As yet another service of the HotFlashChick blog, I submit, for your consideration, a few of the odd and amazing things I view on TV (now that they fixed the goddam cable) on a (somewhat) regular basis. These are my favorites this week:
The Runaway Bride Special With Katie Couric - Oh My God...what drek! As much as a bottom feeder as I am, I couldn't tolerate more that 9 minutes of this program. Let me summarize those painful 9 minutes for you: 2 God-Squaders, one of whom obviously has some serious head issues, get together with Katie to talk about how unstable they are, and how badly they cope with everyday life. Katie is 45, but she wants to be the hot little thang that she was when she was 25. (Now that's a serious journalist...) She fails miserably. The Runaway Bride is stupid and sad. And her fiance is comatose. And I almost went blind...
Cooking Under Fire - This is a PBS reality cooking show. Ming Tsai (aka: Ming The Merciless in my household), Todd English (fancy-schmancy New Yawk Restaurant Guy) and Michael Ruhlman (Big Time Food Guy Wannabe) lead 12 hopeful newbies thru a trial of fire in the professional cooking biz. The prize is getting a Chefs-Ship (?) at one of Mr. English's New Yawk restaurants. Go to PBS.ORG if you're dying for details, and then dial it up on the ol' boob tube on Wednesday nights. It's only a waste of 30 minutes of your life, and it's fun to see what a jerk Ming is, and how talented the remaining newbies are. Mr. English looks like he can whip up a pretty decent breakfast (if you like scrambled eggs and crab cakes, which I do...) Recommended viewing...
The Wacky Alaska Guy - Sadly, you won't ever be able to see this program, since it was part of the absolutely pathetic pledge drive that the local PBS station (WTTW - We're Truly Truly Weak) put on last week. But it was stunning! It was the story of a guy from Iowa who decided to drop out of sophisticated Iowa Society, pack it up, and move to the Alaskan Wilderness in 1963. The man was amazing. He bought a little spot next to an Alaskan River, cut down a bunch of trees, hand built a cabin (all by himself), foraged for food and water, AND managed to film a lot of the process / progress on a little camera he put on a tripod. He was friggin Superman! AND he lived on his little homestead until he was 83 (which was in 2002...)
The documentary felt a lot like that garbage movie stuff they fed us in grammar school in the '60's. And that's why I and my Sweet Hunge were totally mesmerized by it. I turned my next door neighbor onto it, and she told all of the other neighbors, so everybody on my block got to watch the "encore" presentation of this amazing documentary when it aired last Sunday. A good time was had by all.
I think that three bizarre programs are enough to share with you at one time. I'll be back soon with more amazing TV viewing recommendations. Stay tuned!
