I've started off this column enough times with more than enough weeping and gnashing of teeth over my many misses and bad beats from the previous week, and since I don't want this column to devolve into a primordial amino acid sludge of cliches, I will spare everyone the indignity of running that back again … Continue reading Week 14 Confidence Pool
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Week 13 Confidence Pool
This was a strange week for my picks. I hit on all of the picks from point values 11-16, as well as all of the picks from point values 1-5, and absolutely nothing in between. I don't think that's ever happened to me before. Usually my failures are more evenly dispersed throughout. Regardless of distribution, … Continue reading Week 13 Confidence Pool
Great British Baking Show 2020 – The Final
Before I begin this, the final GBBS column of the year, I want to stress again that yes, I still do like this show. I say this less as a way to deflect criticisms to the contrary; you, my enlighteneed readers, seem to be mature enough to grasp the idea that liking something and liking … Continue reading Great British Baking Show 2020 – The Final
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – Patisserie Week
I give up. I suppose this phrase is a better way to end a blog than to start one, so allow me to expand on this thought, for a moment. When I started doing these Rankings last year, I really did believe, based on my prior experience with the show, that the relative skill levels … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – Patisserie Week
Week 12 Confidence Pool
Welp, that's Game Over. If you are the sort of picker who has been following my picks to the letter for the course of the season, it gives me no pleasure to report that you are certainly out of the running for whatever season prizes your pool is offering after yet another 61-point catastrophe. In … Continue reading Week 12 Confidence Pool
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – Dessert Week
This week, I am pleased to report that nothing about Dessert Week riled up my feathers, or gave me cause to embark on anti-Reaganist screeds in this space. Nothing in this episode of Great British Baking Show inspired my disdain, or even my side eye. While I appreciate the opportunity to explore cultural chauvinism and … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – Dessert Week
Week 11 Confidence Pool
Well, I finally hit on double-digit picks again last week, but at what price? Success in quantity cannot make up for failures in quality; I am therefore tempted to offer up a couple of my lesser wins from Week 10 up as a sacrifice, that I may still be able to claim the 13 points … Continue reading Week 11 Confidence Pool
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – 1980’s Week
To think, it's been almost 20 years since the American version of I Love the 80's hit the airwaves; in the course of pulling that there Wikipedia link, it came to my attention that the American version was based off of a British series of the same name that is even closer to crossing the … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – 1980’s Week
Week 10 Confidence Pool
I make my picks as early in the week as possible, and as a consequence I have a curious and unfortunate tendency to forget what picks I actually made in about one third of that week's games, give or take. This is for the best when it comes time to sit down and actually watch … Continue reading Week 10 Confidence Pool
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – Japanese Week
Oh, for fuck's sake. I know I got that out of the way in advance at the end of last week's column, and I hate to start off another column with another concentrated blast of negativity, GBBS ostensibly being something I like and all, but I feel it bears repeating. What was Japanese Week, exactly, … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings 2020 – Japanese Week
