There are dudes with flames coming out of their heads on my TV!

And stoooopid me didn't think to watch the opening ceremonies live and in their entirety on CBC, rather than the crap NBC coverage that's going to be on tonight.

Now they're waltzing in cow costumes.

Last night as we were eating dinner, M and I thought we heard a knocking on the door. But it sounded far away - the front door maybe? He went and chacked... nobody there. Then it came again, and we realized that there was someone knocking out the screen door into the porch. It turned out to be two very earnest young men hoping to talk to us about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We told them that we weren't particularly interested, but would they like to come in and have something to drink? I remembered not to offer them Pepsi. ;^) We chatted for a bit about all sorts of things ranging from the story we'd just heard on NPR that involved a phone call to the Penthouse Executive Club (which is apparently where you need to call if you want to talk to the authority on dry-aging steaks) and the Oklahoma State University Golf team. We let them leave us a copy of The Book of Mormon (we didn't have one, and I've been thinking it'd be good to have on the shelf - I figure it's a good thing to keep copies of major religious texts around) and didn't object when they asked if it was ok for them to say a prayer for/with us... we hadn't bothered telling them that we aren't Christian, which made it kind of amusing for us. Apparently we were the nicest people on our block, and they hate the door-to-door thing (not surprisingly). One of them said that he'd rather stop people on the street and talk to them, which I think would be way worse, though.

All in all, it was an amusing interlude. And after dinner we made lots of food for this next week (M made General Tso's Chicken, I made turkey-feta burgers and hummus for tonight (and two extra burgers to freeze)).

In other news:
The favorite SuperBowl commercial so far is the Neanderthan FedEx one. The favorite ABC promo so far is the Shaq Desperate Housewives ad (which just had me cackling out loud).

Is it me, or is Simon Cowell just being mean for the sake of being mean this season? It seems like he's just cycling through a repertoire of stock "Simon" phrases. All 3 American Idol judges have become charicatures of themselves, quite frankly. Meh.

But now it's Bravosploitation, and I remain convinced that Heidi Klum is the cutest pregnant lady EVAR! Heehee! "This also is a competition for you, as well." And Nick is about to pee himself in gayboy ecstasy! Glee! Tim Gunn on ice skates! Triple Glee! I'm literally squeeing out loud.

I haven't really watched ER in a long time, but if it's on, I'll watch it. Today's I actually wanted to see because Neela and Michael were getting married.

The last line of the ep is "I do" but it sure ain't Michael or Neela saying it... instead it's Luka in response to Abby's "Should we be doing this?"

Heh. And from the preview of next week, it looks like tonight's wedding might not be the only one this season. Double-heh.

Oh good LORD. I'm flipping channels and I happened across My Super Sweet 16 on MTV. Could these children be MORE SPOILED? I caught the end of the ep with Janelle, a Cuban girl living in Miami who was having her Quinceanera and seriously, before I knew I was watching MTV, I was sure it was a wedding show. What else would explain the primadonna all in white with identically-dressed attendants hovering around her and gushing over how pretty she looks?

This one, about Carlysia, whose daddy is an R&B star, is more disgusting, because this little girl is greaking talking about herself int he third person and demanding a Mercedes convertible for her birthday and so on...

This is like the antithesis of my 16th birthday. My huge excitement was that I got contacts. Oh, baby. And I went to a New Year's party at (oh god) Darren's house which was a big deal because we'd just gotten back from 4 months in the Netherlands and I hadn't seen anybody since the end of August.

So one of my favorite blogs to read, Electrolicious, has some Queer Eye related links, among them the Fab Five F***ability ratings. Aw yeah.