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Her interaction with her housekeeper/maid/cook/closet organizer/stylist/prodcuce gatherer/best friend was to die. This crew clearly either loathes her or just finds her hysterically pathetic and loves to mock her. You can almost see the camera shake during that one talking head because they knew this idiot would open her doughy yap and drop golden raisins of "wit". And for Lydia to brag so richly about how grateful her housekeeper/maid/cook/closet organizer/stylist/prodcuce gatherer/best friend was to work for Lydia? Well that was the peach of the episode. I wonder how many seasons her marriage can survive.

I thought it was interesting that as obsessed as she is with Gina, she can't even remark to her husband that there was confrontation and unpleasantness on the trip. She really did not like that coming out. I think she was totally scrambling trying to pretend she was too busy dancing to really be interested even as Gina smilingly refused to sugar coat the event. I just know Andrea thought Gina would never blandly describe the trip pretty much as it was but without any hand wringing or drama to Andrea's own husband. While Andrea did her best floppy air man at a used car lot.

If i go on one more round Manhattan booze cruise for work, my liver will jump overboard. So no, I don't think just being on a boat would make a cash bar mandatory. However from having to play social lackey for work on more occasions than I care, I do know how different liquor and food service laws and regulations are across the land. Particularly when it comes to movable venues that cross outside of city lines and have to navigate (pardon the pun) a myriad of different sales tax and liquor laws. Plus I know many short term cruises won't even serve alcohol simply because the insurance is way too high. We had a cruise in Memphis that we paid a ridiculous rider for just so some visiting Saudi's lawyer and his wife could get their liquor on. I suspect it was due to the bride not wanting or having the money. But there are a lot of things she might have given control up on by going with the venue she did. including being able to provide free booze.

Everyone's face has two sides and neither truly matches the other. But damn. Lydia and her Bride of Pop-in-Fresh Dough face has always stuck out as being off-sided as it were. So why does she then do that weird off sided part to emphasize it? She looked slight Elephant Manish. then when she rolled her eyes during the previews for the next episode? Did she have some kind of surgery that caused some kind of separation of conjoined reflexes? Because that was weirdly hideous. Ladies, ladies ladies. The more you name drop and price drop the less sure of your own worth, let alone comfort with money and luxury you appear. Talk about trying way to hard to sell a lifestyle that none of them seem at relaxed ease with their commentary pretends to. All of them in some manner seemed so crass. Nouveau without the riche. Jackie and her little pug in a suit. He really manages to insert himself in almost every single scene they shot at their house don't they? He is so white knuckling every chance to appear in front of a camera if poor Jackie died in the middle of a season's shooting I swear he would run out and get a sex change and demand they honor whatever remains of her contract. He really is a repulsive little blob of a man. But in a giggle prompting way. And even more than its' first appearance, that "painting" Jackie and he did looks like a Teletubbie crime scene. Janice really is a scary looking woman. If she paid anything for any part of that nose of hers, she was the victim of fraud.

I'm not going to lie, even if I never knew of this show, if I saw Ben and jackie walking down the street looking like they did going on their date night I would laugh out loud. Lordy that hat and his stumpy little body and that bleached pumpkin of a head with the pageboy. I'm guessing both are so simple minded they just think that since they have cameras on them, they look and are fabulous.

I'm trying to keep the episodes straight but probably will muddle them. Most of my attention was caught by the Woodland fairyland woman. Hi-def was not her friend. Nor was she to the others I noticed. She was very adept at making sure to comment in a positive way on things in front of the others and then tear it down in her talking heads. Also I noticed she always made a point of pointing something negative out to the others right in the middle of them making positive comments. I also did not think her wedding seemed all that fairy wood/wonderland so much as it seemed like a Vegas drive up wedding chapel's outdoor venue. Particularly with the purple suit. And no, Dug did not pull it off. He looked pervy in it. But then it matched the whole dress she wore. Fairy Wonderland? More like Galadriel the Stripper. I also wonder just how fun this woman is and how much she turned on her interpersonal skills sales pitch to woo the others. Be fun and slip in a few pointed negative remarks and you might just win the day. I'll be honest I don't remember that much of the others but I was routing for the bride that won. I also have noted that if the groom is good looking to a considerable degree more than the others, does that bride get an edge? Also the bride that won got hooker Titania's highest overall score didn't she? It would be a hoot if she gave her the highest thinking the other two were likely to lowball her (which I think at least one did) thinking to spread out her scores to look good for the show only to bump her up enough to win. I never have the patience to parse the scores but it does seem like a lot of the brides are handing a first in each category to a different bride and the one that wins might be the one that is just lucky to blindly draw a coincidental double firsts. I thought both the garden and the low country weddings were nice for what they were. Both fit the setting (or theme if you will) and the couples. I did not like the Pirate wedding because I hate timed receptions. Which pretty much most early receptions are. I do not like cash bars but I did wonder if that was unavoidable being on the boat. Still in any case I think it is tacky. If you can't go open bar due to cost, look into a couple of kegs of beer and some alcoholic punch or wine spritzers. I happen to like a good brunch. However I do not like breakfast food from a hot tray. I like my eggs right out of the pan, I like my bacon crisp but still hot fatty and has some flex to it. Same way with pancakes or waffles. And the food shown looked very heat lamp worn. So that would get a ding from me. The Pageant bride was a bit dim wasn't she? And 350 guests with a 15000 budget? If you figure that easily non-food costs (venue, wait staff, apparel and flowers etc) was a third of that if carefully budgeted, that is less than 30 per guest for food. In this day that is not enough unless you are doing the food yourselves or someone is doing prep gratis. And it looked it. I think they need to add to their stable of wedding shows by flipping this a bit. Get four brides together that have the same budget. Whoever wins gets their wedding paid for. The other three get stuck with their own tabs. I'd like to see that or this show with a better breakdown of the money. I'd love to see the expense breakdowns. And i would love to see the expense breakdowns be part of the judgements instead of the pissy little girl "well I didn't like it so there" mentality. Not so much dollars but I think it would be nice if the scores could be factored in by the percentage of the total wedding. Sure you like her dress. but do you like for 50 percent or more of her budget when they run out of booze or food? I didn't notice so much bitching about too much food either show. That gets on my last nerve. Because the last thing you want is to not have enough food or have enough variety to make sure almost every guest has something to enjoy. Yes I get the temptation to try everything. i often eat past the point of comfort when given such an array. But I don't consider that the bride's fault. Not to mention it seems that when they bitch about it, their the same ones we see pile plate upon plate of food during the cocktail hour. It's not that hard to figure out when you have a dinner plate or three piled with more food than any entree would for a regular dinner serving, and you still have the full dinner service to get through? You have taken too much. Again I get that temptation to try as much or everything you can is hard to not succumb to. And I get that you are with two relative strangers. But how hard would it to be to, knowing you have a full meal ahead, divvy up the array among the three of you so you have a bite of everything instead of each getting, most of the time at least two, full plates on. Overall I just get tired of having someone whine and ding someone scorewise because of the simple rationale being "I can't control myself and its all someone else's fault".

