Also (and with all due respect, etc.), I think it's pretty telling that you, a chef, are by far the most Heather-apologetic commenter here.  After all, I've heard tell that the field is nigh overflowing with assholery and douchebaggery of head exploding proportions.

If you were meaning Heather, I'd heartily concur with you. 

As of last night's episode, my hatred of her has surpassed my hatred of Lisa Fernandes (yes, I had to look up her name of Wikipedia), and at this rate is fast closing in on my all time most hated TC contestant, Ilan-fucking-Hall.

So, anyone else been watching Next Iron Chef?  Who do you think will win this Sunday, Zakarian or Falkner?  I think it'll be Zakarian, but I'd really like to see Falkner take this thing all the way.

Agreed.  Heather is a cunt.  A big, fat, Gardulla the Hutt-looking cunt.

Except Heather.

Heather needs to take a long walk off a short pier.  ::giggles nervously::

I find the show to be most enjoyable if one skips past his consistently not-very-funny opening monologue.

Okay, enough with this Fear Factor BS.  *I* wanna hear the whole story behind Nugent getting shitcanned for speaking truth to power at the campus bookstore.  C'mon, Phil: give, give!

… *ahem*

RE: Paul.  He and Grayson are the only two I'm actively rooting for to make it to the finals at this point (though Lindsay and Ed could and might well be easily added to that list).

When I saw that pic of Young Sarah, I simultaneously remarked to myself that she's really let herself go, and popped a medium boner.

< i >one person< /i > (minus the spaces).

But wouldn't that be more like a roast, like, say, prime rib?

Yes, indeedy.

What are "modern equivalents"?  Arrowroot? Cornstarch slurry?  I've literally no idea, and this talk of roux being passé is somehow fascinating to me.  (I'm being serious.)

"but the physicality of Chamberlain’s drumming—rivaled at the time only by Dave Grohl—gives even the bum tracks a powerful kick."

How arbitrary.

Or, fuck, Jona Lewie's fun-as-hell "Stop the Cavalry"?  I'm losin' it, I tell you!  LOSING IT!

How, how could I have failed to give a shout out to Chris de Burgh's "A Spaceman Came Traveling"?