by | December 2, 2010 · 10:18 am

Top Chef All Stars is Uh-May-Zing

I’ve always been a really picky eater, but I have to credit the little culinary delights I do try to the awesome contestants on Top Chef. Without them, I would never know that my plate has to have lots of color, that everything is better with a little more acid, and that Tom Colicchio is a sexy beast. And now all my faves are back for another round!

Of the faves, I’m most happy to see: Spike, Fabio, Jamie and Elia. I’m not happy to see Stephen, who’s annoying as hell, but hey, it’s all for entertainment value. We start with the chefs mingling at their new New York City digs. “He’s too loud for my face,” Fabio says of Marcel in his classic “seems to-be-fake-but-is-very-much-real” accent. I love him.

After hugs and jabs, they make their way to the kitchen and all have epileptic flashbacks to the Top Chef seasons of yore. The Quick Fire Challenge: team up with the other chefs from your season and make a dish that represents the city it was filmed in. Chicago wins with a hot dog. Top Chef never ceases to amaze me.

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by | December 1, 2010 · 9:12 am

The Tree is Up! The Holiday Season Can Finally Begin

Oh, Target Christmas tree.

Now that it’s December, and it’s actually appropriate to start celebrating Christmas, I had a Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony of my own last night. Yes, the tree is a bit smaller, and instead of ice skaters it overlooks my radiator, but it’s still pretty and makes my apartment all cozy and such. I may keep it up till March.

I do have a slight fear that my radiator is going to get really hot and set the tree on fire, burning down not only my apartment but the entire building and maybe even the entire street. But I guess that’s the price you pay for Holiday Cheer.

Now bring on the snow!

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by | December 1, 2010 · 9:04 am

Quote of the Day

I get this feeling that the Sportscenter Rundown guy might actually be Tyler Neville:

When The Rundown was (technically) on the high school basketball team, messing around at the (very) end of the bench, waiting to get into the (well, any) game, Coach told us three things:
1. Stop messing around at the end of the bench. (In fact, what he actually told us was, “Stop making babies down there,” which didn’t really help his cause too much, honestly.)
2. Make your free throws.
3. Don’t save the ball from going out of bounds underneath your own basket.
But because Missouri is coached by Mike Anderson and not Bob Barker (not that one), maybe they weren’t told these things, because they erased an 18-point halftime lead by Georgetown only to miss three of four free throws in the last 19 seconds, then save the ball underneath their own basket, then watch Chris Wright to drain a three-pointer at the death that sent the game into overtime. Then, in overtime, Jason Clark hit three three-pointers to personally outscore the No. 8 Tigers, and the No. 14 Hoyas left Kansas City with the 111-102 upset win.

He’s so informative.

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