"It smells like a wet ......

[Stinky The Clown]

...... fart"

Only Tony Bourdain could get away with saying this on teevee as he visits a hot spring in The Azores on "No Reservations".

[Lucinda]

1. Bourdain is one of the few things we miss about Tv

:D

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. You know,

there are lots of shows you can watch online. I never see "Gray's Anatomy," but I like the show, so I just watch full episodes at the abc.com site.

I found this - http://www.forfreedownloads.com/2008/12/man-v-food-season-1-episode-2.html - for Man v. Food.

And, what looks even better, is this - http://tinyurl.com/cfrftm

How did we ever live without google and youtube?

:toast:

[Lucinda]

10. Thanks for the link! hulu.com is supposed to be pretty good too

http://www.hulu.com

They seem to have a lot of shows available to view.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

2. You've still got time to edit and take that out of the subject line.

I sooo do not want to read that on the front page.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Am I the only one

who finds him annoying, uninteresting, self-indulgent, and boring?

[Lucinda]

4. He hit me that way at first, but the more you see, the more there is to see

Some of his shows are really amazing. There a lot going on behind the facade.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. I liked his first book,

and my cousin, the restauranteur, swears by him. But he puts me off.

I think it's time to give him another chance. Maybe he looks different to me now.

The guy who's really got me is Adam Richman, on "Man v. Food." That show had me immediately. He's very smart and very funny, but he really, really loves food, it's obvious.

Ah, food. The only thing that everything in existence requires. How can people NOT be obsessed by it?

Thanks.

[Lucinda]

6. If you can, find Bourdains shows in Beirut and Mexico

Actually, almost any of the shows in his last series on the travel channel will illustrate what I'm not saying very well. :) I think he's grown up a lot over the last 10 years.

We stopped cable before Man v Food show started. I'll have to check him out!

[Warpy]

8. He is able to laugh at himself

especially in his books, and that is his saving grace.

His blogs during last year's "Top Chef" were also a wonderful read.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Check out his novels

They're very entertaining.

[grasswire]

11. that was a beautiful episode

One of our house teenagers had never heard of the Azores before watching, and became extremely excited about the place, putting it at the top of his post-graduation travel list (economy allowing him to get a job, of course).

I enjoyed it very much, too. That remote place where they ate cockles and limpets was amazing. The end of the world place, he said.

[troubleinwinter]

12. I've eaten 'opii'

(barnacles). They are not very good.