I’ve always loved Halloween. A lot of it probably has to do with the fact that I grew up in the costume business. My dad’s mother owned the largest costume shop in the Southwest, outside of Hollywood. Some of my earliest memories are wandering through her shop looking at masks, and when she built a warehouse, I spent hours crawling through the racks, playing with swords and just marvelling in the wonders of costuming.

When I was 8, my mom opened her own costume shop here in Missouri and by the time I was 11, I was the only kid I knew with a make-up kit…stage make-up thank you. How many kids can tell you that they can make realistic bullet holes, chop off fingers and they mix their own blood capsules because “the commercially released ones suck”. Yep, you could say Halloween is in my…blood. Yeah, it was cheesy, so sue me.

Mom finally closed her costume shop several years ago, but there are still reminders of our past all over our house. Most horror movies do nothing for me because I am too busy looking at the make-up effects, visual gags and going “Oh come on, you could have at least blended the pancake at the collar!” No..I am not fun to watch movies with most of the time.

All that being said, I thought I would give you a list of some of my fave scary movies and TV shows.

Movies
Halloween - You can not make a list of scary movies without listing this one. It rejuvinated the lackluster horror genre of the 1970’s and really put Jamie Lee Curtis on the map. If it hadn’t been for John Carpenter’s vision of Michael Meyers, you probably wouldn’t have Jason, Freddy, Scream or any of the other horror films that followed.

Funny side story. The mask of Michael is a Capt. Kirk, of Star Trek, mask painted white. It was the only mask Carpenter’s prop man could find in a hurry. Years later, when Don Post Jr. wanted to make a Michael mask, he already had the mold, so was way easy to do. One problem, he had to pay to license it yet again since it was now considered another character. Too funny.

Hellraiser - A little bit heavy on the gore, too many horror movies think gore = good, but it overcomes it with an intriguing plot and creepy concepts.

The Nightmare Before Christmas - One of the things I love about this movie is that it will probably make my Christmas list also! Great music, amazing visuals and a cute story adds up a fun, yet dark, film.

Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock was a master of subtle horror. He could scare you more with what you didn’t see, than with what you saw. Has there ever been a scarier scene than the shower with Janet Leigh? And the casting of Anthony Perkins as Norman? Inspired! This is one of the few times I have liked a movie better than the book!

Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton rocks. Johnny Depp rocks. Christina Ricci rocks. This movie was destined to be cool. Sure, some of the legend of the Headless Horseman was changed, but it still was a great, fun ride.

TV Shows
Kolchak - The Night Stalker - Sure the production values look horrible now, but this show had some top notch writing, great concepts and the stellar performing skills of Darin McGavin. If it wasn’t for this show, the X-Files and the new Night Stalker would have never come about. Well…yay for X-Files at least.

Tales from the Crypt - Based on the old EC Comics series of the same name, this show ran on HBO for several seasons and had some amazing guest actors and directors. The Crypt Keeper’s intros and exits were always amusing to.

And for free tonight on the Sci Fi Channel, you can catch the Ghsot Hunters Halloween Special! I love this show. You can also get season 1 of it on DVD now, but if nothing else, check out tonights episode at 10 EST/9 CST.

Happy Hauntings everyone!

May I just say Sir Alex Ferguson needs to get his head out of his behind and fix whatever it is that’s wrong with Manchester United this season! They lost 4-to-1 against Middlesbrough on Saturday. MIDDLESBROUGH!!! They are in eleventh, Man United was in second, but due to the loss they have now slipped to sixth. Meanwhile Chelsea is in first place with 31 points, a full 13 ahead of Man United.

I may have to go cry in a corner now.

(for those of you who have no clue what I am talking about, this is all about Premiere League soccer)

You know, I love music, and I am always for helping out in promoting exciting new bands. So, have you heard about Prussian Blue? You haven’t? Well, they are twin girls from California and are just as cute as can be! Their names are Lynx and Lamb, and I think they are going to be tearing up the charts soon with their unique music. Why, they even already are doing some modelling!

Oh…did I forget to mention they are white supremacists? Silly me! Yep, you read that right folks, these new Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen wanna-bes are singing all about their pure aryan heritage and spreading their own special breed of hate for all non-aryans.

Why do I even bring this up? Well, for some odd reason, the mainstream media picked up a story on them this week. It even got as far as being mentioned in this weeks episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Why the media picked up on this, I have no idea, but is fine by me that people know this sort of thing is going on.

Yes, the USA does have the freedom of speech, and they have every right to say what ever disgusting, vile thing they want to. What disgusts me is that they are being used in such a way, and I do mean “used”. It disgusts me even more they have a fan base. The idea of using children to promote such a venomous message is, I hate to use the word again, disgusting. These are children. If they want a musical career, fine, let them sing about what kids care about, but to use them as what boils down to poster children for such a polarizing subject just turns my stomach.

What prompted me to write this entry though was a story on their official web site about how their apperance at the Kern County Fair in Bakersfield had been cancelled due to “security concerns” (all quotes come from the information posted on the Prussian Blue website). It seems that Lynx and Lamb had some of their friends hand out flyers about their upcoming apperance at school. A female student who “disagreed with their politics” informed their mother, and the mother was the one to express concerns to “the public censors at The Californian“. The Californian then went on to inform the fair officials and that is how the show got cancelled. Now, the account on the web site also says how sad their friends were that the show had been cancelled because so many of them had planned on attending.

Wow…I’m speechless. Is there a growing youth movement of hatred I am unaware of? The biggest thing going when I was in school was who was going to buy the booze that weekend. I can’t remember even once going “Hey gang, let’s hop in our cars and drive down to the local fair to hear our friends sing songs about white supremacy! YAY!” You can check out their…lyrics…here. For the record, I did listen to a 44 second clip of a song from their second album that they are working on. Um…not to be mean, but…I think someone stepped on a cat’s tail and called it singing. They can’t hold a tune, can’t harmonize and they are so heavily filtered by the mixing that it is just a mess.

I guess to sum it up, I feel bad for these girls. All parents influence their kids, I know mine did, and I am sure they would have gotten at least some of this thinking in their heads anyway. Using them as poster children for such a movement though…I just hope they can get over it someday.

(I also find it interesting to note the family mentions several times the girls are home-schooled, yet, somehow, they won awards from “their school” last year.)

As The Apprentice 4 opened this week, Felisha and Alla were hoping that Kristi would be the one to return to the suite, but instead, Jennifer was the one to walk through the door. Awwww poor Blonde Squad didn’t get what they wanted. Oh well, that’s life girls.

