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I can think of any number of relationships in real life that leave me puzzled because the dynamic on the surface is that she's way too good for him. And yet some of those relationships end up long term and stable beyond what anyone expected. Maybe she's got self esteem issues; maybe he's really good in bed and cooks something amazing in the kitchen when he peels himself off the couch. I just don't know. If you've got people good at writing relationships (which unfortunately this reboot does not give me confidence in that regard) it can be a really interesting thing to explore.

Only if it's loosely based on the real life adventures of Delilah DiCrescenzo and becomes a wacky comedy as she runs across Europe trying to make her World Championships A cut time, hangs out with other quirky female athletes, and crosses paths with all kinds of oddball characters on the global track and fiend scene and picks up a couple of Ivy League degrees in the off season. So she's pretty much better off without the whiny singer in her life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_DiCrescenzo

Phil seems to have dialed back his commentary gigs in recent years and only really show up for Le Tour and one of two of the one day classics as a warm-up. (He's 75 so I can understand wanting to be semi-retired at this point) I'll come across Paul a few more times with Christina and Bobke, and sometimes NBC seems to just buy the Eurosport coverage and their commentary for some other races.

Freeform is going ahead with a pilot for Josh Thomas' proposed "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" series. As someone who loved 'Please Like Me' and how it mixed humor and some really dark areas, I'm all in on this one if it gets picked up. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2018/07/09/freeform-begins-production-on-josh-thomas-everythings-gonna-be-okay-pilot-110/20180709freeform01/

NBC should be showing the Vuelta Espana again in late August on one of their channels, and the pool video feed for that race is much improved from what it was a few years back. (I think they've hired a bunch of the French Le Tour technical folks to work on it)

From that article: Yep. Everyone else in the world is indeed competing for silver this year now. Simone looked like she never took a break.

I was holding my breath on the start of the last descent today- steep haripin turns and super foggy so no one can see past the next bend

It's an Australian-made sitcom so it only partly counts, but the episode of Please Like Me (on Hulu in the USA, I think) where Claire gets an abortion is both recent and really well done. But then PLM never shied away from any topic.

My exception to that is Kate from United States of Tara, who is actually not stupid. She just has some subplots where she's horribly naive. And they actually let her grow as a character- her totally acing her flight attendant 'final exam' was one of those 'Hell yeah!' moments of the whole series. Unpopular opinion- I watched United States of Tara almost entirely for Kate (Brie Larson) and Marshall, who were far more interesting than the grown up leads on the show.

Sagan says he plans on finishing the race. Hopefully time cutoffs are not an issue http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-peter-sagan-certain-he-will-continue-after-stage-17-crash/ .

Didi is the Where's Waldo? of professional sports. Sometimes he's a bit harder to find on a stage. Hospital MRI showed a broken kneecap for Philippe Gilbert, and he had to be having a lot of other pain once the adrenaline rush wore off. Nice to see Alaphilippe having a breakthrough year. I became a fan of his when he won the Tour of California in 2016.

Dang, Philippe Gilbert is a very lucky man. That crash looked scary as heck.

And we have the first sighting of The Devil at this year's Tour! I assume that since Didi is also a huge football fan, his time at the World Cup overlapped the early days of the race.

The seventies also gave us Charlie's Angels, and from what I remember of that show the costuming went pretty much anywhere from casual to glam. I know it's easy to mock the show in a number of ways, but the Angels were damn awesome- they were out there having adventures and solving mysteries front and center with the guys limited to supporting roles.

We had one appraisal when we bough the house and another one when we refinanced and each appraiser came up with a different number based on whether they counted the laundry room as heated and cooled living space. And there's a third number on file with the tax collector's office for property tax purposes. Because the person in charge of those numbers was a lush or just incompetent because the square footage listings in my neighborhood are off by 10% or more. I live in Florida and don't really think of the outside weather when running the oven. If you've got a modern oven, an energy-efficient home and good AC it's not really an issue, and I've done my fair share or baking and roasting when it was 95F+ out.

The only shoes Uniqlo currently sells globally are of the flip flop and house slipper variety.

I casually know Lausanne lady from another message board- generally very nice and does have a sense of humor about herself and the ex-pat life. In the real world, her husband picked out the apartment solo on a house-hunting trip from his employer while she was trying to pack up everything back in the States. She's said that if they really had been offered all three apartments like you see in the show, they would have gone for #3.

The Specialized-Peter Sagan partnership works well because Sagan gives them so much to market. Loved their commercial shown today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqKk932HaYk

Bringing this back to television, I still remain pissed at NBC for forcing Melissa Leo out 'Homicide:LOTS' in the 90s for not being conventionally pretty enough or feminine enough for the network suits. I so loved her Kay Howard of the crazy hair and ability to close every murder case she was assigned.

But why would I want to wear dresses when a nice pantsuit works better on my body type, make myself stink, and wear I find jewelry beyond a watch, my wedding ring, and a few small earrings to be a distraction and often uncomfortable? I'm glad to see greater trans acceptance in recent years. But I also find it troubling that there seems to be this tendency to push trans women into this narrow box of what a woman is supposed to look like, or how they're supposed to behave or feel and it's troubling. I'll see something like a notice for a class for trans women on 'how you should apply make-up' and if the first rule stated isn't 'wear make-up because it pleases you do to so, not because you feel like you have to' then it's just the same old gender stereotype BS that so many other women have been fighting for decades.

As a self-described tomboy and not overly feminine CIS straight woman, I'm actually grateful that I grew up in an era when the assumptions about gender and sexuality for someone like me were not so very rigid as they were a generation earlier.

The Departs for the day are actually partly showing up on what NBC Sports has labeled as 'Tour De France Pre Show' on the schedule guides. Interesting to hear the guy in the starting car doing the summary for the field in French and English just before they go from neutral pedaling to racing.

I would like to compliment the camera crew and their gear for the really good close-up shots of the insects that were constantly attacking Wozniacki today. Modern camera equipment apparently has really, really good zoom function, even in real time.

Feder and Uniqlo: https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/page/roger-federer-global-brand-ambassador.html I've liked a lot of their 'lifestyle clothing' good quality pieces and some fun t-shirts at reasonable prices.

Though with Wiseguy, it seems less urgent to pull a story arc where a sleazy actor was pulling a sleazy character than it is to pull the sleaze who is supposed to be America's beloved tv family member.