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I want to be this generous, because Dallas was indeed no winner here, they just escaped, but when one of the announcers - I was already too far into I hate everyone territory to register who - said Daniel Jones did great, my cat put her paws over her ears knowing what was coming, because my only reaction in the moment is to shout at the TV Great, how? He underthrows more times per game than I fart per night (ask the cat - it's a lot), and every single point the Giants managed was via FG because he and his offense can't find the fucking end zone. I'm sick of this. So many seasons of okay, it looks like they're addressing their problems, and then other than one hopeful year we're still a collection of problems, just maybe fewer from one year to the next. We'll see how this one shakes out, obviously, and I'm ride or die, but I'm also hella frustrated.

I'll be watching football tonight (go Giants!), so just checked the archive. A lot of the TS stumped me, too; I only got Belgium, intuition, and Cecil B. DeMille. I only ran brand, so I continue to be off my game in the first round. I got all but Brazil in symbols, all but brill in fish, and all but Rihanna in albums, but I missed two in G7 and three in William & Mary. Better than last night, at least. DJ was brought to me by the number two. I got all but amphora in begins & ends (the picture wouldn't have helped), but missed two each in everything else. FJ was an instaget, though, so at least I keep ending strong.

She's always doing it less by the end of her segments than in the beginnings, so she might still be nervous until she gets caught up in what she's doing. The beginning of her first segment had me thinking OMG, I will never be able to handle listening to this person, but now I'm fine (but she's definitely perkier than I'd like!). I didn't pay much attention to the bread pudding segment because it's not something I'd ever make (or choose to order, even, although I'd be fine eating it if someone served it to me).

I've always been like Browncoat, calling the hard ones tape measures and the soft kind measuring tape, but last night my brain just would not come up with the latter term even though they're so similar I was 90% there.

Thank you! That would not come to me last night (my brain goes to sleep a few hours before I do each night).

Before we wind up with a mod note in only our first episode thread, let's redirect ourselves -- discussion of other "old people" shows enjoyed should move to this forum's small talk thread.

Yeah, she's one of very few people he'd do that for, but their relationship means the reverse is true, she'd never let him do that for her.

Interesting observation and question. I have a ruler in my desk drawer, a tape measure in my kitchen drawer (the one I put in my purse if I'm going to need to measure while shopping), a bigger tape measure in my garage, and measuring tape in my sewing kit. And a laser distance measure but I only use that for approximating; if I'm measuring to cut, I never trust it because it's old and cheap, something my grandpa had picked up somewhere, and I haven't tested it enough times to be assured of consistent accuracy. (Also, I'm just used to tape measures.) But it was convenient when I was calculating how many BTUs each room would need when ordering units for my mini split AC system; ascertaining each room's square footage was faster with that thing than it would have been with a tape measure.

Another mediocre first round for me; I missed three each in lit and stars. As a lush, I almost always run booze categories, but I joined the contestants in being stumped by daiquiris. I did run the rest, at least. That was utterly brilliant compared to my DJ performance, however. I ran aigu, but blew art entirely, missed three each in history, cards, and Grammys, and two in caves. But I did correctly guess FJ to end on a happy note.

I'm a huge fan of George Jones and Tammy Wynette's music, alone and together, and know the basics of their messy relationship, but didn't get around to watching this until now. I wish they'd used George and Tammy's vocals. I know there are problems with having the actors lip sync, but especially with them singing full songs, all it made me want to do is pull out my CDs and listen to the real thing. The acting was great, though. I've only seen each of them in a couple of other things, so this was by far my most exposure to them and they were both terrific in these roles. There were many times along the way I thought the show was dragging, but so I do not think it needed to be as long as it is, but I enjoyed it. I'm glad Richey was portrayed as the giant asshole he was. It makes me so angry that he got what she'd intended to provide her daughters' security; she worked hard her whole life, and it goes to that asshole and then his wife. Yes, it was hideously foolish not to get her will done by an estate lawyer long before she started writing it up herself, but he kept her so doped up and under his thumb it's not as shocking as it seems. I laughed at Georgette wondering "The fuck is this song" when Tammy was shooting the video for "Justified and Ancient". I flippin' love that song, it is so delightfully weird. My cat is really glad the series is over, because I sang along with every song and I cannot carry a tune with a forklift. Today I'll listen to the real versions.

Which he's using to try and distract from his involvement in the welfare fraud case.

Animation is not my jam, but I was hoping not to be too terrible in that category. Alas, I only knew Velma. I missed three in Brit Lit, so this was a poor first round for me. I ran herbs & spices and history, and got all but Ethiopia in finance and all but moa in words. I wasn't exactly on fire in DJ, either, but not terrible; I ran science and "all" and got all but imago in This & That. I missed three in Helsinki, and two each in the rest. FJ was an instaget, though, so I ended on a high note.

