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  1. It was interesting when they mentioned Renee Richards because she won her lawsuit against the US Tennis Association in 1977 when Bruce was at the height of his post-Olympic fame. And Christine Jorgensen had done a lengthy interview with Tom Snyder around that same time. So transgender issues were in the news a fair bit and I would have liked to have known what, if anything, Bruce thought about that at the time (especially with respect to Richards, who was also an athlete) and if it either encouraged or discouraged him to begin transitioning earlier. Overall, I thought it was kind of a superficial interview, but if Bruce set the terms, he may have wanted it that way. And I think the questions about orientation were appropriate because it is a confusing thing to people. The questions may come across as ignorant to people with a better understanding of all the issues involved, but ignorance in and of itself isn't a bad thing. If you're coming from a place of limited knowledge and you ask what are considered dumb questions, I don't see what's wrong with that as long as it's done respectfully. The most moving part of it to me was the idea of him as a young boy going out in his sister's clothes and not really knowing why he felt compelled to do that. Sawyer said something about how he must have felt so lonely back then and he said that he'd been lonely his entire life. I think about what it must be like to have no one who really knows you because, for whatever reason, you can't be yourself. I believed the Kanye story too because people can surprise you. In general, I think the guy is a jackass, but that doesn't mean he can't have moments of open-heartedness, particularly toward his own family. Also, it seems Kanye couched it in terms of how it related to himself, which makes it seem especially credible. Maybe he didn't say it, but I prefer to think he did because it makes me feel better about the world.
  2. Hayley: Blair! Wait for me! Blair: I'm right here. Hayley: You have to wait! Blair: I'm ten feet away from you. Hayley: You have to ride next to me! Like a team! Blair: [slows down slightly, rides next to Hayley] Hayley: HURRY UP!
  3. That's not at all what Sierra said in that clip. She said that Shirin was in camp talking about how Will had hidden food from the auction, so she and Rodney told Will and then Will went off on Shirin, making personal remarks. Mike told Shirin to walk away and she started to, but then she turned around yelling at him and said, "you're a man of God." She doesn't say that Shirin was talking about -- much less ridiculing -- his religion or anything else beforehand. Not that I would put any stock in what Sierra says anyway. She says it's "crazy" for Shirin to have accused Will of lying about the food he got in the auction, when in the very first episode, Sierra was claiming that Mike and Dan were lying about which bag of beans they chose. This tribe has clearly already decided that everything Shirin does is wrong, even if what she's doing is exactly what everyone else, including themselves, has been doing for 30 seasons.
  4. His twitter account is here. The only thing he's tweeted since the episode aired is a retweet of support from J'Tia, which ... ha. I mean, I actually liked J'Tia, but she's hardly a paragon of good Survivor behavior.
  5. Ideally, he should feel remorse and should apologize, but I doubt he has in it him. I don't think he should apologize if he doesn't mean it. Much better for him to stick by his assy behavior so the world can see him for what he is. She didn't ridicule his religious beliefs. She pointed out his hypocrisy in claiming to be a man of God, yet being the kind of person who would browbeat and abuse another person. If anything, this shows me she respects his religious beliefs more than he does.
  6. Yes. He didn't seem to be worried about his confidentiality agreement until he realized that no one was buying his claims of editing and how it wasn't as one-sided as it looked and, my favorite, how his smirk was edited in. Because he has full awareness of his facial expressions at all times, I guess. When the reaction to that was, "nah, you're garbage," it was only then that he said he couldn't talk about it because it was requested by ... somebody for, uh, reasons. My sense is that all of these people thought their behavior was just fine until they saw what the audience reaction was. Now they're either tap-dancing like crazy or hiding.
  7. Since I'm feeling particular anti-Carolyn right now, I have to link to her secret scene at the bottom of this Entertainment Weekly article and also transcribe part of it because it's so moronic: My god, she is stupid. Setting aside her completely laughable failure to understand how odds work, I love how she thinks she would have won if only she'd had the brilliant "ladies first" idea a few seconds earlier. She's like George Costanza. "I'm going with jerk store! Jerk store is the line! Jerk store!"