Both teams were told to choose their project managers and meet in the board room the next morning. Alla was PM for Capital Edge and Josh for Excel. Once in the room, they discovered Trump and George were both away on business, so only Carolyn and Bill, winner of Apprentice 1, were waiting for them. In Trump’s abscence, Carolyn took over the boss’s seat and asked Alla to choose her three weakest members and move them to Excel. She chose Jennifer, Rebecca, and Marshawn. In turn, Josh was asked to name three and he picked Clay, Adam, and Markus to go to Capital Edge. So to recap, the team line-ups are now Marshawn, Rebecca, James, Jennifer, Brian, Mark, and Josh on Excel and the new Capital Edge is Alla, Clay, Felisha, Adam, Markus, and Randal.

They were then given their task which was to set up an “interactive sales event”, based on a sport of their choice, at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store. The team that generated the biggest increase in sales, based on percentages, would be the winner. Capital Edge listened to Markus (insert me fainting here) and went with golf, while Excel chose baseball.

As Capital Edge tried to set up their event, Alla and Clay were at odds over how to set up the display but finally went with a fairway theme. They chose to focus on three main golf categories:apparel, golf clubs and golfing tips and family & fun. However, the next day, Clay continued whining about everything and took Alla aside, and while holding her hands, told her how displeased he was at how his ideas were being torn apart. Don’t worry, I didn’t understand his whining either. When Carolyn stopped by to check it out, she asked Markus who on the team knew golf as they appeared to be unknowledgable in the industry, which she would know working on it for Trump. Markus admitted none of them played golf. A personal comment here, my dad worked in the golf industry for over 20 years, the majority of which he spent as a salesman, he has never played a round of golf and was one of his companies top salesman. While I see Carolyn’s point, golf is somewhat of a business that can take care of itself.

Excel seemed all gung-ho on doing a baseball diamond with a sales station at each base with a batting cage for people to try out equipment. When they arrived the next morning, they discovered the batting cage was bigger than expected and made seeing the products more difficult, as Marshawn pointed out, but they kept it anyway feeling it would all be fine. During the actual event, Mark ran the pitching machine while James gave pointers to the people playing in the cage. While the line was long for the cage, Brian expressed concernes it was distracting from sales.

At the end of the day, the teams went back to the board room and Carolyn called Trump to inform him of the results. Capital Edge increased sales in the golf department by an impressive 74% over the average. Excel…well…Excel DECREASED sales by 34% in the baseball department. It was fairly obvious it could almost all be blamed on the cage. As a reward to Capital Edge, they were flown by a private jet up to Montauk in East Hampton where they enjoyed deep sea fishing and a dinner on the beach with a private chef.

As Excel prepped for the board room, Mark and Josh discussed who should go. Mark wanted James to go as he had always planned to float and not do much, Josh was for Jennifer going as she had promised she could sell the high end items with no problem, but had instead spent most of her time working an outside vendor to sell hot dogs. They promised they would help defend each other though.

In the board room, Trump returned and immediately expressed his anger over such a huge defeat. Rebecca said the batting cage was to blame, which James took credit for suggesting. Jennifer said it was all Josh’s fault as a bad project manager, but he immediately jumped on her lack of sales on the high end items like she said she could deliver. Trump finally cut everyone off and told Josh that due to the size of the loss, he was not going to have the usual project manager luxury of choosing he would come back in the room. Trump said Brian (because of his exemption from last week), Rebecca and Marshawn (the two of them because everyone thought they both had done well) may return to the suite while Josh, Jennifer, Mark and James would all come back in.

Trump discussed it with Bill and Carolyn before bringing them back in and Carolyn summed it up best “I can’t pick one of them!” When the four returned, Jennifer tried defending herself, but it was pointless. Trump said to Jennifer the she let him down. Funniest moment of the episode had to be Jennifer saying to Trump “You shouldn’t fire me Mr. Trump. You would be making a big mistake.” The look on Trump’s face was priceless.

Trump then spoke to Josh saying he was a lousy leader, that James’ batting cage was a horrible idea and to Mark he reminded him that he failed to sell a single item. After a few more seconds he said “You’re all fired. All four are fired.” The look on Josh’s face was total disbelief. As they sat their amazed, Trump finally had to say “Go home…go home.” to get them out of the room. The cab ride with four people all sitting in total silence was another amazing moment.

A few comments on this one. First of all, I just have to say how much I love Carolyn and I want to see more and more of her. Her part has been stepped up, but honestly, I want to see her even more she is so interesting. The other thing is just how good this episode was. It was a brave move to fire four people since it means shortening the show by three episodes, but it makes the show that much more real.

Survivor Gautemala opened this week with the Nakum tribe returning from their heated tribal council where Judd and Margaret had gone after each other with such vigor. Judd expressed happiness at her ouster, mentioning how she has just pushed all of his buttons. Sorry Judd, but I think you pushed some of your own buttons in that fight.

The Yaxha tribe was tribe was having some trouble as some of them got some pretty nasty injuries from last weeks immunity challange with the giant ball. Bobby Jon had a really nasty injusry on his upper right shoulder that when he tried to take his shirt off, it actually had blended in with the wound. As he took the shirt off, he was pulling away the early stages of his scab. Looked painful. We also learned that Brandon’s shoulers also carried similar injuries.

The teams went to the reward challange which was…well…to be blunt, it was odd. There were four poles set up. A team mate would talk up to a pole, hook on to the fabric, and then spin, wrapping themselves up. That person would then move to pole #2, hook on again, and be joined by a second person and they would wrap up together and so on until pole #4. Once all four were wrapped, you could then unwrap yourselves. First tribe to get everyone on to their mat would win reward. Long story short, Yaxha won. Reward was a zip-line ride through the trees, ending at a chocolate buffet. Reasoning behind this being that the Mayans discovered chocolate.

On Yaxha’s way back from their reward, they decided to stop and ask Nakum if they would like to come back to the pool they had won previously to celebrate Danni’s birthday and share in some of the sweets from the reward. Nakum aggreed and went over. We got treated to a very sullen and pissed-off Jamie who felt it was wrong for them to associate with the other tribe like this. He finally put a kaboosh on the going ons by reminding everyone they needed to get their camps ready for the night. The anger on Stephanie’s face was fairly obvious.

