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Category Archives: Idiot Box

The art of infomercials

E and I opt to celebrate President’s Day, instead of the usual, for a number of reasons: 1) VD is a dumb holiday 2) everywhere is totally booked anyways on the 14th, and it’s best just to avoid the craziness 3) nothing says “I love you” like a commemorative bronze plate with the founding fathers [...]

I think I actually like birds now

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The World is Right Again

Congratulations Stephanie! At the end of a nail-biter finale episode, in which sour-faced villain Lisa seemed to be getting the winner’s edit, sanity prevailed and the more consistently strong competitor took the gold. Hoorah! I do have to grudgingly admit that Lisa cooked her ass off during the final, and her tom kha gai actually [...]

Top Chef: the 91 percenters

Once again, Lisa fucked up badly, but benefited from someone else screwing up even more. Not only that, but she further justified audience hatred by petulantly whining to the two (real) top chefs: “I know you’re sad Antonia is going home but the least you could have done was congratulate me.” YOU SHOULD NOT BE [...]