Disconnectivity: My Brain on Thursday.
Best wishes to you if you are able to follow this blather today. I just reread it and was struggling, so I sympathize. The complaint department can be located at the bottom. Take a number.
We’re semi bummed over the loss of Chikeze who was voted out of Noodle Land last night. NOT Ramiele who should have gone. He looked so sad. It was bound to happen. The competition is too fierce this year and even though people like Ramiele and Kristy Lee are still around, their days are numbered. Ground shaking news when one considers that each week someone has to go. Can you feel it? Rocket Science. I’m so on it, aren’t I?
I am on it with Top Chef, however. How could I not be, die hard foodie that I am? If you haven’t begun watching yet, not to worry, because Fox runs all the shows from seemingly all seasons eight million times a week. Which means you have all those opportunities to DVR several and then watch them at 3AM when you can’t sleep. Actually there are almost no dramatics like other reality television shows — which is another reason I like it. Well, besides wondering what cauliflower brulee tastes like. Ewww? But if it is the dramatics you prefer, Gordon Ramsay is getting ready to light a torch next week with a new season of taking screaming obscenities in a kitchen to a new level. Oddly, I can relate. It must be my alter ego. This is the BBC version, so if you’re opposed to unlicensed flying f-words, then skip the vid. I think it’s hilarious.
I love Top Chef. But this year, the people aren’t thrilling me. Sure, there are one or two whom I immediately noticed (the annoyingly scrappy potty mouth guy and the perky absent-minded man from New Zealand) but otherwise, they’re sort of personality-less at this point. It’s also disappointing that another gadgety-foamy-smoky guy is on. I just want to yell, “JUST COOK, DOOD! Jeez.Speaking of “jeez,” I’ve noticed that around the web, it’s being spelled, “geeze.” Excuse me?
That would be pronounced, /gheez/ with a hard /g/ as in garage or geezer and not a soft /g/ as in giraffe or gerbil. Could someone please pass this information along to the masses? Or I suppose we could check in the Oxford English Dictionary which is finally being completely revised. That should take a few years (expected date of completion is 2037), but at least then, we’ll all know what the most up-to-date definition of pettifog might be.
I simply can’t wait. Will someone fan me, please?
As far as waiting goes, I’ve been waiting for WordPress 2.5 to hurry up and be here, already. Finally, finally some of the features available with WordPress.com will be available to people like me who know enough to get themselves in real trouble and have been sooooooo lucky thus far to not have screwed things up royally. *I get by with a little help from my friends…*The new dashboard and uploader are excellent. No more waiting until the cows come home to upload photos.
Like this one.
What is up with the FreshNess?
Now that you’re up to date on all things unimportant, I’ll be around making up for lost time reading your bloglets and trying to make up lost ground on THE campaign since all our paper prints is crap about who’s related to whom genetically.
Like it matters if I’m related to Betsy Ross?
I guess it is a bit easier for some to think about than the price of gasoline, the events in Tibet, the recent finger pointed at KPMG over the subprime mortgage mess, or other such goings on in this very fine place we call Earth.
Party on.
1sauerkraut
wrote on 27 March 2008 at 18:22
You are related to Betsy Ross???
Wow.
kewl beans.
Now, get back to work. My socks need darned. meow.
2kellypea
wrote on 27 March 2008 at 21:52
OMG. You are hilarious. Yanno, baseball season is near. No one will know you have holey socks.
3chefmom
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 4:54
We have the same thoughts on Top Chef. Does that guy really need all those WEIRD and unneccesary gadgets?! He’s just trying to show off! And if I ever had to taste cauliflower brulee, or the scrambled cauliflower it became, it would be too soon. That chick made some weird stuff!
I do believe that a party should be planned for 2037. Who knew that it would be such a great year….a new dictionary….go figure. The words will be out of date by then!
I love Gordon Ramsey. He reminds me of an executive chef I had. The guy threw plates and even chucked a few guys into the garbage dumpster. I managed to only get tossed into a rolling garbage can. Which he found HIlarious, because he rolled me out of my own patry kitchen. Prick!!
I LOVE FreshNess What a adorable cat! And BIG! We have one that size too. Fatest cat with the smallest head.
So, will you be making us a new flag???