The immunity challange was a giant team puzzle that members collected that pieces and then assembled. The puzzles had the name of their tribe on it and looked like the ancient Mayan calanders. Nakum took an early lead and held it to bring home a victory, sending Yaxha to tribal council.

Amy and Gary were feeling outnumbered, but were unsure of what to do to swing votes over to oust Bobby Jon. There was a fleeting hope when Amy and Danni talked, but it didn’t last long and Amy was sent home.

As the tribe prepared to leave the tribal council area, Probst stopped them and informed them they would not be going back to the Yaxha camp as they were being merged with Nakum. He handed them their new buffs and told them all of their items would be moved over. This is the first time the merge has happened in this fashion and you could see the tribe was shook by this turn of events. That’s what Survivor is all about folks.

This weeks The Apprentice:Martha Stewart started off with Primarius wondering if it would be Jim or Jennifer would be returning from the conference room, obviouslly they were hoping it would be Jennifer. Oops! Sorry Charlie! The team took Jim aside and asked him if he could put everything behind him and he said he was willing to do so and work as hard as possible to win the next task.

As the teams relaxed, the doorbell began ringing. Howie finally answered the door to find Martha standing there wanting to stop by to say hello and check out the loft. Everyone was giddy by her visit until she asked to see their bedrooms. This caused Howie to book it to his bed to make it. What made this even funnier was that Howie’s wife had warned him this might happen and that he should keep his bed made. That will teach him to listen to his wife!

While Martha toured the loft she found Jim and talked with him for a few minutes. She informed him that she would like to see him as a project manager for the coming task. He said he would be up to the challange. Oh joy.

The next morning everyone was transported out to Martha’s Connecticut studios to learn what the next task would be. Eash team was being assigned four celebrity dog owners that they were to negotiate an experiance with. The events they negotiated would be auctioned off at the Beneful Celebrity Dog Auction which benefits Broadway Barks, a charity that helps homeless dogs and providing funds for New York animal shelters. The winning team would be the one to raise the most money. Primarius was assigned Paul & Amanda Sorvino, Susan Lucci, John Lithgow & Joanna Gleason and Todd Oldham. Matchstick were given Chad Pennington, Fran Drescher, Bruce Villanch & Jordan Ballard and Merv Griffin.

I won’t bore you with each indvidual negotiation, but they were interesting. Matchstick’s had two major problems. Their project manager, Marcela, was basically a lump in all the meetings, allowing her team mates to control everything. David was also a big zero in his meetings, and evern served as a distraction in the meeting with Merv Griffin when Mr. Griffin expressed displeasure at the fact David was typing on his laptop during the meeting, even though it was for taking notes. I would chalk that up to David’s age, but the idea of clicking keys in such an intimate setting would also drive me batty.

Over at Primarius, Jim was his usual, annoying, egotistical self. Proving this mostly at dinner by drinking far more than he should and not discussing the task, wasting valuable time. Otherwise his team did a wonderful job in spite of him.

As the auction went on, the race seemed strongly in Matchsticks favor, and Jim even started to talk of feeling like he would be the one to go. Sadly, the results ended up being Matchstick $40,350 to the $44,100 total of Primarius. Darn it! Jim won as project manager! At least it was all for a good cause.

Matchstick prepped to go the conference room and it was clearly going to be a battle between David and Marcela as to who was going to be the one to go. David felt it was ok for him to sit back, but Charles, Martha’s CEO, pointed out that maybe he could have contributed an idea that would have given em the winning amount they needed. The team leaned towards Marcela being the one to go while Marcela felt David should be the one to go. Martha finally sent everyone back to loft except for David and Marcela.

As she brought them back in to the room, she asked each why they should be the one to stay. David brought up that he wanted to rework Martha’s internet strategy and Marcela said she wanted this job more than anything and felt she would be a better fit. In the end, David was sent home, but there was some discussion after he left of putting him in contact with Martha’s internet division about his ideas he had stated so nicely. He might have a future yet.

Next week…DOUBLE FIRING!

It was time to leave New Orleans very first thing on this week’s Amazing Race:Family Edition. The first clue told everyone they needed to fly 2,000 miles to Panama City in…PANAMA! The road side attractions of the USA are over, for now, and we are back where Amazing Race belongs, on international soil! YES! Once in Panama City they were to travel 31 miles to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, take a boat across the Panama Canal to the island home of the Institute and find a scientist named Ricardo Diaz who would give them their next clue.

The teams first were instructed to take one of two flights, a Continental or an American Airlines flight. The Bransen family called ahead and learned the Continental flight would arrive at 6:40 PM and the American would land at 9:10 PM. It was an obvious choice which plane everyone would prefer to be on. Once at the airport, the teams learned they couldn’t buy tickets until the morning, but they all waited at the Continental desk, not knowing how many seats there were. The Bransens, Linzs and Paolos all got seats. This left the Godlewski, Gaghan and Weaver families to take the later American flight.

Once they all arrived at the boat dock, they were all hit with an equalizer as the boats wouldn’t be leaving until 7 AM the next morning. The families all took seperate boats with the Paolos leading the way, the Linzs ended up with a slow boat that slipped them from second to fifth place, and the Gaghans got a scare when their boat driver wanted to stop for more passangers, but the parents talked him out of it.

Once at the Institute, the families all searched for the hammock-swinging Ricardo Diaz. This clue led to the Detour for this leg of the race and as always, here is the official sites explanation:

“In this Detour, Teams had to choose between Rhythm and Coos. In Rhythm, Teams had to travel by red devil bus to the Casco Viejo neighborhood and visit several locations to collect four musical instruments: a trumpet, a trombone, a saxophone and a congo drum. After Teams had all four instruments, they had to deliver them on foot to a club called Take Five Jazz and Wine where the bandleader would hand them their next clue. In Coos, Teams needed to travel by red devil bus to El Parque Metropolitano and use binoculars to search the rainforest canopy for wooden replicas of five local birds, then circle their discoveries on an aviary chart to present to the bird expert. If they circled the wrong birds, they had to repeat the task until they got it right.”

Before the teams could decide anything, they also learned their clue contained the only Fast Forward for the entire race. For those of you unfamiliar with this, it is a special task that, if completed, allows the team to race ahead to the pit stop and skip all tasks. The task was to make their way to the Pacific side of the Panama Canal and find the crane at Pier 14. Once there, teams would split into pairs and make a 140 foot tandem bungee jump. Two teams went for it, the Paolos and the Gaghans. Sadly, the Paolos got there first, and after some initial fear, completed the task, meaning the Gaghans had to go one of the Detour tasks. The Paolos went straight to the Mira Flores Locks, the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, which was the pit stop for this leg, allowing them to come in first.

