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The man and I were looking forward to this new show starring Ted Allen (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Top Chef, Iron Chef America) since it was set up as a “Mythbusters” for food.  What it’s turned out to be is just plain disappointing.  For one, Ted comes off as the poor man’s Alton Brown and I know he’s better than the cheesy schtick he delivers during this show.  The worst part are these “food techs” that they have to do the demonstrations.  It’s like the director/producers got family members who wanted to be on TV and told them to overact during the dramatizations.  All it does is insult the viewer and make the point of the show seem less credible.  Let’s hope they cancel this and quick.  Good idea…poorly executed.

I used to listen to Dr Drew on Loveline with Adam Carolla back in the day on Pirate Radio in SoCal.  I always thought he gave good solid advice and never seemed overly judgmental more of a “tough love” advocate.  Then he got his own TV show Strictly Sex with Dr Drew and the following Strictly Dr Drew on Discovery Health, you could see a slight transition from a tough love administrator to a preachier version of his former self.  Then comes Celebrity Rehab and a TON of other TV appearances where anyone who had never heard of Dr. Drew certainly had now. 

Then there was tonight’s Baby Borrowers reunion in which he and some windbag from morning television were the “moderators.”  It was quite obvious they never watched the entire show because their questions or comments were proven wrong by a few of them and they almost seemed proud that these “stupid kids” were now broken up to prove a point.  Then Drew said something to the effect of when one of them said they were broken up he said “thank God because you were horrible parents!”  Both my husband and I were shocked at his complete judgment of these kids and acting like the holier than thou diety he seems to think he is.  I mean he didn’t even know who to look at when they were calling out specific couples.  More and more you see him calling out celebrities on their behavior as though he’s treating them and giving you a peek into their personal files.

He went from someone I used to think had a pretty good head on his shoulders to being the equivalent of Dr. Phil who has little to no credibility.  Enjoy the ride while you can Drew, it won’t be long before you get the backlash too.

We were all for this experiment of having these teenage couples who wanted to have kids “borrow” children of different ages of other people.  We could see these people at their worst and sometimes their best. 

Tonight’s finale showed the couples taking care of elderly people and I swear it made us want to volunteer at an old folks home.  Or at the very least, have my grandparents over for dinner.  It was very sweet and uplifting to see the wisdom these people had to pass on to these young people.

The problem was the way it all ended.  One of the elderly men’s wives ended up dying and all of those couples?  Yeah…they broke up…ALL OF THEM!!!  So it ended with the man teary eyed and me bawling.   Luckily next week we get to see all of the couples who hate each other reunited to find out what they’ve learned.  Can hardly wait.

Aaron McCargo Jr or possibly “Big Daddy” as he will be known from now on.  Lisa Garza and Adam Gertler were impressive in their show auditions which really made the hubby and I think Adam’s original idea of interacting with a viewer via webcam may have secured him the spot.  But in the end, Aaron won the judges over. 

Aaron’s new show Big Daddy’s House will air Sundays at 1:30pm/12:30c on Food Network.

That was the search phrase we were looking for after my husband pulled a “weed” in a bag and 2 weeks later…yes, 2 WEEKS later a delightful rash came about on his legs.  (This was from the oil dispersed when he pulled it despite having the bag over it and wearing shorts.  It may have occured after he said he was immune as well.)  The first thing to look at is what does it look like?  SummitMedical.org had the best picture of both.  You remember the phrase “leaves of three, leave it be?”  Well it doesn’t quite cover it all because sometimes the leaves look like they’re in three but you can’t quite tell or maybe they were once in three and one went rogue and grew further so its no longer clustered.  If you want to remember a phrase to go along with it, this one I just made up will help me remember…”leaves are jagged, you’ll itch yourself ragged.”  Stupid but I won’t forget it.  Maybe now you won’t either.  The thing is there is SO much information about it out there and some of it is so contradictory that you don’t know what to believe or what will actually work.   Read on to see what we did, what worked and what didn’t.

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As we were perusing the grocery store last night we came upon a rather peculiar name choice for a brand of dog food…Old Yeller.

Yeah, I know I’d want to feed my dog some food whose namesake developed rabies (albeit contracted by saving the family from a rabid wolf) and had to be shot by his young master.  Good times.

I don’t watch Dubya on his speeches because, well, I feel like I’m losing brain cells when I do.  But as I was flipping channels, I did get a whiff of one of his newly created words:

Concernations.  “They had the same concernations I have.”

