Adddicted to BRAVO

I have a television confession.


I am ADDICTED to BRAVO.

I first got roped into it with Project Runway. It is a great show: watching someone create beautiful designs or create disasters in one episode. Plus, Tim Gunn is a total stud. I really like him. He is intelligent and kind. At least, that is the way he appears on the show. I love to listen to his input on stuff.

But now there is so much more than Project Runway.

Since my husband is out of town most weekdays, I get to fill my head with silly shows about over-indulgent snobs and all of their silliness. The funny thing is, these people actually think this kind of stuff is important.

Pretentious, ostentatious, pompous, bombastic, delusional, cold-hearted, materialistic: that is how you can sum up Real Housewives and the Rachel Zoe Project. It makes you want to gag, but you just can't stop watching it.



Housewives now is featuring women from Atlanta. They actually think they are successful because they have the ability to spend outrageous sums of money. This takes an incredible amount of talent and intellectual ability, apparently. Let's just forget the fact that these women married their money. This lady is Deshawn Snow and she is married to an NBA player. She met with a designer for 3 hours and then 2 years later they stepped through the front door of their new home in Atlanta; her new estate. Now if you have a 15,000+ square foot home, you have to have a staff. Deshawn has a house manager that hires and oversees the maids, chef, chaffeur, etc. This way Deshawn does not have to actually talk to any of those little people. She even had her manager call her parents (or in-laws, I can't remember which) to find out what accomodations they will need when they come to visit. WOW!!!! I just can't believe this, but I really can.



But doesn't she look fabulous.





And speaking of fabulous... I mean, Rachel Zoe is like totally BANANAS! And she dresses the stars, so she must be very important. They drive her around in limos and
Escalades, she has a blackberry thingey, fur coats, hideously large, dangly bracelets and over-sized rings. Plus, she always has a front seat at Bryant Park (I learned about this on Project Runway), and the papparazzi take her picture.

And Rachel knows what a disaster is. Oh no...not that little tsunamai a few years ago that killed over 200,000 people, or that silly earthquake in China. Don't be ridiculous. Disaster is when you have to pull together 8 outfits for Kate Hudson and have it on a plane to London by 5pm AND you have to go to an art show in 10 minutes and you are not even dressed yet. NOW, THAT IS A DISASTER!!!

I know this is total junk television. I am completely guilty of partaking in all of this bologna, but it is like watching a train wreck. You just have to watch all of the boom-boom-booms.


Yet, when I see these women regaling in all of their petty ridiculousness, I can't help but think of this scripture...



Isaiah 3:16-24



Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.