The Bransens and Weavers decided to spot birds, while the Godlewski and Linz families teamed up over their dislike of the Weavers to help each other deliver instruments. I was a little disgusted with just how much work the Linz boys did compared to the Godlewski sisters, but to each their own. Once the Gaghans were back in the area, they also went for the instruments.

Receivng the next clue, the teams were instructed to find a baseball stadium, Estadio Juan Demostenes Arosemena, for their next clue. Once there, they were instructed in the Roadblock for this leg. One member of each team would take a turn at bat trying to get a base run or a home run off of a champion little league pitcher. Each batter would get three tries and then have to wait in line to try again.

This led to one of the most intesting moments of the night. While Rolly Weaver was at bat, Alex Linz was taunting him to miss. Linda Weaver took exception to this and told him to be quiet and that they were cheering everyone on. Now mind you, earlier in the episode, Linda had told the Linz’s bus driver to slow down, not that he listened, so she is just as guilty as wishing ill on another team as anyone. I am so looking forward to the Weavers coming in last at some point.

As the teams worked their way through the batting, the battle for last place got down to the Gaghans and the Godlewskis. The Gaghans got out of there with only one pitch, leaving the sister team in last place. As they both raced to the pit stop, the Godlewskis decided to put on as many clothes as possible in case this was a non-elimination round. I will admit, they looked funny, but it was rather smart. Non-elimination round rules say you lose all your money and all your possesions except the clothes on your back…well…if you are wearing nearly all your clothes, what can they do? Sure, they looked silly, but it paid off as they came in last and it did turn out to be a non-elimination leg. I applaud them for thinking ahead. It also gave us the great line from the host, Phil Keoghan: “Did you know it was illegal in Panama to wear underpants on top of underpants on top of your pants?”

I love Phil.

I love DVD’s with alternate endings. It gives you a great insight into the thought process of the film makers. It lets you speculate what could have been and they are always interesting.

So, imagine my surprise while I was just watching Gilmore Girls (don’t laugh), and there was a Titanic - Special Collector\’s Edition DVD coming out. What caught my attention was “…with an alternate ending”. Um…excuse me? Is this the ending where the Titanic defeats the evil iceberg and discover it was a secret plot by a foreign power? How do you have an “alternate ending” for a story about…THE TITANIC? It is clear that James Cameron is insane. It also has 25 delted scenes, as if the movie wasn’t long enough already.

Everyone do me a favor, remember this will never be on my Amazon wishlist! If someone bought this for me…well…let’s just say you would need a doctor to remove it.

If you do not know who Rosa Parks is, you really need to read up on this woman. On December 1st, 1955, while sitting in the “colored” section of a Montgomery, AL bus, she was ordered by the bus driver to give up her seat to a white man as the white’s only section was full. Ms. Parks refused and was arrested for “disorderly conduct”. Many people credit this moment as the beginning of the civil rights movement in the USA.

You never really hear the news mention them any more, but the Mars Rovers are still going strong. Both rovers were slated to have a 90 day life span while they explored the surface of Mars. Spirit, the first rover to land, has now been going for over 640 days. Oppurtunity, the second to make planet fall, has been going for over 620 days. Do you think we have gotten our monies worth out of these yet?

Considering the bad track record of NASA on other missions, the success of these rovers is astounding. You have to wonder if anyone who works on these missions would think these little fellas would still be going after this long. My question is, why are we pondering sending manned missions back to the Moon in 2018, when these little guys are doing such a good job? Couldn’t we just send more of these rovers out? I realize the gravity of the Moon is less than Mars, but the rovers were built to have different wheel systems, so certainly we could adapt them to a lower gravity situation.

The Apprentice 4 opened with the men awaiting the return of the the women’s team. The looks on their faces was priceless as the entire team came back at once, minus Toral. The women didn’t seem that interested in discussing what happened except amongst themselves to decide that “what happens in the board room, stays in the board room”. Thank you Las Vegas for giving us that now overused gem of a slogan.

The next morning the teams met Trump in the Grand Army Plaza. We also learned that Apprentice 1 winner Bill Rancic would be replacing George for this episode. Bill…buddy…what exactly is it you are doing for Trump anyway? Yes, I know they said you were “building” a new building for him, but you seem to spend more time on TV than anything. As the women can’t seem to catch a break, Trump wanted them to choose someone from the men’s team to come over and help them. Without hesitation they asked for Randal. That soft sobbing you hear in the background? That’s Randal crying his eyes out at the prospect of being stuck with these morons. Sorry folks, but that is about the only word befitting of this paticular group of women.

This weeks task was to design a parade float for the new Sony Pictures production Zathura, directed by Jon Favrau. Jon,buddy, go back to making Dinner For Five, have some respect for the great films you did like Swingers. Lord. Both teams went to meet with the director and Geoffrey Ammer from Sony. The men were first up, and project manager Brian immediately mis-prounced the name of the movie, which prompted an immediate twitch from Favrau. The men learned from this and moved on. The women had the same meeting, but no sign of project manager Jennifer M. messing up the name. (Funny side note, NBC.com’s recap spelled Favrau’s first name “John”…oh irony, how I love thee.)

The men set about building their float to resemble the main element of the movie, the board game the film is named for. They also made a decesion to put the name as many places as possible as making sure people understand the title is an important aspect to any marketing for this movie. There was the usual ‘trouble’ with Markus, but honestly, I can’t tell if it’s really him or the other guys thinking there is a problem with him. Right now I am saying it is a mixture of the two.

Over on the women’s team…well…yeah. The on-going disaster did just that, continued to be a disaster. This week the source of trouble was mixed between Jennifer W. and Kristi. Oh no, the Blonde Sqaud was squabbling amongst themselves! The horror! Kristi came up with the concept for the float, which at first sounded decent, but then collapsed into insanity as no one had thought about scale. This was brought upduring construction, but only somewhat acknowledged. It was amusing to see how Randal was totally lost as to how this team even functioned. Jennifer M. also confronted Kristi about her lousy attitude and the stress level just rose from there.

Back on the me’s project, Markus finally talked to Brian about being marginalized, to which Brian basically said too bad. At the same time, Josh has enough of Markus and joined in the argument to say it was time for everyone to stop carrying Markus’ weight. Again, I have to ponder who is really 100% at fault here, but I think it may be a mixture.

