DWTS

I must confess – I am a huge, huge fan of Dancing With The Stars. The show does border on being cheesy – or even pornographic with some of the moves and outfits – but there is something about it that just reaches out and grabs me. I eagerly await the start of each new season and check and double-check that both DVR’s are set to record it (yes, we have 2 DVR’S – gross extravagance you say? Of course!) The first few seasons I voted like a crazy person – my cell phone, GolfGuy’s cell phone (he did get tacky about that when he wanted to vote for someone else), the house phone, on-line – any and every way I could. The fall and winter of 2007-08 I was in a semi-comatose state and couldn’t summon up the energy to frantically dial and re-dial, so I fell out of the habit and haven’t picked it up again.

The fall season of DWTS does present a conflict as the booby network that gave up Monday Night Football chooses to put DWTS on opposite MNF. Football is the only thing that bumps DWTS. So I make sure the DVR is set (so simple even I can do it) and then I am careful to watch before the results show. But that does mean that voting, other than on-line, doesn’t happen – reinforcing my laziness.

My take on the first show of the spring season follows:
Woz wasn’t just bad – he was AWFUL! Now the Cowboy (Jewel’s husband) while kind of cute was just plain bad. As for Belinda What’s-her-face – the comparison to Cloris Leachman, from last season, was quite apt. The Jackass was – well, a jackass. Gilles will be one of the finalists, if not the winner. He was on KTLA the next morning – YUMMO! The 16 year-old Gold Medal Gymnast was quite good – but I hate to see a 16-year old looking and being dressed so maturely – even a GMG. The real surprise was Melissa, the reject/ditchee from Bachelor – she was elegant and lovely to watch and with only 2 days practice. Much better than the Blond Bunny Bimbo – who had a whole week of practice. Altho, the BBB does have the best legs seen on the show since the female wrestler from about season 2. The rest of the pack was… the rest of the pack – not very memorable, just filler.

The whole group has the opportunity to change my thinking tonight – and yes, they are dancing JUST for me…aren’t they? Stay tuned.