With the new batch of reality shows in full swing, it is now time for me to offer my preliminary assessments:
American Idol

Quite simply, the competition is over. Just hand the title to Chris.

In the contest to see who is runner-up, I offer my following comments:

a)    I say boot the following three girls next: Melissa, Lisa, Katharine. I’d go so ( Read more... )

Finally I get some time to do a posting and with my exciting life there is absolutely nothing to report *shrugs* In fact, the most intriguing incident since Sunday was me bodychecking a poor unsuspecting soul who happened to be in my path as I caught sight of the Ladder 49 promo poster, which, I might add, was conveniently posted at my southbound ( Read more... )

Cheryl played an evil but brilliant joke at work today. In forwarding my faxes via email, she sends an email with the info line “Troy is released”. So I am jumping up and down with excitement thinking for some bizarre reason that the Warner fools move up the release date of the DVD. I open the email and it is a transfer for a player named Troy ( Read more... )

Whoever invented MP3 and the portable jukebox is currently reaching Apollo-like status in my eyes. I purchased a nifty new portable MP3 player - no, actually it isn’t merely an MP3 player it is a Portable Storage Device *revels in North American commercialism* I now have every single song I could ever want to listen to downloaded and still have ( Read more... )

A black day in Reality-TV-land. Mirna and Charla are out of the Amazing Race. *hangs head in moment of tribute* Honestly, they were my favourites. They made a somewhat dull Amazing Race rather humorous and exciting. I harbored a secret hope that they would win even though I suspected they wouldn’t. Luved the bittersweet rivalry between Mirna and ( Read more... )

I’ve been to a few of the small towns in Ontario but my latest journey to Sunderland was a riot. It was like one of those backwoods towns you see in a bad horror film . Lots of inbreeding complete with a “village idiot” whom I never got to meet (although I don't doubt there are many contenders for the crown *eyes dart from side to side*). The ( Read more... )