Vice Presidential Debate - Tank, but No Tanks - Part 1

I know I know. You are all wondering what I thought about last night’s Vice Presidential debate. Well honestly, I only saw 30 minutes of it, because I was out partying it up my closest friends in celebration of one of my ladies visiting from LA (more on that later). I DVRed it and only watched about fifteen minutes last night before the boyfriend called foul and the rest was skimmed through this morning while dolling myself up. From the polls and what I saw, Senator Biden won hands down. But I don’t think it’s fair to describe something I have only sort of seen, so a full recap is coming this weekend. But until then, here is a political new wrap up of the week, with some video from Governor Palin and Senator Biden last night.

Last night’s VP debate was rating’s gold coming in with 42% more viewers than last Friday’s Presidential debate.

Through various polls, Biden was the winner of last night’s debate. He also appeared more Presidential than Governor Palin.

Here is the full transcript of the VP debate.

Reaction to Joe Biden’s teary memory of being a “single dad” draws in more independent woman.

In VP Debate, both Palin, Biden “did no harm”.

Peggy Noon and Jon Stewart Discuss Patriotic Geace

Usually I stay away from any commentary given by Peggy Noonan on the issues of politics because I generally can’t stand her. She is a Reaganite who depicts Hillary Clinton as an evil woman and So I was apprehensive about checking her out on The Daily Show, especially since she still won’t fully admit she thinks the pick of Sarah Palin as the VP running mate for John McCain is “bullshit”. Well she sat down with Jon Stewart on Wednesday to discuss her new book ”Patriotic Grace” and what partisan politics is doing to this country. I was pleasantly surprised at the conversation Peggy and Jon had, discussing the issues that created the division and partisanship in the today’s political spectrum and how it truly is making the country divided. At the end of the segment, Jon and Peggy had really nice statements about what we should be doing.

Jon Stewart in "Kill Bill"

The Daily Show, as it is during every election cycle, is probably the most accurate news source going. The partisan is there, but there are for intelligence and truth and will easily call out each side of the political spectrum when they are attempting to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. In the past few weeks, you could see Jon Stewart growing more exhausted at having to call politicians on their shit, but since the “Bailout Plan”, he has been ready for the kill. Here he is discussing the ridiculousness of the Congress taking off Rosh Hashanah when the economic crisis was coming to a boil.

Project Runway Recap - Episode 12 - The Breakdowns

So I think we can all safely agree that last night’s road to Bryan Park episode put the nail in the boring season coffin. Before we get to what the designers brought down the runway, let’s just discuss the overall tone of the program. Granted, I do not live or work or compete with these people, but I find myself confused as to why there is so much hate towards Kenley. I get that she is obnoxious and loud and is constantly on the defense, but I didn’t see her being nearly as aggressive towards the other designers as Wendy Pepper or Santino had been in the past. And after comparing her with Jeffrey, Season 3 winner, Kenley looks like an angelic poster child. Maybe it’s because I have been described as loud, obnoxious and yes sometimes, defensive, but last night I really saw that this chick was unaware of a great deal of attitude that she deals out. And again compared to previous drama freaks on the show that all but sabotaged their fellow contestants, she is at least defensive in regards to stuff she creates and loves. I know she’s been a total bitch to the judges, to fellow designers and god forbid, Tim, but I think the context of her bitchiness is a bit different than previous villains of Project Runway. Also, after being called out on her shit last night by Heidi and Co., she oddly felt vulnerable about it. But she did comment on the designer’s aesthetics and give the judges a bit more attitude that the show aired.
Here it is:


