially come across The Most Boring Book Ever Written. It is -- drum roll -- "The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association." This sorry excuse for literature is my current required reading, and I don't think I've ever read such boring words and remembered so little of what I'd just read 10 seconds before. It's simply awful. But at least it gets my vote for Most Boring Book Ever Written.

I think it's sort of funny that The New York Times web site has been revamped... to very weirdly resemble The Onion's site. I wish I had a screenshot of The Onion when it used the same font as the NYT site is using now -- it looked crazy similar. I wonder if that has anything at all to do with why The Onion changed its site font very recently. HMMMMM indeed.

Conan comes to Chicago

I think maybe it could...

a trailer for SNAKES ON A PLANE!

HMMM: Sadly, it was taken off youtube. Assholes. I can describe it for you though: it was indeed Samuel L. Jackson and a whole bunch of snakes on a freaking plane. Campy fun all around! There are some pictures on this site to hold you over