It'ssss time for a color splassssh and some sibilants

Ok it's been yet another nutty week. Student teaching may be over but that doesn't mean I haven't been working my tail off subbing (see I have this compulsive need to actually teach and not baby-sit like many of the subs - no offense to them). After a hectic week I look forward to Sundays with my BOO where we laze, eat breakfast, play cards and gorge ourselves on HGTV. I love Hidden Potential, Curb Appeal, House Detective (I think the inspector, Steve Ramos, is a cutie), My House is Worth What?, and What You Get For the Money (our favorite show - though it can be a nailbiter when you see what stuff costs elsewhere!) Oh yeah I can't help loving HGTV and yes, it makes me a grade-A fag... Oh well, I don't much care, after all, stereotypes have to be based on some truth right? Just don't expect me to go prancing around with a sign on my back...

One thing that REALLY annoys me right now is the complete and utter OVER-promotion of HGTV's newest show and "designstar", David Bromstad. His new primetime show, ColorSplash is pretty much every other commercial on HGTV. I think I counted like 10 promos for it in one hour... That also excludes the little animations of him that pop-up in the bottom right corner of the TV screen. Too many annoying promos all day long! Serenity now!

Listen, I'm no player-hater. He's won that nutty reality show, seems to have a lot of talent, and he is not bad looking either (though in that airbrushed Chelsea-boy-trying-to-be-rough-n-tuff-while-still-uberstylish sort of way... I'll take that hunky Dirty Jobs guy anyday...)

I'm just sick of the in-your-face GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY, ALL GAYS LOVE OUTRAGEOUS USE OF COLOR and SISSSING SIBILANTS ad campaign. Seriously, I'm sure he speaks the way he does everyday, but HGTV has him spiriting around their tv ads like he's some color fairy who can only fly by over-accentuating hissss sssspeech. It is just too much and too many times in the course of my day of restful TV watching... My personal opinion, but they need to tone it down (no color pun intended!) I do wish another gay man all the luck in breaking into the design world.

Oh yeah, the latest round of ads has him doing an arm pump at the very end while grunting loudly. I think they are trying to make him sound "Hot" for all the housewives in the Midwest to coo over.

He just ends up sounding constipated... Maybe he needs a splash of milky white Milk of Magnesia!