Best Top Chef Recap You’ll Read Today (and Every Week) »

I’m a vegetarian, I don’t cook, I know very little about food (I do know where to put it though), and I wouldn’t eat 85% of the dishes made on Top Chef (spoiler: everything this season is made with moose bacon, even the desserts). Still, I love the show. The only thing I enjoy more [...]

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Halloween Costume Dos and Don'ts 2009 »

Wolfie!

DON’T YOU DARE! PLEASE DO! “Wolverine” – There’s nothing sadder at a party than watching a flabby guy in a white tank top with long scraggly sideburns and chopsticks taped to his knuckles trying to make time with the ladies. “Teen Wolf Too” – Chicks love wolves, that’s a cold hard fact, but some like [...]

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Iron Man, Holiday Music, Bush Bio, Holy Headshots, and Very Bad Corporations »

Photos: Actor Jeff Bridges is pretty handy with a camera, here’s a cool collection of behind-the-scenes photos from the “Iron Man” movie. I like the shot with Mrs. Coldplay on the cell phone. She’s so very busy.   [via metafilter] Boo! The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 Boo: Part 2! I don’t read Paste magazine [...]

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Worried about 30 Rock, Philly's Greatest Songs, New Top Chef, Bagels, Drupal & Olbermann »

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.

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Ultimate Washington Insider: "Foodie" Edition »

SM Shrake

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 [...]

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Top Chef Still Rules, Springsteen Joins Ness and Lifelock Guy Gets Scammed! »

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 [...]

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Top Chef: Quick Fire Recap »

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 [...]

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Live-Quessay: Top Chef Season 4 Premiere »

Scott Shrake

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 …

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