Weird celebrity psychic, candy, and TV.

I've been trying to come up with a blog entry for the past two days. It's just that when you're trying to write about a close encounter with Madame Auring (Really happened. Monday. It was so weird. I still haven't gotten the image of her hot pink leggings out of my head.), you tend to run out of non-slanderous words.

Moving on to more palatable things... READ PLSKTHX: If anyone out there knows where Milky Way bars are still being sold. Please please prease. Let me know. They're my favorite, and I haven't had them in ages. I can't seem to find them. :(

I was going to comment on certain issues, but it's almost 3 am and I'm starving and can't think straight. But just so you didn't come here for nothing (apart from me whining about a candy bar), here's some random-but-ultimately-related stuff.
1.) I am crushing on Jon Stewart all over again. ♥
2.) Maxxx has been switching up the time slots for The Daily Show and the Colbert Report for the past couple of days. Dunno why. Dun really care either. I watch 'em both.
3.) Someone needs to tell the voiceover lady for Maxxx that's it's more like, coal-bare. LULZ.
4.) I wonder if it might be a good idea to switch to Destiny cable from Sky. The leaflet (which I've of course misplaced) says they have Discovery Travel and Living and TWO NHKs. My only qualm is that all (ok, both) of the cable companies around always have that "lineup subject to change without prior notice" clause, which roughly translates to "we have made a virtue of dropping the channels you want as soon as you sign up with us". (Still... TWO NHKs?)

Bleach your skin and tape your eyelids.

I guess I'm a little...surprised? Apparently an increasing number of Asian girls are getting into the trend of using "eyelid stickers" (or tape) to fake the double-eyelid look. I don't know how new this is, but I found out about it just recently.

To be honest, since it doesn't really apply to me, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I guess on one hand it's nowhere near as drastic as surgery. But there's something about it that bothers me in the same way as our country's--or at least, our country's market's--unhealthy obsession with skin lightening. (More on that later.) Of course, on the flipside, tanning has become entirely common with lighter-skinned folks. I'm no hard-liner when it comes to these issues--to each his own, right?--I'm just saying. Kind of makes you wonder if changing your looks to deviate a little bit from your own ethnicity is the norm now.

That said... am I the only one who is extremely annoyed at Heart Evangelista's TV commercial for Palmolive soap? I'm talking about the one that casually goes, "I look white. I stay white." Good god. It just flung all ethnic sensibility out the window. In fact, I would love to think that that was just a lapse in judgement, along the lines of "OH MY GOD WE SO DIDN'T REALIZE HOW INCREDIBLY RACIALLY CRASS THAT WAS". Because my only other option is to think that they consciously decided to be that blatant with their choice of words. Either way I thought it tasteless, and I hope their product (or endorser, or both) ultimately flops.

And I never liked Heart Evangelista anyway, so there.

My top 5 geek-TV crushes.

They're smart, talented, funny, crush-worthy... and hugely underrated, if you ask me. In random-ish order:

Grant Imahara, Mythbusters. Grant is Mythbusters' resident electronics and RC expert, but even if you don't watch the show, you've probably seen some of his work. Past jobs include operating R2-D2 and creating the mechanism for the Energizer Bunny. He and his robot Deadblow competed in my favorite spectator sport (BattleBots); he even wrote a book on combat robots called--can you guess?--Kickin' Bot. How can I not love this guy?

Tory Belleci, Mythbusters. He's an expert model maker and prop builder, and has worked on films such as Star Wars and Terminator 3 for Industrial Light and Magic. On Mythbusters, apart from building rigs, he also does many of the more dangerous stunts (like wakeboarding behind a cruise ship. That was awesome.)

Chris Hardwick, Attack of the Show. This former DJ and MTV host is now half of the music comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm. You can also see him on AOTS, where he occasionally guest hosts and reviews gadgets for Gadget Pron.


Mike Rowe, Dirty Jobs. So he's too macho to be called a geek. I just think it's nice to see a man who isn't afraid to get dirty. (And it's is on Discovery anyway, so it counts.) On the show, he's been a septic tank technician, a sludge recycler, a pigeon poop cleaner, and lots of other jobs that many guys would never man up to. The show's great in itself, but his good-natured sarcasm is what keeps it so fun to watch.

Danny Forster, Extreme Engineering. First of all: yeah I watch Extreme Engineering, get over it. I'm sold on any show that has fun with tower cranes and forklifts. And I don't know if it's just the dorky way he hosts the show--or the adorable hard hat--but I think he's kind of cute.

Ok, now these are just my picks, not based on a real set of criteria or anything, so feel free to disagree. Think I missed anyone?