Can you give me a Han?

I'm trying to wrap up the 2010-2011 TV season's Han Solo sightings, so here is one of the last ones I noticed.

Lily from How I Met Your Mother dons the Han Solo vest for one of the last few episodes of the season.

Lily Aldrin not Lily Alderaan

In a bar, at a booth, maybe Lily shoots first?

While this was from 2009-2010, I'm adding this here because this season Glee fully embraced Will Schuester's vests with Santana telling him he need to be in a 12 step program for his vest addiction.  Also because it's Will Schuester with Barney from HIMYM.

Han Schuester and Barney Stinson

Dear Sonic - Your New Commercials are Terrible

Dear Sonic:
What is going on with your commercials?  As if the car hops on skates weren't boring enough, you are now using these unfunny, lame, and just-plain dumb commercials.  I guess you are trying to go for a crazy, funny, kooky vibe on them, but it just doesn't work.  The characters are not funny and are unlikable.  I especially feel contempt for the guy in the car with the cardboard robot (a total rip-off of AWESOM-O).

I found an article saying you recently changed ad agencies after 17 years, and this is what they came up with (so this is what happened to your commercials).

You really thought those commercials were a good idea?

The people who came up with the "Pete and TJ" commercials deserve a Nobel Prize for that idea compared to what's on right now.  Long live Pete and TJ!




What do you think about the new Sonic commercials?

Top Chef

Next season's Top Chef is apparently filming now in San Antonio, Texas!

Yee-haw! I can't wait for the terrible puns. Challenges I expect:

-Fill a cowboy hat with as many ingredients as you & then make a meal out of it.

-Two chefs cook a meal while in a giant boot.

-Cook a meal at The Rattler with rattlesnake as your main ingredient.

-Taco challenge! (I actually hope this is real and cannot wait for it. I love tacos.)

I also hope they go to HEB and have some of the Spurs be challenge judges. That would be awesome.

UPDATE: Apparently it's going to be TOP CHEF: TEXAS (yee-haw still works!). Rumors are they are filming in Austin and Dallas soon. I'll be hanging out at the whole foods if anyone needs to find me.

Patiently waiting for April

The next new Gossip Girl won't be on until April 18.  What am I supposed to watch until then?  I'll have to quickly recap the last episode before they took their break.

Chuck auditioned to be the next Doctor Who.

"Allons-y"

"Maybe you'd feel differently if we could discuss this in the TARDIS."

Ben looked sad while talking to Serena.

"I'm a hardened criminal, but you make me teary-eyed.  Go buy pizza."

Rufus wore skinny jeans and tight rolled them.

"I'm a cool 90s dad."

and Vanessa let everyone know she spent her time away from the UES buying jewelery in New Mexico.

"Have you ever been to New Mexico?"

"I also brought back an 'I heart NM' shirt for you.  It matches the one I'm wearing under this coat."

XOXO Jimbo

Happy Halloween, non-food, unfashionable edition

I present Serena's outfit in the Gossip Girl episode "Easy J".

I'm a sexy Darth Vader!

Awful.

XOXO - Jimbo

It's you that I Adore

Taylor "Little J" Momsen showed up in Los Angeles this week looking like she was suffering from tuberculosis. 

"Not exactly royalty uptown"

Being close to Halloween this could have been her attempt to look like everyones' favorite "lunger" Doc Holliday,



"Very cosmopolitan."

or Billy Corgan from 12 years ago.

"you will always be my whore."

I guess TB is the new look for fall.

XOXO - Jimbo

Cut It Out

On Gossip Girl, "A Touch of Eva", Serena wore a dress that everyone seemed to love, but was universally hated at my house.

Blair, exasperated at the attention Serena's horrible dress is garnering

What's with the cut outs?  Why is the dress so high waisted?  Are rib cages the new ass?  It's awful.  Once again she's totally outclassed by Blair and no one seems to notice.

Obligatory food:  Vanessa made Dan pancakes because he was sad about his not-son, and his horrible haircut.

XOXO - Jimbo

TV Food Pairings: 30 Rock

In honor of 30 Rock’s very meta, LIVE!!! episode this week I was encouraged to finally post about my love of television and food.

It all stems from me telling someone I had to have Italian food on a Wednesday night so I could have an excuse to drink red wine with the crew on Cougartown.

I realized when LOST was on that it was not only the show I looked forward to the most, but it became an event where I’d cook and my fellow LOSTies would come over. We’d eat and drink and hold each other’s hands in case there was a sad Sun/Jin moment. So to me, television watching has become almost as much about the food as about the show itself.

It’s not necessarily about what the tv show puts you in the mood to eat (e.g. pineapple during Hawaii 5-0), but it could also be about food products the show created or featured (e.g. Apollo Bars during Lost) . So back to 30 Rock. Liz Lemon loves food so much that this hangs in her office:

So what better show than this to post my first TV/Food pairing for?

30 Rock fits into the category where you’d have a 30 Rock themed meal. When Dealbreakers began she sang for someone to bring her some ham (Plus, the spokesperson for Jon Hamm’s John Ham has been a frequent and well received guest star). I also faintly remember her walking around with a deli-meat tray at some point in the first season. Ham sandwiches could be a great 30 Rock meal if you were in a hurry. The side of Sabor de Soledad is optional. However, my suggestion for the perfect 30 Rock meal would have to be Cheesy Blasters.

Here's the recipe:

Your final product should look something like this:

(http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/?p=553684286 )

Enjoy! Oh, and thanks Meat Cat. Be careful on that skateboard.

Fully Vested

These have been lazy days at comidablog.  I haven't been writing, but I have been eating and watching TV.

In the last two years there seems to be an explosion of TV characters dressing like Han Solo.  This is particularly pronounced on Gossip Girl, as Dan has never seen a vest he doesn't like.  Mr. Schuester from Glee is also partial to vests.  Here they are doing their best Han Solos.

Dan Solo with Serena (who is wearing maternity clothes), and Han Schuester

However no one has pulled off Han Solo better than Chuck Bass, and we know Chuck would shoot first.

Chuck Solo and the actual Han Solo

It's not the first time Gossip Girl has dressed their characters like other famous characters.

Vanessa and Fred Flintstone

Obligatory Food:  One time Serena dressed like a vintage Burger King.

We will get back to the food soon.
XOXO - Jimbo