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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Clash of the Titans


But let's leave all the talk of ignorant homophobes behind for awhile and discuss something a little more fun: T.V. is back! After weeks and weeks of boring summer t.v., tonight's t.v. schedule features the premieres of three new shows which have definitely captured our attention.
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(a.j. and jason of "project runway")
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The new season of Project Runway starts tonight, and at the exact same time is the premiere of "The Real Housewives of DC". We're definitely not fans of the Bravo Network's "Housewives" series, not that we don't like trash t.v., but there is a limit to even what we can stomach. But we have to admit, after the recent dust-ups between the DC cast member, Michaele Salahi, (the infamous White House "Party Crasher"), and the cast of "The View", we're wondering just how crazy this bitch might actually be. We might even tune into the show at some point to see. During her appearance on "The View" this week, she became verbally combative with Joy and Sherri, but that was nothing compared to the incident which came to light the next day. Evidently, Whoopi tapped her on the arm at some point during the show, and now, Salahi is accusing Whoopi of "hitting" her. And Whoopi didn't take it well, describing on today's show that she had "choice words" for Salahi and her husband after the alleged incident yesterday. Don't you just know the programmers over at Bravo are simply creaming in their pants?
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(whoopi and michaele salahi)
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But as we mentioned, the DC Housewives have to go up directly against the season premiere of Project Runway. It's a t.v. "Clash of the Titans", but we'll have to wait til tomorrow to see who wins this epic battle of the ratings.
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(santino and austin)
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But even with all of the heavy breathing over the Housewives and the Project Runwayer's, there is another show which is premiering tonight which we're actually the most excited about. It hasn't gotten a lot of attention or pre-premiere publicity, but we're betting it's going to be a whole hell of a lot of fun. We're talking about the new Lifetime show, "On the Road with Austin and Santino". Austin and Santino are former Project Runway contestants, and we absolutely love them both. They're complete opposites, Austin is quiet and classicly effeminate while Santino is loud, boistrous and funny as hell. But they're both loaded with real talent, and the show takes them on the road across America to design clothing for odd and quirky people they meet along the way. Tonight they design an outfit for Sadie Lynn, a cowgirl trick rider. Oh. My. God. We can't wait.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Happy Birthday Mr. President

Today is Pres. Barack Obama's 49th birthday, a day on which the ratings for his appearance on last week's "The View" were announced. His third visit to the daytime talk show, his first as a sitting President, garnered 6.6 million viewers, the highest ratings for the show since its premiere in 1997. Of course, the elephant in the room was whether or not rabid and dimwitted Republican, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, would ask the President a tough question. She didn't. Instead, she lobbed him a softball, but later, when Obama was mentioning the fact that he'd like to see more high school students attend college, those crazy, right-winger voices in Hasselbeck's head started taking over, and she couldn't resist, loudly interrupting the President's remarks to bark, "But will those students have jobs when they get out of college?!". (That was Fox News talking point which accuses the President of not "creating jobs". Someone must have forgotten to mention to Hasselbeck that the Republicans voted against a jobs bill last week.) The President calmly continued his remarks, largely ignoring the Sarah Palin-like bimbo. It was a brief moment but very telling, Elisabeth knew she wouldn't be allowed to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at her next tea-bagger klan rally if she didn't get in at least one hystrionic zinger. She did her best. Oh, by the way, Happy Birthday, Barack Obama!

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