As the teams prepared for the judging by Favareu and Ammer, Jennifer pulled something that just amazed me. She took three team members with her to a carpet store to get some red carpet for the presentation as she wanted it to feel like a movie premiere. Um….why does it take four people, at the last minute, to go get one piece of carpet that probably won’t even be noticed? Just curious. The men made an excellent presentation while the women…well…Jennifer M. never said the name of the movie correctly once. Yeah…you guessed it…mis-pronouncing the name, lack of branding and out of scale, the girls lost yet again. The prize for the men was to go in to a recording studio with hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean. What followed was an oddly painful, yet cool, scene of them recording an original song called “The Rubble Man” about project manager Brian.

Ah…the board room. I think the women are going to have their names engraved on these chairs. The board room really turned into a slug-fest between Jennifer M. and Kristi. Kristi said all the fault was Jen’s, and Jen said it was obnoxius style of Kristi that caused all the problems in the team. When Trump finally asked Jen who should come back in with her, she opted only to bring Kristi. Always a risky gamble to bring only one back in as it paid off with Kristi being fired because of her overall negative effect on the team no matter what role she played in the project.

Trump did hint at a major shakeup to the teams next week.

Time for keeping the folks of Survivor Gautemala on their toes again! This time it was a combined reward & immunity challange, but it was individual immunity since both tribes were heading to tribal council that night.

We started off over at Yaxha and a confused Brandon wondering how the 4 strong alliance of Nakum has faltered and voted out one of their own, Blake. Brandon approached the brain-trust known as Bobby Jon for an answer. He rambled a bit, but the final answer had to do with Blake annoying the tribe, and we were left with a puzzled looking Blake standing on their dock, not sure what to think.

At Nakum, it seemed their biggest problem was the neverending mosquito attacks. Well, that and the constant comments about what a sour-puss Margaret is.

The tribes showed up at their challange, expecting only the usual reward, but instead, Nakum had been ordered to bring the immunity idol with them. Jeff Probst took and explained all would be explained in a moment. The reward was a barbacue with hamburgers, hot dogs, root beer and beer. Stephanie’s rapid fire “ohmygodohmygodohmygod” was amusing. The challange was each tribe would send in a team of 2 people, they would then try to roll a giant ball in to the other teams end zone to score a point. First team to score 3 would win. In addition, the tribe to win would compete in the immunity competition for the first indvidual immunity. The winner of the immunity would also win the chance to watch the opposing tribes tribal council to learn info.

First up were Stephanie and Cindy vs. Amy and Danni. It was a good fight, but the Yaxha girls took it. Score 1-to-0. Next up were Judd and Jamie for Yaxha and Bobby Jon and Brandon for Nakum. Yaxha won, bringing the score to 1-to-1, but we were treated to Jamie and Bobby Jon getting into a shouting match complete with chest bumping. Next up were Gary and Amy for Yaxha against Staphanie and Judd. Amy fell and injured her ankle again allowing Nakum to score and making it 2-to-1. In the next round, Amy had to play again since it was all women, and somehow she battled past her injury to tie the score up once more. Final round no matter what had Nakum members Judd & Jamie scoring the winning point. Yaxha was sent home with no food and no chance at immunity.

Immunity was untie three bags of letters and use the contents to spell a two word phrase. After each bag was untied, they had to race back and put them on their bench, once all three bags were there, they could open the bags and work on the words. Everyone was fairly even, except for Judd who had trouble emptying his bags. He looked over at Rafe’s table, and repeatedly said “Ancient Ruins…Ancient Ruins”. Though he didn’t have his letters, he had figured out the words, and by saying it, this allowed Rafe to win.. I couldn’t tell if Judd was just working it out, or telling Rafe on purpose. He claimed he just blurted it out, but it seemed a tad odd.

Back at the Nakum camp, the BBQ was a big hit, but a beer went missing. Everyone was supposed to get two beers and one root beer. Some folks traded there beers to Judd for his root beer and hot dog, and no one could figure out what happened to Cindy’s second beer. It looked like Judd had drunk it, but he never fessed up and tried deflecting blame. It was ugly and stupid, but out there, it is important. Of course, in 114 degree heat, I’m not sure drinking beer is that wise any way, but oh well.

Nakum was the first tribe to go to tribal council and it turned in to the “Judd Vs. Maragaret Show”, to the point even Probst tried to comment on how odd it was, only to be cut off by Judd. In the end, Maragaret was the one to go and Rafe moved over to the jury benches and watched the Yaxha tribal council, which was much friendlier and everyone commenting on what a wonderful guy Brian is. Odd. Oh wait…could it be because they were trying to soften the blow of voting him out? Nah! Before they voted, Rafe was informed he was to go write down one of Yaxha’s names, awarding them with immunity. The name was put in an envolope in the voting urn and would not be revealed until the other voting was over. When it was clear Brian was leaving, Probst opened the envolope revealing Rafe had given immunity to Gary. I would have liked to know why he gave it to him, but oh well.

All in all, a good episode. I think this edition of Survivor just had to thin down the numbers to get to the interesting stuff.

The Apprentice:Martha Stewart started off with a major shake-up to the teams. Martha first asked who on Primarius had not yet been project managers, and from those she selected Ryan to head the new Matchstick and Jennifer to lead the new version of Primarius. She then asked them to choose their teams in a school yard, one at a time, format. Matchstick contained only two original members, David and Marcela. Martha assured everyone she did not think the name Matchstick was cursed, just the people, so let’s refer to them as Matchstick 2.0.

Back in the loft, Ryan talked with Marcela about the fact he had picked her last and that he wanted her to understand he felt she just hadn’t had a chance to shine yet and that he hoped she would step up in whatever the new task was. Over at Primarius, Jim made an ass out of himself. I know…you are all shocked.

The next morning Martha video-conferenced from her home’s kitchen since she would be working from home today. (House arrest anyone?) She explained that they would be creating limited edition salad dressings for Wish-Bone, along with it’s packaging. They would then take the toppings to two different Stew Leonard?s grocery store locations and the team to generate the largest gross take would win.

The teams headed to Wish-Bones offices and test kitchens to come up with their flavors. Ryan put Marcela in charge of Matchstick 2.0’s dressing, seeing no reason why anyone should question a proffesional chef’s domain over the kitchen. To call her giddy and energetic would be an understatement. Her first try tasted great, but didn’t look the best. Her final attempt was Rosemary Lime Vinaigrette. Over at Primarius, they did the same with Bethenny since she has a background in being a natural foods chef. Jim, who has a degree in graphic arts, was assigned the task of designing their packaging. Their final mixture was Asian Vinaigrette. What is with the Vinaigretes? Oh well, neither of these will be for me.

