This week on Project Runway, the LA Times finally proves itself useful.
If an adjective's under four syllables, he's not using it tonight.
For someone who works on the internet, I am technically inept. Sometimes I get really wide video and I don't know why. I like when it happens though, especially for this show, because it makes me feel a little bit better about myself for a few hours.
Fat Whore
Last week, poor Qristyl was sent back to her husband Divyd and her kids Guleyi and Kyriasdgn. Wah. Lata, sucka! We open this episode with poor Elvis thinking that parting her bangs to the sides will hide her sideburns.
Nope. Razor.
Carol Hannah tells us that the herd has been thinned and the strongest are left standing. I don't know about that. There were about ten outfits last week that could have sent one of these hacks home, including the winning one. But it's fun to watch people swim in their own sea of delusion. Well speak of the meth devil!
Put your legs down. This isn't the alley behind IHOP. You want meth here you have to pay with cash.
Meth tells us how he's never gonna be in the bottom three again. He might be right. They might do to him what they did to that chick on Design Star this season and just kick his off before judging even begins for being too annoying to live. Meth says that being in the bottom three gave him the emptiest feeling he's ever felt. That's disappointing. I would hope that someone as prone to breakdowns and snorting as he is would have something a little deeper to share on national television. You know there's a good being used by multiple truckers in a rest stop for a cigarette story in there somewhere.
Althea smiles sweetly and tells us that she just wants to prove that she's not just a one hit wonder, and she's followed by bitter ass Irina who tells us that she's shocked that Althea's fug office slut outfit won and she won't congratulate her cuz it wasn't earned. She's right, but I can't remember a thing Irina's ever made, so she should probably concentrate less on jealousy and more on not sucking. Meanwhile, Minnesota's practicing his plan B in case he gets the boot tonight.
Turn your hat around and breathe out of your nose.
Feather Duster thinks that Meth obviously doesn't deserve to be there and neither does Irina. Feather never really has anything to say that isn't cunty, and waiting to see his reaction to getting kicked off is more of a nail biter than finding out what was in the hatch on Lost. But with less abs and heterosexuality. I imagine it will go something like this:
Heidi comes out in sailor pants and horizontal stripes. Even Straight Guy gives her a snotty up and down.
Down with mimes!
Tim is going to take them on another field trip, and her hint contains the words "black and white." Way to spell it out, Fatty. R'amona gasps loudly, because he's lacking in camera time. Heidi makes fun of him and is off. What was the point of this segment? Just bring on the challenge. You wasted a perfectly good pair of sailor pants for this.
They meet Tim, who takes them to the Los Angeles Times. We get to see the printing press, but it's going slow cuz they're only selling like five papers a day. Finally, we meet a woman unfortunately named Booth. She's in an unfortunate suit from Ross with an unfortunate flower print shirt and an unfortunate tired soccer mom haircut. It's only natural that she's the Fahion Editor of the Los Angeles Times. That's about as sensical as that skinny Choi bitch hosting a food show, but whatevs. I'll roll with it because maybe it means one day my chunky pasty ass can be the Speedo editor.
In related news, the editor of the Real Estate section lives in a cardboard box outside Fresh and Easy.
Tim tells the designers that fashion comes from the news all the time, so it's only natural that they make fashion out of newspapers!! Sorry Real Estate Guy! We'll be using your bed for this one. Yay creative challenge! Irina gets bitchy cuz everyone's taking so much paper and says they're not dressing an elephant. That's the next twist, dumdum. Make paper clothes for really fat chicks.
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Comments (22)
I heart Tim and Flip.
1 of 22 | Posted by Snootchy Bootches | Posted on September 18, 2009 4:00 AM
I heart Loves Bacon Kid. Some things *are* worth leaving home over.
2 of 22 | Posted by jennaboa | Posted on September 18, 2009 5:55 AM
Hee. I've been a fan of Bacon on FB forever!
3 of 22 | Posted by Snootchy Bootches | Posted on September 18, 2009 6:20 AM
Thanks for getting this recap up so quickly, Flipit!! Meth was so full of shit...glad he was gone. I too thought Althea's dress didn't fit right at all. It looked like the models boobs were going to fall out. I thought Epperson's was fug too.
Nina and Kors need to come back!!!
