Update: check out this Jan. 2009 interview:

Wow.
Here is an interview with Miles in early 2009. I don't know if he had been cast on the Work of Art show yet, but around 2:15 is the money part: he discusses how one of his primary interests is to explore cultural systems, especially those in reality tv - with insane characters, voyeurism and how failure plays…

I do, in fact, like your owl.

Jaclyn, my dear, you may think that was "100%" your idea.

Yeah, we *could" stop "spewing" out this tired and pointless 'liberal media' meme…if it weren't for those pesky liberal journalists and their JournoList. I mean, it's the gift that just keeps on giving.

"He's wrecking this show's shit". Exactly. The difference is that his work is also objectively better than all the other contestants. So they can't really drop him, like they did Nao and her shit-animal performance piece.

@Bourne

Temple of Doom? Oh yeah, 45 minutes of discussion about 'fortune and glory' and then some dude's heart gets ripped out of his chest. the end.

It's Marion's poetry. I can't take it!

When Ponce looked into that mirror, and saw that he didn't get any younger, and that tear rolled down his cheek, I lost it.

Yeah, Ryan's photoreal portraits are beautiful. But he has no range - in other words, it makes sense that he'd fail on this show. You cant do a photoreal portrait for each challenge, let alone in 12 hours.

I would bang peregrine hard…something tells me that she likes to be humiliated, which would be fun.

It's my understanding that the JW cult believe that they are part of the misinterpreted "144,000" who will be raptured up to heaven before the tribulation. If they socialize with people outside that group, they are in danger of losing their spot.

It's going to be called South Assific.

Fucking Sand…how does it work?

I told you I didn't take your Chuckle!!
I don't eat that gooey crap!

There is only one gallery-level artist on this show
And that's Miles. Abdi is a distant second. The rest might as well go home en masse.

I thought this was one of the worst episodes of Top Chef in a long time. On the plus side, they tried to do something different, but it failed since I didn't really get what was going on until about half way through. Even then I was incredulous because I hate it when they set up challenges so that they're stuck…

Cotton Dockers!!

Oh, you got the Civil War book! I saw some of that show, it was wonderful!
six hundred and twenty million people died!