That would be concerns, sir.

Brain cell lost.

I’m sitting here listening to a rumpload of double talk from Rev. Jesse Jackson on The Early Show after saying Barack Obama “talks down to blacks” and he wanted to “cut his nuts off.”  Yeah, this was overheard when he thought no one was listening during an interview.  So now that the shoe is on the other foot and HE’S the one saying something derogatory about a black man, he’s evading the question by spreading what he thinks the campaign should be about and not addressing questions like “are you sorry you said it or sorry it was overheard?” 

I’m not all into getting into the race thing but if this had been anyone other than a black man who made this comment, HE would’ve been all over this demanding apologies and the person’s head on a platter.  I haven’t heard what Al Sharpton who also jumps right on people who make derogatory comments about the black community has to say about this.  WILL he say anything or turn the other cheek because it’s Jesse Jackson that made the comment?  If so, that is the height of hypocrisy.  I hope he steps forward and shows that if he is going to hold other races accountable for the things they say against a black person that he will do the same for a black man as well.

Jesse…stop the spin.  Say you’re human, you said something stupid and own up to it.  Oh yeah and if you have a microphone on your lapel, ALWAYS assume someone can hear you! 

I just tried one of those new Hot Pocket Pepperoni and Three Cheese Calzones.  The commercials always make it look good.  I don’t like their Pepperoni Pizza Hot Pocket but I thought maybe this “Italian Style Herbed Cheese Crust” might make the difference.  Um…no.  The sauce is still atrocious, I mean you truly can’t get more bland than that.  Well, there is taste but it tastes like liquid italian salt.  The pepperoni is bland as well and I tasted the crust on its own and it tasted neither cheesy nor herbed.  And because I was an idiot and didn’t read the label before I ate it, it counted as 2 servings so it was like eating 2 hot pockets calorie wise…620 calories and 1700mg of sodium!!!  Not a happy girl.  So for anyone who may have been curious about the calzone, don’t be.  Stick with any flavor Hot Pocket but “Italian.”

Nutritional Info per serving (2 servings per “pocket”):
310 calories
15g fat
6g sat fat
Cholesterol 25mg
Sodium  850mg
Total Carbs  33g
Dietary Fiber 3g
Sugars  6g
Protein  11g
Vitamin A  2%
Calcium  20%
Iron  10%

I loved the I Love the 70’s/80’s series from VH1 because it brought back so many memories of toys, games and overall a good nostalgia factor.  They could continue to produce I love the 80’s, the Strikes Back sequel and the trilogy 3D because there was just so much that couldn’t be covered from fads to songs to tv shows and so on.  When the 90’s version came along, you could see a shift.  It wasn’t quite as happy in nature and this is the decade I graduated high school so yes, I remember things weren’t as shiny and gawdy as they were in the 80’s but it was a little unsettling to see it in a time capsule like that.

Enter the “I Love the New Millenium” series which still has 2 years they couldn’t cover because they jumped the gun.  I don’t remember seeing toys or anything having to do with things that make children happy as the 70’s/80’s editions did for me and the hubby.  Some of it was inaccurate as well.  The one that springs to mind is that the Geico Caveman commericals started in 2004, not 2007.  HELLO!?!  Not that hard to check people.  The TV SHOW that they butchered was in 2007 but they didn’t even mention it.  WTF?  It was also friggin DEPRESSING to watch the downfall of society.  I’m sure the biggest reason there wasn’t a big nostalgia factor was because the people who produced this show are in their late 20’s and 30’s so they have no clue what a kid of say 15 would look back on with nostalgia when they were 7.  This would also have their whole panel (many of whom I like, a few that are grating) in a cynical pissing match because they couldn’t relate to those things.  Instead the 00’s were looked back upon from the perspective of an adult and was just a recap of stories we were thankful to finally stop hearing about and there was little to gleefully shout “I remember that!” with fondness of a time long passed.  Because it’s 7 years to 6 months old!!!!  Why the hell would you jump the gun on producing these?  All it made us want to do is turn off the tv and play with our Barbie’s or GI Joes.  I can’t wait to see 2008’s version…

“I Love the New Millenium”  2008…the year that foreclosures were the highest ever, gas was so expensive people were choosing whether to pay utilities or gas in the tank to get to their jobs that are now barely worth it because the cost of groceries has gone up 20-40% while salaries are staying the same and when we blamed the government, oil companies and not the speculators for driving the price of oil through the roof.  Yay.