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Pardon our absence last week, but we were on vacation along with, apparently, every other nerd in the world down at Comic-Con. We have a lot of local reality contestants to catch up with!
First and foremost, the dread "Pirate Master" was cancelled by CBS, although they will be putting up the remaining episodes on their Web site. So far we haven't felt compelled to actually watch those. We'll probably wait until the final episode is posted and then share the results with you. (Unless a reader would like to spoil us--please!--and let us know if Nessa is still around.) Also, in a bit of bizarre reality, Cheryl Kosewicz, a former "Pirate Master" contestant, killed herself a week after the show was cancelled. Obviously, the show was cursed. By pirates.
Mateen Kemet was voted off the lot, which leaves nothing but a bunch of white, male directors left making crappy Ford commercials movies "On the Lot." Just like the real Hollywood!
The final local contestant on "Last Comic Standing" was Arj Barker, and he didn't make it to the next round, despite, once again, being one of the funnier comedians on the show. Here's a brief bit (not from the show) in which he talks about how conceited Google is.
Over on "American Inventor," Camarillo, California contestant (who auditioned in San Francisco) Greg Chavez took home the big prize with his "Guardian Angel" Christmas tree topper which is supposed to put out fires. Maybe we missed it, but we never actually saw the thing put out a fire, but hopefully with the prize money he'll come out with a product that works, and isn't...uh..quite so tacky looking. Sure, safety is important; but we want our trees to look cute, too!
Finally, over on "So You Think You Can Dance," we decided to start to root for Sacramento native Dominic after the elimination of Santa Cruz's Shauna. Umm...the rest of the "SYTYCD" contestants better hope we don't start to root for any of them, because apparently, our support is nothing but bad luck. Dominic was sent packing last week.
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Now can we write to HBO to get Arj more than one line per episode on "Flight of the Conchords"?
Ohhh, dude! That's where I've seen him. Thanks Seamus! I hadn't put 2+2 together on that one. He's hilarious on FOTC.
Poor Cheryl. That's awful.
And although this isn't at all related, it's consuming me: I can't believe how horribly everyone in the Big Brother house is treating Jen, who rocks. Especially the pig men. Most especially Dick, an overall horrible human being.
At first, I couldn't stand Jen. Her crying over her "horrible" photo, and then taking down the photo of her and her mother, and her overall self-centeredness bugged. But she's grown on me, and now I want her to win. Her ability to remain unfazed by the horrible actions towards her is amazing.
Dick is the epitome of the pathetic aging hipster. Grow. The F. Up.
I totally agree, Brock. Jensa Member 4eva!