whiporee

If we get a season three, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a time jump, and Ava's a show runner offering Deb a job that she doesn't need but kinda wants. That's. flip of the dynamic. The only thing that wouldn't be as fun is that Deb as Queen of the Universe is a very funny thing to watch.

Let's assume two things -- the nullifier was in effect and the Idol was non-transferable. The only way she could save Omar was to give hm the necklace. But if she does that, he could use the nullifier on her idol and vote her out, and that would have been the kind of move that he'd make. She probably figured that, which is why she sat on the idol.

That truly sucks. Really takes away from the enjoyment of watching if it's all being tailor made to that level. I do think Jeffy&Co. have some 'splaining to do about that decision.

There is a story going around that Omar had an idol nullifier. I don't know how true it is, but apparently he said so on an interview and showed it to the interviewer. So if that is true, then Lindsey could have had a different plan the the one shown. Like she knew she couldn't give it to anyone else, so she had to play nice with him. I don't know if it's true but if it is it sucks that was shut out of the show.

I mean, he is. His body burns more calories; he has almost no body fat for energy reserves. He's been probably the most active person out there in terms of always trying to fish and find food. He knows he's perpetually on the block so he can't afford to sit out immunity challenges. I can understand his resentment. He was also instrumental in his four still being together and getting rewards early on. I can see how he'd be resentful -- he thinks he's done a lot, and then gets shit on for not doing more. I don't know that he's justified, because he made every choice he's made, but I can understand it wearing on someone. Like I said above, this version of the game is a lot less about endurance or even pushing yourself, and much more about scheming and conniving. I wonder if on a go-forward they will bother casting the people like Jonathan or Roxroy, because the atheletic advantage doesn't seem to be as important or even good for the game.

I think the reason people are so upbeat is the season is soooo much shorter. Normally by the time you'd get down to six or seven, people really were just flat-out exhausted, dehydrated and very hungry. We're 20 days in -- barely half a normal season. We might have not even made the merge yet. The killer fatigue has not had the chance to take them over. So Drea can be happy for everyone -- she made it pretty far. Also, i don't think the bonds are nearly as strong as they would have been in a longer season -- they just don't know people for as long a time. Taking away 13 of 39 days is a lot to lose, and I think the happy gameplay stuff you see is a result that people aren't really suffering yet, of they do at all.

I know he was critical of the show, but I don't know how Kareem can possibly be upset by his portrayal. Dude was close to sainthood. He should have made the trip, though. For his part, too. I know Magic had a documentary to sell, but I don't think he could have come across much better than he did. Determined, cheerful,. flamboyant. Larry Bird might be pissed. But even he, when it was shown as not a figment of Magic's imagination, was pretty true-to-life.

Well, I'm glad there's a second season.

Not even after it’s sanctified? That’s the point — it’s what the priest says when he gives it to you. Before, just a wafer. After, the body of Christ. But, like I said before, Abe may have meant no harm, but a priest would not have allowed it had they seen him not chew and swallow.

I’m surprised so many people doubt Lennys confrontation with Midge. She wasn’t screwing up her plan by not doing Tony Bennett — she’s afraid of doing Bennet and then having it taken away again. She’s scared, and when she gets scared she retreats to places she can control. She can control the burlesque club. She could control the dinner parties she was paid to attend. When confronted with something bad, she doesn’t push forward; she retreats and lies in wait.

Probably morphine, which is almost always liquid. That was a prescription or something taken from a pharmacy, not street drugs.

God, when that show was on it was ON.

Abe taking communion was very bad; not eating the wafer was worse. Catholics believe that is the literal body of Christ. it does not get thrown in the trash or just left somewhere. I've been married to a Catholic family for 23 years. I've been to several hundred Masses. And I don't even think of taking communion. And on more than one occasion I've seen priests chase down a parishioner who didn't chew and swallow the wafer right there. This is a sacred thing to them. But, having mocked a Bar Mitzvah earlier, maybe ASP is just working her way through the religions. I thought this episode felt very dark, and while Rose killed, there's a lot of really bad stuff coming around. For the first time, the mobsters seemed scary. And even Midge wouldn't make those jokes in that setting -- not at this age, and not having screwed up so many times. She'd have been extra careful. The new comic wasn't funny. Rose doing midge's routine wasn't funny -- it was just mean, because Midge would never do those jokes in front of them. It wasn't tons of fun to watch. I have a prediction about Mei, but since all I have to do is watch the next episode, I won't bother. Oh what the hell -- I bet she comes back from Chicago not pregnant. She took care of it herself, and that breaks up her and Joel, and sends Joel back in Midge's direction.

