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My SO and I hate-watched UtD for the first season. I had no desire to start the second season, but he said, "Maybe it will be better." During the second episode, he turned it off and we haven't watched it since. The movie with the crappy remake was The Haunting, by the way. Although I don't remember the hand squeezing in the original, it was also in the remake (maybe it was a scene with the dreadful scenery-chewing Catherine Zeta Jones). I like cilantro.

I'm always having stress dreams about high school and graduate school. At least once a week, I'd say. ETA: I've been out of grad school for almost eight years now! I haven't read a lot of Stephen King, but I like the guy. Factoid about him: he loves Corgis. He has had a number of Corgis in his adult life. Currently he has an adorable little tri-colored girl named Molly. He sometimes posts pictures on his FB page. A Corgi is also in his Under the Dome novel (not in the crap miniseries, though). SK loves Corgis, I love Corgis! We should be friends!

My mom let me watch Poltergeist when I was like 7 or 8. Bad idea. O_o Also, I'm currently standing in the metal detector line, so as to report for jury duty. Envy me.

Yeah..."motherdick." Ok, TWD writers. When Abraham said that, my SO and I turned to each other like, "Did he just say...motherdick?"

My SO and I always eat dinner during TWD. Tonight I made my first Blue Apron meal...yay, me! It was spicy Dan Dan Noodles with ground pork, watermelon radish, and garlic-lime peanuts. So I was fighting a little bit of spicy indigestion as I watched all the gore. Intense.

Count me in as another who thinks that the "Pete is an abuser" stuff is lazy storytelling. They are telegraphing Rick + Jesse so...yeah. Yawn. Way to go, Eugene. I seem to remember him having a crush on Tara last season, ostensibly until he found out she was a lesbian. Too bad for him, as I don't think she will reward him with romantic love for saving her life. Maybe they can become BFFs! Everybody hates Chris? No...everybody hates FPP. Poor Noah. I knew Tyler James Williams is supposed to join a new Criminal Minds series (and he will probably get a raise over AMC wages). His death was gruesome* and sad; I hate to see him go even though I figured it was coming. Also, TJW is pretty talented and I'm kind of glad he is going to a big network show, as he has so far been a glorified background character here. Mazel tov to him! Also Glenn...*sniff* Great job, Steven. *If I were on TWD, and knew I was being written off, I'd freakin' beg the producers to give me as gory a death as AMC would allow. LOL!

What if it's a....COOKIE BOUQUET?! *runs screaming* When I was a teenager or so, the city I lived in had a Cookie Bouquet place...they used to run the dumbest commercials. Knives don't kill people. Carol does.

Currently eating spaghetti (from Noodles & Co.). Came over here to post that I thought to myself: "Do I look as awkward as Daryl right now?" And that sucks, IrishMaple. Many of us seem to have people like that in our families, though.

Speaking of pit hair: I'm all for the feminist rationale of "do what you want with your own body hair." But I hate pit hair. I always do my pits even if I skip my legs. I also don't mind if men shave their pits. I hate those little deodorant "balls" that dangle off some men's pit hair. Icky. My SO doesn't have that issue with what he uses - luckily, cuz he'd never shave his pits.

OMG, I just woke my boyfriend up because I laughed out loud (I tried not to!). I lost it at "Hey asshole!"

I'm going to agree with a lot of what Pete Martell has already said: Rick's face after he kissed Jesse made me imagine he was yelling "claimed" a la Joe's gang. I saw it as an "I'm willing to take whatever I want, damn the consequences" move there. And Carol? I'm afraid that what she has done is going to come around and bite her in the end (maybe she will be exiled?). Daryl....didon't you learn anything from Herschel's Spaghetti Tuesdays? RIP, Buttons. I was all "not another horse!" And I haven't seen this mentioned, but when Carol was getting the chocolate out of the freezer, did anyone think

WTF, Etsy duck baby??? Nightmares. Etsy is so bizarre. I've seen some really nice stuff on there, but I've also seen ridiculous "art" that's priced at significantly above reasonable prices. Did anyone else read Regretsy? I miss that mess so much.

