This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
When did ILM move to SF proper?
Sometime ago I think. 4-5 years, maybe more? Lucas Sound is still in Marin I believe.
I wish they had talked a little about the campus, which is uber-green (they recycled 80% of the Letterman Army Hospital that had been on site) and designed to encourage green behavior, such as using the stairs, etc.
Which one?!
I love love love the Presidio Social Club. Which is right across the street from ILM and housed in one of the old army buildings. It has a fabulous brunch with things like red flannel hash and sloe gin fizzes. At dinner, they also make a fabulous gunpowder gimlet with cayenne pepper around the rim and serve upscale home cooking like crispy pork shank. It's like you are eating in a
Mad Men
country club. It's a great place for visitors since you can walk through ILM and then down to the Palace of Fine Arts to the water for a view of the bridge. Plus, my Dad actually spent a good part of WWII at the Presidio so I always feel nostalgic when I'm there.
Bummed that it took them as long as it did to figure out how to read the virtual clue--dude, why do you think Jordan was spinning himself sick?
I'm not sure they could have caught up even if they'd figured it out right away - Dan and Jordan had such a huge lead coming out of the plane and they kept it the whole leg.
I liked that the last three clues were Actual Clues.
Me too! So many of the "clues" are just instructions - what's the challenge in that?
And yet, even without the clues being Actual Clues, so many teams manage to screw up. Perhaps there is a limit to how sadistic the challenge creators want to be....
We were waiting for our dinner reservation last night, and some loud guy walks by to talk to the hostess. He was sort of a jerk, really hyper and loud, but he looked familiar. I thought I knew him from my old job (which was populated with jerky, loud people). But my son kept tapping me on the shoulder, finally he leaned down and said "Mom, mom, mom!!!! That's Joe of Joe and Heidi from TAR" and so it was. So my Mom's Day included a semi-celeb sighting and then sadness that the Cowboys didn't win. I really loved the Star Wars challenge (Jet: "will these guys talk to us?" Cord: "no they're stormtroopers" HA!)
Sadly, there are not normally stormtroopers standing by the Yoda fountain. Otherwise, I would go there far more often.
If there were stormtroopers there, my son would insist on living there. So I'm very thankful of that.
I loved it when Cord asked one of the stormtroopers if he wanted to open the clue. The ST just waved his hand in denial.
I love those cowboys--they might be my favorite team ever.
Hee! Laura Bennett (PR) hits the failblog (not her fault). [link]
SYTYCD: No more Mary Murphy. [link]
