30 Rock is a great show, fabulous! But it seems to be on the trajectory that has doomed many a fine comedy: “Let’s jam pack it with Big Name Guest Stars every week! Seinfeld! Oprah! Aniston! Jonas Brothers! The Pope! Awesome!” No, not awesome.

First of all, hiiii! I always like to give a warm Southern welcome to my readers, y’all! As some of you who follow my exploits know, I’m working like a rented mule to become the Ultimate Washington Insider (UWI), which is not easy when you’re looking down the barrel of the big Five-O, do not [...]

Here’s a quick list of things that distracted me from productivity today:
Top Chef Continues to Rule: Lisa, The Mean Self-Serving Hack, Lives To Cook Another Day {via Gawker}. Awesomely angry Dale gets the boot while flavor-free Lisa gets a stay of execution! How dare you, my sweet Padma! Despite this large misstep, the show [...]

Richard is a Douche: Here’s an easy way to tell if someone is not witty: he tells you over and over just how “witty” he is. If you’re still not sure about his witty nature, he delivers a lame food joke doing a Seinfeld impression and he makes certain to tell you its a Seinfeld [...]

Is it my imagination, or does Padma Lakshmi now pronounce her name all foreign-sounding all of a sudden?
Is (the exquisite) Spike Mendelsohn a Scorpio or what? What was with the awesome death gaze he gave the judges when he was in the loser column in the main challenge?

Am I allowed to [...]