  8. Right? A few weeks ago, I was thinking Vince was the worst person this season. Then two weeks ago, I realized Dan was far worse than Vince and maybe the worst person of any season. Now Will is challenging Dan for that title. I'm afraid of what might happen in the next couple of weeks. Attempted murder, maybe. I saw that on her twitter, as well as her retweeting people condemning Will and adding an "agreed!" to it. The thing is -- well, first of all, fuck Carolyn. Let me get that out the way at the outset. Carolyn might not have been present when Will was abusing Shirin, but there's no doubt in my mind that if she had been, she would have done nothing to stop him, nor do I doubt that when that crapweasal Tyler told her about it that she was all shiny-eyed and grinning. She's hated Shirin since early in the season and she's been very vocal about it. As far as I'm concerned, they're ALL to blame for what happened last night; obviously Will deserves the lion's share of it, but they all participated in creating the atmosphere where Shirin was so disregarded and so much on the outside of the group that cowards like Dan and Will feel fine about talking to her the way they do, knowing they won't suffer any repercussions from the other players. What's happening this season looks like the schoolyard dynamic of one person getting singled out for the group's enmity as a way of bonding the group. Usually that person is a little odd or socially awkward or unattractive or something, but the group exaggerates every little thing the person says or does as OMG WORST THING EVER. It's usually more common among children but I've seen it happen in the workplace too and Survivor seems to bring it out in people more than in normal life. It's happened in other seasons (Sierra in Tocantins, Sylvia in Fiji, Sugar in Gabon, Shambo in Samoa -- holy shit, maybe it's the curse of women whose names begin with S) but it's never gone this far before. We've all seen this happen with kids though. Usually there's an event like last night's where the target gets either verbally abused or outright beat up by some shitty kid (who no one really likes either but he's useful for dirty work) to the point where the target runs off crying. Some of the kids will feel genuine remorse, go after the crying kid and, one hopes, learn to be kinder and more empathetic in the future; these would be your Jenns and Mikes. Then you have the ones who double-down on their douchery (Will and Dan) insisting that the other person deserved it, but maybe if their parents (or in this case twitter) demand it, they'll ultimately issue an insincere apology. Then there are the snaky little bastards like Carolyn and Tyler who pretend to be appalled and act like they had nothing to do with it, even though they were cheerleading and instigating the entire time. Finally, you have the really dopey kids, Rodney and Sierra, who have no idea what happened or why because they've eaten too much paste -- okay, I have no idea where these two fit in. Shorter version: worst cast ever.
  9. This is the angriest cast ever. Will buys himself out of the auction and stomps off screaming bullshit. Mike doesn't buy his letter and Carolyn stomps back up to Jeff with her letter screaming bullshit. Mike outs Rodney's alliance and Rodney starts screaming bullshit. I wish we could fast-forward to the part of their lives where they all have strokes. When Dan said he loved his wife with the kind of love you see in books, I was thinking he might mean true crime books. Anyone with as much disdain for women as Dan clearly has should be on Ann Rule's speed dial. And I didn't think anyone could be worse than Dan, but then here comes the cowardly little shit Will defending his integrity by yelling personal insults at the biggest outcast on the tribe. Way to take a stand, dickless. Sierra continues to be superfluous. She somehow managed to switch alliances without actually doing anything herself. That's not even a flip. It's more like sediment shifting position. I want to root for Shirin, but I just don't see how she can win. I wish she could though because it would serve these garbage people right. If the winner is anyone other than Shirin, Mike, or Rodney (I know!), then this season is a dead loss.
