Is it just me, or is there an awful lot of deadweight on this season of Project Runway? Especially when you compare it to last season’s crop of megatalent (Rami, Jillian, Sweet P, Chris, Christian, and so on…). Maybe the rumors that Bravo is intentionally fucking this season up as revenge for the show’s impending move to Lifetime are true, after all. Because really, there’s a whopping five worthy competitors on this season (Korto, Terri, Kenley, Kelli, and Jerell, to be exact), the rest are just either completely worthless (Suede, Daniel, Blayne, Jennifer, Stella) or, in the infamous words of Simon Doonan, “dull slash very dull” (Joe, Wesley, Emily, Jerry, Keith, Leanne).
I’m even more salty now that I finally got around to watching this week’s episode, where one of my personal favorites (and winner of the first challenge), Kelli, got eliminated over possibly the most useless contestant of the season, Daniel. I mean, I was right there with Kenley (another favorite of mine) laughing my ass off when Daniel went into his usual spiel about how “classy” and “impeccable” his designs are. First of all, the guy has yet to make a garment that looks properly constructed (it took him how many tries to make a damned skirt for this week’s episode?), seems completely incapable of actually listening to the challenge rules (see last week’s gross and poorly made cocktail dress in a challenge about the Olympics), and he all but confessed to essentially sabotaging Kelly’s design by putting in as little effort as possible during their team challenge. Seriously, you guys, I kind of hate him. Well, not kind of - I think it’s full-blown loathing at this point!
I can’t completely blame the judges for their choice of who to kick off, since they only see the finished product (and thusly have no idea how utterly worthless Daniel was during the actual design/construction process) and will ALWAYS eliminate the losing team’s captain in a team challenge, but seriously… if Daniel manages to outlast any more of the designers with actual skill and talent this season, I’ll punch somebody. Daniel himself, preferably.
Suede would do in a pinch, though, because the third person thing just isn’t cute.
Hey look everyone, I’m back again! I finally found a new webhost & got everything switched over, since I couldn’t deal with the random outages that Webair kept giving me - it was seriously up to 3-4x each week that I’d notice my sites were just not loading (it was actually getting so bad that my surfers were emailing me about the constant downtime). It was really affecting my traffic - and thusly, my sales. So I’m now with Naked Hosting; the hosting costs more per month, but hopefully it’ll make up for it by… well, you know, WORKING! Reliability and peace of mind is worth an extra $79/month to me.
But yeah, while my sites & databases were getting moved, I didn’t want to update in case anything went wrong and such, so… I had a lot of forced time off, essentially. I spent my days playing an absolutely insane amount of Persona 3: FES (which lends itself well to killing time… the main story is around 100 hours of gameplay, and the bonus story - which I’m now almost finished with - is supposed to clock in at around 30 hours), getting hooked beyond belief on Death Note, rooting for my… well, not childhood friend, but I’ve known him since I was 15 or so… so, longtime friend Justin on I Survived A Japanese Game Show, and watching the new season of Project Runway - after the premiere last week, Kenley, Korto, and Kelli round out my favorites (got something for the K names this season, apparently… also, up until very recently, I lived within a block of Kelli’s store, Black Market!). Really hating on the tanorexic Blayne and and third-person Suede.
I need to get some real work done, so for now I’ll leave you with three things: this new layout (featuring Aigis of Persona 3; a link to the new paranormal forums for creepypasta.com; and lastly, the announcement that Jamiee has re-opened gerl.org as her personal blog again! Go!