Who might be on the next Bachelor…

NOT ME!!!  My BF, Tidy Bowl Man (previously known as Maytag Man), would not be too happy about that!!

A girlfriend of mine has some pretty exciting stuff going on, since I am at a lull right now, I have to  depend on others for excitement.  On a whim and with some encouragement from several friends she decided to “try out” to be a bachelorette on The Bachelor #13.  We’re (her friends) are all very excited about this!! 

Over the weekend she decided to fill out the small questionnaire online and email in a picture of herself.  Yesterday, she got an email from the casting department asking that she send in some “vacation pictures” (aka bikini pics) and a interview video.  Here is the email that she received…

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in The Bachelor. Your information has been
reviewed and we would like you to submit a tape of yourself for further
consideration.

 Please find attached two forms:
1)            Bachelorette app. (PDF)

2)            The Bachelor Tape Instructions

Print out the application and hand-write your information.  Sign and mail
with your tape (do not send a copy of the app., we need the original signed
document).
Tape submission instructions are also attached. In addition, here are few
suggestions to ensure your tape is considered:

·      Choose a well-lit area – avoid standing near
mirrors or windows

·      Be sure to get a full-length body shot

·      Check the tape before you submit

Include some recent pictures of yourself including full-length (recent
vacation photos, etc.)

Please send the application, pictures, and tape together by June 23rd.

Just a heads up about the casting and travel dates.  If you are chosen as one
of the finalists, you would need to be available August 21st-23rd for Casting Finalists Weekend; we will pay for your travel and hotel expenses for the duration of your casting stay. At that time, you will meet with our casting team and producers.

Please note that filming is scheduled to begin October 13th for up to six
consecutive weeks. However, if you are not chosen as one of the final four
bachelorettes, taping may last up to 10 days only. 

We look forward to receiving your materials.

–
Best,
Emilee —–
Casting Producer

Now, we are trying to get it together and make her video and send in the info by the deadline date.  If you want to see the questionnaire and video questions they’re after the jump.

Indy 500…Or Bust…

I attended my first race car event ever on Sunday.  My BF took me to see the Indianapolis 500.  I’m not a race car fan myself, I’ve never actually sat and watched the Indy 500 or any other type of car race.  Although, recently I have seen snippets of some races because my BF is a HUGE fan of this type of stuff.  I didn’t know what really to expect.  I knew it would be a sight!!  I knew I would see drunks and lots and lots of Hillybillys!!!  But other than that I thought it would be a 2 or 3 hour race and then we would go home!! 

I can’t begin to explain what I saw or what I experienced!!  It’s unlike anything I’ve ever been to before.  Now, I’ve been to Grateful Dead Concerts and Lollapalooza Concerts, but neither of those compare to what I experienced over the weekend.  People camped out for days and days before the race.  We parked in a field about a mile from the track.  The field was filled with tents and campers and people tail-gaiting.  People were passed out amongst empty beer cans and bottles of cheap vodka.  It looked like a huge continuous party had been going on for days.  Good times!!

Did I mention the characters I saw?  There were plenty of characters!!  There were characters!!  People spreading the word of the lord amongst people spreading The Herps! 

Here are a few more pics…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These pics were taken within the first hour.  When we finally got to our seats, wait, let me re-phrase, when we finally got to our bleacher, I was pooped!!  The race hadn’t even started yet!!  I was in awe of the spectacle of drunkards and attendees!!  It’s supposedly a “family event” but it was farrr from it!!  There were party revelers everywhere!!  When the track lets you bring in your own cooler full of food and beer and they have a designated area what they call the “Party Deck”, you know it’s going to be a good time!! 

Here are a few more pics from inside the track…

 All in all, it was a good day!!  My first Indy 500 went off without a hitch, I even made it onto TV.  These last few pics, Danica Patrick was hit by another driver in front of where I was standing, so I got a few choice pics of the situation!  I had a great time with the BF!!  He always takes me to the nicest places!!  I hope when I take him to Greece he will be just as impressed!!   

New TV for me to watch…great(sigh)!!!

Great…just what I need! A couple of new TV shows to watch, as if my DVR isn’t busy enough!! I have 3 new addictions… Celebrity Apprentice, Cashmere Mafia and Celebrity Rehab!!

First up, Celebrity Apprentice, just when I thought that show was dead “The Donald” comes up with something that catches my attention. But I have a few issues with a couple of the “celebrities.” One of the contestants on the show is Omarosa. Is she a celebrity? I don’t think so, she’s a reality show has been! I don’t know how she wound up back on the show? She must be really good for ratings and in-fighting!!

Next, Cashmere Mafia. What a terrific guilty pleasure. It’s a show about the lives of 4 powerful New York women. It’s a tad bit lacking on the drama, but it has enough to keep me interested. Let’s talk about the women for a minute. First, there’s Mia Mason (Lucy Liu) she was just promoted to publisher of a magazine chain, upon her promotion he fiancee breaks up with her because he can’t handle her success.

Then there’s Zoe Burden (Frances O’Connor), she’s a successful financial banker, wife and mother. She is constantly at battle to be everything to everyone all the time. Her plot line interests me most right now because her secretary was having an affair with one of her peer’s and her peer promoted her secretary to Associate and now she is trying to get her fired. Very juicy!!!!

