Tusker Fame Project 5

I never watch "reality" competition shows if I can help it. (I am still seething over what happened to Sabrina on DWTS all those years ago.  I can hold a grudge.)  That said, by Sunday night I still had not seen a single Olympic event and was hurtin' for some hard core competition, and this was the only option that remotely fit the bill.  Since I was already primed to be jumping on my feet and getting way too emotionally involved in the lives of people on television (WHY, KBC?!  WHY DON'T YOU HAVE 24 HOUR COVERAGE OF THE OLYMPICS!!!  I'M GOING CRAZY HERE!!!!!), it took about 3 seconds of the finale episode for me to start shouting obscenities at the television.

So...

I know that no one NOT in East Africa could possibly care, but here’s the deal:

1. Doreen sucks and in no world should she ever have gotten 2^nd place.  She probably shouldn't have been in the top 10.  She probably should restrict her singing to the shower.

2. Jackson rocks and probably should have won and DEFINITELY should have been in the top 2.

3. But if we’re all honest with ourselves, Ruth was always going to win this thing

Watch Out, Boys, She'll Chew You Up

Once upon a time, two lions terrorized the men constructing the Kenya-Uganda Railway through what is now Tsavo East/West National Parks.  (It may have been that then.  I didn't do real research for this.) According to my highly reliable sources, the lions were responsible for killing anywhere from 35 to 135 railway workers.  Apparently, the lions weren't killing people to eat, but just for the sake of killing them, which is always what one likes to hear about naturally fearsome predators.

I had heard about the man eaters from many people during my travels in Africa, so naturally I was delighted that the bus to Mombasa would take us right through the killing zone of 114 years ago.  Combine this with the bus company's decision to show the movie "Prey," and I was giddy with excitement (and laughter at that truly horrendous movie).  Unfortunately, I didn't see a single lion. Maybe I'll have more luck if I stay here next time, but that might just be tempting fate.