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curiousgeorgiana
11/20/09

In reply to Project Runway Finale: Armor, Sci-Fi & Tears

I've said it before but: Irina. Please see Jillian Season 4 for the correct way to do armor inspiration w/ hats.
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jhuang
11/20/09

@curiousgeorgiana: Just seeing these three pictures reaffirms my thought about how sucky this season's designs were. :( Hoping it's better in January!
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linnyt is a walking cliché
11/20/09

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This is the first season of PR where I missed episodes and never bothered to watch them later. I did remember that the finale was on that night but I watched King of the Hill instead. I don't even like that show but it doesn't stab me in the heart like bad PR does.
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BlondeGoddess
11/20/09

In reply to Oprah's Explanation For Ending Her Show
Every comment is shown in italics, which makes everything look ironic.

Maybe she hasn't been ground-breaking for the past few years, but she has done a lot for television, for women, for breaking down barriers and taboos. I can't help but appreciate her and love her.
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kookla
11/20/09

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Let's face it. These last two seasons, Oprah has looked "checked out" which may have a lot to do with her thyroid condition.

The other day I was flipping through the channels and was shocked at the size of the goiter on her neck. I was hoping that she would put her health before the joy she gets from rolling around in piles of cash.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
11/20/09

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Isn't she just moving to her Harpo network or whatever? It's not like she's going quietly into the night with her Steadmuffin by her side, she'll be doing SOMETHING in the limelight.
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Tart of Darkness
11/20/09

In reply to Oprah's Explanation For Ending Her Show
She announced the end of her show once before so maybe her spirit will do a 180 again. Frankly I don't think she can last very long without being on camera promoting her agenda of the week uncontested. This is the woman who puts her own mug on the cover of her magazine every month! She even put Michelle Obama on her cover, but with herself!!

She'll be back.
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Etoiles
11/20/09

@Tart of Darkness: She'll be back... on cable. She's launching a network in January 2011. (To be found on whatever channel you currently have Discovery Health on.)

So it's not so much that she's giving up being on TV an hour a day... it's that she's upgrading to 24/7.
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heykoukla
11/20/09

@Tart of Darkness: "This is the woman who puts her own mug on the cover of her magazine every month."
In her defence, sales drop every time someone else is on the cover (or so I read). I guess it's the same as tuning in to watch Oprah and finding Gayle is filling in for her.
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rtms
11/20/09

@Etoiles: Thanks I was going to say the same thing, Nikki Finke has said this is her plan so this whole thing is just to get ratings for the last year and then she can announce that her show will be moving to her OWN network[ yes that is what it is called]
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Tart of Darkness
11/20/09

@rtms: Now this sounds more like the Oprah. So all of those crocodile tears are just for leaving her broadcast audience, right?
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Tart of Darkness
11/20/09

@heykoukla: I seriously wonder why this is. I would actually love to study this in depth because I can't imagine why people wouldn't buy "Oprah" unless "Oprah" is on the cover. Like do they collect the cover pics? Do they not know it's her magazine unless there's a picture of her on it? And this suggests that there are issues out there without her picture on the cover. I don't follow it closely enough to know who was on the cover instead of Oprah when people chose not to buy. Not Gayle, I hope.
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CurtCole
11/20/09

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I was hoping Oprah would be on her show until she looked like Aughra.
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thecameralovesyou
11/20/09

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I know people mock Oprah a lot. And hell I get mocked for watching Oprah. But I don't care.. I LOVE ME SOME OPRAH. Honestly, I love her shows. Sure, sometimes she's boring (everything she did with "the secret") and she doesn't always hit hard hitting questions (or very rarely does she hit hard hitting questions). But something about her show makes me happy. It's like a comfort at the end of the day. I'm just gonna have to watch her 20th anniversary dvd over and over.
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JosephFinn
11/20/09

@thecameralovesyou: Do you love her when she endangers children by putting anti-vaccination nutbars on her show to spread their dangerous delusions?
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Tart of Darkness
11/20/09

@JosephFinn: I love her when she gives bad diet and exercise advice. And promotes unethical therapists to the point where they get their own show!

I loved her most when she said she canvassed the United States to ask poor black kids what they want more than anything and they all said video games and stuff so she judged them unworthy of her efforts and built a girl's school in Africa because they all said they wanted an education.

She gave those American kids a chance to have their very own Oprah school and they blew it! Oh and well also there are laws about how schools are constituted and run in the U.S. which could be inconvenient.

I also loved her a lot when she wanted to enter a closed store and claimed racial discrimination because they wouldn't open it up for her.

I do love me some Oprah.
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yvanehtnioj
11/20/09

@Tart of Darkness: It's fine to hate Oprah, but during the Hermes thing she repeatedly said that she didn't think it was racism, she thought it was because she was dressed shabbily in a tracksuit and looked poor. So, um, carry on with the anger, I guess.
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hortense
11/20/09

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"I watched an episode of the Dr. Phil show the other day, and decided to quit television immediately thereafter."
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Scout
11/20/09

@hortense: did you not get the Memo about the "horror" of it all?
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Tart of Darkness
11/20/09

@hortense: Poor Doctor Phil. He didn't watch enough TV to realize that you can't claim to solve people's problems once and for all with just one book or idea. You have to be able to change your mind and solve people's problems with lots of conflicting concepts and ideas so you can keep milking the ratings. For example, his diet book that's the ONLY ONE YOU'LL EVER NEED. How stupid not to realize you might want to put out a sequel.

