Category: reality (not)
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Paternity Court, It’s Time to Get Tested!*
Ladies with bad taste in men, rejoice. A new show is heading to a TV screen near you, determined to uncover the truth. My friend Caroline made me aware of this show, which is, as the fine New York Daily News reports: “Paternity Court” is a new syndicated show on which people take DNA tests…
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Emmy’s Recap and a PSA from the CDC
I did not watch the Emmy’s Sunday night, but apparently, I missed a fashion shit show. My friend Katie started to tell me about it at work Monday morning but then, well, work got in the way. Finally, last night I was watching Fashion Police on E! and holy hot mess. Let’s just quickly recap:…
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I Am a GTA Widow
The last two evenings I’ve been a GTA widow. Surely you know what GTA is. If you don’t, you must not live with a man between the ages of 5 and 85 years of age. GTA is a video game formally known as Grand Theft Auto. And version five finally came out on Tuesday. (I only…
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Yep, That’s 1,300 Words on ‘Jungle Gold’
As you may know by now, The Poe-XFE-Petunia household will gladly watch just about any reality television show that Discovery or A&E wants to foist on the unsuspecting viewing public. For example, we recently watched an episode of “Doomsday Castle,” (basically a combination of “Doomsday Preppers” and “This Old House”). The hillbilly family featured in…
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Reality TV Time: Drama on Board – Bravo’s ‘Below Deck’ and Soccer
My main sleeping buddy XFE (Petunia is merely backup) is back from his father-son golfing trip, and I’m thrilled. Finally, someone to cook for me and make me laugh. Petunia is useless in the kitchen and her jokes are pretty lame. For example: What did the calico say to the bowl of food? Crunch. I…
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Friday Links: Bunnies and Breaking Bad Edition
My bosses have been out this week. By bosses, I mean my editor, who’s on vacation this week and next. And my lifestyle-coordinator-manager XFE. He’s abandoned me for a cross-country golf trip with his dad to celebrate Senior XFE’s retirement. This means I have to single-handedly run a multimedia information empire (hey, we post videos…
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Friday Links: Freaks in Oceans and Metros Edition
I’ve got back-to-back trips over the next two weeks and will blog when I can. In the meantime, I suppose I should brush up on my R. Kelly lyrics in case I get stuck on a tarmac, and be glad I don’t have to take public transportation in San Francisco. See you soon! These folks…
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Hotel Crashing: The Parker Palm Springs
The staff over at ThePoeLog have been overworked and undercompensated (not sure how) but I, the infamous XFE, have decided to pitch in and lend a hand with this guest post. Not sure why, but since I had something to share, I am. I must state up front that I did pay for my stay…
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Reality TV Time: To the (Myrtle) Manor Born
I grew up in trailer parks. Made friends at fine “semi-permanent establishments” in Arkansas, ran wild in “land lease communities” in Missouri, gotten in fist fights in “mobile communities” all over Texas. But none of those temporal estates were as nice as the five-star Myrtle Manor on TLC’s seminal ode to the cheapest form of…
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Animals I Won’t Be Messing With: Mantis Shrimp
XFE and I were watching some documentary on some channel last night (I know, I’m practically a living, breathing TV Guide) because apparently we’d already watched all the really awesome shows in the Gypsies genre (or, more truthfully, were recording them for later, non-commercial viewing). Anyway, this documentary was about this total badass shrimp called…