The Cake is a Pie

All the focus on the blade makes me wonder when Azrael is going to notice that it's missing and when she's going to come get it.

I was disappointed no one answered "chum" for the shark question. I'll see myself out...

So Ravi has determined that zombiism can be sexually transmitted even through condoms, but we know Suzuki and at least one of Major's zombie targets were married, to presumably human women. So...is infection hit or miss? Did they just happen to abstain for however long they were zombies? Are the wives zombies, too?

Bozzio's smooth "fake high five, steal your coffee" move hasn't gotten any love here. I almost had to pause the video to finish laughing. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. So the GPS tracker was in the tag or collar, so it was really unnecessary for Major to ditch Minor after all? He really should have just thawed out Minor's owner, let him go, and given his dog back. It's not like he could have gone to the cops saying that he had been kidnapped and frozen for months. Having him show up alive again probably would have thrown off the investigation, too.

The Meers "disguise" looked eerily like the same wig and facial hair they used on Tim Foyle from Veronica Mars. Has Blaine ever been to Ravi and Major's house? I don't think he's ever seen the dog there, so he wouldn't have made any connection between Minor and the dog in the photo.

Remember way back when during one of the early team challenges when Ashley was picked last and wouldn't stop crying about it, and everybody accused the Mean Girls for throwing Ashley under the bus and we all thought they were being catty because they felt threatened by her? I TAKE IT ALL BACK AND I APOLOGIZE. Too bad they were not successful in getting her aufed. I think Ashley's smugness in her interviews bugged me more than anything Candace has ever said prior, knowing that she didn't win because of her (snort) gift, but the producer fix. Speaking of Candace, most of her collection was boring and derivative, but that one lace coat she made was FAR better by itself than any lace piece Ashley sent down that runway.

I just deleted this show off my DVR.

I love Kelly. She doesn't design clothes I want to wear personally, but I'm always excited to see what she makes. Her dress was the only thing even close to avant garde on that runway. I think the fact that she did go literal with the bridge concept is what sold it. Edmond's and Candice's dresses were beautiful....but not even close to avant garde. Ashley: rejected Evel Knievel costume. And for all the ripping into Laurie for her exposed teets, Ashley's top exposed enough nip for it to need censoring on tv and none of the judges mentioned it? It was a strange week for Merline to to subdued. Didn't she know the second she declared that this was "her" challenge that she would immediately jinx herself?

I will out myself as the lone weirdo who loves a peplum. I have a long torso with a wide waist and narrow hips, so anything that delineates a waist and gives me some curve to the hips is my friend. On the flip side, the wrap dress, what everyone declares to be universally flattering on everybody, always looks like a bathrobe on me.

JustFab must have decided that Edmond's dress wasn't hookerish enough, because they added butt ruching. Ruching! On the butt! Just...WHY???

God help me, I loved Kelly's. Would I wear it or buy it? Fuck no. But it had a very distinct look, cohesive design, and was off the wall in a good way. I could totally see a young 20-something wearing the leggings or the crop top, though I dunno about the muppet vest. Everyone else's? Big fat MEHs all around. Bye, Laurie. One week too late.

I didn't see anything the judges saw in the peacock guy. The skin looked rough and the coloring was flat. I would have given the clear win to Nora. Lobster boy wasn't that great either, but it was the best of a pretty craptastic set of entries. At least her surfaces looked smooth and polished. Did I miss something last week and was Evan not granted immunity for his win? No one ever gets eliminated for a foundation challenge, so wouldn't his immunity carry over to the spotlight challenge? Which means Scott and Evan both should have had immunity? I would have been fine with either Evan or Meg getting eliminated, though. They were both on borrowed time.

Really, Heidi? Coocoo Rawsha? Nina's WTF?!?!?! look when Heidi said she liked the idea that Laurie was going for was everything. If she had been drinking something, it would have been a spit-take. When Laurie said she was making hotpants, my face went )^: then she also said tube top and I was like D^8. Honey, no. Just... no. She totally deserved to go this week over Lindsay, but really, Lindsay was on borrowed time anyway. I think Nina has hated every single thing she's done, she was just lucky every other week that someone did something worse. She broke one of the cardinal rules: don't bore Nina.

That dress alone should disqualify her from judging anything to do with fashion.

Unpopular opinion time: my preferred nomenclature for women's undergarments is panties. PANTIES! When I think "underpants", I think of large briefs, boxers, long johns, or pantaloons. Panties is the diminutive, which means smaller. The smaller versions of large underpants are panties. I also prefer "boobs" or "tits", even the occasional "tatas" or "hooters" instead of the more clinical "breasts." I'm just not clenched so tight that I can't appreciate some good ol' nicknames. Also...I hate boyshorts. Unpopular opinion is unpopular.

