Rebel Prince

MadTV’s tenth season opener, which airs tonight on Fox, features a sketch called “The Amazing Presidential Race” with guests Mirna and Charla from CBS’s The Amazing Race. The TiVo is set. Say it with me one last time: “Hurry up, Charla!”

But speaking of Fox, Thom’s and my semi-guilty pleasure is The Complex: Malibu, which I found out about on Fredo’s blog. Couples compete by renovating rooms in a beachfront condo complex, which are then judged according to how much value they add to the building. Brad and Lew, the gay couple, who had been winning each week so far, were finally “evicted” on yesterday’s episode. Guess we’ll keep watching, if only to see Barney and Rose (a.k.a. Archie and Edith Bunker) get their comeuppance.

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Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman give their farewell performance as the irrepressible musical duo Kiki and Herb at Carnegie Hall tomorrow night. It would be nice to go up for this show, but I’m definitely happy I got to see them perform at the Rufus concert in New York earlier this year. Kudos to those two.

Do you have the Carnegie Hall show all planned out?

BOND: It’s not that fun if people know what’s going to happen.

MELLMAN: I’m not freaking out about performing, just about everything else. My entire family’s coming. I had to tell my dad that he should wear a suit.

Fans can expect some surprise celebrity guests. What else?

BOND: We’ll probably do “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” because we did that at our very first show. That’s always been our favorite.

“Once upon a time I was falling in love / But now I’m only falling apart.”

BOND: It kind of encapsulates everything.

» “Swan Songs as a Duo Plan Life’s Second Act,” New York Times, 18 Sept. 2004.
» “Grand Illusions: Down memory lane with Kiki and Herb,” New Yorker, 19 May 2003.

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Last weekend Thom and I went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival (this year’s theme is 1536: the year of the three queens…), where we met up with Sheldon and Gretchen, et al. Not having been to one of these things before, I didn’t really know what to expect apart from the general period vibe. I had a really good time. There’s quite a village built out there, with lots of shops and stage shows. So we strolled around admiring the various wares and entertainments, all the while snacking and drinking as well. (Thanks to a few beers, I had a good buzz going.) People-watching was fun too; there were quite a few cute guys, some made even cuter by their period garb. We didn’t get all dressed up for the fair, but while there we went into a couple of clothing shops and tried on some pieces (Moresca had some vests I liked), and I started to warm to the idea of going in costume. Perhaps next time.

Thom had his digital camera and took a few photos of the joust and of a Tudor cottage, one of the many buildings on the site. I would’ve brought my camera too, but I had misplaced it recently. Just the other day Thom found it under the bed. Go figure.

» The Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville runs weekends through Oct. 24.

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