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I, on the other hand, will quite happily be watching Amy Schumer's new show - something to tide me over until she can do another stand-up special.

Watching Ken's first game is kind of fun. I'm not sure if I saw it at the time; I was in college during his run, so my viewing was sporadic. It was a little jarring for the game's first clue to be "A fast-spreading outbreak of a disease". Also, that is a yucky recipe for guacamole.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that song! Another good one.

Like a Miss DiPesto episode of Moonlighting. I agree.

"I want my two dollars!"

Yeah, that's what I said about this album as revealed (in this thread) so far - she's picking crappy pop songs to begin with, and not doing anything to elevate them. Thus my earlier, and reiterated after this latest posted offering, statement that if it wasn't for her "My Heart Can't Tell You No" cover, which I quite like (no coincidence that a better original yielded a better cover, but still - it's good), I'd think she should just stay away from pop songs altogether - because these recently-released covers of pop songs are pretty bad.

Yes! I've liked both versions from the moment each came out; I love that song. What has been posted thus far of Sara Evans' recent cover album is not at all up my alley, so if I just went on those songs I'd say she should never cover pop music. But - as much as I love Rod Stewart's version - I so love her cover of "My Heart Can't Tell You No" it keeps me from such a declaration. It's an anomaly so far, though, because, holy shit, the rest sucks - "Whenever I Call You Friend" is another "bleh" cover of hers, IMO. I think part of it is she's picking crappy pop songs for this cover album, but she's certainly not elevating them.

I'm ashamed to say I'd pretty much forgotten about Alex Smith, so it was a revelation to see just how serious his injury, resulting complications, and rehab were. I don't know how much wasn't reported, and how much was that I just didn't pay attention to. It's a good documentary; the medical procedures are fascinating (although, yeah, warning for the squeamish, but I am not among them, so I can't judge how likely some of the images are to be unbearable for some as I just don't respond that way), and the physical and emotional struggles are well represented. I guess I should save specific commentary for the show-specific thread, if there is one, but I'll say here it was touching to hear Smith not even think about football, just wondering if he'll ever again be able to get himself to the bathroom in the middle of the night, never mind play with his kids, and then to light up when he gets a football back in his hands. I don't think for a minute he'll ever play again, but if he maintains the perspective he seems to have had all along, it doesn't hurt to dream. Since, upon searching, I can't find such a thread, I'll go ahead and share a couple more thoughts: As a Giants fan (not to mention as a person who doesn't think naming your team a racial slur and then digging in your heels over it decades later is a good idea), I am clearly not a Washington fan, but I'm now rather enamored of their team doctor. She genuinely seems to care about the Smith family as people enduring horribly frightening circumstances, not just about the potential of a team asset. I'm surprised they didn't include more than that one brief comment from J.J. Watt. The enduring image of Joe Theismann's injury for me is not his leg flopping around, but of LT frantically waving the training staff over and holding his helmet in the realization of what happened. I would have liked to hear a little more from Watt about his feelings on inadvertently, via a completely clean play, annihilating an entire lower leg.

“Poster Boy” has my favorite Emma scene of the series (for which, granted, there is not much competition) – when she realizes the couch she’d been sitting on housed a dead body, and Amy admonishes her, “Do not. Scream.” I love that there’s no sympathy for the fact she was right about the proximity of the smell all along, just not wanting any part of her usual childish antics at a crime scene. Brandon North is an interesting villain, with his psychotically diabolical reaction to rejection – real and imagined - and sociopathic ease with using/stealing from people contrasted with his abiding and selfless love for his grandma (he refuses to take more from her even though she keeps offering of her own volition). He also feels remorse over killing Raquel – one of the few people who, like his grandma, believed in him - so he’s capable of that. But he could have just stolen from her and taken off like he’d planned, rather than killed her; it wouldn’t really have changed anything because the police had already identified him as a killer and the friend had already specifically identified him as having been at Raquel’s. So we're not sure what he is, in terms of mental condition. I like the investigation in general, including that Taylor isn’t completely off base in his “there’s more than one right answer here” about how to handle it; I lean more towards Sharon and Andy’s side of the argument against releasing any info, and don’t quite understand the logic behind the specifics of Taylor’s strategy, but I take his “you’re forgetting the torture and mutilation; what’s functional about that?” point in considering the public safety issue. So I appreciate that when they realize Raquel was murdered as an inadvertent result of the press release, Sharon says, “Oh my god, we caused this murder,” not any variation on, “I told you so.” There are also a lot of little realistic touches (something this show consistently includes): - In the morgue scene, the actors all behave - down to how they breathe - as if they really are in the presence of a hideously stinky corpse - When Sharon is FaceTiming with Brandon, every time he moves his phone so she can’t see what he’s doing, she calls his name and asks if he’s still there. It happens enough that from a purely production standpoint they could shy away from it lest it become annoying in its repetition, but they stick with realism – Sharon knows he has Caitlin’s gun, and their FaceTime link is the only way she has of seeing what he’s doing inside Carlo’s house as the LAPD takes position outside, so constantly redirecting Brandon’s attention back to their call is exactly what she would do. - (My favorite) The extra time they took to record actual video call footage and have it playing on the devices during the shoot (rather than just inserting some pick-up shots in post-production) One quibble: It doesn’t make sense that Amy’s revelation – after the house has been cleared by the responding patrol unit, after Major Crimes has been called in, and after the squad has been there long enough to be cataloging the trash contents – is that there’s a second bathroom. That would be incredibly old news. It should be that she smells bleach in the second bathroom, too, and then they all come in to find the hair dye, and the scene continues as is from there. Okay, two: Caitlin’s phone shows message 1/21 when her dad texts her (if that’s the most recent, shouldn’t it be 21/21?), and then his follow-up message is 1/20 – but Brandon didn’t delete the previous one (I have that phone; he’d need to push several buttons). Actually, maybe three: I know nothing about this sort of technology, but even if they were granted subpoenas for all the search engines, would those companies really be able to alert them in real time that someone was using the relevant terms in a search? I also love the Sharon/Rusty stuff in this episode. Phillip P. Keene manages to summon up a third facial expression (Buzz normally only has that stupid scowl or that dumbass Dudley Do-Right earnest look) to properly convey Buzz’s sadness and disappointment over Rusty hiding the letters, and the look on Sharon’s face when she holds the letters out to Rusty and tells him, “Whatever happens next, know I love you,” is Mary McDonnell’s usual brilliance. Sharon is so blindsided by this, and doesn’t know if she’ll be able to argue her way into keeping Rusty this time. Graham Patrick Martin also nails Rusty’s oh, shit realization as he heads down the hall and sees the letters in Sharon’s hand. The fear they may lose each other is palpable.

