St. Claire

No such luck; I kept seeing it all weekend.

My son did a strings performance during which the high school, middle school and feeder elementary schools did The Final Countdown as their finale. My comment when I posted to social media was "The OMHS cluster is here to help you wait for your burrito to finish cooking."

I was not wowed by the freestyles. I give credit to Lindsey for her creativity in using the obstacle course, and I enjoyed all of the dances, but I feel like freestyles no longer stand out as something truly special the way they did in earlier seasons. I guess it's because of the introduction of jazz and contemporary as styles, and the use of troupe members in dances throughout the season. I wish those things were reserved for freestyle the way they used to be. From a "let's do something different than we've seen all season" standpoint, I still harken back to Cheryl and Drew's "Save a Horse..." routine. In incorporated a lot of moves from the ballroom and Latin dances, but was a fun, freeform piece.

Those things are hard as hell. You can crack a tooth on them. Hurl them at someone and kill them. Use them as a hammer. They're hard!! Trust me. I'm so glad they're making them softer. I sense a new partnership between Nature Valley and Amope Pedi Perfect!!

Hallmark has moved away from the schmaltz, and I love them for it.

I told my husband that truly real would be if she doubled back to grab more wine the way she'd grabbed more soup after putting the first few cans in the cart.

You may be thinking of Alex, who is one of the investigators. They have great chemistry and a terrific friendship, but I sort of don't want to see them romantically linked because it would probably trash the friendship (and because, as you mentioned, he's a colleague).

That might redeem the show (and Jake's character) for me.

The only time I've gotten a whole can of soda is when I've ordered ginger ale and the flight attendant told me that not many people order it, so they would have to throw out the remainder in the can if they only gave me what fit into the little cup. Even on Delta (I haven't flown Virgin America or United), I only get a cup if I order Coke or Diet Coke. I'm also bothered by that commercial because the line "I want to wear you like a suit" makes me think of the bad guy in Silence of the Lambs.

I love this one, too (although I am pretty sure it's for Raisin Bran). I like way they banter (it is similar to how my dad relates to us), but I also like that the topic of the banter is that they are relatively evenly matched at a sport of some sort. Too often, dads bond with sons over physical activities in commercials, but they don't bond with their daughters in the same manner even though real life is full of dads and daughters who love sports together.

Anything with cancer kids participating in normal rites of passage (i.e., not being denied their typical milestones because of illness) make the room get really chopped-onion-like. And I do love how happy they both looked when they left the house.

in our financial audit a few weeks ago, we talked about materiality- the magnitude of an omission or misstatement would cause a reasonable person to make a different judgement. Levi=Eggs is material; the knowledge that Levi is Eggs would have likely caused Michaela to make a different decision than she did without that knowledge. So, as the show's self-appointed auditor, I deem that information material and decree that I hold Wes responsible for the omission.

He may be frozen as a high school freshman (if Peter Pan had left Never Never Land to go to school). I still get irritated that he's "complimenting" a woman from the class of '65 by telling her she doesn't look a day over 70; attendees at a 50 year reunion are usually only 68.

I've heard plenty of 20-somethings sneeringly reject Sam Adams for being another "big, corporate brewery." Honestly, I love microbrews as much as the next girl, but there is no reason to reject Sam Adams outright for being too big.

So, even if I limit my count to just cis-men, we've had more gay celebs than gay pros (that we know of).

Before I saw this post, my first thought was the Louis was the only openly gay pro I could name (not knowing about Keo was because I haven't paid much attention to him, not because I assumed he was straight). It seems that there have been more LGBT celebs than pros (Michael Sam, Lance Bass, Margaret Cho, Chas Bono).

If the producers are going to stick with the story that the dancers decide on the spot what style to dance for the head-to-head thing, they shouldn't have one of the dancers wear a costume that broadcasts a samba. I've never seen those fringey pants worn for anything else. I have no issue with the idea that the dancers sort of consult behind the scenes to make the decisions, but don't pretend it's spontaneous. That's kind of insulting.

That whole scene made me want to throw something at the TV. He's acting as though Olivia wanted an OTT, rose-strew, drop-to-the-knee thing (which she clearly didn't) and then he complained about how difficult it was to get done, even though he did none of it! He had his staff searching for unique rings, and his valets scattering the rose petals!

I still can't quite wrap my head around the geographic details of the hospitals and the houses- sometimes they made it seem like the dream house on the hill was close to Seattle Grace/GSM, other times it seems as though it was a trek across the Puget Sound and a huge endeavor. Derek was driving to the airport through areas that were remote enough that they made a point of him going out of cell range. So, Penny's non-trauma hospital wasn't close enough to transport him to a local trauma center. But it was apparently close enough that Amelia would have been able to jump in the car and come intervene in the case. So I'm confused on that account, in regards to what Amelia expected to happen. Although I know it couldn't work within that scene (Penny was probably shell shocked), I would have loved to have Penny respond to "Perfect Penny killed my husband" with "No, I tried to save your husband, but the overbearing and arrogant doctors how outrank me killed your husband."

I like the Peter Pan GEICO commercial the first time I saw it, but then I started to feel like Peter was being a bit of a d-bag. His "Hey, you don't look a day over 70!" sounded smarmy (especially since that's not actually a compliment to someone from the class of '65), and he kicked the dude in the head because he wasn't paying attention to where he was flying while he sang.

Nope, that's the other fairy tale wolf. Big Bad Wolves and Prince Charmings get around in the fairy tale realm.

I am part of the Disney Vacation Club, and I have so much admiration for the staff being able to say thing like "Welcome home!" and "Have a magical day!" without sounding like a dork. For our last visit to the resort in Hilton Head, the staff was on the front porch of the reception building, waving hello to us while wearing gigantic Mickey-like white-gloved hands. It was awesome in its cheesiness. I loved it.

The bottom line for me is that there were too many 10s handed out on Monday. I enjoyed most of the dances, but I've spent a decade railing against how dances with significantly noticeable mistakes get perfect scores. If the judges want to base their rating purely on aesthetics, the structure of the show needs to change. (Not that I'm advocating that the show changes to a purely "artistic" score with no consideration for the actual technical aspects of each performance; I think that would decrease the impact.) This is why I miss Len; he would explain elements that are expected within a dance and that the absence of proper execution of those elements meant a lower score.

Apples and oranges, IMO Mileage varies. Meredith slept with a married man (even though she didn't know he was married when they started dating) and possibly got advantageous attention at her job.They fell in love and eventually got married. Liv slept with a married man, people speculate that it gave her advantages in her work (what with having a connection to a very powerful man). They claim to be in love and have professed the possibility of getting married in the future. Either could be seen as using sex with a powerful married man to their own advantage. Either could be seen as just falling in love with a man who was married to the wrong woman.