Saturday, November 24, 2007

Here's a clip from one of the more bizarre game shows Jonno and I witnessed on late-night Italian TV. The next morning, we weren't entirely sure we'd actually seen it, but the YouTube don't lie:

Basically, it's a beauty competition between black girls and white girls. An audience packed with horny and possibly drunken Italian men choses the winning team. Check the look on the black girls' faces when the winner is announced. Just check it.

The next night, the same show (it's called CIAO DARWIN) continued the black vs. white competition with a Jeopardy-style trivia showdown. Except the contestants were sealed in watertight tubes, and every time they got an answer wrong, a little more water was added. We couldn't bear to watch the end.

(I can't find a clip from that segment, but apparently, the Q&A thing a standard part of every CIAO DARWIN competition. You can see the set up about two and a half minutes into this clip, in which the "veline"--which translates loosely as "bimbos"--go up against the "intellettuale".)

Of course, all Jonno and I could wonder is how the hell you'd go about adapting this for American TV? But perhaps it would've been better to ask: how long until Fox adapts this for American TV?

Friday, November 23, 2007

I've begun posting a few of my travel pics on Flickr, though I gotta say, they pale in comparison to those posted by the boyfriend. Stay tuned: we've both got several hundred more to sift through.

Up next: slides from our day trip to a ball bearing plant in Duluth. Fun!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

So, we're back.

Did I forget to mention that Jonno and I were going on vacation? Well, we did. Rome and Venice. Old hat for him, thoroughly new for me.

Lots to report, but too lagged to write. However: having been away from home for a week and a half, I can say with complete certainty that our house doesn't smell of dog quite as much as Jonno thinks.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

While I go in search of cliffs to leap from (no small task in a city perched atop a flood plain), I suggest you edify yourself by reading up on Miss Kara Walker. I know that's kind of a non sequitur, but still: what've you got to lose?

Monday, November 05, 2007

So yeah: on Saturday eve, I was feeling down and out. But now I realize that there are people who are further down and way more out than lil' ol' me:

Schadenfreude is the new black.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

THINGS THAT ARE WRONG
or, CAN WE TALK ABOUT ME FOR A WHILE?

• I am exhausted.

• I slept funny last night and my leg still tingles.

• My allergies are flaring up and there's an uncomfortable lump in the back of my throat.

• Tonight I hugged a lady, and I realized too late that she was wearing perfume, and I inhaled a huge whiff of the stuff, and little particles of it lodged in my tonsils (yes, I still have tonsils), which is only adding to the whole allergy/lump in my throat feeling (see above).

• I have missed two great performances this weekend because I've been too tired/lazy/stressed out to get my act together, and now I feel like a heel.

• My vocabulary is so uninspired that I am using 1930s-era expressions like "feel like a heel".

• I failed to get my mother a birthday present (though I did call her, which slightly diminishes my heel-ness).

• I am trying to take some vacation time, but I am overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to do in the next few days.

• If I don't finish said work, I will disappoint myself and others.

• Among the work I have to complete is the script for our annual Christmas show.

• Although I have ridiculed the promos for NBC's Bionic Woman series, it's not as awful as I'd hoped; in fact it is vaguely lesbotronic, which is interesting.

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