Jude's Thursday Dish

We are in the process of remodeling our bathroom and our living arrangements are split between our house and John's mom's home while we work on it.  Her house is empty and in the process of being ready to put on the market, therefore; I don't have Internet up there!  Of course, we did bring up a TV and hook it up to the cable, so I'm not completely in the dark.  But, I'm feeling very discombobulated and I don't like it one bit!  Very grateful though for the use of her house and VERY excited for the new bathroom!  Anyway, on to Dish!

1. MEL AND MIKE from The Amazing Race!  Amelia, I think I was in denial and that's why I didn't write about them last week.  But, I'm ready to eulogize my favorite couple. I'm TOTALLY bummed these guys got Philiminated.  I love those two. Not just because Mike wrote "School of Rock" AND was a writer on one of the best, cut-too-short-dead-before-its-time series "Freaks and Geeks" (he acted in that too), but he just seems really cool.  And Mel is this dad that I think I'd totally get along with.  I read an interview with the two and Mel said that Mike is a Vegan and along the way, there wasn't anything for him to eat, so sometimes he'd go 2 whole days without eating.   I'm not really feeling the love for any other team.  I haven't been crazy about Victor and Tammy, but in that same interview, Mike said they are actually really cool, were having fun and the producers were depicting them as being sneaky and uber-competitive.  He actually said Margie and Luke are cool, but a lot more like that than they portrayed them.   I guess Luke was unhappy all the time and would "yell" at his mom a lot.  He'd play mind games with the other contestants when he knew information and wouldn't share with them.  Mike even said he was worse than the cheerleaders, which is pretty interesting because I don't like them at all, especially the rude one who is the epitome of an Ugly American Tourist yelling at everyone.  Anyway, it was sad to see them go over a stupid taxi driver getting lost. It always comes down to transportation, I swear.  On a side note, Mike is working on producing and acting in another one of Jared Hess' movies ("Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre" fame).

2. Amy Poehler's "Parks and Recreation" starts tonight!  Set your DVRs.  And give it 5 episodes at least.  I hear it takes a while to warm up to it, but that's how "The Office" was for their first season.

3. Still needing "Twilight" the movie.  Anyone willing to let me borrow their copy?

4. For all of us who got the DVR shaft and didn't get to see Adam Glambert (or Flambert -- depends on if you think he's Glamorous or Flamboyant) and his whole performance.  Here you go... (and Em, SO SORRY I spoiled last night's results for you!).  It's not great quality, but it's better than nothing. I couldn't find a copy to embed, but here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz-pNrj_MHY

5. Quick Lunch Rush of Entertainment News Bits I Couldn't Care Less About...

Is it just me or does Samantha look like LiLo's brother?  Or the male version of Lindsay?  Maybe that's all she really wanted...was to date herself.

So what if Britney Spears walked off stage during a concert? Does that really need to be all over the TV and radio?

I am SO sick of all seeing plastic surgery stories. Except I do have to say this picture is pretty bad. That's Daryl Hannah and not the Tiger Lady (or Ron Pearlman). Why can't people just grow old gracefully?

Stay tuned tomorrow for a belated LOSTapooloza!

That's it for this week!