4kellypea
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 11:32
chefmom, I’m trying to picture you in a trashcan. You’re kidding, right? Was he serious? Unbelievable! How did you get out? Was it butt first? Bwhahahaha! And NO, I’m not related to Betsy Ross, but I’m sure there’s someone out there who’s been famous I could call a relative. But I can make an apron…Bwhahaha!
5chefmom
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 12:03
Seriously…butt first. ANd I weighed like 105 lbs, so I went FLYING out of my kitchen, across the banquet kitchen and into the fine dining line, where as you can imagine, all the guys had a REALLY good laugh at my expense. BUT they were the ones who would get tossed into the dumpster. I did have to be removed by someone who could pick me up, folded in half. He was a funny guy, but you REALLY didn’t want to piss him off. Usually when you got out of said garbage receptacle, you’d go back to your kitchen and find him laughing hysterically….or manically!! I could write about JUST about the wack jobs I’ve worked for or with!
Damn, I thought it would be Kool to be related to her! And an apron is a great accomplishment, it can still be hung on a flag pole! :)
6chefmom
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 12:04
I meant I could write a book JUST about the wack jobs I’ve worked for or with….
7Francis Scudellari
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 12:17
I’m not one for reality TV (when I watch it’s usually the most unreal programs I can find), but I do watch the reruns of Kitchen Nightmares on BBC America sometimes when over at a friend’s. Ramsay cracks me up … but what’s with the taking his shirt off thing.
I think people may be put off “jeez” because it’s too close to “Jesus” from which I’m sure it was derived. Can’t be blaspheming. How about “Zounds”? An old oath shortened from “god’s wounds” I always liked that one, but it hasn’t come back yet.
8kellypea
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 12:44
chefmom, I figured as much. OMG. I’ve heard “they” are pieces of work, but I can’t figure out how they get away with it when the rest of the bosses in the world would be fired. Oh. I get it. The restaurant owners need their exe. chefs, right? Everyone else is feed? And I was just being a smart ass about Betsey Ross. I should have said something like Popeye or Calamity Jane, or…okay, so maybe I should have just deleted the comment. Bwhahaha!
Francis, I haven’t seen Ramsay take his shirt off. Am I missing anything good? w00t! Just kidding. As far as jeez goes, we say Jeez Louise around here. Or even Jeezalouisa. And I’m probably blasphemous personified, so I figure people can just leave their baggage in the comments. I’m game to go a few rounds.
Gadzooks is a good one, too. Or shuckeydarn? DarnHoots? Hells Bells…HoleyMoley…Maybe I should look in the Oxford English Dictionary. Meme material????
9chefmom
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 14:56
You can’t look in the Oxford English Dictionary…it’s not ready yet! And YES they get away with it no matter what. I LOVE Anthiny Bourdain’s books, because he does tell it, almost like it is. He leaves some bits out…that sex and drugs are a much bigger part then people would expect. Ya know, we’re dealing with some aphrodisiac foods sometimes…BWAHAHAHAHA. Except for me!! I’m always innocent
I thought your Betsey Ross comment was funny!! I’d choose somebody weird, like Snoop Dogg or Monica Lewinsky….HAHAHA. I love your sense of humor!!!!
10Francis Scudellari
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 18:19
He does this superhero change of costume bit (I’ve seen it on at least 3 or 4 episodes) where he takes off his civvies and puts on his chef coat right before he begins the requisite arse kicking in the kitchen. I doubt it boosts the ratings as much as the dropping of F bombs.
11kellypea
wrote on 28 March 2008 at 19:33
Yanno, chefmom, I’ve wanted to read one of Bourdain’s books, but haven’t gotten around to it. Is Kitchen Confidential the best, or…? I’m so not loving the book I’m reading right now, but it’s probably because I try to read when my eyeballs want to close at the end of the day. Doesn’t quite work.
Francis, I had NO idea. Flagrant display of skin. And from the talk in FoodLand, everybody thinks he’s hot, so I’d say it gets more attention than the F Bombs. Thanks for the explanation!
12chefmom
wrote on 29 March 2008 at 4:05
Yes, Kitchen Confidential is the best. It really is a fantastic look into a restaurant kitchen.