That’s my reading on it. Midge found out Shy was gay when she went to help him. Shy couldn’t handle Midge knowing — he’d kept the secret from everyone except Reggie — and told Reggie to get rid of her. They took a sabbatical to research and interview other comedians, and then Reggie set Midge up to give Shy a justification for firing her. He told her to make fun of him, and it didn’t matter what she did, Shy was going to have a “reason” to want her gone. Reggie said as much on the tarmac — that you indulge their irrational demands. He wasn’t angry — he was regretful because he knew it trumped up. And then they leaked it in order to build their case against her, to make her look like a crazy woman. It was Midges fault, but her mistake wasn't the set — Reggie told her not to do her regular act — but in ignoring everyone’s advice and going to help Shy when he didn’t want help. He wanted to recover in silence and privacy — and protect his secret — and she barged her way in. At that point she was done, no matter what she did next.

If you were a high school freshman in the '70s, we're within a decade of each other -- I was a freshman in '79. My recollection of the gay rights issues then mostly concerned sodomy laws, Gay Bob and Jodie Dallas. But you may have a different memories as you were apparently more active in these things at 14 than I was. However, since I didn't remember were widescale murders of performers for the hint of their sexuality, I did a little research. Little Richard was arrested in Georgia for homosexual acts in 1955 -- actually a threesome in a car -- and spent three days in jail. Not murdered. He actually said that appearing more effeminate helped his career by making him less threatening to white audiences, as he was not after white women (paraphrasing his words, not mine). Johnny Mathis, on whom Shy is most-closely modeled, had the same balance of sanitized masculinity as Shy has. Mathis never married, and whenever anyone was unmarried, those types of insinuations were made. He came out in 1982, but reading articles about him in Ebony during the 60s, there's plenty of queer-marking descriptions that are no less indicting than anything Midge said. He was actually sued in the 1960s for non-payment of the woman he hired as a beard at the World's Fair. That was a real lawsuit, certainly woul dhave raised plenty of red flags. Not murdered, attacked or even villified for it. There was no social media; the only people affected by anything Midge said were those ones actually in the audience. And I think it would be hard for a black audience to believe -- much less act on -- something a white girl said during a comedy show. Her two or three ambiguous joke lines would not supplant what they believed and felt about someone who had been a large part of their community -- no matter what joke she made, it would not supplant their own opinions about Shy. Certainly not to the point of endangering him. So yeah, I think saying that Midge endangered either his life or his career was hyperbole.

Okay. Hold up here. You may not like the character of Midge, but we need to be clear on things, even fictional ones. Midge in no way, no how FORCED Shy into any kind of marriage. He's a grown man with grown choices, and he made the choice to marry Monica. My guess is that if it's ever dealt with at all, it's more a factor of him trying to convert than having a beard. But to say Midge made him do it? By telling a few jokes that might -- MIGHT -- be interpreted as insinuating he's gay, that's just over the line in abandoning personal responsibility. Here are the facts: Shy picked up a guy, and picked up the kind of guy who would beat him up. That's on Shy. Midge tried to help him -- helped him get ready for his show, gave up her own slot to do it. She tried to help. He paused the tour she was on -- the one she had planned her life around -- so he could "recover." And then, she went to the Apollo with her regular set, and Shy's manager told her to make fun of him. That's on Reggie. The only thing Midge is guilty of is a joke or two, poking fun at a celebrity. She didn't out him -- she didn't say "Hey, did you know Shy likes to screw men?" she made fun of his wardrobe, said he cared about it as much as a woman does. And Shy wrecked her life for that. For a couple of jokes from a comedienne. He could have arranged a cover story instead of just dumping her from the tour -- which, BTW, he apparently had already put in place. But instead he arranged for her to plan to leave, then left her on the tarmac and THEN LEAKED IT in order to embarrass her. And yet he's the victim?

With the relevations this episode, I think Shy decided to get rid of Midge as soon as he told her he was gay. She knew, he knew she knew and he couldn't risk having her around with that knowledge. They'd already hired a replacement act for the tour, which means they'd already done auditions. made room reservation cleared the new person with the network -- that doesn't happen overnight. Why have her perform at the Apollo at all unless to provide some cover for her getting fired? Her act wouldn't have played well -- she was taking over for a much higher regarded performer by her audience. The reason they didn't hire Moms Mabley to open for him in the first place was the same reason it made no sense to put Midge onstage there -- different audiences, different expectations. And once Reggie told Midge to talk about Shy, it was done. Reggie told her to rag on him -- it might not have been about his sexuality (and I think the only person who thought he was being outed was Shy, and probably not even then) -- and Shy was going to be able claim offense and fire her. So after two years of thinking this was all Midge's fault, I now think she was set up and punished for the act of trying to help Shy out after he got beat up. Which sucks.