This came out in spring of 2002, but I just watched it last night. I really like Sheryl Crow's music (I hate "All I Wanna Do", but love every other note of Tuesday Night Music Club and find it one of the best debut albums ever) but I knew nothing about her as a person. I came out of this admiring her. She faced a lot of shit, but stuck to her guns and controlled her own career. Michael Jackson's manager, Frank DiLeo, subjected her to so much sexual harassment and threats that she'd never have a career if she kept rejecting him that she sought counsel from a high-powered industry lawyer, who told her to stick it out, and lots of people would kill to be in her position. The anger of "What I Can Do For You" comes from that. DiLeo threatened to sue over that song, her manager told him to go ahead, and she never heard from him again. She got nervous when Letterman called her over to chat after she performed "Leaving Las Vegas" on his show, so when he asked if the song was autobiographical and she started to explain sort of, she got distracted by his joking questions and couldn't center herself to tell the story of collaboration. So some of the Tuesday Night Music Club guys got pissed, and then when the author of the book by that title (the book having inspired one of the TNMC guys, but she didn't even know that) killed himself several weeks later, that TNMC guy publicly blamed her! Wal-Mart told her they wouldn't sell her second album because of a song that called them out for selling guns, but said they would if she changed it to K-Mart. She called them hypocrites and refused. And when she saw Jimmy Iovine (who'd taken over the label) was busy on his Blackberry under the table while "listening" to "Soak Up the Sun", she texted him to "put that damn thing down" -- and he did. She started suffering depression during C'mon C'mon, which is what the lyrics of "The Weather Channel Song" come from, but she was in such a dark hole she doesn't even remember writing and recording that song. She wound up needing inpatient treatment, asking her manager to get her help after she realized if she had the energy to run across the loft and throw herself out the window she'd do it. When she was going through radiation for breast cancer, and the paparazzi kept trying to get pictures of her looking sick, she wondered "What the fuck has happened to my life?" I love, love, love when they cut from footage of Lance Armstrong (who'd been her fiancé) denying the doping allegations to her singing "Lie to me" (from "Strong Enough"). It's clear how much she loves music, and I liked hearing about all the artists who inspired her, and that she wound up getting to know some of them. Emmylou Harris, Keith Richards, and Joe Walsh all appear and speak highly of her as an artist and a person. Brandi Carlile is also interviewed, giving her mad respect and relating that seeing her perform at Lilith Fair is what made her believe she could do it, too. She recounts that half an hour before her set at Bonnaroo, there was hardly anyone in front of the stage, and she thought, "Okay, that's what I was afraid of - I'm too old for this audience." But when she took the stage, the place was packed, and when all these folks who were younger than the song started singing along with "If It Makes You Happy" she and her band members just kept looking at each other in amazement. She credits the "tribe of women" who see her through life, and I dig that. I also like that she adopted, not bought, her dog, and had him with her everywhere other than on overseas gigs for 13 years.

Yes, there is this bizarre world at play in which ambitious becomes a negative when exhibited by women; art reflects this reality, but also exacerbates and thus perpetuates it. I hope this show rises above that, showing the ways in which age, race/ethnicity/, and sexual orientation (if applicable) affect the degree of that oppression, alongside the commonality that all women are subjected to it to a greater degree than all men.

Yes, she truly entertains him sometimes. I like in the flashback to when they were on the campaign trail, so less stressed than they are on the job, and she accidentally throws the basketball through a window and he cracks up.

Whatever their reasons, stated and unstated, the women had more negative initial reactions to her than the men did.

Ha, so it wasn't even tech talk and I still tuned it out. I think I was busy trying to get a good look at her house. I forgot to note: I loved seeing Colleen Camp (as the "old ho" who helped them [and LOL at her insisting on that instead of "aging prostitute"]). She'll always be Yvette from Clue to me, but I love seeing her pop up in things I watch.

I'm going to be watching football tonight, so just checked the archive. I'm really surprised no one guessed Rolex. Dave Chappelle instead of Eddie Murphy, ouch. I ran Key or Peele (love those guys), "ette", and magazines, and got all but dwarves in 4. I missed two each in strings (pictures wouldn't have helped for balalaika or bouzouki; nothing would have helped for those!) and whodunit, so not my best first round, but still a good one. I did well in DJ, too; I missed three in science (disappointing, as I usually do well), but I ran Cabinets and Oscars/Tonys and got all but fabulist in words and all but Bacon in buying stuff. I missed two in capitals. No guess for FJ, though, as "some writer" doesn't count.

Also, it turns out a co-worker also watched this, and we were talking about how we didn't like that it was women who didn't like Matty right off the bat and men who did. We tried a positive spin, that the men just thoroughly dismissed her, so she was harmless to them, but there was a part of the women that didn't succumb to the "just an old lady" mentality, so instinctively reacted to her as if she was still a threat. That leaves us with the beyond tiresome myth that women see each other as threats, but we'll see how the relationships progress since there was already change by the end of this first case.

Yeah, he laid out what he did (I don't speak tech, though, so I don't know what it was).

Oy. I'd have never watched this if not for Kathy Bates, and I wouldn't watch another episode if not for Kathy Bates. And even she wasn't as good in this as I expected. The complete lack of realism, I expected (which is why I avoid most of these shows), but this was clunky overall (even for a pilot), like they were just counting on the twist and didn't need to bother with the rest of the episode. The writing is painfully aimed at the viewer with the shortest attention span; flashing back to the things we had just seen as contrasted with the truth at home, rather than just letting us listen to reality and remember the ways it differs from how she'd presented herself? This is why network shows are seen as lesser these days! That bugged the shit out of me, almost as much as the ridiculous premise of her being hired by a prestigious NYC firm with faked credentials. I'll give it a few more episodes, though.

Sorkin sure as shit should have used less poetic license in the abomination that is "Isaac and Ishmael".

Allison Janney quickly became my favorite (I only vaguely recognized her coming in), but for me this group is the embodiment of why SAG has an ensemble category among its awards.

C.J. dealing with her feeling of not having fully integrated into the group, and not being taken as seriously as the men, as their first year passed into their second. Aaron kind of wrote it, and Allison kind of felt it, and that combined to where it became this palpable thing for C.J. that had to be acknowledged outright in the show. It's incredibly relatable for women working in male-dominated professions.

I'd have liked more Joey Lucas and Lionel Tribbey.