St. Claire

I had one of those "folks will need to see this to believe it" moments awhile back when watching the weather report on local news. I've long since learned to ignore missing apostrophes in news crawls and the like, but that moment actually made me twitchy.

I just want to point out that my knitting and crocheting are not just a hobby; they are post apocalyptic life skills. No one on TV knows the difference between the two, though- at some point when a character says he or she is learning to knit, the finished product (if recognizable as anything) will invariably be crocheted.

I love you all, coo-poners and cyoo-poners alike, and think there is one thing we call all agree upon- making a word plural by adding an apostrophe before the "s" is a floggable act.

How did I miss this before?! I couldn't even keep up with how many people are involved- my childhood (Len Cariou and Bernadette Peters and Joel Grey and Tommy Tune and Carole King and Chita Rivera) side by side with my current idols (L-MM, Kelli O'Hara, Jessie Mueller, Idina Menzel, Keala Settle, Billy Porter, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Audra freaking McDonald) and all those people that cross over all the genres like Wayne Brady and Gloria Estefan and Whoopi and Sean Hayes... I just can't even. I'm in tears.

The Pebble was exactly what I would have said if I were the contestant! Fat lot of good it would have done, though, since none of the celebs said it. I also said Miley would make America twerk again, and was torn between a Twinkie and Ho Ho in the Playboy Mansion grotto (am I the only one who refers to airheaded models as "twinkies"?) I wish there was more subtlety to the risque answers. That was what made the old show fun- the censors wouldn't allow outright filth, so there was a lot of wink-nudge innuendo that made it funny. I do have to admit having laughed out loud when Sherri said "drill that ass!" that Tituss noted that her response was far from hetero.

It felt very "season finale" ish to me (closing of the Neville Montgomery arc, but opening up potential for future stories re: Oscar's recovery and his relationship with Betty; ramifications of Cross' involvement in the IA case...), but they were doing adverts for the next episode. Maybe USA network is diving right into Season 4.

As well you should. Pajamas rhymes with "llamas" (per the delightful children's book) not "bananas" (per the slightly creepy  Australian TV program)

Wait, neither of those pronunciations have an "l" sound. Am I the only person who says all-mund (with a swallowed schwa moreso than an actual short "u" sound)? Incidentally, I say coo-pon, kwar-ter, cray-ahn; I'm in central Maryland but no not have the stereotypical Baltimore accent. While I do sound pretty much the same whether I am saying "cot" or "caught," I do hear difference when others pronounce the words if they have stronger accents than I have. Sometime "cot" has a broader "ah" sound, while "caught" is more of a "caw" sound.

um, maybe..."Oh you want me to play video games without our son trying to interfere? Gosh, twist my arm!" (I jokingly say "Oh, twist my arm" when what someone is suggesting is something for which you really don't have to try at all to convince me to do.) Other than that, I got nothing.

So, I'm guessing that Peta won't be a pro for the upcoming season, since she's due in January. The flatness of her stomach makes me jealous, since I had more of a belly bump when I got the positive test result than she has in her second trimester.

Pat Summit, legendary Lady Vols basketball coach, has lost her battle with early onset dementia/Alzheimer's Disease.

Idara Victor was in the 2006 revival of Les Miserables on Broadway. I suspected that the post office supervisor guy [the fact that I can't even recall his name is probably an indicator that the episode wasn't grabbing me] was involved when he kept asking questions about why they were searching the locker. He was on screen for too long to have been a throw away character.

I wouldn't really call it a rip off, unless you consider American Crime itself a rip off of every other crime-based mini series that preceded it.

I don't normally watch this program, but tuned in because I know the artist who did the re-do on the ice cream space decor. If these people were fictional characters, the writers would be criticized for making them too ridiculous for words- the insistence that thawing the meat meant he wasn't using frozen burgers, the accumulation of dust in the food areas, the gross disrespect for everyone (I don't take kindly to jokes about the pole dancing talents of young women on staff)...just horrific. Are most of the featured clients this bad?

Yes, a lot of children wear glasses but yes, many children also get teased for wearing glasses. The teasing is probably less pronounced than it was when I was a child because (a) eye problems get diagnosed more precisely now than they did in the dark ages, so kids are getting glasses at a younger age and (b) there are more attractive frames available now than when I was a kid. Anything that makes you feel different- glasses, braces, whatever- is cause for being teased when you are a kid.

