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I'm just going on record to say that I think he should pick the pickleball woman. He's nuts about pickleball, she's extremely involved in pickleball--captain of her league and so forth. They could do worse for common ground, once this wingnut show is finished and they're looking around for something they like about each other.

I would have inhaled that sammie without a moment's hesitation. If they'd been sitting out there for any length of time, there would have been a swarm of flies or gnats. I also thought there was at least a marginal argument to be made that fueling up would be a huge and immediate advantage for those three. Lots of players are suffering from the weakies. (Is it the Seals motto to "Eat when you can, sleep when you can"? Or just Jack Reacher?) P.S>whoever decided to offer FRUIT as the food reward--brutal!)

Lol, I'm not talking about salvaging Cirie's integrity. Pfft. I'm saying the show went too far when they were doling out the goodies-- which will be written off as gimmicks, unless Cirie continues to bob effortlessly down the stream into the money. In that case, I think there would be a lot of talk about producers putting their thumbs on the scale and "pre-designated winners." Is Julie (But First, God) fine with that kind of footnote?

But surely Cirie can't be allowed to win. Someone who was set up with the advantage of swanning in late as "reality contestant royalty" and who then played for quite a while as part of a mother-son team while everyone else was sinking or swimming solo?? There would be one hell of a giant asterisk on a Cirie win.

Wow, Christine is really just the scum of the earth, according to Kody. He reveals that she forced her way into their marriage, then she was a lousy sister wife to the others, then she prevented him from being able to fully love Robyn--prevented them "from finding solace in each other"--and now she's poisoning his children against him. POOR FUCKING KODY. 😭 The cherry on the top of all this victimization is when he claims he doesn't care about Christine one way or the other. Oh, hohohohoho. She bruised his ridiculously inflated ego and now he's obsessed with making everyone believe Christine is the most conniving, horrible pos woman who ever lived. I don't know, Permboy. I've been following you folks for a number of years and mainly the only thing I know about Christine for sure is that she raised a passel of kids, hers and not hers, into thoughtful, intelligent, self-actualized, responsible adults. That's a pretty good yardstick.

A year into keto, I'm able to confirm that catfish can be very tasty--satisfyingly crispy, meaty and rich--when broiled with spices and butter. Still not as good as fried, though! <sigh> I wondered what Kelsey was thinking, piling all that green papaya salad on top of her fried catfish fillet. No way in the world that wasn't going to get a little soggy. Maybe she was counting on her dish being presented first?

"Gristle"--LMAO If my father, at Gerry's age, had been tapped for The Golden Bachelor, he would have expected them all to be 24-year olds. In my experience, that's more the rule than the exception.

Good riddance to Josh. Here's my question: HOW do they do that balance beam walk between two big inflated balloons bobbling around four stories up in the air?? I can barely stay on a balance beam 18 inches off the ground. Weren't there gusts of wind buffeting them? Maybe there's some tension on the harness, kind of lifting them up, helping them cross the beam? Michaela is one of the bravest women I've ever seen. Never mind the harness--falling off that thing and dangling 40 feet in the air would make my heart quit.

Alaska Daily was CANCELLED?? I'm still saving the last two episodes to get me back into the swing of things for the new season. I'm disgusted. Jesse L. Martin is just so charming and affable. I'm not necessarily glued to the plotlines, but I like the quirky "behavioral science" he's putting out there. Wasn't that the secret sauce for Bull every week? I agree that the show drags to a halt every time they interrupt the action so someone can point out how much he still has the hots for his ex. Who cares?

Well, if anyone from here does ever make it to the show, please PLEASE let us know. I would love to root for someone as part of Team Primetimer. Nashville, pal, perish the thought. You wouldn't even have knees after a month of slamming through the sand, straining to pull a trunk of bricks up to a puzzle location, G.I. Joe-ing it through the mud, twisting your way out of that fishing net... .

I thought it was very classy when the Derbies were talking about all going home together. Especially compared to the Pageants, who continued to gloat about having kicked out their "friend" Devi through the entire next episode, right up until karma kicked their collective ass. But I was glad that Josh persuaded the Derby Girls team to stay. Still my favorites. 😍 Sidenote: That one Derby, Rachel, reminds me of Megan Rapinoe.

