Last Thursday I Tweeted this after reading some of the Dancing with the Stars season 11 casting rumors: “Please be false. Kate Gosslin was bad enough. And this might be worse. RT @JustJared Bristol Palin: ‘DWTS’ Bound?: http://goo.gl/fb/ozkGp”
I already had some apathy about the upcoming season. Season 10 was a mixed bag that at least ended with Derek and Nicole winning the mirror ball trophy, but also made us suffer through way to much Kate Gosslin and embarrassing things that Buzz Aldrin had to do. Plus, after a stunning season of So You Think You Can Dance, I’m not sure I’m ready for amateur hour again, especially if the stars aren’t interesting.
Twelve new stars were announced last night and only one-third of them piqued my interest to any degree: Margaret Cho is awesome! Florence Henderson is bound to make some good TV. Jennifer Grey should be fun. I expect good things from Brandy too.
Then there’s the third I have no interest in whatsoever (and some of these people should not be considered “stars”): The Hills’ Audrina Patridge and Jersey Shore‘s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino are people I don’t want to watch in any scenario. David Hasselhoff could be okay to watch, but too often these days it seems like he’s become a characiture of himself. Then there’s Bristol Palin… I can’t imagine what that’s going to be like. Her inclusion redefines “stars,” and not in a good way.
Of course there are also contestants that I have no opinion on because I’m not that familiar with them: NFL’er Kurt Warner, Kyle Massey from Disney Channel’s Cory in the House and NBA star Rick Fox. These are neither good or bad, they are just there. They could turn out to be great fun (like Nicey Nash) or people I can’t wait to see voted off (like Master P).
Michael Bolton falls into a category all his own. Obviously I know who he is. However, he doesn’t drive my interest in the show, nor does he make me cringe.
Now that the announcement’s out, I’m still in the “not-very-excited” camp. I hoped for some stunning casting news that would make DWTS sizzle for me. But that didn’t happen. I’m sure I’ll watch, likely always time delayed with a lot of fast forwarding. I don’t think it will be a weekly blog either since I’m not sure I want to invest that kind of time in this batch of stars. I’ve still got a few weeks to make a final decision on that since season 11 of Dancing with the Stars doesn’t begin until September 20.
Hope everyone has a good start to the week!
The Blizzard entered the weekend with one thing in mind–win both games and secure our spot in the playoffs. We had to get past the Great Whites and Spiders to do it… and do it we did.
Friday we beat the Great Whites in a nail baiting 2-1 game. The Whites scored first, during the first period and then we were scoreless until mid-way through the third. I took advantage of a mistake by a Whites defensemen and got a goal to tie up the game. A few minutes later Mike put the second one in the net and then we spent about 4 minutes just defending the lead.
This afternoon we put away the Spiders by a score of 8-1. We had good offense here that danced around the defense pretty well and when the Spiders went on offense, our defense took care of business. We basically owned the game from beginning to end with this one and it was a strong way to end the regular season.
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This past weekend, with the help of the people who played in my Braking the Cycle hockey scrimmage, I managed to pass my minimum fund raising goal of $3,500!
Thanks to my donors who made this happen! Adam S., Adam K., Allison H., Andrey S., Ben W. Bill G., Brian K., Brian & Benji, Carolyn & Lisa, Chad A., Clint R., Courtney T., David A., David W., David S., Edward L., Elizabeth K., Elvis M., Gerry K., Gordon & Alicia F., Gregg A., Grigory T., Ilio K., Jack C., Jacob F., Jacqueline A., Jane L., Jason P., Jimmy W., John & Alex, John H., John V., Julia R., Justin L., Kay & Ralph, Keith C., Kendall W., Kristine B., Laurie W., Luca C., Mark B., Mark T., Matthew A., Meghan M., Mike G., Mike M. , Mike R., Neill S., Paul E., Rich P., Rich W., Robin S., Ronnie T., Stephanie K., Stephanie S., Steve C., Susanna P., Theresa S., Vanessa W.
I truly have awesome friends who have made this goal a reality. It’s satisfying to know that with just a month to go before the ride that the goal is met and that I can focus on training so that I can survive the ride itself.