I actually don't particularly care for it. I like everything - meat, vegetables, pasta - cooked only just as much as it needs to be. So a pork shoulder, which cannot just be cooked to 145 degrees because it would be tough and thus has to be cooked to a very high internal temperature to be good, is not my preferred cut of meat. It's fine, but I'm not excited by it. But I had it in the freezer (one of many gifts from a neighbor when she used to divide her time between here [Los Angeles] and her Missouri farm), and figured it was about time to go ahead and cook it, especially since I could get so many meals out of it and I wanted to put off a grocery store run as long as possible. I finished it off last night, and I had roasted a chicken for the week, too, so I wasn't always eating pork. I finally got groceries yesterday, so it's nice to again be able to make meals out of whatever ingredients I want rather than being limited to what's on hand. (Well, except for my salads - I forgot lettuce, so it'll be spinach, kale, or cabbage based salads for a while.) But tonight I'm going to order Thai food. I haven't decided which restaurant yet or what dishes I'm going to order, but I've decided I'm in a Thai mood. (I pick one local restaurant a week to order delivery from to help keep them in business, and I generally do it on Saturday nights since almost all of them have cut their hours during the week and I like to eat late.)

Yes! Susan was a good doctor, and a good teacher (in the first season, there are numerous examples - just little things, almost in the background of scenes - of her being the one to make sure Carter gets to learn something), so I'd have preferred her in the "Mark" role of the ER. (Also, it would have been nice having a woman in that role.)

Hmm. Unlike apparently everyone the ATK folks talked to, I have no strong opinions on sponges. I don't even have mild opinions on sponges. (And I don't have a dishwasher, so everything gets hand washed.) I use cloths most of the time, and for sponges I just grab a package of some sort of sponge with a scrubber on top. What I have right now is similar to the winner, but without the "topography" on the scrubber. In other news, now I want a chipwich!

I never use a timer, but, as I'm sure I shared in this thread, I twice left sugar water (either for simple syrup or hummingbird food) on the stove and forgot about it, leaving me with a blackened mess and burnt pot. The smell! I've never left anything else on the stove, and only left that the two times, so I'm not sure what that specific level of forgetfulness was about, but thankfully <knocking on wood> it has not happened again.

I agree - not in a defined sense like paying rent or even any other set monthly contribution, but just in terms of not being a freeloader. He's far beyond a guest at this point, and he seems to be there a lot (like David before he officially moved in, but without the excuse of being a teenager escaping an abusive home). But he's also pretty much always babysitting someone (presumably for free) when he's there, so he is contributing to the household. He's probably eating there a fair bit, though, based on his overnight visits*, so hopefully he's also doing some of the cooking and bringing over groceries sometimes. *I still do not begin to understand them spending so many nights at "her" place that is packed to the rafters with other people when he has his own - whether the normal apartment he had back when they got into that ridiculous fight about shoes and salt, or the crappy place he was living in during his non-showering depression phase.

The poison TS surprised me, especially with the “like a fumigant” hint; I guess they’d never even heard the phrase, just like they’d apparently never heard “marry in haste, repent at leisure”. The strawberry shortcake TS surprised me a little, too, as did no one even guessing blue (beard). The Norman Lear TS made me sad. I ran the first round and FJ was an instaget, but it was not my day in DJ; I missed at least half a dozen.

My friend finds those motaur commercials creepy, but I just think they're dumb. I'm also annoyed that in the one where he's drinking gasoline, his front wheel moves every time he moves his upper body, but in others his wheel stays in place.