I knew as soon as they declared Merline was on the top that she would be the winner. Of all of them, it would be the easiest and cheapest to mass produce. Funny how the judges said it could be adapted to fit any body and yet, looking at it on Heidi's website, it only comes in S, M, and L, and according to their size chart, I'm sized completely out. Because I have, you know, boobs. I can't recall from first viewing, and I don't care enough to look it up again, but did Blake actually make an underwire bra with soft cups that did not actually have any straps holding up said cups? The straps only held up the wire. No wonder he made those boobs look so floppy. Mournful tits. Bye, Blake. I seem to be in the minority, but I didn't actually care for Ashley's or Swapnil's sets. I wasn't a fan of the boob cage look of Ashley's. I felt like the strappy detail didn't match at all with the lace and twee bow. Swapnil's straps looked just impossible to put on and take off. The way they ended in the back was odd as well. He should have taken off a strap or two and used them to finish the look in the back. I think I would have liked his much more if it were just double straps that crossed in the front. I didn't think Jake's was so bad, but you can buy a polka-dot t-shirt bra anywhere. His in particular looked like a training bra and it made his model look about 13. I don't know why everyone is acting like thin side straps on the bottoms are the most horrible thing ever when I have seen a ton of panties and swim bottoms that have a similar style. The problem with Jake's is that the back of his panties were too wide and came around too high and far on the model and made the straps look awkward. My favorites were Kelly's and was disappointed she wasn't in the top. I liked Joseph's bra, too, though his panties were strangely saggy. Laurie and Blake, I haven't seen panties cut that high since the 80s. Which is strange, because I don't think either of you were even alive during the 80s.

I'm glad almost everyone is also smelling the BS that is wafting from Blake's "win." I wonder is Marie Claire will give him time to fix the construction on his parachute before shooting his layout, or if they'll just photoshop out the ragged edges and puckered seaming? When Heidi called tops and bottoms I was sure his was going to be on the bottom. Shows how much I know about "fashion." As soon as Heidi declared it got high marks, I fast forwarded through to the next outfit, because I didn't want my brain to explode from trying to make sense of how the judges were managing to find praise for it. Also dunno how Downer Taylor Swift's boring but fine outfit was on the bottom when they gave that sparkly pink mess a pass. I'm not sure how bedazzling a basketball jersey is a twist on a "classic" look.

I kinda love the idea that Blaine and Major might develop superpowers as a side effect of the cure. I don't think I would be in favor of something like telekinesis, though. That might be too far out on the supernatural side, even for a show about the undead who receive visions from the brains they eat. It would make sense if it were powers that they previously had as zombies that somehow lingered, like for example, if Blaine and Major had episodes of super strength or rage blackouts, only they couldn't control when they happened.

I prefer this version to the team competition and elimination format, but then all I'm really interested in is seeing the befores and afters of rehabbed houses. I couldn't care less about contestant squabbling and manufactured drama. The sibling rivalry is obviously played for the camera, but like that it's not the focus of the show and the brothers don't seem to take themselves seriously. I don't care if it's fake or not, I just want to see nice house makeovers and be entertained.

I thought Suzuki's motivation was pretty clear. He shot himself in the leg so it would look like he got into a gun battle with the henchmen, and also to have blood to use to write Blaine's name on the wall. Seemed like a pretty good opportunity to take Blaine down, end his own suffering, and also make himself look like he went out a hero in one swoop. And if there were any records of his involvement with Blaine in the shop, they were probably destroyed in the blast. I was pretty surprised people thought Peyton was a zombie, too. I thought it was pretty obvious she just took a blow to the head, since she still had her brains intact and didn't have any scratches or bites.

What an utterly baffling complaint about THIS show in particular. Liv has only had ONE love interest, and the only significance about the color of his skin was that it was ZOMBIE toned. Major is an ex, and one who was specifically modeled after Liv's previous, cookie-cutter, "boring" life. Even if you count him as a love interest, that still is only two, not a high sample size. Of the show's three core characters (Liv, Ravi, and Clive) two are POC and have significant screen time, and yet because they are not in a romantic relationship with the white female lead they are only tokens? Even though the platonic/professional relationships they have with her are arguably much stronger than the one romantic relationship she has had on screen? At first the complaint was that the men were seen as "asexual" but then one of them gets a romantic storyline and suddenly it's "tokenism"? Which is it then? Are they asexual or are they tokens? Apparently nothing short of a romance with Liv is good enough, nevermind that it's the zombism that is the barrier, not racism. If Lowell had been a POC and they introduced a minority character only to be zombie eye-candy for Liv to sleep with, then kill off, how many cries of tokenism! or exoticism! would there have been? And why stop at Liv's love life? No outrage at the high percentage of POC who have been Blaine's victims or henchmen? How come there are no female zombies, other than feral, dead Marcy and the murderous, dead Jackie (was that the cougar's name, I can't recall)? This complaint could have been legitimately made about virtually ANY other CW show, except this one.

Mr. Cluck's

Jarvis is a must, and Angie would be nice just because of the Hollywood setting and Peggy needs a friend. I grew to like Sousa and Thompson more than at the beginning, but wouldn't really care if they don't appear. I hope they continue with sporadic appearances from Howard, too. But really, all I need is Peggy Carter.

Apparently Ravi can make anyone instantly interesting and likeable simply by sharing a scene with them.

Sweet. The hope of Shawn and Gus making cameos as Rosencranz and Guildenstern types stays alive.