4 of 22 | Posted by Yanksfan24 | Posted on September 18, 2009 6:26 AM
Awesome recap Flipit! I always swear I'm gonna get mine up this quickly, and this week I had a night set aside so Tool Academy would be up within 24 hours of airing, and then Vh1 decided to fuck with me and take a week off. Grrrr....
So, note to meth boy. If you're gonna lie, don't lie about something that got recorded and that cameras can verify isn't true on national television. Talk about lack of impulse control there... Have you ever noticed when people start a sentence with "To tell you the truth" or "To be totally honest with you" they're always lying. Watch meth do it when he starts fabricating iron steam attacks.
5 of 22 | Posted by Themiki | Posted on September 18, 2009 6:56 AM
Buh-bye Meth, see ya on the street corner.
Tim was stellar in this episode, as was Flipit in his recapping. Love.
And where the heck are Kors & Nina?
6 of 22 | Posted by shantigal | Posted on September 18, 2009 7:37 AM
Thank you, Flipit, for bringing back the term "conniption fit"! :)
7 of 22 | Posted by Clair | Posted on September 18, 2009 9:26 AM
Bacon boy was just awesome. The best part of my day so far. THANK YOU FLIPIT - you make the world a better place for me!!!!!
8 of 22 | Posted by wasabipeas | Posted on September 18, 2009 11:12 AM
Forget about whoop ass, I think someone cracked a can of sassafras!!! You are too funny, and seriously wicked, or as they used to say in Beantown, wickid pissah!!!!
Rooms full of hearts and flowers for you, and, my goodness dear. I got no sleep watching all these shows, so to imagine cranking out a piece of snark heaven after the viewing party!!!! You are amazing!!!
Not much to add, except--how bizarre is the second (or first) coming of the umbrella stand dress. (I think not only was this show in the can, but the Fashion week for the winner was already over before Fashion Show started, but I could be wrong.)
Feather Duster is like Prof Snapes snively, pale sister. That was the most confrontational I've seen peeps on this show get, esp. in front of Fat Bitch . . .
I do miss our reg judges, coz it is like somethings missing. The other thing missing are the good ones getting credit. MN was pretty knock offy--haven't we seen that eleventy million times, but great job on the armor thing!
Feather's dress shape was better than Gordy's, but I liked hers a lot in the beginning.
This one had me going, coz I could not believe everyone would predict Meth's demise, and then it would actually happen . . . is it me!? First the sidekick, now this . . .
Anyhoo, thanks so much Flip, You rock!!!!
9 of 22 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on September 18, 2009 12:36 PM
That was a lot of Feather Duster in yesterday's episode, and thanks to you, Flipit, I keep expecting him to break out into an anecdote about "Spensah". Professor Snape's snively, pale sister, LOL juddfan. Didn't Feather Duster realize it's the worst hairstyle in the Harry Potter universe? And that includes Hagrid!
10 of 22 | Posted by sayhuh | Posted on September 18, 2009 6:59 PM
"Althea's model looks like one of those sad ladies who picks balls out of the bowl in Vegas Bingo with paper money glued all over her."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I was wondering what that dress was reminding me of!! Thanks for nailing it, Flipit!!
"She's even built in a pooch crease!"
Perfection!
11 of 22 | Posted by teri00 | Posted on September 18, 2009 9:34 PM
You just know that Bacon Boy will be showing up on Big Brother in a few years' time.
If his heart doesn't explode first.
12 of 22 | Posted by itchy | Posted on September 19, 2009 9:24 AM
Oh, and now you have me wondering what a stump rock guitar solo would sound like.
Ba-dah dum.
13 of 22 | Posted by itchy | Posted on September 19, 2009 9:32 AM
I'm sorry and I'm know I'm probably the only one who feels this way.... but Tim was an asshole at the end of this episode.
He should NEVER have talked down about Meth in front of the other designers if he wasn't there to defend himself. That's classless.
And it's not like he was hiding books beneath his bed or blaming his ripped POS on his model/Kara.
And then to NOT scold Feather (who I hate more than Meth) for his assholeness which almost beats Kenley's? It was none of Feather's business, the judges didn't ask him his opinion.
Some of my Tim-love died a bit tonight.
On the other hand this:
"schnitzel the waiter wrapped up for Seal to take home. " even though it's completely accurate - it still made me laugh.
Now to the designs: Ugly - Epperson (sigh), CH, Gordana, Elvis, Feather, & Meth.
