Quilt Fairy

I realized an episode or so ago that I now feel about Jim the way I felt about Don in the very first episode - and vice versa. But I now like Don way more than I ever liked Jim. "What, the phones don't work there at night?!" I'm not a Sorkin expert; did he knowingly or unknowingly crib a line (one of my favorites) verbatim from Game Change?

What about "Parker, the bank won't even give you a Visa card, I asked them."? I know it's an unusual situation because Parker's not working a paycheck job, and he's working in Canada -oops!- "the Yukon" when his permanent residence is in the U.S., but I'd be mightily embarrassed to have my Mom try to get me my first credit card.

Well, that would definitely make news.

This reminded me of a very long time ago when I had to fill in as an operator for the phone company. We would handle the collect calls from prisoners. Except I could never say "This is the operator, I have a collect call from Jim, will you accept the charges?" because they all used their street names (a concept I was not familiar with at the time). So instead I would have to say "This is the operator, I have a collect call from T-bone, will you accept the charges?" . I found the whole thing so amusing that I started keeping a list of the names, but it's long gone. I still remember 'T-bone', though. The funniest call, however, was from a prisoner whose lawyer wouldn't accept the charges. I thought he was probably screwed.

Maybe he wants to be on that new all-stalking-all-the-time channel.

It looks like most of the DVD seasons of TAR are on sale at Amazon, down from $35 to the $21.50-$25 range. Don't know how long that will last. Also, Season 1 is available for $7.49.

So after anonymously taking the Greyhound bus to Calgary, Canada, Neal then uses his U.S. passport (one assumes) to fly to Venezuela via Cuba? Way to keep on the down low. Can Americans even go to Cuba legally? They also seem to be copying one of the sub-plots from the movie Goodnight and Good Luck about Murrow and McCarthy. But if it's not against the rules for co-workers to date, I don't understand what the HR VP/Don/Sloan sub-plot is all about. Everyone knows they're a couple; they've announced they're a couple. Now they're suddenly supposed to hide it? Where is this going?

The Amazing Yellow Line plays well with other colors and allows them to share in the limelight when there are multiple departures and routes. I use yellow as the default because I believe it was the first color used on TAR and was the first that was given it's own capitalization on TWoP. IIRC, the pole greaser was scooting up the pole and still managed to fall off before he reached the top. "Twisty little passages, all alike." Hah! I remember that! As well as "A maze of little twisty passages, all different." Geez, we're old.

I couldn't figure out why so many racers were showing up at the Pit Stop with bruised faces until I realized it was probably from the polishing wax they were using on the armor. Malta was stunning. I know they 'only' took a ferry to go from Sicily to Malta but I would have appreciated an appearance by the Amazing Yellow Line, it helps me get oriented.

I was so pleased to hear "It's a party! No black or white!" But in the end I thought the prettiest thing on the runway tonight was the outfit Gunnar was wearing. Other than that, there were a lot of dresses vying for the bottom. I thought Sonija should have been there rather than the top. I wouldn't have been surprised to see Samantha, Michelle, or even my favorite Justin in the bottom. And in the grocery store today I was surprised to find something designed by Isaac Mizrahi: Kleenex boxes. (I could try to say something snarky here but seriously, what could I add?)

Get in line, HumblePi, get in line. Well, you have me there.

Let me understand this: Dave wants to be a partner, so Todd pulls $500K out of thin air as the amount that would be needed to buy in. (I sure hope Dave had a lawyer review the deal before it was signed.) So Dave is now a 'partner', but runs the entire mining operation and makes all the decisions. Here's the big question: What the FUCK does Todd do?

This reminds me of the Geico commercial about the oldest trick in the book: "Look, there! Hah, madest thou look!"

Yes, I learned a new synonym tonight: unfinished = 'raw'.

Except it could never be a 4-1 victory, it was 'first team to 3 points'. Which is a stupid and obviously pointless way to set up the challenge since they were announcing the winners after each round. Suppose one team ran the table 3-0 and game over. Then the judges are supposed to pick someone from the losing team to go home but there are 2 chefs on that team who didn't even get to present their dishes. How could they possibly select one of those chefs to leave? And all of this is a long way of saying you knew it was going to be 2-2 and go down to the last pair.

God, dripping water on the floor, reminds me that I'm not going to get presents like this all the time and gets back in the tub. Thank you, God.

I am particularly fond of the stone tablet that was supposedly found at 90ft and was rumored to have said (in code) 'Forty feet below 2 million lies buried'. Which has - of course - disappeared. It reminds me of the golden plates the angel Moroni showed to Joseph Smith.

I recommend that anyone watching Curse stay tuned for Search for the Lost Giants which airs after it on HC. Two brothers, crazy quest, what's not to like? Probably true. But I want these guys to find something, whereas I'm actually rooting for the FB team to fail. (Of course, they haven't failed because they don't just believe, they know.)

Anyone else watch this quirky little show on the History Channel? From their website: Marty is the skeptic and the money man; Rick is the true believer. It's difficult to say how much money they've invested in this search. The island is described as privately owned, but I don't know if they bought the whole thing or just a piece of it. Over the course of the first season, we were told that Oak Island could potentially hold a fortune in pirate gold, the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. Seriously, where is Indiana Jones when you need him? Oh, and there was a Swedish guy who showed up and said he'd found the correct location to dig from decoding Shakespear's plays. You can't make shit like this up.

I thought it was a very interesting part of the challenge, something we never see except for Restaurant Wars, and no one went home for a bad menu, only a bad dish. This was the first time I can recall them selecting a winning team without picking out one member as the actual winner. (Which never matters unless there's a prize on the line, but they do it anyway.)

I think Blais is at the Trying Too Hard point. Maybe later in the season he'll have downshifted a bit and be easier to take.

They were from my home town of Chicago, which is the only reason I remember them. She was the woman who was super-prepared for anything TAR had to throw at a team. IIRC, they won a goodly number of legs as well as the title.

Kitty and Mary should have been invited to the ball, and had dinner with the family. To not mention them at all was very strange.

Coming up this Sunday, a 2hour premier and they're going to Alaska.

That made no sense at all. Wickham grew up at Pemberley, his family worked there (possibly for generations) but now there's a heretofore unknown sister? And I have to say, when Mrs. Younge was speaking of the 'strong bond of love' between her and Wickham, I got an unclean feeling from it. As in, if they really were brother and sister, there was some incest going on. Mrs. Younge's desire for Wickham's son Charlie also struck me as slightly off.