BLOBBY'S BLOG

PLEASE PACK YOUR KNIVES AND GO

Here is the fun and not so fun of being sick - BAD TV.

Since being home without a job for a few months, I tried not to watch television after the morning news cycle.

But during my week of massive head cold and lying around on the couch trying to concentrate on breathing, I did nothing but watch tv some of the days. I'll hand it to some of these stations - they know how to do overkill. Eight hours of Law & Order, CSI (pick your versions of either - they got them all) in a row or a day of Myth Busters. They have no programming ability. In reality, it's cheap for them and nothing but profits.

If you don't read blogs other than mine, you might be surprised at how many are out there with guys just completely fascinated with Project Runway. I didn't get it. Nor did I want to. I kind of found it obsessive and a complete waste of time. But now I kind of get it. I'm assuming hoping it's a passing thing for me.

Bravo is great at airing nothing but episode after episode after episode of their shows. Most of that network's fare is reality based: Queer Eye, that Rocco show, etc. Then I came upon something that is the confluence of those two shows with the addtion of what I read Project Runway to be: Top Chef (click on the link if you dare - the website is a frickin disaster!) Not just Top Chef, but Top Chef 2. There was a first season of this?

I hate to say it, and maybe it is the cold medicine talking, but I'm diggin' it. On more than one day of this illness Bravo has shown each and every of the already aired 10-12 episodes back to back. I didn't even know this show was on - but now I'm all up to speed. Mind you I don't know when the original episodes are on, but how hard can that be to find out? Even if I miss them, I'll venture to guess that Bravo will show them ad nasueum.

For a very brief synopsis - 15 'chefs' do two challenges a show: a quick one, which the winner is exempt from elimination from the next challenge. All the challenges have themes and/or specific ingredients that have to be used by all. Sometimes everyone cooks solo or they're paired in teams. Each show one, sometimes more, are eliminated. They are judged by g-d knows who. One of them, though her on-line bio doesn't says it, is married to Salman Rushdie. Go figure. A fatwa on her!

I've never really watched 'reality shows' (ok ok...Kathy Griffin) - which obviously is a misnomer. Nary a shred of reality exist in any of them and most are ruled by product placement. Top Chef is no different.

The editing is there to enhance or create the personality conflicts. Naturally, there is the seemingly one bad seed in the group that everyone hates (myself included.....I totally bought into it) who will also be one to go to the finals. Mark. My. Word. And here he is.

Do you think Heat Miser (yes, even Heat Miser has his own wikipedia entry!!!) knows his hair is missing?