The teams went to their respective stores and set up for business the next day. It would do good to mention her we were clearly shown the motto of Stew Leonard’s, which happens to be on a huge rock next to the front door:

“Rule #1 — The Customer is Always Right”; Rule #2 ? If the Customer is Ever Wrong, Re-Read Rule #1.”

Well, they have never worked for me it would seem. Anyway, Matchstick set their price at $3.49 and Primarius went with $3.99. The difference in the teams was astounding. Matchstick 2.0 was energetic, orgnaized, Marcela was rocking the sales in English and Spanish while setting up the demos at the same time. The only fall down was last weeks disaster-of-a-project manager Leslie, who thought it was ok to just places bottles of the dressing in people’s carts without permission. Yeah, that was a winning idea and bottles of their product were found all over the store. Nothing like selling the same product twice.

Over at Primarius, well…yeah…things weren’t pretty. All of the problems can pretty much attributed to Jim and his…”sales tatics” which were over the top and offensive. After he used the “F” word while talking with his team, and a customer overheard, the grocery story manager, Les, stepped in to tell him to calm down or the team would be thrown out. Wait a minute! Les? What is up with reality shows this week and guys named Les? (If you don’t get that, see my Amazing Race recap) Jennifer considered moving Jim off of sales, but thought he might cause a larger scene if she did that, so she left him on there.

Back in the conference room, the teams were brought in to be told who the winner was. Primarius sold 391 bottles for a total of $1560.09. Matchstick 2.0 sold 453 bottles for a total of $1580.97. Wowzers that was close. It was pointed out that Marcela needed to be credited with much of the win and she beamed like a lighthouse. Good for her. The team was rewarded with a trip on a large Schooner. Quite amusing how Martha was thee to greet the team, but informed them she would be unable to go with them (darn that house arrest!), but she brought them all blankets to keep them warm. I think this is part of the problem with this version of the show. People are only paying attention to these aspects of Martha, but as was seen in this weeks conference room, Martha is not to be trifled with.

Up in the suite, Jim went around to his team telling them how they can’t slay “this dragon” and not to even try to come after him. Howie, who I feel is one of the strongest players in this game, took exception to this. Can’t say as I blame him, and I for one would have seen nothing if he had snapped Jim like the twig he is. Can anyone tell yet I really feel that Jim is one of the worst people to appear on reality television EVER? He brings nothing to the table besides an amazing ego that has nothing to back it up.

In the conference room, Martha dismissed the fact that the win was only by a margin of $20, she was more concerned with the fact it was a margin of 15% difference in the number of bottles. Instead of answering this, Jennifer complimented her team. It was quick to be pointed out how Jim had been admonished for his language and sales tatics. Here was another thing got me about Jim, his posture in the conference room. He sits as if he owns the room and shows no respect to anyone else in there. Man I just want to smack that smirk off his face.

Martha asked Jennifer directly why she did not pull Jim off of sales and she gave the answer of fearing he would explode more. It was fairly evident that Martha was not impressed with this answer. Instead of giving the usual choice to Jennifer of who to bring back in, Martha proclaimed it would be her and Jim and the rest were to return to the loft. The two were called back in and both fought like crazy to defend themselves, in the end it was Jennifer’s inability to manage a problem such as Jim that caused her to be sent home.

I have to say, this was a tough call. As much as I despise Jim (oh how I despise Jim), Jennifer’s lack of willingness to control Jim is what made her the better one to be let go. How could she manage anything if she can’t take care of a problem such as him out of fear of what might happen? She couldn’t.

It has to be said, I am actually enjoying the Martha Stewart Apprentice more than Trump’s. Her ratings are lower, Trump is now bad mouthing her and I don’t care. She is sharper and more decesive than Trump, her tasks are deceptively easy and fluffy and I am just constantly impressed by her, far more than I ever anticipated.

Amazing Race:Family Edition started where it left off, at the Space Shuttle Pathfinder mock-up at Rocket Town, USA in Hunstville, AL, also known as Space Camp. The teams were instructed to drive 100 miles to Anniston, AL and locate the world?s largest office chair, a roadside attraction built 24 years ago. I tell ya, the worlds biggest ball of twine is coming! I feel it in my bones!

Once at the office chair, one member of each team had to climb on to the office chair and grab the clue. Yes, Carissa, the 9 year old girl from the Gaghan family, did climb up there. She is quite the little firecracker. The clue instructed the teams to drive 18 miles to Talladega, AL to the International Motor Sports Hall of Fame. Um…does anyone rember the crazy Weaver family lost their father in an accident at a race track? Needless to say, the Weaver’s were not thrilled at the prospect of being around race cars.

At the Hall of Fame, teams located a clue that instructed them to go to the Talladega Super Speedway and complete one lap of the track on a contraption known as a Party Bike. A bicycle built for seven people, it just looks blasted odd going around the track. I really, really hope this stop on the race was decided on before the Weavers were chosen for the race. This was also where we saw the first indications that the Schroeder family was breaking down, and especially Stassi, the teenage daughter. When Mark was having problems with the bike seat, he stopped to adjust it which led to a Stassi freak out. Also, we were treated to Carissa being unable to reach the peddles, and her declaring that her legs weren’t tired when the task was over. Too funny.

Upon completition, the teams wereinformed to drive 260 miles to Hattiesburg, MS and find the Southern Colonel, a trailer home dealership. Once there, the teams were told to search the trailer homes for yellow cards with departure times. Once they pulled a time they could not switch trailers, and they would be spending the night in the trailers they were in. Departure times were 7:20 AM, 7:40 AM and 8:00 AM.

And prepare yourselves for Stassi freak-outs take 2 & 3! As they searched Hattisburg for the Colonel, the Schroeder’s stopped to ask a cop if he knew what it was. He told them it was a home dealer and exactly where it was. Mark, the dad, said that didn’t sound correct to him and he wanted to search more on his own, Stassi freaked saying they should listen to the cop. Once they stopped at a gas station and learned the cop as been correct, Stassi freaked out some more, but full-blown freak-out #3 was still to come. Once at the trailers, the family wanted to grab the first time they found, 8:00 AM, Stassi said no to it, but the rest of them said yes. And yes! full-on freak-out #3 commenced!

