Solomonia Archive: Wherein I Rant of Project Runway, Episode 4

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Wherein I Rant of Project Runway, Episode 4

Last night's Project Runway was an abortion! Santino's designs weren't lingerie, they were costumes. Besides, he's a big baby. I agree with the decision to give the victory to Daniel V.'s team, but the departure of Daniel Franco in favor of the prima dona Santino could only have been a case of the producers stepping in and guiding the judges' results. Santino is definitely good TV, but the decision was unjust, and was reminiscent of what happened last season as "the person everyone loved to hate," Wendy Pepper, kept hanging in there time after time even though it would have seemed a fair-judge would have long ago given her the boot. Daniel Franco's designs were good (if, yes, a bit similar to each other), and his departure classy (if a bit reticent and teary-eyed, still, he did offer himself for dismissal which was honorable), while Santino whined and argued with the judges -- he even managed to almost make me sympathetic toward my least favorite judge, Nina Garcia. Michael Kors, not present for some reason, was sorely missed.

I predict that there will not soon be another opportunity to bid farewell to Santino, as he is clearly one of the most talented designers, and, I will admit, his antics are entertaining.

You can be the judge, here. This was a team challenge. Three designs each from four teams.

Posted by Solomon at 2:05 PM on Thursday, Dec 22, 2005 | Comments (4)
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#1 Mike Nargizian | December 22, 2005 2:22 PM

That b**** (meant in the good way) is hot!
HAT TIP AT THE TOP THIS TIME IN BOLD....
Charles (I swear) has used 3 of my posts in comments 3 hrs after I posted each time and never hat tipped... last one was Guilliani article)

DAILY SCORECARD - "Meet the Egyptian Editor Who Denies the Holocaust"

(writer)... he does not hate all Jewish people. But that nonetheless, he is entitled to his opinions that the Holocaust never happened, that the Romans did not destroy the Second Temple in Jerusalem because it was never built, and that Jews ordered President Bush to unseat Saddam Hussein.....
(editor)...For his part, he thinks Hitler did attempt the extermination of European Jewry. "There is no smoke without fire," he said. "Israel cannot propagate something like the Holocaust if it was made up 100%. But some of it might be exaggerated."

MORE.....

Jews secretly control the governments of Britain, France, and America; that there was never a Second Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and that as a general rule Jewish people are "greedy."

AND THIS TIDBIT.......

"Some Turkish people are selling out their country," he said with an almost conspiratorial nod. "For someone to say that the Turks killed 1 million Armenians, well they should prove this. And even if it is true, they should not say this because it is damaging to their country." Mr. al-Rauf sees a similarity between Mr. Pamuk and his country's renowned sociologist and human rights activist, Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Unlike many of the world's journalists, Mr. al-Rauf says he supported the regime when Mr. Ibrahim was arrested in 2000. "He is always speaking about the persecution of the Copts in Egypt, which is not true. And even if this was true, it should not be propagated because it harms Egypt," he said.

#2 Solomon | December 22, 2005 2:58 PM

That's a good story.

Don't be too hard on Charles, I'm sure he gets so many pointers in his email and comments that he can't possibly even explore them all, and anything remotely decent probably gets sent to him multiple times. The volume of material on a site like that must be a daunting task to sift through.

#3 Mike Nargizian | December 22, 2005 4:11 PM

It's a continuation of the original story from MEMRI we both posted.

When you compare these morons to the wit and charm of Ali Salem it's no wonder the Arab world is in the state it is.

#4 isirota1965 | December 22, 2005 6:12 PM

Man, is she ever hot!