Vermicious Knid

The BBC is usually pretty reliable, here's their summary from February: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni: What you need to know.

I am old enought I saw the M*A*S*H finale when it first broadcast. I though it was very grim and humorless, especially for a comedy. I happened to catch it when it was finally broadcast again 28 years later and there was so much more than I remembered as a kid. I needed more experience and perspective to really get everything. Hawkeye plants a kiss on Houlihan at the very end I think? Anyone been following the weirdness going on with the Beckhams? Brooklyn and Nicola were conspicuously absent from David's 50th birthday celebration and rumors of family rifts have been flying. Victoria never struck me as a particularly warm person, and the proverbial 'insiders' are pointing to her as the problem. Meanwhile the rest of the family are convinced NIcola is controlling Brooklyn and has turned him again them. It's all very dishy.

I mentioned this a few times during the Heard/Depp trial and was pretty much ignored. Her lies were right there in the police report. After she said she was assaulted, she didn't call the police. She went out and partied with friends, came home, then called the police 24 hours later. The two cops who responded didn't know who she was and had no reason to make up their report. She said he smashed things around the apartment; there was no damage. She said he hit her; there was no brusing. Later it appeared in pictures she had taken. I also distinctively remember there were pictures posted by one of the friends she was out with that night that show her face is fine. Pictures that later disappeared off the internet. And yes, she admitted hitting him under oath. I only vaguely knew of Blake Lively before all this, mostly from her extremely tone deaf Plantation wedding, and Justin Baldoni not at all. As more information has come out it's very hard to believe her version of events. He barged into her trailer while she was breastfeeding...after she told him to come by. His PR team was conspiring against her...but the filing left out the sarcasm emoji. And so on. The thing is, the behavior she's alleging doesn't come out of nowhere. There's a pattern and red flags that usually go back for years. And no one has come forward to say "I witnessed this during film X" or "I was also harrassed this way". We've seen it over and over again, once someone is accused people come out of the woodwork to tell their stories. That hasn't happened here. No smoke, no fire. Completely apart from all of this, she's made no secret she likes to take control of projects and sideline the director. Why on Earth would anyone hire her, knowing she's going to pull this shit?

I wonder if Massimo will have an advantage since he speaks Italian. When they get turned loose in the local grocery store or Farmer's Market he won't struggle to read labels and can talk to the shopkeepers.

Absotively posolutely. People have already hit the highlights on BIlly Joel so I'll throw in a few more, Pressure, Stiletto, Don't Ask Me Why. I've had this vague idea there should be a character in a novel that lives in the New York area and loves Billy Joel so much she named her daughters Leyna and Rosalinda. SiriusXM has a randomly occuring limited-time only Billy Joel channel. They gave the Dave Matthews Band, Pitbull, and Kelly Clarkson permanent channels but Billy Joel doesn't rate one? Bull. Never read Peter David's comics but I own Knight Life. Or I should say I have the original version, he rewrote it years later and took a light hearted novel about King Arthur returning and running for Mayor of New York City and turned it much darker and nearly humorless. Then he wrote a sequel about the Grail that was obsessed with war (Desert Storm maybe?) and was just sad and depressing and I was so disappointed I never bothered with the third one. I always wondered if something bad had happened in his life.

Starts on Tuesday. The 'twist' is that they will be showcasing more of the behind the scenes, which I will most likely just fast forward through. Link contains the season 20 trailer.

Happy neither Lucia or the country singer won. Kelsea turned out to be less useless than Gwen, although still not you know, good. Just go back to the format from the first few seasons, where we had a live top ten with one elimination a week.

Fabio is opening a restaurant in Las Vegas, along with revamping an entire casino's dining experience. Knew nothing about this until one of the local TV stations publicized their hiring fair. They did actually make an announcement a few days ago. There is already an Italian restaurant there, which was completely made over only about 2.5 years ago. But they wouldn't want two so it will probaly go into that space. I am actually at the Rampart every week, not for gambling though. My father does, enough that he has a higher level card that gives him more privildges including a little private buffet. I go to that. The meals are never publicized so it's always a surprise. It would be awesome if Fabio were upgrading that too. Aaand, now Kwame is also planning a Vegas restaurant. Opening Maroon Steakhouse later this year at the Sahara. Excited I may actually be able to taste his cooking. If I start saving for it now, steakhouses on the Strip tend to be very, very expensive.

I wonder how the egg business model has faired with the increase in prices. Candles are ridiculously overpriced. I think the Stringys are aimed at young women (and women who want to think they're young) who go clubbing and/or partying a lot and wear skimpy or daring clothing that's hard to put underwear on with. Also red-carpet looks, wouldn't be surprised if they get calls from stylists with celebrity clients.

I didn't ask you to be sorry for me, what you are being is pretty arrogant and condecending which I do not appreciate. Verbal, mental, and emotional abuse is not excused by Autism or Bipolar disorder or anything else.

I am very familiar with Bradenton, my family has owned a vacation condo one town over for decades. We'd been lucky, up until Helene. Devastated the whole complex, repairs are still on going. Very, very surprised they did not mention anything at all about it because the waterfront areas of Bradenton also got hit. The real estate market along the west coast is flooded right now with people trying to get out. The cost of flood insurance has become prohibitive, even before Helene and Milton. You will need a lottery win to be able to pay for it. So no David, it is not the land of affordable houses. Sarasota/Bradenton is also MAGA central. If another bad storm comes through the pond by House 3 is going to flood all of those houses 1-3 feet and cause millions of dollars in damage. Good idea to skip that one.

Jonathan takes responsibility for his actions on the show. While managing to throw in a bunch of excuses. And Ana covers for him again. If none of that suff matters then why did you bring it up? In detail!

But that's not the metric anymore. Live+7 is where it's at. It doesn't matter who watches during the actual broadcast now. People will record to watch later, pull it up On Demand, or stream on Disney+ (Hulu?) at their leisure. Or even through the computer at ABC.com. There are so many more convenient ways to consume television, the whole family can still watch together, at a better time. I hate to use an AI overview but it does sum it up nicely:

How does Lucia keep going through? She has such strange intonation and I realized she's actually very limited vocally. She sings everything the same and doesn't have much range.

I was watching a program on my DVR and when I finished my TV had been on NBC so it landed in the middle ofYes, Chef! And there's Katsuji. I had initially been interested in a cooking competition hosted by Martha Stewart and Jose Andres...until they revealed the contestants all have anger management problems. Yeah, no.