I didn't watch Scrubs, but I knew I recognized him from something -- one of the crackpots from "The Crackpots and These Women" episode of The West Wing. (He was in Seinfeld, too, but it was the UFO guy that I was specifically remembering when I looked at him.) Here's a brief obituary from The Wrap; he was only 56, and died of cancer (insert expletive here) - he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor last year.

Yeah, I'm struggling a little - and I suspect they are as well - to judge the rankings the same way the CU folks are doing, because this list is so wack that something 100 spots off looks completely normal in comparison to the thoroughly bizarre entries.

Yep, "This synonym for 'hernia'" was the first part (I've never heard "rupture" used in place of "hernia" either), and the second part of the clue was "can also refer to a break in a pipeline".

Neither do I, because his sense of humor does not align with mine. I don't dislike him, but I never find him even 10 percent as funny as he's aiming for. I laughed when the judges basically said he's incapable of doing "accessible" food. I suspect he felt like if he just pitched "fine dining" they'd want to know what distinguishes it, so went for his version of a twist. But fine dining is what he does, very well, so put up on the mood board and include in the pitch the things that get people to drop large wads of cash in his real restaurants, hyping how his sample dishes differ from those on offer in similar restaurants, in pitching this hypothetical one. I still think, despite his talent, he'd have been middle of the road in this challenge, though.

I only watched a handful of episodes, as one of those included a car chase filmed on a stretch of street that included my house at the time, so we tuned in for a couple of episodes before, "our" episode, and a couple of episodes after. From the little I recall, it was rather generic '80s investigation series, one that only ran a few seasons and without any innovative hook, ratings, or subsequent cult following that would appeal to syndicators. Oh, yes! I have several on old VHS recordings, and as I slowly transfer those I want to keep to DVD, I grin and giggle whenever I come across one.

Yes, clearly (which I think is why it oddly entertained me), I just wonder if she generally goes through life having these Angela Chase moments where she blurts and babbles then finds herself wishing for the button to push to force herself to stop talking*, or if it's something that only happens under unfamiliar or otherwise nerve-wracking circumstances. *My So-Called Life reference

Is that really all they say? I can't believe they'd only market to those who know about A1 vs. A2 (and believe in the benefits of A2) rather than trying to expand their customer base by giving the spiel.

Nope, I didn't know that either. I rarely watched The Flinstones, so it's not a surprise I wouldn't know trivia about it, but that was a new tidbit for me -- I was reading the archive, so didn't see the picture part of the clue, but something starting with F, commonly used for outdoor paving, and similar to Flinstone lead me right to flagstone, but if you'd asked me "what was Fred and Wilma's original last name?" I'd have said, "I have no idea, and didn't know they ever had a different one."

Yay for Karen being the one to come back from LCK, especially because the look on her face when she found out it was happening right after her elimination was announced was hilariously unenthusiastic. I don’t normally watch LCK, but I’ll have to go watch that one, because “Where I’m from they call me Chef, too” to them being called “girls” was one of the many reasons I like her. Yes, Karen! The QF was fun; I like how much fun they had with the machetes (although a few of them made me nervous with them). I like Danny Trejo’s activism, although I have not tried his tacos (there are so many here, and I most often cook my own, so it takes a while to try all the ones I’m interested in). I wanted Melissa’s and Karen’s tacos the most, but I’d happily (after taking the bananas out of Kevin's) devour everything but Gregory’s and Eric’s - and Eric's I'd just tear some of the tortilla off to make balanced bites. The Spare Room – where they “spontaneously” went bowling to take a break from their planning – is someplace I take visitors when they want to go somewhere in Hollywood. Someday friends will be able to travel again. I like this way of doing Restaurant Wars and hope they stick with it. Kevin’s pitch was fantastic; he really got the concept across. I didn’t drool over the food (just a matter of personal preference), but he did, by far, the best job of communicating his vision. Gregory did a good job with it, too, and his food looked great. It seemed obvious they would be the restaurants for RW. (But while Melissa’s concept wasn’t as fully realized as those two, she had the food I most wanted to eat.) I knew from jump Stephanie was going to be lucky to get immunity; she doesn’t even aspire to open a restaurant, so she doesn’t think about all the things you have to think about to pitch the concept for one. And I figured her being at a loss was going to result in putting out blah food. (I still felt a little sorry for her hearing the judges and saying, “They’re laughing pretty hard; I think I’m going to stick to being a private chef.”) I love Eric’s fundamental concept (which he didn’t get beyond step one of in the finale last year, and which I wanted to see the rest of), of exploring the trajectory of the slave trade’s influence on cuisine around the world, but he didn’t sell the details at all and, as he said, fell on his face with the food itself (unlike last time, when he was knocked out in a close race in the first round of the finale, IIRC). This was a really disappointing showing for him, and I'm curious how he'll do in LCK. Lee Anne’s concept is less interesting and more common than his, but it could be developed, and, bottom line, her food was executed better. This was another no-brainer choice, from what they showed us.