However, I don’t mind the idea of blowing well past the goal because this is an important cause. You can still donate now online! Remember all donations benefit the HIV/AIDS services of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in NYC.
Thanks again to everyone who has donated so far. Much more to come on the ride in the coming weeks!
I had the opportunity today to try out the new midtown burger place called 4food. This restaurant has intrigued me for a few months now. I learned about it from a June 16 Wall Street Journal article–”Restaurant Chain Gets Social.”
First of all, with the location at 40th & Madison, this burger joint was just three blocks from the office. That’s significant because after almost three years of working at 38th between 5th & 6th I haven’t found a place with a truly good burger (I think I got spoiled working on the Upper West Side where Big Nicks was just 7 blocks away).
Second, the burgers sounded wonderfully different. Check out this info from the WSJ article: “The burgers have holes in the middle, which can be filled with one of 100 rotating garnishes, from macaroni and cheese to sushi rolls. The hole portions of the burgers are also served on skewers for those seeking a carbohydrate-free dining experience.” How can that not be good?!?
Third, this was going to be high tech. Social networks were going to be in heavy use–Twitter, Foursquare, YouTube and so on. Ordering is done in the store on iPads. How cool is that? You can custom build your own burger, hype it to the world and every time some one orders it you can get a little store credit.
After some delays, 4food has been in preview mode the past couple weeks. I’ve been following on Twitter since the WSJ piece and got friended by the manager on Facebook. I was psyched when he invited me over for a preview lunch. The menu is huge (that’s the menu board pictured up top) with so many choice of what to put in and on your burger–there’s even eight choices of burger patty. Given my love of mac & cheese, it shouldn’t be a surprise I went for the Mac Daddy–mac & cheese in the burger’s hole, pancetta on the burger, a delicious smokey bbq sauce. I tried one of the rice side dishes, choosing a coconut rice, and washed it down with a white peach iced tea (no soda here and I was surprisingly okay with that). That’s lunch over on the right… not the best picture, but a food photographer I’m not.
It’s going to be fun to dig into the oodles of filling and topping options for the burgers. I’m told that next week the website will have the full menu on it. I’m also looking forward to ordering on the iPad, which I did not get to do while I was in there today.
I did get to see myself on the big media board though. That’s my foursquare check-in displaying at the top in the picture on the left. I might have ended up there again later when I tweeted about the meal I had (since I tweeted while walking back to the office I didn’t get to see the result).
4food officially opens September 7 (that’s the Tuesday after Labor Day) and will continue to have some preview time between now and then…follow them on Twitter to catch the messages about that. If you’re in the midtown area, I suggest checking them out because at $12-$13 for a meal it’s a good value for midtown and, more importantly, it’s a good burger! There’s going to be breakfast available too, which I look forward to investigating. Basically, it’s going to be pretty dangerous to have such good food–burgers no less–so close to the office.
Cutie-pie Jonathan Groff is currently starring in the London revival of Deathtrap. I like the poster art and the ads are interesting.
“Being married is like having a color television set… you never wanna go back to black and white.”
You’ll need to get some kleenex before watching this clip… no, seriously, you will. Okay, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.
It was great being back on the ice this week after a week away for vacation. There was a lot of hockey for the weekend too and the best of it was the scrimmage held to benefit Braking the Cycle. The idea for the scrimmage was hatched at the first of the month and over the three weeks–between the 20 people that skated and the 13 people who donated but couldn’t play Sunday afternoon–just over $1,600 was raised.
It was a tight scrimmage too. At the end of 70 minutes the score was tied up 11-11 so we did a quick shoot out where the light team prevailed by making two shots while the dark team made none. I enjoyed that it was balanced like that. The light team even had a ringer, courtesy of Dave, but the ringer spent most of his time setting up his teammates and working with them and that was very cool (and for me as a defenseman, it was a good challenge to try and shut him down because he had great moves).
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If you mashed up The Red Shoes, Suspiria and Showgirls (three phenomenal movies btw) you’d get Darren Aronfosky’s latest, Black Swan. It comes out in December and I can’t wait. Check out the trailer here.
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