I'm sorry you had to drive to pee...lol. Luckily, this house has 3.5 bathrooms (previous owners put a full bath in the finished basement). So that won't be an issue. Loss of kitchen might be, because we eat at home often. Though hopefully, the weather will be nicer when we start this and we can grill.

...And that is the kind of stuff I'm afraid of! Being relegated to the guest bath for a month or having no useable kitchen! We are wanting to convert our master bath enclosure to a walk-in shower. Our house was built in 1983 and the tile, in spots, is literally falling off the wall so something needs to be done. And we have CARPET in our bathroom. I guess that was a thing in the 80s, although I have no idea why. The master bath needs the most work, but Boyfriend wants to update the kitchen, too. Our kitchen could use a layout overhaul, badly, but that is going to be too expensive.

Good luck, nachomama ! I haven't had much to say lately. Boyfriend and I are going through the rigamarole of hiring home improvement contractors. :-/ What a hell that is! At first, it's fun and you pick out colors and wood and light fixtures and all that. Then you start getting the bids and it's like, Jesus H Christ - why is everything so expensive! And in Denver, the contractors are not short of work (as a matter of fact, there seems to be a shortage of labor) and there isn't much room for negotiation. Luckily, Boyfriend and I are pretty much agreed on what things should look like so that shouldn't be an issue. I know some couples endlessly argue about style, but our potential contractors have been impressed with our relative unity about what we want. :)

I know Alexandra Breckinridge from American Horror Story. It's somewhat unfair to judge her acting from that show since it is kind of inherently campy, but I'm going to anyway: She is mostly eye candy. A pretty (probably dyed) redhead. She didn't detract, but she didn't add anything. IMO.

That statement made me laugh, then sigh. I have read some of Darabont's rumored ideas and, frankly, I think I would have liked them.

My boyfriend did the DNA testing by 23 and Me. Turns out he is 97% or so Ashkenazi Jew...which wasn't exactly a surprise! I can't even remember what the small percentage was. I haven't done it yet but I'm expecting 97% Northern European (yawn), as my limited family tree investigating has revealed almost exclusively Scots, Irish, and English ancestors. I'm bummed Leonard Nimoy is dead. He was awesome. My earliest memories of him are watching In Search Of with my dad. RIP, Spock.

Nah - I think Eugene's mullet smells like dead possum. I'm surprised Daryl hasn't yelled "CLAIMED!" and started gnawing on it.

I can totally see Eugene hypothesizing that there must be water nearby because he keeps smelling fish... (My goodness, the places this thread goes!)

Ideally, I'd want to raid an REI for some nice lightweight hiking pants. They protect you from the sun, but are just baggy enough to keep you from crotch-rot. They usually are treated with SPF and some are convertible to shorts. Lots of pockets - you know, for storing your acorns and worms. Just watching those ladies in their tight pants...ugh. All I can think of is the struggle to peel those things off when they need to pee. Gross.

Assuming because of the cars? I wonder if the Alexandria folks got stuff from Fort Belvoir just down the road or from the Anacostia joint base across the Eisenhower Bridge? Why would those bases not be secure...but that's a question that this show never really brings up. How would ALL of the military bases go to hell?

Danai is so pretty and is so much more well-spoken than a lot of the other actors they have on. She was much more interesting to watch than Lauren last week (who I like alright, but find somewhat dull).

Before I moved to Denver, I lived in Alexandria for 5 years, so I had to say "that doesn't look like Alexandria" as soon as they were there (and from the glimpses in the previews). Even after a zombie apocalypse, there really wouldn't be an area of Alexandria or, say, neighboring Arlington, that would look that rural. I'm going to have to get over that as I continue to watch (knowing the show is filmed in GA still and it will always...look like GA)!This was a good eppy. The zombie gore was pretty good (especially flare head), but we had a hard time seeing much detail in those scenes since they were so dark. And while I think Michonne and Rick could be a good couple, I'd rather it didn't happen because the writers would mess it up...and Michonne would probably be the character that would suffer for it. Just let her raise Judith!

Good grief - can you imagine DARYL'S pubes??? *barf*