Moving on and Moving Out

Ugh, I've been horribly belated with posting on the blog lately. Maybe it's because of the absolute inundation of pop culture in my life recently (VMAs, Emmys, ANTM, Top Chef, Project Runway AND How i met your mother), but I can't seem to focus long enough to choose anything in particular to write about. Additionally, I have been packing, trying to find jobs, and generally stressin' about the Big Move to Chicago, so I've had less focus about the blog on the whole.

I want to point you all in the direction of the Rich Juzwiak's blog fourfour.typepad.com (also in my links list on the right) if you are interested in America's Next Top Model recaps. He's really a pop culture genius when it comes down to it, and the insights he has to relate about a show that sometimes makes me feel like I'm losing brain cells allows me to feel smug, and overall makes me enjoy my reality television watching experience THAT.MUCH.MORE. So, if you need an example of his awesomeness, I've done a little "reblog" as they say of his post about the first episode of this season, in which the contestants were given makeovers (although Tyra dubbed them "Tyovers").

From Four Four:

Oh, but they weren't makeovers, they were "Tyovers," since if there's one thing this show doesn't have enough of, it's Tyra's ego. I am not surprised that she found a way to make other people's changing appearance about her -- the only thing I'm surprised about is that it took her this long to think of what to call it. I wonder if she was inspired by the name change in the same way she was when the name of this show just came to her as she looked out of her window that gentle New York morning so many years ago. I wonder what else that window holds? America's Next Top Tyra? America's Tyra Top Tyra? America's Tyra Tyra Tyra? The possibilities are endless, but more importantly, the possibilities are Tyra.


I hope this tidbit is enough to hold you over for the next week or so. I will try to post again before the big move, but right now my brain is mainly consumed with worrying about the fact that I have too much crap to move it.

Oh, and also: my picks for the reality shows I'm watching--

America's Next Top Model:
Nicole (aka Bloody Eyeball)
Laura (Kentucky light of my life)

Top Chef:
I couldn't really give a fuck, I just hope Ashley the Oberlin Lesbian doesn't get cut too soon.

Project Runway:
Ra'mon (who just got cut) so now, Chris and Epperson.

Models of the Runway:
That irish model, Koji (sp?)