Middling - Christopher, Logan, and someone else I forget who.
Top - Ra'mon, Irina-bitch, Althea
14 of 22 | Posted by hutchlover | Posted on September 19, 2009 10:05 AM
Hutchlover, I thought so too at first, but in Feather Duster's defense (ugh, I can't believe I'm doing that), if the judges had bought Johnny's bullshit then FD would have been the one going home. Reasoning would have been "poor guy, he lost his Dior (!) by accident and had to make do, while FD plain sucked". I am really really missing being able to read Tim Gunn's blog this year, because I am sure he would have given us some more background on what happened. But I also thought at first that he was going to chew out FD - or should I say, comprehensively masticate him (good ole Polysyllabicus...)?
Also, I watched the epi and DVR'ed it for my daughter, and I noticed when she was watching it later that, wouldn't you know it, early in the episode they had a closeup shot of somebody ironing one of their things (although it might have been muslin, it was too quick a shot) with mounds and mounds of steam shooting around the iron. Sneaky editors! What were they trying to say?
15 of 22 | Posted by sayhuh | Posted on September 19, 2009 6:00 PM
I'd love to have Tim's podcast again! And bring back Jenn from last week. With no Nina or Kors, she's the next best thing.
16 of 22 | Posted by w8forme | Posted on September 19, 2009 6:23 PM
What were the judges looking at this week? I liked Jordana's a lot. And why was "wearable" a bad thing? Like she said the point was to make something wearable out newspaper. Althea's, Epperson's, Ramon's were terrible. (along with Johnny & FD of course)
I LOLed when you wrote that maybe they'd kick Johnny off for being too annoying to live. Too true.
17 of 22 | Posted by LindaLC | Posted on September 19, 2009 8:06 PM
I know I am in the minority but I happened to like Eperson. Fatboy (also known as Meth) was not only sappy, he lied. He tore up his original dress because Tim said it was ugly, then he started with the lie straight up to the runway. The best was the paper fur coat. Second, the feathers. They looked beautiful. Our little Russian princess is far to cocky and as everyone has said, boring. Enjoyed the recap.
18 of 22 | Posted by 2funny2be4real | Posted on September 19, 2009 8:34 PM
Incidentally, Tim was crude and unprofessional at the end, gossiping like a girl with the other designers. I expect more of someone who uses multisyllabic words.
19 of 22 | Posted by 2funny2b4real | Posted on September 19, 2009 8:37 PM
Hmm. Someone in the fashion industry gossiping about someone else in the fashion industry.
Nope. Never been done before.
20 of 22 | Posted by itchy | Posted on September 20, 2009 12:45 AM
Thank you, 2funny2breal
At least I'm not the only one who thinks so.
And for him not to give Johnny a hug, like he does with every other auf'd designer also spoke of "mean girl" mentality.
21 of 22 | Posted by hutchlover | Posted on September 20, 2009 8:26 AM
Realize I am in the minority here, but I actually liked Straight Guy's dress a lot. It was simple and striking. Irina's coat was very creative, and I loved the collar/cuffs but in the end it still looked like newspaper. Guess this why I am not a fashion editor...
Feather Duster needs to get over hisself. His constant smack talking has no basis in reality since his designs are not that great. However, he does make for some good entertainment.
Seems there is some "backstory" between Althea and Irina. Irina totally hit the bitch switch this week with her comments, although Althea got in a good snark, too. As Flip mentioned, now that Irina won, the catfight quotent should go up....
While watching the show it had not occured to me how unprofessional Tim's comments to the other designers were. I had to really think about after reading Hutchlover's comments. I think Tim was so shocked that Meth would outright lie - Tim seems to have a strong sense of integrity and he Meth's actions must have offended him. Perhaps he should not have commented the way he did, but it's also possible that he was trying to convey to the others that lying the way Meth did would not be condoned. I will forgive Tim his lapse here, as I still heart him for his wisdom and wit each week.
Flip, as I watched this show I knew in my heart of hearts that you would mention Anna's umbrella holder/vagina dress in reference to Shirin! Add me to the list of those who adore you. Your recaps are always awesome!
I loved Tim's "I am woefu" but still think the best line of the season is "if your viscera says no..."
THANKS FLIP- as always, hugs. oxoxo
22 of 22 | Posted by njgasmifan | Posted on September 21, 2009 8:14 AM