  10. I just looked at his twitter and he hasn't tweeted anything since yesterday when he said, "Gotta go get some popcorn for tonights episode of #survivor! LOL! #teamwill" and "I got my popcorn! #bringthepopcorn #survivor #teamwill" so evidently even after months to think about it, he's still not ashamed. People are lambasting him for what he did, but he's not responding at all. If he were any kind of decent human being, he'd apologize, express regret, and go back to silence until next week, but I won't hold my breath for that.
  11. Ugliest episode ever. I'd rather watch an entire hour of Max's foot wart than to see people treat each this way. I actually felt a little sick to my stomach when it was over.
  12. I'm laughing just thinking about that guy. His facial expressions killed me. Going by him, you'd think speaking Mandarin was physically painful. So am I. There are only a handful of sitcoms I watch now and most of those I can take or leave. I don't feel like this show is going to be a classic like Seinfeld or The Office, but it's the only one that I look forward to every week. I can't wear shoes in my house unless I know I'm going right back out. Even slippers seem like shoes to me, so I'm always either barefoot or in socks, which is why I inwardly cringe when guests don't remove their shoes. All I can think is that they're getting sidewalk gunk on my carpet. I never tell anyone to take them off though because it seems like it's a touchy subject for some people. Also, I think some people's feet might be worse than their shoes.
  13. Louis [putting bib around customer's neck]: I got this idea from watching a baby. Jessica: Mac and cheese -- it's so easy to make. You just add water. It's cheese from water. Jessica: They have me, Louis. I'm just a chipwich-eating American couch lady.
  14. I watched that episode with my grandma. She was in tears by the end, just like Bette. The Bette Midler episode of Carson was the second-to-last episode, but it's the one I remember as well. I probably still have it on VHS in a box somewhere. The finale had no guests and was just Johnny sitting on a stool on stage doing a retrospective for an audience of friends and family members of the Tonight Show staff. I'd grown up watching Johnny Carson and although by the end I wasn't watching regularly, I saw every episode for the last three months or so, and I think I was in tears the last two nights. This reminds me that I need to start watching Letterman again, since he'll be gone next month. I can't remember the last time I watched, although there were a few years where I never missed a show.
  15. That's the same Shakey's I know too, and I'm surprised to learn they still exist. I'm in Seattle and they used to be all over the place here, but now there's only one left in the entire state. (It gets two and a half stars on yelp, so I'm not inclined to go there, even for old times sake.) I don't remember the little pizzas, but I do recall the barbershop quartet outfits that were similar to the ones they wore at Farrells Ice Cream Parlors.
  16. I was wondering if she was trying to kick both shoes off and after the dance it sounded like she said the other shoe wouldn't come off, but it was hard to tell because everyone was talking over each other. In any case, I love Patti, LOVE her, but honestly I'm so glad I don't have to see her do that hoedown thing or whatever it is she's doing in every other dance. That was bizarre because I was thinking he was overreacting to her being in charge and that she handled him really well. If he thought she looked bad in that clip, then I guess he thinks she was in the wrong all along, which is sort of off-putting. Bruno looked genuinely abashed when he realized that he'd just told a 14-year-old she was hot. He does tend toward the creepy and in the past I've taken issue with a lot of the things he's said to the women, both pros and celebrities, but I think that he simply forgot how old Willow is. Which doesn't make it okay, exactly, but it's not as bad as if he was intentionally perving out over a child. I hope what it does is make him more circumspect in the future about this type of comment to all the women. And FWIW, I don't like the "you're so hot, you're so sexy" comments coming from Erin either. She needs to tone it down maybe even more than Bruno does. Speaking of creepy, I might be the only one, but Robert gives me the shivers. The tank tops, the little tight t-shirts, the close-talking. I've seen him on Shark Tank and he doesn't bother me there, but I'll be glad when he's eliminated from this show. I couldn't judge how good or bad YOLO's dance was because the sound and video were out of sync. I don't know if this was everywhere or just locally, but it started when they were announcing results before the team competition. The video was ahead of the audio, so the camera would be focused on the couple, you'd see their reaction, then about 5 seconds later, you'd hear Tom or Erin say "safe" or "in jeopardy." So when YOLO was dancing the music lagged behind the dance for about the first third, but then during the dance it synced up again. I think it happened while Derek and Nastia were doing their solo; it was pretty seamless but it looked to me like they repeated a part of the video because it appeared as if Nadia did two walkovers one right after the other and I don't think there was room on that tiny stage. I could watch it now online but ... eh, don't care that much.
