Showing posts with label Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Just in Time for Tonight's Premiere, the Flaming Finally Begins
















As you may know, possums, we rather took issue with Bravo’s tagline for Top Chef, “Let the flames begin,” and not just because it was insensitive to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the victims of the Great Chicago Fire, but because, with nary a Gay on the show, the tagline was patently engaging in false advertising.

We told Raggaydy Andy in no uncertain terms that he’d better work, and exhorted him to “flambé, chantez.” And giving credit where credit is due, he sho’ and at long last came through.

Pressing Project Runway winner Christian Siriano into service, Andy Cohen unpacked his (rather large, perhaps overcompensatory) knife and went gay.

Click to watch the video in its entirety, but we’ll give those of you with little patience, slow computers, or scant intestinal fortitude a précis of the oh-so-precious pensées:

Siriano tells a complex story about the workings of the oil industry and politics in the Middle East, and a fat George Clooney. Sorry, possums, just a little typo there.

Having dropped “fierce” as a catchphrase, Christian tried out another worn-out old gayitude from decades past: “for days.”

Faux-lesbian Richard Blais’ fauxhawk is “last season’s ‘hawk,” but he does love Jen Biesty’s Lady-‘hawk.

Padma Lakshmi has the skin of an Italian chain restaurant much beloved by Middle Amérique for soup, salad and breadsticks for days.

The lesbian couple? “There’s gonna be, like, hot sauce everywhere.”

Uh, no disrespect to our Sapphic sistahs, but, ewwww.

Monday, March 03, 2008

The 12 Days of Bitchmas -- Day Three: Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow to Lodge Complaint Against Bravo for Insensitivity, Ignorance of History






"Let the Flames Begin...Chicago"?!?

We were shocked, possums, shocked.

Someone at Bravo obviously didn't do well in American history at school.

"But wait," said Miss XaXa, "maybe Bravo is just relying on the American public's historical illiteracy?"

Well, we had to admit she had us there.

Alright, Bravo, we'll let you off. But we still think an apology is due to Chicagoan judge Ted Allen and, of course, to Mrs. O'Leary's cow.