Mindymoo

I've always wavered between disliking Gillian (take the way she treated Richard, for example) and feeling immense pity for her. She really is one of the saddest characters on this show. And now that she's stuck in the psyche facility, with no recourse and no way to get out, I only feel pity for her. Perhaps she would have been better at the hoosegow.

I watched a "Drugs, Inc." episode that briefly touched on the civil forfeiture, and people in Tennessee started just driving around with their large amounts of cash on pre-paid debit cards so the cops wouldn't steal that from them at traffic stops. But, lo and behold, the police took them too.

I don't have a problem with unique. My family is Polish, and we have some very different and beautiful names in our family both here and in the old country. Shaniquas, Linithias, Lamartrices- they don't bother me one iota. (I'm stuck with Melinda, which is an old-fashioned name that I can't stand, but at least I can go by Mindy. That is slightly better.) It's when names become flat out baffling, like the mentioned Judge Judy plaintiff/defendants, such as Aquanetta, Velveeta, and Toshiba, that I start to shake my head.

Oh, I know that Lemonjello is an urban legend, as I said it was just a story going around the hospital and not a confirmed account or patient. Still amusing though.

The name discussion reminds me of the story going around my parents hospital of Lemonjello and Oranjello, twins who were born and whose names were inspired by dessert selections. And of the fact that I wrote a musical in high school called "The Girl Named Syphillis." (Her nickname was Syphie, and was named such when her mom was diagnosed shortly after her birth, misunderstood, and thought it was a name suggestion.)

Kerfuffle. It's lunchtime and we're having <insert food here, most likely sushi>.

That was the most delightful combined panel I have seen on this show in a very long time, perhaps ever. And my guy, Tim Minchin, won! He was in the bottom, and he still won! I'm ecstatic for him winning the internet for the day. Weird to see him without his eyeliner though.

Motel Hell. It stars Rory Calhoun and is about a farmer who sells sausages made of people. He stages accidents so he can plant people in the ground to tenderize them, then breaks their necks and turns them into sausage. The tagline? "All kinds of critters go into Farmer Vincent's fritters!" It has a Wolfman Jack cameo, too. It is on a DVD with a Canadian take on Ed Gein called Deranged, which is actually pretty amusing in some spots. His first victim, he tries to impress by showing her his drum that he is playing with a femur. I watch both of these periodically as a double feature, mostly when me and the missus are up at the lake and it's raining and we can't start a campfire, but Motel Hell is the real gem of the two.

AngelaHunter, I prefer to think of her uterus as a clown car, but your gumball machine comparison works too. What a shady bitch. Califred, I really don't know what was going on with the paternity situation. His kid, someone else's kid, he's stuck raising it with no support from the mother and that's sad, and a reversal from what we normally see on these shows.

I was pissed when they announced the safe people. The best and worst looks of the week- Dina and Sasha- were right there! Dina's was freaking adorable and amazing and I just loved it. Of those left, I liked the ginger the most. That was great, and I especially loved the detail of the whiteheads on his face and neck. I actually found the winner a bit boring. I think Rachel would have scraped through if she had just put the damn horns on and did a better beauty makeup, but alas, it was not to be. But damn, that fucking anti-cyclops should have gone home. That was awful.

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you Drunk Judge Judy. I remember the last two cases, but the final case, with the addition of Garrison Keillor's tales from Lake Wobegon, had me cracking up. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/09/30/internet-art-for-the-ages-drunk-judge-judy

Hey, I'm 28, and I was taught basic English skills! Then again, I spent grades K-7 in a Catholic school. When I started public school in grade eight, I realized how lucky I was because a lot of those kids could barely read at a first grade level, let alone understand basic sentence structure.

I find "Manhunter" to be vastly superior to "Red Dragon", and think that Tom Noonan's Francis Dollarhyde was far creepier and better than Ralph Fiennes'.

Hicandenza- The women's temperance movement has a long history, going back into the 1800s. Watch the Ken Burns documentary about Prohibition on Netflix. There were a lot of people calling for the banning of alcohol for a very, very long time.

Start with a couple of songs first. "Inflatable You", "Dark Side" and "Rock and Roll Nerd" are all awesome to get acquainted with his style, and are available on Youtube. He is a very dynamic performer.

Have you heard his albums? He is brilliant. He also wrote the musical based on Roald Dahl's "Matilda." A true genius and one of my heroes.

Holy shit, TIM MINCHIN?

The only Patrick Swayze thing I like is when Conky, Bubbles' ventriloquist dummy, drives Julian insane on "Trailer Park Boys" by singing to him and calling him Patrick Swayze, causing him to shoot the dummy. (It's really insane and a sight to behold.)

Jordapond, you should compare it with "The Knick." There was a scene there two prostitutes were introduced to a prospective pimp, and were told undress, but we only saw them from the behind, then they were whisked away from the room. There is nudity, but it isn't titillating in the last most of the time. I love BWE, but the HBO CEO of Tits sure loves his tits.

The Wire's finale really was pitch perfect. Especially when Bubbles went upstairs to have dinner with his family, showing that his sister was finally starting to trust him again. That made me sob. Eastbound & Down had a brilliant finale too, well, both of them. Even if it did have Lindsay Lohan in it. I don't know how, but even though Kenny Powers was such a horrible person, deep down he knew it, and he was so full of self-loathing, yet there was something rootable about him. In a frightening way, I think there is a little bit of Kenny Powers in all of us.

I saw Whitney Cummings on @Midnight, and I had to turn it off. She was abhorrent, irritating, and not funny in the least. Plus, she looked like she could blink her lips.

Regarding Joan Rivers, I also loathe what she said about the Palestinians, and how they are all stupid and deserve to get brutally killed. Sorry, apartheid and women who are kidnapped and sexually tortured for years on end are nothing to joke about. Yet people go on and on about how great she was. Give me a fucking break.

I loved the way that Dina did the scales with the broken popsicle stick. That was really clever, and I adored her overall paint job. Me and the missus were crossing our fingers during the judging that she would win. And I was happy that Stella, despite the curveball thrown her way with the sick model, still was able to turn out a decent looking design. The women really are killing it this season, Sasha and Keaghlean notwithstanding. ETA At least with Miranda, she had a lot of talent, and you could mute the whining. Sasha is just all over the place. She hasn't blown me out of the water the way Miranda had to justify in any way her whiny behavior. (And I HATE whiners.)

Don't know if this really fits in the Small Talk thread, but Prezbo is currently playing Elliot Ness on "Boardwalk Empire." Prezbo! In a real position of authority! (I'm still amazed that he wound up being one of my favorite characters.)

I am an SS beneficiary, and that bugs me about JJ. I have, among other things, gastroporesis, which means that my stomach is paralyzed and I vomit nearly everything I eat. Until getting on a better medication, I fainted every day. I have a genetic disorder that is causing my joints to deteriorate. Nonetheless, even though I am on SSI, I am currently in school, graduate in January of 2016, so I can get off of the system and make something of my life. If JJ took a look at me, she would chastise me because by just *looking* at me, you would never imagine that my life is a daily health struggle. But you needn't be in a wheelchair, an amputee, or elderly to need these benefits or not be a scammer, and I think her years in the family court system jaded her to this fact.