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Oh, also The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper. Some of them are a little spooky, I find, but if she regularly reads famtasy, she will probably be OK. Stay far away from the movie.

Would those pants be proclaiming how smrt you are? My father never wore an apron, even to grill, but my mother wore an apron when she cooked, although almost never what I guess you'd call a bib apron. She just wore the kind that go below the waist. I do see men in aprons at things like the Kiwanis Club or Lions Club pancake breakfasts. They don't look silly, but they are also handing me pancakes, so I wouldn't care if they did.

I second Lord of the Rings and Narnia. I haven't read them in a long time, but when I was in high school, I really liked The Dragonriders of Pern series.

Now that I think of it, that dress would be good in the "don'ts" section. Which magazine used to do that and does it still run that page?

Fabulous Storm Guys. I assume tornado chasing is involved in some way.

And that's why you should always sit down in anything you're considering buying.

I did not recognize her (and probably wouldn't, as I know her name, but not her face), but I looked at the dress before the face and thought it was a Kardashian.

What I find most interesting about Sergio's embroidery is that in this episode, the editors showed Brittany using the sewing machines to embroider words on her fabric and showed her talking about how great the machines were and how they embroidered so well.

I think most people (not even just women) don't want to explain what they're wearing but just want to look good. And I think that's going to hurt Sergio if not on the show, then in his business. Perhaps he could just do slogan T-shirts.

I don't think Sergio is on the spectrum, but I'm sure at some point, he'll be designing an outfit that explains how people on the spectrum feel. I also really wanted one of the judges to offer some kind of assistance to Marquise, who is clearly talented and would benefit from some kind of lessons or schooling.

The best part was Christian's look after Geoffrey said that.

I've had to do that weird crouch thing (though without my hands on my thighs) in a group photo so the people in back could be seen, and I hated it. I looked even fatter than I am. But the person taking the photo (with my camera) was not a very capable photographer who could work to make sure everyone was visible -- or who would tell people to move in particular ways so they were visible. I also hate having to give my camera to someone else to take a photo. (In this case, I had to because it was a work thing, and I was required to be in the photo.)

Congratulations to him and to the family (because Scouts usually have help or at least a lot of support along the way)! That is an interesting place to have the ceremony. My son is only at Wolf in Cub Scouts, but we hope he will go all the way to Eagle.

The fact that they dated in real life explains the lack of chemistry on the show, according to Joey (from Friends). According to him, as long as the chemistry is there on stage (or presumably on TV), they aren't having sex in real life. When they start having sex in real life, the chemistry on stage disappears. I doubt it's true, but what do I know?

That's exactly what I was thinking of: I almost wish she'd done something with it, maybe something that was half and half -- like what Delvin seems to have been aiming for -- with something colorful and elegant coming out of something drab and gray.

I was sure I'd heard Christian say something nice to the designer every time and he's really sorry, but he has to send him or her to the workroom. He told Shavi that he (Christian) sees Shavi's passion and hard work and that not everyone has that. He told the first two designers kicked off that it was a hard one and that they were both talented or they wouldn't have been there. He told the third designer that her outfit was different and he liked it. He told Alan, "You drove me crazy, but I'm really going to miss you." He told Melanie that he got to know her aesthetic and he loved it, and her technical skills were amazing. The only one he didn't say anything to (that was shown) other than, "I'm going to send you to the workroom," was Tyler. To me, his words mean more than Tim Gunn's because he knows what it's like to design and create clothing. When he says Melanie's technical skills are amazing, I think he knows what he's talking about more than Tim because he understands what those skills are and how they work.

On Shavi's Aunt T (that's what closed captioning told me he said): The fact that she was light enough to pass as white almost certainly means his mom is right, that she danced at the club. If she had been a singer at the club, she would have been a performer and could have done so without passing as white. Black people could perform at the Cotton Club. They just couldn't go as customers/guests. On Nancy: This is what I don't like about these heritage challenges. What if you are white and your family has lived in this country for generations? I mean, part of my ancestry is Scottish (or so we've been told), but they came here in the late 1700s. So, technically, I guess I could claim it as my heritage, but I've never been there and probably don't really have a lot in common with the Scots of today. I live in the middle of the country. My family ended up here after moving from various parts of the South. I always try to think about what I'd do for my heritage, and I don't know. I can see why they might be afraid people would say it was cultural appropriation to sell it to just anyone. If non-Latinx people can get hammered for operating food trucks selling tacos and burritos, anything can happen. (I don't remember where it was, but I remember reading about that.) I loved the jacket, but I'd be afraid to wear it for that reason, even though I think that's stupid. We go to lots of Celtic festivals (see the Scottish stuff above), and lots of non-Celts are there wearing and buying all manner of kilts and tartans. I think she was interpreting heritage to mean the family she grew up in, rather than her DNA and ancestors. It was something she would have wanted to have, but couldn't have afforded when she was younger. Growing up with hand-me-downs was part of her heritage.

She looks better from a different angle, but I still think that ruffle around her waist would look better dropped a few inches. And I want to comb her hair.

I don't like the top ruffle, and I think the middle one is placed too high. I don't know if moving the middle one and taking off the top one would help, though.

Hermione's completely wrong hair is one of the things I hate most about the Harry Potter movies. That and the completely wrong school uniforms.

Annie and Sam. (This video leaves out the part I like best when they are in the elevator sneaking looks at each other, but I can't find another one without some random obnoxious music playing over it.)

I'd like them to bring Iris Apfel on while Sergio is still there so she can teach him lesson. I thought she was agreeing with him and expanding on what he said and that his face looked like he couldn't believe she was talking when he'd said everything that needed to be said. As I recall, he said something about "matchy-matchy," and she added that it meant everybody didn't need to use the same color.

I really liked Geoffrey's, but it looked a lot like Joan Jett to me, not Cyndi Lauper. (I like Joan Jett, too, though, so I'm OK with it.) I think he's misogynistic to older women also, and he thinks that dowdy is tasteful and classy to them. And also that old equals classy. I think he thinks that anyone over 40 wants to dress like Miranda Priestly all the time. (OK, sure, I like her style, but do I want to wear that stuff all the time? Absolutely not. It looks very uncomfortable. And I am enough over 40 to have been in high school and college in the 80s.)

Are those dyed to match shoes?

Not even in the 80s, which is probably the last time anyone willingly wore such a dress, and even then it was probably a bridesmaid's dress. (I know my dress like that was for a wedding.)