A Few Good Snowmen

Although to stick up for Padma for a little bit, as much as it hurts to do this– she’s written award-winning cookbooks since 1999, hosted a couple different Food Network series in the early 2000s, etc, well before the Top Chef gig. So she you can say she has some expertise in the field… probably more than hosts like China Chow do about art, at least…

Their bookstore on M(“M” as in Magical”)ystoftheOracle.com is amazing. I’m no expert, but I feel like someone should tell Christopher Valentine that the “creatures” he’s featuring on the covers of each book aren’t elves or gnomes. They’re called “children,” and there’s probably a legal document somewhere out there that says he needs to stay 2500 feet away from them at all times.

I saw this M.I.M. episode and the WORST part was that the doctors told him this wasn’t worst-case scenario; that if a fly laid an egg in his ear (which could easily happen while someone is sleeping), the maggot would have crawled into his brain and EATEN HIS BRAIN FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

So I’m definitely your neighbor in Nightmaretown. How can I ever sleep without ear plugs again?

Another thing that bothered me: Miles’s blatant cringe/sneer at Mark’s scar (when the judges requested he show it). Bad form, dude, bad form.

Mary Velasquez (the king of photoshop guy) tweeted some pretty great stuff all during last night’s episode about how insufferable and fake Miles and Jaclyn were during the whole competition, and he suggested a pretty good Work O Fart Drinking Game: “Drink whenever Jackie is wearing unnecessary protective gear.” (Also, Not-much-of-a-spoiler alert: the bitterness of his (drunk?) tweets clearly tells me Bravo didn’t dub Mark “The Next Great Artist”)

I think Brandon Adams has been watching season 4 of Six Feet Under…

(And the police chief actually described London as being forced to specifically smoke crack and “purchase booze and hand it out in a gang area of Palm Springs”… it is the little details like those that really make this story come alive).