If you're not listening, it's got the guys -- not Danny or Kaitlyn -- sort of going over episodes, or whatever happens to be on their minds, A lot of complaining about parking in the early episodes. But it does give you a good feel for who these three are and how they work together. They did a callers episode this week, and it was a lot of fun. Oh. Megan Ganz is there, too. She seems to be producing it, which means she's having fun because that's got to be below her pay grade at this point. I get mine through Apple, but I imagine it's everywhere.

It is one of my comfort shows, but they've never figured out any of the timelines in the show. Jules is too old to have a kid as young as Travis. If she's 41 and Travis is 18, that means she had him at 22/23. Which means she didn't have to drop out of college to have him. They should have just gone ahead and had him be 22 or 23 himself, but then they would have missed out on his college stuff. Maybe an older sibling that never showed up. Or died. Or something. Jules and Bobby should have been broken up for at least a decade if not longer -- there's not nearly enough anger/hostility between them for the divorce to be as recent as it's shown. And it doesn't explain how Jules had money to buy the house with Bobby. But if she's on her own for a decade, and has made the name for herself and has been paying Bobby support -- that works much better. Laurie and Travis should never have been a thing at all beyond him just lusting after her as a fantasy. But my biggest complaint for a show that I adore is that it's pretending to be in southwest Florida, and there's nothing southwest Florida about any of the scenes. I assume the place is supposed to be Sanibel -- nice, small beach community on the Gulf. You don't surf the Gulf -- it has waves that max out most of the time around a two feet or so. The Gulf doesn't have wide beaches. You don't wear wetsuits in the Gulf. It was all set up in California -- I even enjoyed them making fun of California -- but a lot of the things they showed just aren't real things about southwest Florida. All that said, when I need something to watch to make me smile, I go back to Two Gunslingers.

I've enjoyed it so far. it's not fantastic, but it's a solid procedural -- better than Vigil was.

You're still climbing the same amount, and lifting the same weight the same distance. You might take fewer steps, but it doesn't diminish the energy used.

I think his looked thicker, which might have been an issue of finding one in his size. But even the light ones are are still heavy. Not the hundred pounds he was claiming, but at least six or seven. As for the boots, I know that if I wear the wrong kind of footwear for the wrong situation, my feet hurt. My lighter sibling doesn't have that problem. So he might have just been adjusting to that -- and all-around cross trainers and those kinds of shoes are also sort of hard to find at size 16. Not justifying, because he and Sheri might have been the worst actual racing team in the history of the show. But I can also see how this season's tasks might have been tougher on them than what you'd see in a normal race. That said, they were tired on the first part of the first leg running through London. Again, a weird casting choice for the show. Especially when they know there are going to be challenges (like the bungee jumping) he won't be able to do because of his size/weight. If they want to make the race winnable for people of non-athletic body style, they ought to cut back on the more cardio dependent tasks they've had. Not that they should, but people of larger sizes aren't going to be able to really compete if they are going to be as cardio focused as they've been this year.

It's streaming on Hulu now. I watched the premiere again last night. It was a neat little thing -- if it had come along in the times of pure streaming, it might have caught on. Crowe's love of all things rock and roll really is on display. Maybe too much, but on display.

The starting and ending point of the canyon challenge was the same place. If you've end up at the bottom aver coming down waterfalls and ziplining, you have to start by getting up. Sheri's task along the mountainside started by going down, but ended going back up. And when you're bigger, you take the gravity and loose rocks a lot more seriously than when you're not. It's a lot easier to slip and fall going down hill when you've got more weight, so you have to brace yourself harder as you go down. And then I think Sheri had to climb a bit to get to the top of the dam to jump.

I think Akbar was a dick, but as a large guy, a lot of these tasks that seem easy to smaller people can be really tough on big ones. There have been a LOT of stairs to climb this season, and no tasks where being physically strong could be helpful. They were a weird casting choice this year -- everyone else is at least in some way cardio fit, and both of them were big people who were going to struggle with all of these fundamentally narrow challenges. And while wetsuits do float, they are very heavy out of the water, and if you're already carrying 275 pounds and probably 6-8 of frame, that stuff gets tough. So while I think he should have been more sympathetic to Sheri, again, there have been a lot of climbs this season for someone of his (and her) size to navigate. I don't remember that being the usual case on the race.