Well hello, masses…

Hello Survivor fans!

There’s a good chance that you arrived here because I posted an entry a couple of seasons ago making predictions for the Fiji season.

As a result, I get record breaking hits at every season finale – yesterday peaking at 800+…

In hindsight, on that season, I was right, predicting that Rocky would do badly, and that Yau Man and Earl would the superstars.

So to answer a couple of questions you may have had and to make a few observations:

1. Yes, Parvati did indeed win $1,000,000 for being an outrageous flirt.
2. She probably deserved it.
3. I don’t know if Amanda and Ozzie went all the way on a buggy beach or not.
4. I don’t want to know
5. James won $100,000 for having watchable abs.
6. Yes, Jeff Probst dyed his hair just a little too dark for the reunion show.
7. I don’t know what Natalie had been smoking when asking her questions to the final two.
8. Erik, although trying to mask his naivety with ‘humanity’, will be tough to beat as ‘Dumbest. Survivor. Ever’.
9. If I ever receive a hidden immunity idol or immunity necklace, I will play it at the first opportunity and never give it up. Never.
10. We’re going back to Africa (Gabon) for the next season.
11. I too am hoping that one day the producers will look outside of the USA for contestants. I think a team USA versus the world would make for an intriguing show…
12. Yes. This was the most interesting season in a VERY long time.
13. Not as interesting as it would be given point 11.

Your tribe has spoken.

The STM come…good?

Wierd.

I can’t figure out if it’s just me, or if the STM (Montreal’s public transport system) have been feeding the monkeys employees some happy-juice lately.

Every day for the last 7 days, I have been greeted on the bus or at the metro gate by a smiling person, who has actually looked me in the eye and said “Bonjour!”

What the hell?

I have long been an un-admirer of the STM’s attitude towards its patrons – especially to those tourists who visit the fair province of Quebec with no french language skills…

I have long been annoyed by their over-paid, surly, unionized workers who appeared to constantly want more at the expense of the city’s residents and travellers, whilst never investing in some of the more humanitarian service elements to, well, make the public transport experience a little more pleasant.

And yet… something appears to have changed… in just seven days…

I wonder if they know… that we know… that they know…

I use the STM because I have to, and because it’s a greener alternative to the car, and for the past seven days, it’s been, well, OK. Less annoying. A more ‘human’ experience.

It’s quite disconcerting…

Is it just me?

Oh.

…and, for the record, I think I might just BURST if I don’t see ‘LOST’ tonight… It’s been a long year without Kate…

..alas I have my first mid-term exam tonight… THIS is where PVR’s (TVO) come in handy.

Death Race!

Cool!

I just got notice that the remake of Death Race is going to be filmed (or some of it anyway) across the street from my house!

If I recall correctly, Death Race was the movie where you scored points for running down men, women and children and was the language of the primary 5 (grade 5) schoolyard!!

That, and I may catch a glimpse of Jason “Turkish” Statham, and Ian “Al Swearengen” McShane doing their very, very BADASS thing!

Score!

Extra Time

Today is “Due Day”.

Or “D-Day”

Chances of him making an appearance today?

Slim.

I am not slim. A poutine and steamies in 34 degree temperatures sees to that.

Hey – don’t judge me – It’s sheer folly to even ATTEMPT to talk a full term pregnant woman away from a poutine when she wants it.

I spent the evening feeling annoyed that Canadian Idol judges ‘couldn’t find a place in the final 22′ for Montreal’s Ben Griffin, and yet they could for the screamy rocker dude and ‘too cool for school’ newfie guy and about 80% of the remainder. They guy has more talent, positivity and charisma in his wee finger than most, if not all of the others.

 It’s not a Montreal thing (OK maybe a tiny bit).

But seriously?

And Objectively?

The guy was robbed. And his place and chance passed to too many kids who, quite frankly, are one dimensional and will be found out as soon as they have to try something which falls outside of their own niche.

So tough luck, Ben. Keep making music and inspiring the kids you teach.

You deserved a shot. 

   

Weekend Drivel…

Ottawa 5 – Habs 3

Didn’t see the game. Saw the Highlights. Ray Emery should serve time for stealing the game and for GBH of Maxim Lapierre. All the other teams that shouldn’t have won got points.

I didn’t see the game because I was laying hardwood floors at sister in law’s house.

I know what you’re thinking: “But hey, P, the game started at 7, and you still weren’t done?”

No – we started at 10:30 am and finally wrapped up 11 hours later. On a room 11ft by 14 feet.

11 hours of standing up, kneeling, squatting, nailing, hammering, sawing, swearing, slipping and man-talking. (Wash rinse and repeat. Many, many times)  

Making progress 2 inches at a time.

I’m not complaining – I love doing that stuff – give me a hammer, a saw and some nails and I’ll go quite happily to make a chest of drawers or a door frame or a fine armoir… yesterdays experience reminded me how HORRIBLY out of shape I am.

For today I feel old. I mean “old man of the hills” old. Even my ass cheeks feel arthritic.

 Me ‘n’ her went looking for paint samples for the nursery today and I swear that people were wondering why she brought her great granddad. I needed a winch to get out of the car.

Shame on me.

The Grammy’s started.

Jamie Foxx, Justin Timberlake and MJ Blige got more TV time than The Police who rattled out a low key, uninspired version of “Roxanne”, before running offstage to party tantrically.

Welcome back, sons of entitlement. You blew our minds.

Zzzzzz.

Tomorrow is jobhuntingbootcamp day 1.

I was told by stern schoolmistress, Charlene, that I have to wear something appropriate for jobhunting…

Survivor 14 – Fiji

 

 Holy What?

13 Survivor’s already? That’s $13,000,000 plus the additional $1,000,000 they gave to Rupert for being a good guy!

 Anyhoo, Survivor Fiji kicked off last night causing massive conflicts with The Game (see below), Grey’s Anatomy (meh) and C.S.I., but that’s what video recorders are for.

(PVR? WHAT? HUH?)

Jeff Probst was his usual Peter Pan self, leading the children to Neverland – although he did inform us that one person actually quit before filming due to ‘fear of the unknown’.

Hello? McFly?

I kind of liked the fact that the group got an opportunity to meet each other and feel each other out before being seperated into their respective tribes – I think that there were a few relationships formed – good and bad and chuckled when Boston Rocky and Flyboy Dreamz set to during the night.

Although it’s WAAAYYY to soon to be making any predictions it’s not too soon to be making observations.

Are Boston Rocky and Erica THAT stupid, after conceiving of their master plan…

“What a tangled web we weave”

…that they would go and vote for different people? I see a short future for both. Rocky gone in first 6. Erica before.

Yau-man = “silent assassin”.

Boo… um… just because the only two ‘Boo’s that I know are of the Radley variety and the animated Monsters Inc variety – both of which had a hell of a time if you recall. The omens aren’t good. And he lists his favourite small as ‘food’. Mook!

Pappa Smurf may well have enough love already to get him far.

Earl is a black Yul. His cogs are turning.

I did laugh out loud when, after being passively self-congratulatory, architect and ‘leader of the people’, Sylvia was sent, for her efforts to Exile Island, infested with thousand of black and white sea snakes, only to find that one of the two hidden immunity idols was, in fact, nowhere near her. That should wipe the smug smile off her face.

There is much to go on this show, villains to be named, genii to be recognised and I do like the camp situation – winners stay at the built one, losers to the tent city (…oh… wait… Apprentice?), but it may quell the “ditch the game to lose one of our own” tactics that has been creeping in in previous seasons. I have those I am already enjoying watching.. alas Jessica won’t be one of them… which as a red blooded man strikes me as a damn shame.

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