What Wood is Watching

THIS IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS ON HOUSE OF CARDS SEASON 2. DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS GREAT SHOW. Season 2 picks up right where we left off, Claire and Frank are running at night as Zoe and company are getting ready to go public with their findings of Peter... Note: all videos owned by Netflix and found on YouTube. Episode 1: Francis Underwood is preparing to be the Vice President and he needs to take care of the loose ends before he is sworn in. He needs to find someone to replace him as Majority Whip and finds that person to be war hero Jackie Sharp. A third term congresswoman, Jackie eagerly accepts Frank's offer to back her running to be the new Whip. Jackie dives right in to work, and eventually says she wants to be Whip.  Claire is still battling Gillian who is still trying to get her to go to court and sue her for wrongful termination. Gillian is pregnant and needs certain medications to survive so Claire termina...

As a college student (soon to be graduate in May) a majority of my free time is spent either going out, or relaxing at home watching shows or playing video games, but both going out and staying in always have one thing in common...food. I am a sucker for it and love to find new recipes to add to my menu. Food Network helps further my interest in food by watching shows like Cutthroat Kitchen .  The host is none other than the culinary mastermind that I watched growing up after school, Alton Brown of Good Eats (available on Netflix). Alton Brown on a Halloween themed episode of Cutthroat Kitchen . Truly a terrifying evil man. Brown gives the chefs participating in the episode $25,000 each for the entire competition, their prize, but the game is just beginning. He will tell them to make a certain dish and they get sixty seconds to "shop" in the CK pantry. Then the auction part of the game begins. Competitors will spend the money to not deal with sabotages other competit...