  17. Yes, with AAA or whatever road service comes with your auto insurance and Fix-a-Flat in a can, knowing how to change a tire is less common. Car manufacturers are moving toward not including spare tires as well, so I'm a little surprised that the cars they get on TAR, which are all new, even have one.
  18. I don't know if she's referencing Russian Roulette, but the small gun looks like a derringer, which I believe only holds one bullet (I could be wrong; my scant knowledge of guns comes primarily from episodes of Gunsmoke and Bonanza), so if she is, that would be a quick game.
  19. At first I thought that little thing was a hash pipe, but looking more closely, I guess it is a small gun. I go back and forth on whether I like Jenn, but I hate that picture. I'm not crazy about gun culture to begin with ('Merica!), and putting them out on the table with booze and food seems unnecessarily celebratory. But mostly that picture gives off a big poser vibe from her. I seriously doubt she's as much of a badass as she pretends to be.
  20. I like to think of Coach and Vince sitting at home watching that season, stroking their own hair, and seething.
  21. The wild dogs are endangered, so I think those particular dogs were in a protected reserve. Even so, that seemed like a lot of meat they were getting. By the time Mike and Rochelle got there, the dogs were barely interested in the food. The way Jelani had his bandana tied made him look like Lucy Ricardo cleaning the house. The elephant tracking would have made a better roadblock, since it was really a one-person task. Despite Hayley's constant stream of, "do you know what you're doing let me do it let me hold it why are you ignoring me let me hold the thing blair blair blair blair," it makes no sense for one person to hold the antenna and one to hold the monitor because the person holding the antenna has to look at the monitor to know whether they're pointing the antenna in the right direction. Two people can do it, but it seems a lot less efficient that way, since it essentially blindfolds the person who's pointing the antenna. Even so, Hayley was less obnoxious this episode than in the past and she was pretty cute with the kids. I didn't even know Aly, but now I'm glad she's gone. I'm solidly rooting for Matt and Ashley now. They work really well together and I was impressed with how he talked her through her the sand-ski task when she was starting to let frustration get to her. I think it was a mistake to U-turn Jenny and Jelani because they weren't going to be eliminated anyway and now Jenny's out for revenge with another U-turn still to come. But other than that, they've been racing well. When Mike was reading the clue telling them to go to "Nambia," I felt the entire TWoP/TARflies/PTV universe shout out in unison.
  22. Edited because it was polite in my head, but kind of rude on screen.
  23. I do agree with you on that last part -- if she can engineer Mike's ouster, then she'll have a legitimate claim on the win. I just don't have any faith that that's her plan or that, if it were, she could pull it off. (Although I have to say, I admire how tenaciously and politely you defend her.)
  24. I don't think she's ever had a plan to get rid of them, so much as she's just said she wanted them gone. She talks about flipping (most laughably when after the shuffle she tried to flip to the non-existent alliance of Joaquin, Tyler, and Joe) or forming a new alliance with the women, but when push comes to shove she does what Mike tells her to do. Unless she's working something that's being completely hidden from the audience, I'd say she's the most do-nothing player this season. Even Will, Tyler, and Carolyn have made moves and made decisions, but Sierra has been all talk.
  25. Also, wasn't there a question about the kid really being a kid? Louis seemed to think he was an adult ringer (which I realize isn't a rampant thing in middle school basketball, but this show doesn't err on the side of realism). After the accident, he sheepishly said something like, "oh, I looked at his medical records. It turns out he really is 11 and a half."
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