Thursday, March 10, 2005

pop culture round-up

--seriously--why was jenny mccarthy hosting the brady bunch reunion special on tv land? i am not sure what qualified her for this position, besides her fawning fandom. of course, it was still worth watching--christopher knight saying "pork chops and applesauce" never does get old. peter was always the cute one . . .

--i saw a commercial the other day for america's next top model--they're doing tryouts at nc central this week. go apply! all sizes and shapes are welcome--as long as you're between 18 and 27, and over 5'7". now i'll never be a teen model!

--the extremely in-depth dissection of karaoke revolution three over at pamie.com is the funniest thing i have read in weeks.

--alton brown will always be my hero. his episode on nuts--complete with a wacky squirrel puppet--made me hungry AND giggly.

--i bought some comics last week but haven't gotten around to writing about them yet. the scheherezade women's comic collection was ok--it didn't have any major problems w/ legibility, despite editor megan kelso's apparent disavowal of the project, but i didn't think most of the stories were worth reading. off the top of my head, the only one i can remember liking a lot was ellen forney's (no surprise there), but i know there were one or two others. it's not a great track record for an anthology, though. i'm honestly not sure if it had to do w/ choice of contributors (there were definitely some deserving artists who weren't included) or w/ lackadaisical editorship, but i found the whole thing sort of disappointing.

--dude, the E! thing where they reenact the michael jackson trial is really weird.

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