I Love NY: wieners and balls and pitchers and catchers... - 
by sg-dub
... And sweaty guys and squirts on shirts and bubble blowing and - you know what? Baseball is gay enough as it is, so no need to make it any gayer, Wes. What the hell am I talking about? In the latest episode of The Cut, Wes gave us his singular vision of what New York says to him: Hot guys with sweaty wieners and nice balls. And I say more power to him - it's about damn time we move past the 9/11 iconography and into a new age of homoeroticism. Transit cops, grow those mustaches and lose those shirts! Times Square, be the Pink Triangle you truly are! Homeless bums, pig piles on Fridays! Broadway shows, stay just the way you are, sister! But I digress... The show was about more than just Wes's gay fantasies as there were six others still competing for The Cut's crown. And the show is definitely picking up steam - Chelsea bath house steam, perhaps, but steam nonetheless.
The episode opened at the SoHo loft where the gang was commiserating over Rob Walker-from-Brooklyn's recent ejection. Chris, feeling guilty for selling his friend out, kept mindlessly repeating how much he loved Rob. Princess was bawling her eyes out. Um, people, isn't this a competition? Didn't Rob suck? Did you really think HALfiger would hire a guy who slopped fabric paint on t-shirts and shoes for a living? Get over it already. At least Wes did, stating, "I don't care that people are getting booted. That's one less person to worry about. I want to win and I'm about to get CRAZY!" Score one for the CBS foreshadowing department...Though I've been waiting for a night vision scene of a cockroach scampering across the counter, a la Survivor's nighttime crab-on-beach cliché. Make it happen, CBS, make it happen.
As always, the wooden HALfiger gathered the remaining lucky seven and bored them with a tale from his past. This week, they met at Empire State Park (actually, it's called Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, but that doesn't exactly fly off the tongue) and HALfiger explained how he made his mark with "iconic imagery." Instead of the old stodgy models other designers were stuck on, HALfiger brought in some "young, hip, cool kids and let them have fun." I don't know what it was, but hearing someone as incredibly boring and robotic as HALfiger explain how he is a trendsetter was a little bit surreal. Anyway, before Liz and Princess were about to choose their teams, HALfiger told them they'd be working as individuals this week. You know, like every single other reality show does with 6 or 7 people remaining. Can this show do anything original?
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