A four-minute BB. Love those. [/s] I enjoyed Cam, too. He was a shrewd judge of circumstances, a good player, and knew how to keep his mouth shut. I can't even think which of those remaining stumblebums will be a more qualified winner than Cam. Jag, I guess. At least Jag didn't bro-bro all the way to his own demise, as so many have.

WELL DONE, editor monkeys! I can't remember the last time I gasped at the reveal of "Xth person voted out of Survivor #Whatever . . . "

I have interrupted my viewing of Episode 1 to say that my eyes aren't all that great these days, but I do have a 65" high def tv and I don't see anything wrong with Jesse L. Martin's lovely face. Maybe every now and then I get a little flash of the light reflecting oddly off his right cheek. But I'm still completely available if he'd like me to sit in a subway car and watch him twirl around the pole, deep sexy-crooning about us opening up a rest-o-rant in Santa Fe.

I had to pause the recording so I could come here and release the hysterical laugh bubble that formed in my chest when Kody said "[Robyn and I] have never been allowed, essentially, to be in love with each other. or . . . to find solace in each other." THE VICTIMIZATION OF POOR KODY CONTINUES. [I have to add that he looks very ugly as he describes, again, all the unfair things that have been perpetrated against him by these terrible conniving women. His lip curls up in a sneer on one side and his little squinty piggy eyes dart back and forth. Careful, Kody, your insides are becoming outsides.]

I knew they'd all be striving to be at the top of their game, so I recorded all the monologues from the four late night men for a few days. I think it's obvious that Stephen Colbert has the best writers (plus he is, of course, very talented and skillful with his delivery.) I am surprised to notice how much time Seth Meyers spends on self-deprecating snorts, or long pause + winking at the audience, or some other version of big raspberry admission that a joke fell flat. His long-form Closer Look is brilliant, but the stand-alone jokes don't have a very high success rate. (Weird, because I can identify five or six of his writers by name. "Scollins!") The Jimmies... They seem nice.

gasp The closest Trader Joe's is about three hours. Leaving now.

Well, by all means, let's take a gander at that, because the alternative name for my FF button is "F. Armisen."

Oh, I kind of like seeing Cirie shuffling around in a bathrobe, all morose and bitter about the eviction of her son. She was smug and giggly about their big secret conspiracy and now it's like she thinks it's unfair that she has to maneuver through this game "all by myself!" Sorry, I know those are harsh words, but Cirie is a strong, seasoned competitor; Jared was an immature man and an inexperienced reality challenge player. I was somewhat shocked to hear Cirie reprimand MeMe in her goodbye clip. "I told you not to evict Jared." Who else harks back to the 'mistake' made wrt another player? What is she, his mother or something? .

"ONE MINUTE, JULIE!"

". . . my brother's and I's"? Is that something someone wrote on a cue card?

Hmm, I'd go the other way. It looks to me like Emily is dunzo as far as Sabiyah is concerned and there's nothing Emily can do about it, no matter how much she might like to repair things. Tough spot to be in for Day 3 in a five-person tribe.

I'd say 9 out of 10 times, it's easy to figure out who made what. 10 out of 10 by the last round. I think any judge with half a brain should be able to skew either the guest or "The Titans!" into the win, if so desired. All this blind judging they're so proud of is ridiculous, with the two competitors standing just over the shoulder of the judge, muttering "oh, come on" under their breath.

I like Cam, in general, because he's in the hamster upper 1% who can keep his mouth shut. I think it's clever how he elicits information without giving away anything himself. (If he were on Survivor and found an Idol, he would be able to keep it to himself--a rare talent.) But I was very sour about his superior attitude when he was lecturing __________ about Emily Dickinson, (a reclusive 19th C. poet,) since he clearly didn't know the first thing about her except that she was somehow affiliated with writing. If you're going to condescend to someone, you should at least know your shit.

That looks FANTASTIC. Thanks for the welly talk. More going on under that flaky crust than I realized. : )