Has anyone seen this "Project Runway" thing?

Have you? Mom got me stuck on it.

When I say she "got me stuck on it", that doesn't mean she got me to watch it early on, and I'd wait for it every week.

That means, I saw episode two, in a marathon of episodes one through nine. "What is this?"
"Oh, it's really good."
"But, what are they doing?"
"Well, there's eleven designers. There were twelve, but now there're eleven. And they give them a challenge, every week, and whoever does the best, wins, and whoever does the worst gets kicked off, 'til there's only three left."
"Three?"
"The three finalists get to show collections at fashion week. The winner is the one with the best collection."

I stayed there, for almost four hours, watching this utter madness unfold.

The finale episode is tonight; they'll have clips of the four runway shows (at the time fashion week occured, there were still four people left on the show, so even though they knew who would win -- it was filmed in advance -- they sent the four of them to fashion week, so no one else knew).

It's just... freaky. Y'know, you sit there, and you just have to ask yourself certain questions. "Why does Austin wear the same size as Julia (one of the models)?" (and the reason we know that? he had to stand in for her. The first thing the other designer said, when he came down the runway: "at least he didn't look like an absolute drag queen.")

Or, "why does everyone hate Wendy?" -- oh, wait, no, never mind. (After she stood up and thoroughly trashed the other designers, on a few different occaisions, yeah, I can see that). Kara Saun says she has no soul.


So, yeah. Now you know why I don't shop at the trendoid stores. Because these people are the trendoids. And these people are scary.

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