My husband knows close to nothing about Broadway in general, and only watches the Tonys to humor me or to see if one of the shows we saw while chaperoning the annual school trip to NYC gets mentioned (usually not, since we tend to see things a few years after their Tony heyday). As a professional musician and music teacher, however, he can spot talent. His reaction of Cynthia Erivo was pretty much just slack-jawed admiration. The idea that she does that for eight shows a week is just mindblowing.

I remember the phone number of the house we moved out of in 1977 (I was six at the time). Strangely, I don't remember the phone number of the townhouse I rented in college, even though I lived there for two years in the pre-mobile phone dark ages. I also remember my grandmother's phone number (she moved out of that house is 2010 and passed away in 2012; I don't remember her mobile phone number, since I always just looked it up in my phone when I needed to call her).

I just saw this commercial for the first time last night, and I thought it was so sweet. Back when I was still teaching, we used to always make an effort to wear our glasses instead of contacts for awhile when a younger child had to get glasses and was nervous about it.

Oh, I am so glad to hear that I'm not the only one who didn't care for the dress. I've seen so many comments about how fabulous it was; I was really starting to question my own judgement. Mega word. Between her kicks and Jane K's splits (which I couldn't have done in my heyday, much less in my late 40s), I was dumbfounded. If James Earl Jones, Angela Landsbury, Chita Rivera, and Cecily Tyson are any indication, Broadway makes you ageless. Stay on stage, people!!

As far as I'm concerned, this cannot be shared too many times.

NO! I will be trying to put more delicious snacks in my refrigerator, and it'll be all "I'm sorry, St. Claire, I can't do that...your weight-loss plan is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."

It totally is different. I can't tell you how many times I've come home from the grocery store without something we needed because somebody else used up the last of it and didn't add it the shopping list. "Mom, did you buy eggs?" "No, because we had almost a full carton when I fixed breakfast on Saturday." "yeah, but we fixed full breakfasts every day when we were home from school this week and you had to go to work, then I made egg salad for me and Dad yesterday." Boom. Eggs depleted. I had a similar situation on Memorial Day. I'd left my medication inside, since the food we were eating out on the deck was just burgers and pasta salad. I took one bit of the pasta salad and asked what was mixed into it other than celery and carrot, since I felt some soft bits as well, and Hubby's cousin said it was chopped shrimp. I've vocally refrained from the family crab feasts, lobster bakes and steamed shrimp for the 20+ years of being married to my husband, so my shellfish allergy is not a secret. She was all "I had no idea! It's just canned shrimp; I didn't know she couldn't eat it or I would have warned her!" [As you can tell by the fact that I'm typing, I'm fine. I ran inside and chewed a couple of Benadryl, since I'd ingested such a small amount, and was just a bit run down and headachy for the remainder of the afternoon.]

Every other school year is the opposite of sensible. It flies in the face of the whole decision to give Sofia (Sophia?) some stability. If she wanted to be generous, Arizona would have granted full summers every year and most holidays, but not alternating school years. I do hope that SR comes back for one or two episodes early next season to tie up some official goodbyes. Jo is hiding from an abusive husband- if I had a dollar for everyone who'd speculated that, I could pay for the catering for Owen and Amelia's wedding. And as soon as she started undressing for bed, I was counting on Alex walking in. DeLuca annoys me, but he certainly didn't deserve getting stuck on drunk-sitting duty or getting his ass kicked by Alex. Having done two c-sections (fully anesthetized, admittedly), I could barely watch the birth scene. The whole premise was wildly predictable, but Sarah Drew's keening in pain and shaking really resonated with me. It the baby's middle name "Benita" or some such thing, in honor of the doctor who delivered her? ugh, Amelia. Yes, your mom and sister suck for not coming, but don't make Mer the bad guy for your decision to make a slushie run before the ceremony. She does enough to make people give her the side-eye; she didn't actually deserve it this time around.

If you'd said to me before the show "For icon night, they are dancing to 'Say a A Little Prayer'," I totally would have pegged Dionne Warwick as the icon in question. Aretha is an undeniable icon, but the songs that spring to mind are "Respect," "Natural Woman," "Think," "Chain of Fools"...there are plenty to choose from. I remember that Aretha did it, but I still think of it as a Dionne song. My biggest regret if we see Nyle booted is that we lose Ramon. He's amazing.

Along with the reign vs. rein, I find myself irrationally irritated by anyone who says that one must "tow the line" or that someone is balling [his or her] eyes out." No and no.