Ok, I had just had to address the Kenley hate right away, so now let’s get to the designs and then will probe a bit more into the judging. The challenge should have been an easy one and I think previous season contestants were probably banging their heads that these four designers did not knock it out of the park. The designers were asked to take pictures of flowers, bushes, etc at the beautiful Botanical Gardens here in NYC, which reminds me that I need to do that. Anyways, their challenge was to incorporate their photograph into a ball gown/dress. I always think that the gown challenges are the worst ones because every designers thinks its beyond easy walking into it, I mean how challenging can it be to make something beautiful with something beautiful, but I can see where all of these people got stumped. Unfortunately, all of these designers are over thinkers and work things to death and it showed in their dresses. While I think all of them were able to correlate their photographs with the designs, I don’t think anyone nailed this one out of the park. My favorites and the judges were Jerrell’s and Leanne’s, which were both beautiful. I think if they were given one more day to work on it, they both would have presented some of the best dresses to ever walk down the runway. Jerrell’s was incredibly “new looking” with a wonderful grasp of the concept, a literal take and modern revamp of a gown. Leanne’s detailing was spectacular, her dress was beautiful and represented her photograph well, but it was not as modern as Jerrell’s. My least favorites were Korto’s and Kenley’s designs. I thought both of these women became stumped when attempting to translate their look into gown form, which was not a problem for their competitors. Korto’s choice of fabric was questionable, her construction was well done, but the dress overall was flat, not expensive looking and was quite dated. Kenley’s on the other hand was bizarre to me. For someone who loves to work with crazy floral patterns, this was her chance to work it. Instead she picked some odd magenta snake skinesque fabric and created a dress near costume levels. It didn’t real rich, nor dated, but it couldn’t because you had never seen anything like it before and that is not a compliment. I thought both of these designers fell short, but neither failed in my eyes. Heidi, Michael, Nina and perfectly chosen guest judge Georgina Chapman of Marchesa, the design house that is on top of the beautiful modern gown, all agreed that while Korto and Kenley did not bring it, they were not flops either. And in a turn of events I saw coming a mile away, or actually since episode 7, there was no designer auf’d last night. Jerrell was the winner, but ultimately that means nothing since it did not win him a spot at Bryant Park. He is now the only designer to win three challenges this go around and I think the one to beat at the Park shows.

Here are the designers dresses:
Jerrell - The winner

















Leanne - The runner up


















Korto - Not so hot

















Kenley - Not so hot


















The judges gave their canned “this was too close”, but honestly, I agree. I am really intrigued by what all four designers will bring to their Bryant Park show. What did bug me and should bug all of you, is that Jerrell with his win last night, did not secure a position in the final three for Fashion Week. Next week, it will be another battle head to head, similar to last year’s with Romi and Chris March, but instead all four designers will compete. To say this season is a let down is a bit unfair because I honestly think there was a lot of talent this go around. I just felt that the challenges were phoned in, the eliminations were a bit weird in the beginning and since knowing this show will no longer be the property of Bravo, or at least its up in the air right now, many of the fans and I believe producers did not have high hopes for this season. I hope that the runway shows, and I will NOT ruin it for myself with sneak peeks at the MANY MANY photos of the designers’ shows, will prove to me that these four people truly have it to make it this far.

How can you argue with this?

I know someone who could. Here is more of Katie Couric's mind numbing interview with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Warning it is painful to anyone with an IQ above 50. The Governor can not name ONE newspaper she reads on a regular basis. I guess it's that whole "gotcha journalism" thing again.

Seriously...no more Jane Says...

First things first, I could be one of the most dedicated and loving Jane's Addiction fans. I was way too young to catch them their first go around, but since their reunion(s) I have seen them many times and actually found myself watching a live feed of the NME Awards when the full original band, Dave, Perry, Stephen and for the first time since 1991, Eric played together in a public setting. I have actually been dreaming of a reunion tour, but it don't look like that will happen anytime soon. And hell I have even forgiven this sort of nonsense. But I have digressed. Now that you can understand where I am coming from, please listen to my pleas. This means you radio DJs, lame college bars, frat bros, modern rock peeps and anyone who was born after 1965, but before 1992. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not play Jane Says EVER AGAIN! Honestly, the song was wonderful the first few times I heard it, it was great when I played out my Nothing's Shocking tape TWICE and it was even mildly annoying when Perry made Stephen play it on the steel drums in the middle of the rock floor from their 1997 reunion tour. But I really can't bare to hear this song one more time. It does not showcase the band as a whole, its not an interesting song and everyone is bored of it. So please, play Ain't No Right, Stop! or Ocean Size, but please if you respsect your fellow modern/alterna rockers, STOP Jane Says!

Thank you, that is all.

The Ladies of "The View" Discuss Presidential Qualifications

I personally try to avoid "The View" like it was the plague, especially since Meredith left a few years ago. But this election cycle has sent the yentafest into high estrogen levels, lead by Mrs. Elisabeth "I know politics b/c I was on Survivor" Hasselbeck. This woman has been recently touting the wonderfulness that is Sarah Palin at unbelievable levels, but I would not expect anything less from another empty-headed blonde who figured out being a loud mouth conservative in entertainment brought one way more attention then just being an average liberal. Today, the rest of nags had it with her assertion that Sarah Palin is ready to lead the country in January. Whoopi called her on it, Joy attempted to, Sherri laughed at it all and Barbra finally confronted Elisabeth into discussing the issue. Barbra asked her simply to give concrete reasons that Palin would be worthy of being President. And of course, Hasselbeck had to respond with the question of "What has Obama done?". Not to get too partisan, but if you truly believe in your candidate, like I do, you should be able to scream more than 3 qualifications for them to lead the country. And beyond that, they shouldn't simpyl be talking points.

Nauseating video below.


Source: Jezebel