ShaggyDog

You glance at your Dentist's handwritten appointment card, and for as second you think it says "Scheduled for cloning Friday at 10 am"

It seems that the judges do pay attention to the models. After the "Why don't you take a closer look ?" segment, I thought I heard Ve say to Megan (who is my favorite model), "Thanks, Meg".

hincadenza wrote about the getting the clue uproar: This seems to be a common (and sometimes very unfortunate) trait with people under pressure. I remember reading an article about airline passengers trying to exit a cabin on fire. Most crash survivors die of smoke inhalation, not the flames - many times they can't get out fast enough because the 2-3 passengers who are already at the exit door delay everyone else while they fight each other to be the first out the door.

Here at work we have Italians from North and Central Italy. To my ear they have similar rhythms in their English speech, but more varying accents. One of the Northerners sounds very much like the Blond Salad -- but none of the others do. Maybe due to strong and differing regional dialects?

The return of the Pixel Challenge ! Blue shaggy dogs ! Now as then I couldn't figure out how to post pictures so I changed my avatar.

They should do this -- it would put new meaning to "After you are done sketching, we will return to the lab". On an unrelated note: I have also admired the presentation skills of many of the models. Does any one know their names/faces so that I could give them proper credit on the boards ?

Or signing up for The Amazing Race and not knowing how to drive a stick shift.

I'll throw in the idea that the branches were hurting/injuring the model, and the production said "OK, you don't have to continue to wear them (even if it is last minute).".

While I was writing I missed GaT's post. I also was really hoping for the Landscape Artist to do her thing.

It is too bad that the NotDenverbutAlabama guy got dinged for not really representing his home area. In fact, the Auburn/Alabama football rivalry is incredibly intense throughout the state, and is certainly a defining cultural feature. I thought it was clever to split the model into front and back - marriages and families can be spit in this rivalry.

So glad you brought this up. I hate,hate,hate obtrusive/obstructive lighting for dance. Let the dancers create the mood themselves. We, the audience should be able to see them in total all the time. In some dance cultures, not only is there no lighting, there are no curtains either -- the dance does it all.

I liked the painting challenges on Face Off -- I'll give this one a try. One paintestant looks like the guy from Dinner, Drive-Inns and Dives. That might make an interesting cross-over show.

Lambchop ! Its been years since I've thought of her !

And, since Foxy & Company never got a full series, you can see how well the "formula" worked for them !

Thank you, dusang, for bringing this video to my attention: It will forever be my Companion Guide to watching So You Think You Can Dance. In addition to the comprehensive main body of the work, I particularly enjoyed Contemporary Eric's walk off at the close, and count off at the beginning. It is the details that make it Art. My only regret is that an important feature of Contemporary, Hairography, was omitted. Perhaps it could be included a supplemental video. I look forward to Volume 2, which I hope will cover essential combinations, such "Flail and Roll", and " Pound the Floor, Pound the Chest, Look into the Sky."

I think Uncle Nigel deserves some understanding. After all, he has survived all these years on good looks alone, and is now unprepared to make meaningful critiques.

Except that with all the workouts in Not!Vegas, nobody noticed that Malene was not very flexible ? Probably not, and they cast her anyway ? Much more likely that Uncle Nigel set her up to be pretty girl-cannon fodder -controversial elimination. Ratings = $$ (and this season reprieve from cancellation). I pine for season 3.

Both good points ! I like the actress, too -- she is playing her character straight ahead, not cutesy, not brooding, not anything but somehow tuned in. As for how she has characteristics not exhibited by Sarah or Cal, I can only guess very fortuitous spontaneous mutation, or very fortuitous inherited double recessive gene(s).

I would recommend Haven. I'll be re-watching previous seasons to get ready for up coming new one. It has mystery, one actress playing multiple characters (although not at the same time), and explores questions of self and identity.

Or a poke in the eye with a sharp stick .

With so little information, there are tons of scenarios -- here is my contribution. DYAD is said to be a huge mulinational but we don't really know all that they do. The Clone project can't be all that they do. And we know the government is/has been associated with them. I'll go with the goverment interest is in enhancing soldiers, whether by cloning/genetic manipulation, or by somatic enhancement of adults. DYAD might have been experimenting on soldiers, and then testing them in battle, along with of course, DYAD monitors. There might have been serious side-effects, and DYAD being DYAD didn't stop the program but continued to let it go in spite of the pain and suffering involved. Paul somehow found out about this, and to stop it, and he killed not the combat soldiers, but the DYAD monitors. DYAD found out, and instead of dispatching him, their way of handling it was to make him do monitoring for them of another project. That way, when Mrs. S. says "If you kill us, Afghanistan will be for nothing" she means "You tried to stop DYAD once. We are trying to stop DYAD now, and killing us will not help you in that goal".

Absolutely. And one of the harsh questions they would ask is "Is this guy inventing global warming just to get grant money ?"

Faraday set the ground work, but I agree that Maxwell could have gotten a little more attention for delevoping his monumentally important set of equations. In my freshman physics quarter which covered electricity and magnetism, during a question and answer period, someone asked the proffesor to show us how Maxwell's equations give us the wave equation, and predict the speed of light. He did just that, and right after he wrote the final calculation on the blackboard, there was a stunned silence at the wonder of it all -- followed by thunderous applause, because it was just that awsome. The professor looked a little sheepish, but we weren't applauding for his performance as much as Maxwell's awsomeness.

And, do you have a Craft Room ?

I have noticed that entitlement vibe too. One of my many ongoing ruminations about this is that unlike Sarah, Mrs. S. might have large ideological motivations as well. That is, Sarah loves Kira as her child, but Mrs. S. loves Kira as a child but also knows she could be a pawn in a Neolutionist/Corporate philosophy to which she is vehemently opposed. We have had reference (from Brenda) to Mrs. S. being involved in a radical group(s) in the past. From our own eyes, she seems no stranger to violent militancy as well. That sense of entitlement might come about from her not only defending an individual, but protecting a fiercely held anti-LEDA anti-DYAD personal philosophy as well. And in some instances Sarah's rights/feelings might take a back seat,