Gaysian in "Beauty and the Geek"

I haven't covered this season that much or seen much of it, but Greg, the self-proclaimed 'Gaysian' pretty much broke the traditionally straight, autistic-in-one-area geek mold (Asian Week). He may be gay, which many consider 'cool' but there are a lot of gay geeks out there. some that don't know what to do what to do. Greg admitted in the beginning that he never felt part of the crowd and now with the geeks, he didn't feel like he fit in. That "I feel like I don’t fit in with anyone … like I’m not geeky enough to be a geek or like all the other geeks are so smart, and I’m like the artistic gay guy.” Now that it has gotten to the makeover episode, the other geeks are comfortable with Greg and call him "Greggie" like the Beauties. I do feel for Greg that he doesn't have a forbearer or an instructor, much like many gay teenagers feel when they come out. Luckily he has his Beauty Randi who brings up his confidence. When there was only 2 African-American Beauties this year and only 1 last time, I don't think there will be more than 1 gay Geek next time or even another one. I think there should at least be 2 and 1 bisexual geek. I don't doubt there were bisexual geeks before, but probably they didn't have enough confidence or sexual experience to admit it. By the by, I can't stand squeaky-voice Cara.

Greg and Randi had to make a little play for The Young and the Restless and it was prom-related. He 'came out' and she slapped him, which was out of the script. He didn't expect it and he was shocked and it amused her and she started smiled. It got the judges from the show laughing. The other plays were funny and cute too. the later ones actually looked like it was from the soap. And they rubbed in cliches from soaps smartly like "Abducted by pirates." To make the episode even gayer, the elimination came to four geeks to dress in drag (of course Scissor Sisters had to be played) and the worst one would be to be eliminated. one of the geeks--Tommy brought one of the African-American beauties as impression. And Joe was picked to be eliminated, his Beauty was understandably upset because the girls ganged up on them.

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Project Runway Dispute

Lifetime offered Project Runway a reported $150 million deal and NBC/Universal is suing because they claim they have first refusal for the show and any possible spinoffs. Which means they had a deal and they believe NBC is going against the deal. In the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by Broadcasting & Cable, NBCU cited a license agreement giving Bravo the right to the first five cycles and said it had first right of refusal for Runway and any possible spinoffs. Bravo, per the suit, has paid Weinstein “many millions of dollars in exchange for these exclusive rights” and alleged that Weinstein is violating its right of first refusal by going to Lifetime and that it “engaged in deception” to do so.

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Greek Episode 13 Review

"Highway to the Discomfort Zone"

April 7, 2008

Rebecca and Cappie decide to go public with their relationship and Cappie decides to tell Casey and of course she doesn't take it well. Two episodes ago, Rusty's roommate Dale offered to 'straighten' out Calvin. Dale offers it again and Calvin tells him he isn't interested. But Calvin decides to humor Dale. Of course, Calvin goes through the regular "You think I chose to be gay" relay, but thankfully briefly. The show is creative, with Dale--being an unique character and being true to people I know, or exaggerated. Dale can come off as evil or stupid, but they way they do it, it is not so bad. So Calvin finds himself at Dale's purity club and they stare at him because they haven't "seen a Gay in the wild." It can come off as offensive, but again, they are just ignorant. Calvin likes the prospect of a group that talks about their feelings and don't have sex with women.

When it is good to bad, when Calvin looks at an underwear catalog and Dale shoves a rotten banana in his face. When Calvin does the classic bible scripture debate and Dale left, upset when Calvin insinuated that he might be a sinner. The funny thing is that Dale tries to get Calvin into women, but he hasn't ever got lucky into women. He tricks Dale and have him think he might be gay. Dale gets offended of course. Calvin returns the rotten banana and leaves. Calvin returns to Dale's room, where he tries to take out everything he had that was gay. He then stapled down the 'gay is not a choice' and Dale refuses to believe it. Calvin just tells him to accept that he is gay and happy about it. Calvin then tells him they will talk about the confederate flag he has and Dale decides to keep one of his things.

Meanwhile, Casey decides to show off a hot guy Jonah (Jerad Anderson) that works at an animal shelter and gives baths to dogs sans shirt to Cappy and Rebecca. When they are drinking at the bar, that snoopy chick that is from sorority comes after them for their IDs. She becomes mostly enamored with Jonah. Jonah is mostly interested in animals, but Casey doesn't pay him any mind, until she makes out with him to make the others jealous. She offers him a drink but he is against because he has to drive home... so she just gets yet another beer for herself. The next morning to wakes up naked to a shirtless Jonah to find herself awaken to Jonah's mother. She is seemingly okay with him having sex. And then she gets the shock of her life when she finds out he is 16 and not in college... yet. Hot guy. Casey tells him to call her in five years. His bedroom was covered with baseball stuff. Casey then does the walk of shame back to the sorority house. The episode ends with one of Rusty and Casey's patented talks.

The title comes from a reference to the film Top Gun.

Henshin Grid -- The Blog

This is my brand new blog dedicated to all kinds of Tokusatsu (Live-action special effects children's programming) from around the world. On my blog Spanengrish Ramblings, I covered a couple of things on Super Sentai and Power Rangers. I own the unofficial fan website SuperSentai.com and help Power Rangers Central that my partner inherited. I decided to put all my past posts on this blog, including more insights, rumors, and ramblings (of course). The reason it is called Henshin Blog is because Henshin means 'to change' in Japanese and commonly used by Tokusatsu heroes and Grid is from 'Morphing Grid' as 'Morphing' is the equivalent to Henshin. Above is a picture of the Red and White Rangers and the Masked Riders in a special 1995 episode in the third season of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." It is considered non-canon for fans and the only team-up (in a way) between Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.

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Angel After the Fall: Cover Mystery Man discovered!

Maybe I am a bit late, probably since this issue came out last month but anyway, I have been reading both the Buffy and Angel official continuity comics and both are gorgeously written and drawn but Issue #5 of "Angel: After the Fall" features a group shot but one mystery man character that was left undefined. Writer Brian Lynch clears it up on his myspace page (link below). It is Groo, who appears in the issue and the last issue. Just so happens the cover was drawn before the issue was finished because of publicity reasons. They were planning to show the Groo we saw when we last saw him with his hair cut (in Season 3) but Lynch figured it was lame and it was better to have old Groo instead of new Groo.

For those who know haven't read the books but have seen the show, these are characters above:

Top: Angel's Dragon (the one he said he would slay but ended up befriending) and Beta George (a psychic fish from Lynch's other comics that joined the continuity)

Clockwise: Gunn, Connor, Nina the werewolf (Season 5), Lorne, Spike, Angel, Illyria, Gwen (the lightning lass from Season 4), Wesley (with the glasses of course), and Groosalugg.


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Jay Leno Apologizes to Ryan for asking to make a "Gay Face"

I was outraged when Jay Leno asked guest Ryan Phillipe to make a 'gay face' on his show The Tonight Show a few weeks ago and now he apologizes. Takes a big man. "In talking about Ryan's first role, I realize that what I said came out wrong. I certainly didn't mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize," to said to People Magazine. AfterElton.com would have rather him do the apology to his own show and not a magazine. His actual quote was this: "can you give me – say that camera is your gay lover – can you give me your ‘gayest look’? Say that camera is Billy Bob – Billy Bob has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming." GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said: "We are proud of Ryan for refusing to participate in Leno's thoughtless attempt at humor. "Under the guise of comedy, the talk-show host is demonstrating a lack of respect for the gay community and insensitivity to both his co-workers and the audience, to whom he owes an apology."

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