In the morning, the teams were told to drive 84 miles to Richland, MS and locate Les at a BP gas station…..Les….an Amazing Race clue where you have to find a guy named “Les”….I’m speechless. Along the way, the Linz and Bransen families had some good natured fun as they were driving literally neck-and-neck. The Linz boys were treated to the sight of a Bransen girl girl mooning. Dad must have been so proud.

Stassi freak-out #4 came when the family had to get gas at the BP station. After meeting “Les” (I am still speechless), the teams told to drive 151 miles to Madisonville, LA and locate the Fairview Riverside State Park. The Stassi freak-outs continued as the Schroeder family made the mistake of taking a smaller highway as Mark felt the interstate would take them too far out of the way.

At the park, it was detour time and, as always, I will cut to the official webite explanation:

In this Detour, Teams had to choose between Work and Play. In Work, Teams would use a two-person handsaw to cut four slices off a log 12 inches in diameter. In Play, Teams would make their way to a riverboat and play 21 against a professional dealer. To win a round, the hand of each Team member needed to total more than the dealer?s hand. Once Teams win three rounds, they would earn their clue.

Tough, tough call. 21 was further away, but sawing is hard work. I think I would have gone with the sawing as it was right there. And blast it if the Gaghans didn’t switch half-way through! I hate that! Never a wise choice! Stassi had some mini-freak-outs, but nothing major darn it.

The teams new clue told them to drive to New Orleans,LA (yes, this was filmed pre-Hurricane Katrina) and find Preservation Hall, a 255-year-old landmark in the famed French Quarter which was serving as the pit stop for this leg.

We also had another family freak-out this time with the Goldlewski sisters. when Christine insisted on taking her backpack while her sisters didn’t want to, not knowing how far they would have to walk. Christine cried at this…me thinks the pressure of the race is too much for some people.

As the teams came racing in, the Bransen family took first again, and won a trip for four from Travelocity. The Paolos, whom I prefer not to discuss at all as they irritate me so much, came in second.

And in last place, and eliminated…the Schroeders. I find it interesting this is the second family eliminated, the other being the Rogers, that had a ‘kid’ not be listned to, the father laying down the law and they ended up being eliminated. Think there is a moral here?

The Netherlands are on their fifth edition of Big Brother, but they are on a global first….one of the contestants just gave birth in the house. Tanja, a 27 year old, aspiring lawyer, entered the house pregnant.

After some wrangling with the Dutch goverment, the newborn can be seen for a total of 8 hours over the course of the show. (it seems the baby hamster violated some actor’s union rules) For the time being, Joscelyn Savanna is being kept in a camera-free room where nurses watch over her and Tanja and the grandparents can visit her undisturbed.

According to the above linked article, this is part of a bizarre trend in Dutch television that also included a news journalist this week also snorting cocaine and then being interviewed about it. Fun place the Netherlands.

Found this really interesting. Seems the largest wi-fi “hot spot” is 700 square miles of rural Oregon. Great idea for a test location for something this massive, but as the article states, I think they will have a hard time ever doing something like this in a major city like groups such as Google are trying. I think there will be too many complaints from the likes of SBC and the such, but I don’t care personally, this IS going to happen at some point.

I don’t think for a second that there won’t be some day in the future where I will be able to open up my laptop anywhere I want and log on to the net. Think of how that will change the world. VoIP anytime, anyplace? Instant messages in your car? (not while you are driving hopefully) Just as the internet changed business, this will change things just as much as no one will be locked down to a desk any more. You will also the price of laptops begin dropping radically as more and more people switch to just buying them for the conveniance.

The time is coming folks, and I for one can’t wait.

Stolen from hambam

1. What did you do last night? Cured cancer, ran a marathon and dined in Paris….or maybe I just sat here watching TV

2. Who was the last person you called? Brian

3. What does the 5th text on your phone say? Nothing since I don’t have text messaging.

4. When was the last time you thought about sex? How long ago did I start this?

5. When was the last time you got hurt? Friday night, stepped on a sewing needle, hurt like hell.

6. When was the last time you cried? Little over a week ago for reasons I would rather not discuss.

7. When was the last time you lost something? About a week ago.

8. What are you listening to right now? Cash in the Attic on BBC America

9. Why did your last relationship end? Because she insulted me…DEEPLY insulted me.

10. What bothers you the most about the opposite sex? Lord…where does one even start? *laugh*

11. Where was the best date you’ve ever been on? Hmmmm, dinner and a movie quite a while back.

12. What was the last thing a guy/girl bought for you? A DVD

13. Do you date more than one person at once? No.

14. What was the last movie you watched? Serenity

15. What was the last t.v show that you watched? Cash in the Attic on BBC America

16. What do you want for your b-day? Money.

17. What are you doing tonight? Watching Rome, Footballer’s Wives and writing Ebay auctions.

18. When was the last time you went on vacation? Labor Day weekend 1996…I am not kidding.

19. How do you feel right now? Tired as always.

20. Who do you think will do this survey next? Someone else avoiding work.

I can not stress this enough, I do not agree with neo-Nazis, white supremacists or any of their ilk. I think a fun evening would be to transport them all back to 1940’s Germany and mark them as being Jewish to see how they enjoy it.

That being said, what in the world happened in Toledo, Ohio this weekend? For this of you who do not know yet, the city had approved a march by a neo-Nazi group known as the National Socialist Movement. They were wanting to march through a certain neighborhood, under police protection, to protest recent gang violence. Around the middle of the week, the police got word that gang members and other assorted folks were planning to protest the protest. The police came prepared, but things quickly spiraled out of control. After the neo-Nazi’s were surrounded by protestors hurling rocks, the police asked the NSM members to get out of there for everyone’s safety, which they did.

Here is where I personally get confused. The locals had accomplished what they wanted by stopping the march, but they continued to riot. Twelve police were injured by flying rocks and once received a concussion while sitting in her cruiser from a brick coming through the side window. Cars were vandalized, a gas station had it’s windows busted out and a local pub was burned down.

How did all of this relate to the neo-Nazis in any way? How does burning down a local business serve any purpose. One person summed up the anger heard in many articles though:

“This never should have happened,” 80-year-old Ed Kusina, who has lived in the neighborhood nearly all his life, said Sunday. “They should have never let them march here.”

And there’s the problem, they couldn’t be stopped. Like it or not, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution gaurentees that the goverment may not infringe the freedom of speech or limit the right to assemble peaceably. No matter how disgusting this group of people may be, they are protected by those rights, just like anyone else.

