The Weekly Musing #3

A day late is better than never.

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The Weekly Musing #3

Like the first Musing I posted, this Musing is also inspired by TV – specifically, TV shows related to fashion, make-overs, etc.

• Last Wednesday on Bravo, the final three Shear Genius stylists battled it out for $100,000 in their final challenge and a winner – Dee – was crowned. If the winning stylist or another celebrity stylist could do your hair, how would you want it? Post a picture of your ideal hairdo.
• Would you go on an extreme makeover program, such as What Not To Wear? How would you react to having your favourite outfit insulted and thrown away by the “fashion forward” hosts of the show?
• If a Project Runway finalist could design any type of garment for you, whether you want a sexy swimsuit to sunbathe in or a beautiful dress to hit the town in, what would you have him/her design? Be creative! Specify the type of garment, fabric, colours, accents, etc.

Thanks in advance for participating! Feel free to comment with your responses and/or repost the Musing on your own page. I look forward to reading what you have to say!

The Weekly Musing #1: Results

Looks like I am the only person participating this week!

If you don’t know what The Weekly Musing is, feel free to check out a brief description of what it’s about by clicking here. Otherwise, let’s get things started…

The Weekly Musing #1: Results

Currently in its 3rd season, The Next Food Network Star is a reality TV show competition of talented chefs of all kinds, from home cooks to professionals. At the end of the season, one, and only one, winner will jump-start his/her career as a hot new celebrity chef with his/her own television cooking show on The Food Network and a feature article in an upcoming issue of Bon Appetit magazine. For the first time ever, the competition has been narrowed down to not two, but three talented finalists. The three remaining competitors will compete on the season finale tonight and we will finally find out who the “Next Star” will be.

• If you are following the show, who do you think will win?! Is there anyone you want/wanted to win or would have liked to see in the final three?

For a while there, I thought that Lisa would win the competition because of her strong culinary background and general knowledge about food; however, that doesn’t mean that I wanted her to win. In all honesty, I thought she had good ideas – especially the ideas for her pilot shows, which I thought were great and I am surprised they didn’t go with the whole “green” and organic pilot idea – but I couldn’t stand her personality. She was obnoxious 90% of the time, and even when she wasn’t acting obnoxious I still couldn’t stand listening to or looking at her. Needless to say, I am happy she didn’t win.

Adam, I genuinely felt sorry for. He mentioned that his dream to own a restaurant failed and he couldn’t cook for a while after that experience. I thought he had a good personality, and if he tried harder and really nailed some of the other challenges, he might have had a better chance of becoming the Next Star.

Aaron was a good choice to be the Next Star because of his warm, friendly personality. He just seemed real, too, and not as phony as Lisa or a ham like Adam… and he is from Jersey! GO N.J.!!!!

• Could you see yourself living the life and performing the role of a hot celebrity chef – or would your kitchen quite literally go up in flames by the end of the first episode?

I think I could pull off being a celebrity chef with my own line of products, restaurants, etc., but I don’t know about having my own TV show. I have some experience acting and being on stage, but I am not sure if I could be an annoying ham 24/7 like Rachel Ray or Paula Deen. And I must say that I used to like both of those ladies a whole lot, but their personalities are too overboard and phony for my liking now; their voices are just tiresome and obnoxious after a while. Ugh.

• If you were a celebrity chef, what would your signature dish be?

If I was a celebrity chef, I would like to be known for my desserts. Desserts are just delicious, the best part of the meal as far as I am concerned, and for the most part I think that pastry chefs have more creative freedom than regular chefs.

• Is there another reality TV cooking competition that you like better (Hell’s Kitchen, Top Chef…)? Explain why.

Padma aside (ugh, can’t stand her…), Top Chef is my favourite TV cooking competition. Unlike the Food Network Star, which is only exciting to watch sometimes, Top Chef is exciting to watch all of the time.