Next is Juliet Draper (Miranda Otto), she is the COO of a major hotel chain, soon to be ex-wife of a philanderer and mother. Juliet just kicked her husband out of the house for consistently cheating on her. She is in the middle of a major hotel deal with a very handsome french-man. I see an affair in the works.

Finally, there is Caitlin Dowd (Bonnie Somerville), she is a top marketing executive for a cosmetics company. Caitlin is an extremely confused little girl. The series starts off with her breaking up with a man then she starts thinking about her choice of men she dates and decides she might be a lesbian after meeting/interviewing and hiring a woman she finds attractive. They begin to date, but after a few episodes she is starting to question her lebian-ess.

Last, but not least let me re-cap Celebrity Rehab. This show is a god-damn train wreck!! I can’t keep my eyes off of it!!! It’s wonderful. There is a terrific cast of quasy celeb’s…they are….

Jaimee Foxworth – from Family Matters
Seth “Shifty” Binzer – from the band Crazy Town
Ricco “Suave” Rodriguez – need I say more??
Daniel Baldwin – again, need I say more??
Brigitte Nielson – dated Sylvester Stallone and Flava Flav…uggg
Chyna (Joan Marie Laurer) – former WWF wrestler
Mary Carey – Porn Star also ran for governor of California
Jeff Conaway – played Kenickie in the 1978 motion picture musical Grease. He is my favorite on this show. He’s addicted to almost everything, the best!!!!
Jessica Sierra – American Idol finalist

The Starter Wife

I have a new television obsession…The Starter Wife! This does not replace my need for Veronica Mars, but it’s good, clean bitchiness!! The Starter Wife is a 6 hour mini-series on the USA Cable Network. Adapted from Gigi Levangie Grazer’s book of the same title. The story revolves around the life of Molly Kagen, a studio exec’s wife or soon-to-be ex-wife.

The premise of the story goes like this…

Molly is a devoted wife and partner to her husband, when one day he asks for a divorce. Her world is then turned upside down, she is henceforth snubbed by the Hollywood community and exiled to her best friend’s Malibu beach house for the summer. In the meantime, her ex-husband, Kenny, is prancing around town with a Britany Spears like hooch, Shoshanna. Her best friend, Joan, is forced into rehab by her puritan husband, her other best friend, Cricket, is forced to turn her back on Molly because her director husband, Jorge (pronounced, whore-hay, fitting huh?), has a movie in the works and can’t have the studio executive mad. The only friend’s Molly has left is her gay interior decorator, Rodney and the security guard at the gated community gate, Lavender.

All this drama wouldn’t be complete if there weren’t a love interest(s)for Molly. The first possibility is Lou Manahan, her ex-husband’s boss. The second possibility, is the myterious stranger she see’s on the beach, Sam. Now, here come the twists, Lou seems to be a troubled man, the last time we see him in the series, he’s drunk, writing a letter and then wanders off to the beach and into the water. Sam, the more likely love interest for Molly, has a dubious past, it is revealed the Sam is homeless, and rely’s on the kindness of an older woman in “The Colony” (the name of the gated community).

I don’t want to give too much out, tune into USA Network, to see what happens next, or tune in to my blog for more updates!!!

So Long Veronica…

For several years now, I have been an active fan of the television show Veronica Mars. It started out simply enough 3 seasons ago with nothing else to watch so I tuned in to see what this show was about. I wasn’t very interested in it at first but it held my interest long enough to see the plot unfold. This show is along the cult lines of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, neither of which I was a fan of.

First season’s plot surrounded the death of Veronica Mars’ (Kristen Bell)best friend, Lily Kane (Amanda Seyfried). The difference in this show against other show’s was that the mystery took all season to solve. So, each show solved a smaller mystery which gave clue’s to the bigger mystery. Our protagonist, Veronica, although a high school student, is so sassy and witty that I look forward to hearing and seeing what she says/does next.

In the second season, new character’s were introduced and a new mystery was revealed. This season’s mystery revolved around a bus accident where a bomb was hidden on the bus and once the bomb exploded the bus went over a cliff. This accident wouldn’t hit so close to home if at one point, Veronica was on the bus, but was accidentally left at a gas station. Then, Meg Manning (Alona Tal), the ex-girlfriend of Veronica’s boyfriend, Duncan Kane (Teddy Dunn) (yes, he’s the 1st season’s dead girl’s brother) was on the bus that went over the cliff, in which she miraculously survived, only to linger in a coma 3/4’s of the season, and when she awakes it is revealed that she is preganant with Duncan’s child. She has the baby and then dies and in order to save the baby from the mother’s religious zealot parents, Veronica’s boyfriend kidnaps the child and moves somewhere, thus leaving the show.

In the third season, Veronica is now in college, the shows creator’s decide that the season long mystery doesn’t leave much room for new viewers. So, they decided to try 3 8-episode mystery arc’s. The first mystery arc revolved around a campus rapist, and every time he raped a girl he would shave her head. The second mystery arc revolved around the murder of the college dean, who was found dead in his office. The third arc never happened, the show went on hiatus for 8 weeks and when they came back they went to a 1 episode mystery. Then the season ended and the show is off to television heaven.

I will miss Veronica Mars. There are rumors that the show will turn into a comic book and there’s a glimmer of hope that I will get my fix, somehow. Alas…VM will leave a gap…This show was clever! Plain and simple!!