People have asked why Mayor Jack Ford did not do anything to stop the march before it even started, and this was the only defense of his I could find:

“Mayor Jack Ford said there was little the city could do to stop the supremacist group because they did not apply for a parade permit and instead planned to walk along sidewalks.”

I guess the point I am trying to make here is that I am just boggled by this. I understand the neo-Nazis are idiots and they had soemthing to say, got that part. I understand residents of Toledo were unhappy about this, I don’t blame them one bit. What I don’t get is why they continued destroying property after the idiots left? What possible purpose did all of that serve?

It amazes me how little coverage some of the other global disasters are getting as of late. You can’t turn on the TV without hearing about the POSSIBLE (and I mean to stress that) pandemic of the Asian Bird Flu, but you are hearing so little, in comparisson, about the death toll from the earthquake in Pakistan and the floods in Gautemala.

Don’t get me wrong, the Asian Bird Flu could be horrific, but that is not an immediate problem. There are people suffering in Pakistan right now because there isn’t enough relief getting to them. There are more people reported missing each day in Gautemala. There are still people homeless due to Hurricane Katrina. But let’s spend lots of resources, meaning journalistic resources, on a possible story that may or may not happen. (I know you were all wondering where this was going, yes, it is yet another rant against journalists.)

This is just another example of a story having to be “sexy” to get any coverage here. New Orleans is no longer sexy. The city is dry, it’s cleaning up, people are moving back in and in a couple months we will get an update story about how the city recovered. The Pakistan earthquake is hardly getting any mention due to no good video to go along with it. Gautemala, well, I doubt it would even be covered if Survivor wasn’t currently taking place there. (I kid you not on that)

But Avian Bird Flu…oh very sexy. It has an exotic name. It has lots of images to go along with it like men in hazmat suits moving birds around on a farm for testing and close images of the virus. They can stroll out dozens upon dozens of ‘experts’ on the coming menace and it is easy to rotate them amongst the networks.

Meanwhile, 38,000 are dead in Pakistan while another 62,000 are injured. The death toll is expected to rise in the coming days due to a lack of tents and dropping tempartures. The higher altitude villages, that have not yet been reached with aid, will have many more deaths before anyone ever gets to them.

Let’s see that footage of the guys carrying around birds by their feet again for testing, can’t get enough of that.

This week opened with both teams of the Apprentice 4 standing around waiting to see the women return from the board room. They were all fairly certain that Rebecca would be the one fired since she hadn’t taken Toral back in with her. Surprise everyone, here comes Rebecca back.

The women sat down for a tame chat later so Rebecca could explain her reasoning. Kristi was point blank that she expected Toral to step up more in this task to pay Rebecca back for saving her behind. Toral said she would do what she could.

The task was set this week as coming up with a new mascot and promotional materials for Dairy Queen’s popular Blizzard brand of ice cream treats. Clay stepped up to lead the men and on the women’s side, Toral stepped up, then backed off, to lead the women. To end the arguing, Felisha finally said she would lead the team. You could tell the women were not impressed with Toral’s half-hearted attempt at stepping up, but they moved on.

The teams headed to Dairy Queen headquarters to start tossing around ideas for their characters. Clay turned into a dictator while Felisha demonstrated a total lack of advertising knowledge. The women came up with Zip the…well…no one was quite sure what Zip was except big-eyed and logoless. Who makes a mascot for a company without a company logo on them? And bonus points to Jennifer M. for being the one to bring this point up numerous times while they were designing their…thing.

Over on the men’s side, they came up with “Ginny the Blizzard Genie”. I will admit I was turned off by the concept at first because they seemed to be making her too sexy, but in the final design her assets were massively toned down from the original drawings. At the designers they asked who would be wearing the costume, and Mark, the self-confessed redneck stepped up. While the women, mainly the four I referred to as “The Blonde Squad”, Jennifer, Kristi, Alla, and Felisha, decided it should be Toral to wear the costume. They called her since she was still at DQ headquarters and asked her if she would. She said she had problems with the costume and felt it was degrading. Kristi was quick to say she was done with Toral and that she didn’t care what happened ot her from here on out. In the end, Kristi stepped into the costume.

Honestly, the episode was fairly boring because it was so much about the girls new found hatred for Toral, other things got overshadowed. The meeting to show off the characters were interesting since the DQ execs were quick to point out that Zip was too directed at children when the main demographic for Blizzards is teenagers and he lacked a DQ logo anywhere on him/her/it. Gee, didn’t Jennifer M. bring that up in the meeting? Thought so. The men hit it out of the ballpark with Ginny though as she had mass appeal, had a quickly noticed DQ logo on her and her hair even resembled soft-serve ice cream. I do have to say the fruit and cheese plate they brought to the meeting was over the top, but oh well, they got the win.

The prize for this week was a trip to Shay stadium to play baseball with the Mets and the men decided to give Clay immunity, even though he had been rather unbearable during the task. Mark informed the audience that dressing in drag got him time playing baseball with a major league team, he would dress in drag every day. You can now find Mark performing under the name Chantilly Lace down in the drag queen bars in New York. On a side note, the men of the Apprentice also won the game against the Mets, no big surprise. (yes folks, my tounge was firmly planted in my cheek on both of those last items.)

As the women prepared for yet another trip to the board room, Felisha made it clear that Toral was the cause for their loss because she was such a weak link. Let me be clear about this, I am not defending Toral, she was a waste, but to blame your entire loss on her is silly. Did the DQ execs say “Well, we were going to let you win, but then we spotted Toral wasn’t in the costume, so you lost.” No, you lost due to lack of market research and a lack of branding, both are items that rest firmly with the project manager, not with the weakest link in the team. As Felisha made the rounds to make sure everyone was on board with getting rid of Toral, Jennifer M. Did ask about the branding again, but was informed that was a team fault, not an single person’s fault. Right Felisha, you keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

Up in the board room, the lack of a logo again was brought up, but was quickly brushed off as everyone focused their attacks on Toral. Again, no defense of Toral, but I really don’t think this weeks loss can be blamed on her, but she made a large mistake when she changed how her objection to wearing the costume wasn’t just based on it being degrading, but also went against her religious convictions…..huh? Could someone please inform me which religion says you can’t wear silly costumes? Guess I missed that one when I read about religions. My bad. I think in the end, it was that change of story that sunk her with Trump. I do blame the loss on Felisha, but Toral was a weak link, and at this point, a liar. See ya later Toral, we won’t miss you.