I also watched Hell’s Kitchen a few times and that wasn’t nearly as exciting as Top Chef, either. Gordon Ramsey also annoyed the hell out of me. Pompous bastard…

• If any, additional opinions or thoughts about “The Next Food Network Star.”

It is interesting how Guy seems to be the shining Food Network Star thus far. He has appeared on numerous Food Network shows, advertised for T.G.I Fridays, etc. Meanwhile, where is Amy, the winner of the second season? I have not heard anything about her since her show first aired, and I only watched it maybe once or twice. Truthfully, I didn’t really like her all that much when she was competing on season two, but I am curious to see if there is a pattern – if Aaron will stop appearing after a while, too.

It seems like Guy has been promoted more than Amy has. Is his personality that favorable that Food Network and other companies are eager to work with him and promote him? Or did Amy have a personal revelation and decide to try out the show for a while – and then quit, or not take any sponsorships? Interesting…

A new Musing will be posted tomorrow. I hope there are some participants this time! *crosses fingers*

The Weekly Musing #1: Results posted tomorrow

The results for the first-ever edition of The Weekly Musing will be posted tomorrow… but nobody has participated!!! There’s still time!!! Check it out and post your answers today!

If you don’t know what The Weekly Musing is, feel free to check out a brief description of what it’s about by clicking here.

The Weekly Musing #1

Since I have been doing these daily memes, I have come up with some pretty good questions of my own and I decided, Why not start my own meme?

As the name implies, The Weekly Musing will be a (hopefully) weekly meme about pretty much anything that has come to my mind recently (observations, thoughts, ideas, etc.) and will include some corresponding questions. Topics might include a TV show I have been watching, a new album I listened to, a dream I had, a movie I saw… anything goes.

I am going to aim to post The Weekly Musing on Sundays and any questions will be answered on Saturdays. Feel free to answer The Weekly Musing at any point during the week. Next Saturday I will answer the questions that I posted below (as well as any others that were asked) for this week’s Musing, and next Sunday there will be a completely new musing.

The Weekly Musing will be apart of Fuchsia Revolver and a seperate category will be created for the entries. If you want to link to The Weekly Musing or mention it to everyone you know that blogs, please do…

Admittedly, I am partial to specific genres of movies and music, television shows, baseball (as opposed to any other kind of sport)… but that doesn’t mean that you have to be. If you want to share something that you have been musing over, or have some great questions and ideas you want to share, don’t hesitate to email me and I will gladly feature your musings at some point in the future. If nothing else… it is a plug for you and your site!!! Yay promotion!!! Who doesn’t like promotion?? Having said that, if you have something to say and want to have your site promoted, my email address is systematicdecline[@]gmail[.]com. I want my inbox filled with messages by noon tomorrow. Seriously, damn it.

Let’s get things started…

The Weekly Musing #1

Currently in its 3rd season, The Next Food Network Star is a reality TV show competition of talented chefs of all kinds, from home cooks to professionals. At the end of the season, one, and only one, winner will jump-start his/her career as a hot new celebrity chef with his/her own television cooking show on The Food Network and a feature article in an upcoming issue of Bon Appetit magazine. For the first time ever, the competition has been narrowed down to not two, but three talented finalists. The three remaining competitors will compete on the season finale tonight and we will finally find out who the “Next Star” will be.

Here’s what I want to know…

• If you are following the show, who do you think will win?! Is there anyone you want/wanted to win or would have liked to see in the final three?
• Could you see yourself living the life and performing the role of a hot celebrity chef – or would your kitchen quite literally go up in flames by the end of the first episode?
• If you were a celebrity chef, what would your signature dish be?
• Is there another reality TV cooking competition that you like better (Hell’s Kitchen, Top Chef…)? Explain why.
• If any, additional opinions or thoughts about “The Next Food Network Star.”

Thanks in advance for participating! Feel free to comment with your responses and/or repost the Musing on your own page. I look forward to reading what you have to say!