Two Stones In the House of Eleganza

Culturally speaking, I've been gorging on two things lately... the Olympics and RuPaul's Drag Race.  For the former, it's a pretty simple equation:

Unemployment + digital cable + Olympics = getting deeply invested in Curling.

You've never heard of curling? It's like some weird love child of skating, bocce ball, shuffle board and chess.  On ice.  With huge stones that you shove down... oh, here's some animation to get you started.  Anyway, curling is the perfect afternoon sport to watch after you've gone to the gym in the morning, hit every job website for the hours before and after lunch, and you don't want to read any more E.M. Forster today.  Watching two teams glide down the ice to knock different colored stones out of concentric circles as two commentators with thick Canadian accents (yes, that's possible) quip and ooh and ah... well, it's great.  Especially when you have Canadian curler (and personal trainer AND firefighter) John Morris firing up your HD TV.  Here's below on the right:

And yes, "below and on the right" is something I'd ask for him to do.  Oh please, you would too...

The other portion of my brain -- okay, the gayer portion -- is currently obsessed with RuPaul's Drag Race.  Hands down, it's one of the best reality shows I've ever seen.  Not only is it a solid competition show (drag queens compete against each other to be the next drag superstar), it's also a great send-up of competition reality shows.  Every week, there are two guest judges: one is a regular guest judge and the other is an extra-special guest judge.  Of course.  And on the show, RuPaul out of drag out Tim Gunn's Tim Gunn and in drag, she out Tyra's Tyra Banks (not to mention Drag Race contestant Tyra Sanchez). The most recent episode was all about game shows, where the girls played "Heel Or No Heel", and then did their best celebrity impersonations in, of course, "Snatch Game."  Here's where the ladies had to fill in the blank about Slutty Sally.

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Tatianna's answer about the disco stick absolutely slayed me.  It's hilarious.  And this is what this show has going for it.  The show itself is like a drag queen:  bitchy, dramatic, over-the-top, and yet believable and something you deeply care about.  RuPaul's Drag Race is one of the few reality shows -- hell, TV shows -- I can watch over and over again.  And with all these crazy awesome bitches, it's easy to see why.

Now, if RuPaul can get this girls in some heels and do some curling, my head might just explode.