"This is a quickturn project"
Well, we made the mistake of hitting a few furniture stores in the mission yesterday. We have issues. We are fifties furniture fags. We have been through so much furniture it's a joke. Instead of just waiting to find something perfect that we really love, we fall for every fifties thing we see and just impulse buy. We're on our 4th set of couches, 5th coffee table, 2nd sideboard in the dining room and third dining room table. We are happy with what we have, but keep finding things that are a little more perfect. So we bought a chinese style '50s sideboard from The Apartment to replace the bar in our living room. And a new side table for the living room sofa (this is number 4 for that particular spot in the house). Oh, and I forgot to mention lamps. Vintage lamps are our weakness. We bought a new lamp for the living room also. If it's '50s, and especailly if it has an asian look to it we are frail. We must be stopped.
Back to "Underdog to Wonderdog" God this show bugs the shit out of me. So today they have Oliver. A poodle mix. The "team" shows up at the shelter to meet him. They ask "how did Oliver get here?" The shelter guy says "Oliver is the result of an eviction. His owners were evicted from their apartment and they left him behind." Then the overly dramatic voice over comes on... "Oliver was abandoned and spent two whole days wandering an empty apartment before animal control came to his rescue." Two whole days????? Wandering an empty apartment??? Ok, Oliver, I sympathize with you and you had no say in getting involved with this ANNOYING JOKE OF A SHOW but Rita spent TWO YEARS (not two days) wandering not a mahattan apartment but THE STREETS OF WEST OAKLAND!!!!!! Oliver is not an underdog. This show is choad rescue for mildly mistreated small poodle and yorkie mixes. GO TO A SHELTER AND HELP SOME REAL DOGS WITH REAL ISSUES YOU ASSHOLES!!!! AND DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME BUILDING THEM FUCKING ANNOYING DOGHOUSES THAT THEY WILL NEVER USE!!!! Oh, and to top it off, they match Oliver with a little girl who is AFRAID OF DOGS!!! "they both have to overcome their fears." Good work team!!!! Take a dog with issues and give her to a family with a little girl who is AFRAID OF DOGS!!! FUCKING BITCH ASS LOSERS!!!!!
- I just noticed that my payment stub for my visa card has enough spots in the "amount enclosed" spot to make a 7 digit payment. I guess there really are people who make payments of over $1 million.
- Why is there so much chicken on the streets in my neighborhood? Walking Rita is a constant battle to pull her away from chicken bones (and sometimes whole breasts!). She can smell that shit from far away and fights her way over to it, despite my best efforts. Last night's walk alone she got two drumstick bones and what looked like a whole extra crispy breast from KFC
- Why do I always want to spell bullet with two t's at the end?
- Why do people stop, stand still and look around when they get to the bottom of the escalator at bart? People, this thing is going to keep dumping people off behind you and they have no control over it. Get out of the fucking way! Welcome to the big city! Also, I love the people who run down the escalator becase they see a train at the platform, but when they realize it isn't theirs, they stop. It might be mine, bitch! I'm right behind you!!!
- I hate the new Chronicle format. Hate it. Everything is mushed together, it's hard to tell where the story is that you want to read, nothing stands out, the sections all run together. Most of all, WHERE IS MY FUCKING WEDNESDAY FOOD SECTION???? That was my number one, and pretty much only like about the Chronicle anymore. I could pull out a SEPARATE food section every Wednesday morning, check out the recipes (and take the good ones home), read the scoop section, and check out the restaurant reviews. This Wednesday? A story about some people who put in a wood-fired pizza oven in their kitchen sandwiched in with the datebook stories. That's fucked up!
- Why do I continue to care about restaurant and movie reviews when I never go to either? Ever? But I never read book reviews, which is the one thing that i do buy.
- Why did Small Space Big Style have to disappear?
- Final thought: am I wrong to have the hots for Rahm Emanuel? I've wanted to do it with him since the Clinton White House.
Usually I am not a fan of Sundays. Obviously, it beats Monday, but still, can't hold a candle to Saturday or even Friday. But today is nice. I'm watching the replay of the Australian Open final, and it's an amazing match. I just watched a great Grill It! with Bobby Flay, shrimp edition. I will be making the grilled shrimp enchiladas. It's nice to see the store-bought mole sauce validated. Then asshole Guy Fieri comes on. What a fool. Why does he have a show? His recipes are disgusting, his "set" is a joke and I hate the way he loves to pronounce his last name like he's authentic Italian. Why is he the only "Next Food Network Star" to actually become a Food Network "star"? No one is holding them to a standard here. Someone wins the challenge, they should get a show. They do it on HGTV. Those people get a show. And it stays on the air. I don't watch Color Splash or Myles of Style - I am not a fan of cheap, quick makeover shows. Give me Spice up My Kitchen. That is a quick, EXPENSIVE makeover show. And for some reason, I love Lauren Lake. I don't know what it is. So back to Food Netowrk. Why is it that they end up with such a group of losers contending for Next Food Network Star? Top Chef seems to attract a good bunch of talented people that you are interested in watching. Is $100,000 and a feature in Food & Wine really more desirable than your own show on Food Network? Apparently it is, if the best they can come up with is fucking Guy Fieri. Have a great Sunday everybody!
