It's sunny and relatively warm and January fourth.

[apocalypsos]

THE HELL?!

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. If it never bothered to snow this winter, I wouldn't mind at all. :) (Of course, this IS Pennsylvania. It'll probably end up snowing tonight just to spite me.)

I didn't tape the episode and missed this morning's repeat, but in regards to Top Chef, ADIOS, BETTY! Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out! Let it hit you on the head. A lot. Until your caps fall out and you stop flashing that fake-ass New And Improved Joker Smile at people.

And Mike won! WOOHOO! I love Mike to bits. He might not be the best chef, but he would be awesome fun to hang out and watch football with. And I don't even LIKE football.

As for Sam, Betty, and Ilan ... Jesus, grow up.

I'm seriously considering using one of the four shiny new personal days I got on the first tomorrow night for completely gratuitous reasons. I just want to sit at home and drink grape Smirnoff and not move while thinking, "You realize if I played by the rules right now, I'd be in gym dangling inside a CD assembly machine?" And I could watch the gorgeous director's cut of Tombstone I got in the mail yesterday. (zomgthankyou! *squeals*)

Oh, oh! And I have money! I got paid and for once in the past few weeks the entire thing is not devoted to paying off a bill! I can go to Panera again! And maybe the movies! *happy dances* I'm also thinking of splurging and getting a tattoo with part of next week's big fat paycheck. I still want to get Shakespeare's signature between my shoulder blades to go with Poe's across my lower back, but there's a couple of other smaller cheaper ones I was thinking of that might be easier for me to afford. I want to get a Siamese cat one still and maybe the Chinese or Japanese symbol for magic. What I'd really love is to get the large one on my upper right arm of my Books of Boggs characters as chibis or in comic book form or whatever, but I soooo can't afford that right now, it's not like I've had the picture done just yet, and I want to save it until I get published anyway.

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[eisoj5]

Holy crap, Top Chef was nearly train-wrecky last night. I feel kind of bad for Michael, because it was such an awesome set of wins for him but the whole episode was about Everybody Hates Marcel :/

[newredshoes]

I'm so freaking weirded out. There's usually a January thaw where I am, but this feels like April, and it's ridiculous.

Ooooo, Shakespeare signature -- that's hot. I read a book recently called Chasing Shakespeares in which one of the protagonists was rumored to have a tattoo of Queen Elizabeth's signature somewhere that was never quite disclosed.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm starting to love Marcel more on the basis of all of the childish behavior other people are throwing at him. I know he can be a punk, but nothing he's done had warranted the shitstorm they're putting him through. And hell, at least he admits he can be an ass. The others are all acting as if they're the nice guys.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Ooh, tattoos... they are addictive. And expensive.

[eisoj5]

ITA, especially Ilan. He was unbelievably petty, and I'm glad the judges called him on it. I think, though, that at least Cliff was sort of trying to step back from it all, while of course Elia wants no part of it since she feels for the poor guy.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It's sunny and relatively warm and January fourth.

Lucky you. It's snowing like hell in Salt Lake City, and has been All. Day. Long. *loathes*

[strix-an-stones.livejournal.com]

The last time we had a winter like this we had nothing but ice storms in late January to the end of February. That wonderful year it snowed on my dratted birthday, in May. I am seriously hoping we don't have that.

*blink*

[seferin.livejournal.com]

I shudder to ask, but you realize that if you do get that tattoo, guys will start thinking you rate penis size by writers?

i.e. you have to be longer than Poe to have sex with me. Which is fine in theory, unless you start having Dostoevsky tattooed there as well.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

The pettiness displayed by Ilan, Betty, and Sam belonged more in an episode of Big Brother. I don't watch skilled reality shows or whatever so I can see people be completely ugly to each other in a high school way. And it didn't seem to me like Marcel really "snapped" at Betty. He said her name in a loud voice after Sam told him to hold up. Yet they all lost their minds over it. Gah. I seriously annoyed and put off by the three of them.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I still haven't gotten to see the episode yet, but from what I read on the TWoP forums Padma and the other judges said that Betty was told by one of the ADs to stay back and she didn't listen, which was why Marcel said it again. Then everything went to hell.

I still have to see Sam's outburst to decide whether or not I'm going to let him slide -- he's a sneaky little slime and he shouldn't have had it in a public place, but I'll be the first to understand that Marcel can be irritating and make a guy snap -- but Betty is just a screeching harpy (WOOHOO! She's gone!) and Ilan just ... *seethes* The "you've never had sex" comment was so totally immature it's ridiculous, saying it in front of customers was uncalled for, and as a virgin I say he's free to go fuck himself. Personally at this point I'd rather go fuck Marcel. (No, really, can I?)

I really just wish I could walk up to these people and smack them all upside the heads and say, "Just shut up and cook, goddamn it!" Seriously, why would I want to go to the restaurant of anyone but Elia and Marcel at this point? Everybody else would obviously be spending all of their time being petty and telling me about drama in the kitchen I don't give a shit about.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

As a virgin myself, I felt the same way about Ilan's snide comments. It was absolutely unnecessary and only generated to be hurtful. Which I guess is my true problem with all three of them, how malicious they seem to be. Marcel is a little annoying and weird, but how does that really affect their lives? They act as if he pisses in their orange juice then ties them down and forces them to drink it every morning. Every little thing he does is met with completely disproportionate hostility from one or all of them and it makes my skin crawl.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Exactly. He's smug and he has a bad habit of putting his foot in his mouth, but he always volunteering to help when there's help needed and he doesn't try to sabotage anyone else's meal intentionally. So seriously, what the hell is their real problem with him?

And now that I've seen the episode, I'm even more bothered by Ilan bashing Marcel's dish in front of the guests. I can understand personality conflicts on a reality show, but when you take it to an unprofessional level in a talent contest that's just wrong and I'm still trying to figure out why the hell he wasn't knife'd for it. Oh, wait, of course I know. It's for draaaaaaaaamaaaaaa. *sigh*