Or the time he adopted a town and the town didn't want to be adopted. One of my greatest goals is to get on his show and ask him on camera whatever happened to Elgin, TX?
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morninggloria
11/20/09

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Finishing an embarrassing fourth in the vote for 2016 host city, losing a bunch of conventions due to high union wages required by workers here, having a shitty, shitty summer that never really happened, neither the Cubs nor the Sox made the playoffs, the Bears kind of suck again, all of those schoolchildren shooting at each other and taping beating deaths, the going-down-swinging departure of Rod Blagojevich, our school board chief's recent was-it -or-wasn't-it suicide, and now Oprah is leaving?

2009 is just not Chicago's year.
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Understater
11/20/09

@morninggloria: Not to rub salt in the wound, gloria, but Chicago was also recently voted the most stressful city in America.

::dodges rancid tomatoes::
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morninggloria
11/20/09

@Understater: It's because none of the fucking trains ever fucking work and I have to wait thirty goddamn minutes for a motherfucking bus to get a cocksucking mile away when I could have walked the asseating distance myself and when I get on the bus there are like forty seven strollers carrying goddamn three year olds who should be able to walk BY THEIR MOTHERFUCKING SELVES AND EVERYONE IS TALKING EARDRUM POUNDINGLY LOUD ON THEIR COCKSUCKING CELL PHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAHHHH!!!
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halo323
11/20/09

@morninggloria:

and then there's, y'know, WINTER.

*dread*

(Nothing makes the CTA worse than it already is quite like the 1 inch thick crust of salt on the L stairs all winter, which is just as treacherous as ice.)
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morninggloria
11/20/09

@halo323: Word on the street is that this winter is going to be less shitty than the two previous winters. Which is good and bad. Good because I probably won't lose any fingers to frostbite this year, but bad because mild weather is shootin' and robbin' weather.
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zombie_dola
11/20/09

@morninggloria: Weird, I didn't know that "requiring" wages one can comfortably live on would help contribute to the bummer year Chicago is having.
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halo323
11/20/09

@morninggloria:

we totally deserve a mild winter as compensation for our bizarro lack of a summer. (And for last winter, which was just straight up evil.)
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morninggloria
11/20/09

@zombie_dola: I'm just quoting what organizers of the conventions that recently flew the coop have been saying-- that the reason they're not returning to Chicago is because of the high costs.
[www.chicagobreakingnews.com]

Those high costs can be largely attributed to high union salaries. Workers at the convention center at Orlando are not unionized and are thus paid much less and are therefore able to put on a convention for much less money.

Capitalism isn't pretty. I'm not suggesting that people not unionize; I think that everyone deserves a living wage. The reality is that if something can be done cheaper by non-union workers, people often choose the cheaper option.
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Triana Orpheus
11/20/09

@morninggloria: And raping. You can't forget raping.

[www.sciencedirect.com]
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zombie_dola
11/20/09

@morninggloria: You're right, capitalism isn't pretty. In fact many argue that it's grotesque enough that it needs to be replaced by a system that meets human needs and doesn't pit worker against worker in a drive toward the bottom, which is the process you just described.

My interest was just piqued when it seemed like you were putting the agency on the part of the unions, as if they're the ones fucking up everyone's day.
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formergr
11/20/09

@morninggloria: I am SO glad I moved two years ago. Everyone here in DC complains about the Metro (and the cold!), and I just feel myself in complete bliss everytime I get on it.

In two years, I think I've only had three major delays getting to or from work due to train problems. This after years in Chicago frequently waiting 20 minutes for the goddamn blue line out in the cold at the Damen stop, only to find out the train was already full. Then running to take a 56 bus instead, same issues. Grrr.
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morninggloria
11/20/09

@formergr: That's why getting on at Division rocks. Waiting for a train ain't no thang if you're underground.
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Tart of Darkness
11/20/09

@morninggloria: And she does live in southern California. And who knows where the OWN studios will be located?
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mllej
11/20/09

In reply to Project Runway Finale: Armor, Sci-Fi & Tears
After putting up with this entire season, I could not even be bothered to watch last night. I put on The Wire and called it a night. Sigh.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
11/20/09

@mllej: I didn't watch any of the finale. I am probably going to watch the first few episodes of the next season, but if it continues in this vein then I'm giving up on the show. I'll find something else to watch Thursday nights, like House reruns or something.
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mllej
11/20/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Same here. I was going to hop over to Gawker's liveblog to at least see who won last night but instead asked someone to PM me on Facebook. Used to be the PRun finale was not to be missed.
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EdnasEdibles
11/20/09

In reply to Oprah's Explanation For Ending Her Show
I usually get antsy after 5 years at a job and I have to quit and go elsewhere so I can understand how 25 years of doing the same thing may get old. Of course, none of my jobs have ever been quite as lucrative as her show.
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Sanfo
11/20/09

In reply to Oprah's Explanation For Ending Her Show
Shit! Now Tyra will think there's a void to fill, and will indeed fill it with trivial, anti-sex, blackface-justifying televised tripe. More than ANTM already is, of course.
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Kali Mama
11/20/09

@Sanfo: on the other hand, we get a break from Oprah hawking the trendy supernatural claptrap woo-woo du jour and not have her be responsible for hundreds of people eschewing science based medical treatment or suspending plain old common sense.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
11/20/09

In reply to Oprah's Explanation For Ending Her Show
But how will I know which fake memoirs to read?
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Penny
11/20/09

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25 is also a nice, clean, number.

Please, your spirit?
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Scout
11/20/09

@Penny: seriously.

although, my "spririt" told me that keeping my age at 40 was the right thing to do, even when I turn 41 so,
you know ... "spririt" knows best.
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BetteD
11/20/09

@Penny: I'm turning 26 next month, but I think I'll keep telling people that I'm 25, cause it's a nice, clean number, and it feels right in my spirit.
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