Crazy Stupid Love. Great movie. Pretty big role.

Whoopi needs someone to ask her if her bosses at Disney have the right to switch her if she flubs a line or two despite being asked repeatedly to rehearse her blue cards? If she goes to a premiere party the night prior to a show and imbibes is it okay for them to force her to drink herself insensible until she learns her performance which they pay for is suffering needlessly due to her perhaps drinking more than she can tolerate for an early morning call to set? It's really simple and I think it is funny as people like her try to defend or mitigate such behavior. If as an employer you would face jail and civil suits for trying to punish an employee in the manner these parents are "disciplining" their children, or as an employee you would pursue legal action should someone over you tried to do such things as a means of "punishment", it shouldn't be done to a child. No matter what age as long as the parental figure holds financial and custodian powers over that child. I'm not surprised though. This is Rape-Rape Whoopi. Heck I'm waiting for the NFL player to be arrested for sicking his fighting dog on his toddler after the tyke pulls the dog's ears too hard as "teachable moment" then makes the kid watch as his goes Michael Vick on the dog when it loses in the pit. And Whoopi can defend that as a cultural "choice" that is private and a parent's right. Her stupidity at times make Sherri Shepherd look like....oh hell I'm stuck here between a rock for brains and a rock.

Albie's should be "dreams are all you'll ever have" or maybe "deputy do nothing"

This being Jonathan Murray, I have to now wonder if a huge part of the whole Sandhya love prior to this was to build up her role so that when she finally was auf'ed it would be something of a watercooler moment and social media storm for regular viewers to up interest in the show. Because they tried so hard to make it up in the air and not once in the judges discussion did I hear any of them go after her for digging in her heels so ridiculously and so immaturely. Sandhya seemed to think the judges were Strasboug Geese and she was making Shit foie gras. I cannot believe that in the deliberation the judges didn't tear her a new one for that when Nina out the gate has been gunning at the slightest hint of hubris on the contestants' parts. Plus Tim didn't crow about telling her so? Really? Yeah I want to roll that bean footage. Kini did a good job and I thought worthy of the win. As much as it pains me Korina's design could have won and I'd have been okay with that since it was such fun and I could see any of my nieces from three to thirteen being all over that dress. I still don't like her though. The rest were rather meh to me. I could not believe having the 70s and having access to that fabric from American Girl, we saw what Mrs Roper gardened in instead though. I wish it had been a double elimination and he had gone home as well. You don't want to do an over worked trope and you still slap a piece sign on the back?! And a mutant deformed one at that. Boo hiss. Boy this season is really bad.

What makes me laugh after I once again get annoyed, is that the commercial is trying to convey a desired effect. Instead the two come off as two fetish-oriented people. Real adults. No matter how sexually attracted to each can exhibit self control in fact self control and privacy are elements of heightening a healthy sex life. But you know who can't "control" themselves you perverted Leering old Liar of an EHarmony Schiller in Chief? Rapists and perverts. So yeah. Good job matching the two future victims of the next Craigslist sexual predator. And the mussed clothes and lipstick all over the guy's face? It;s like he thinks couples aspire to an old episode of I Dream of Jeannie.

Thanks. Now I have the image of seven cats all together trying to frantically bury the unexpected entry to their box.

I'm too lazy to go to imdb to check, but I have seen early performances by both women and their eyes do NOT have that squinty eyed ridiculousness. What happened? Did they both have botched eye jobs? Cheek implants? Developed allergies to their bowels after repeatedly climbing up their own ass? Inquiring minds want to know!

Well in part I think Affleck does not have a pretty face at all. It can be handsome. It also can hide behind a jaw pretending to be the haunch of a wild ass. Samson could go postal on some Philistines with that thing. I think Affleck has done well in other roles. But I don't translate that into doing well in all roles. Particularly this one. Nick is glib and a guy who on the immediate surface you are supposed to dislike since he embodies a perceived handed to success in part due being so dang purdy despite his initial misfortune that prompts the story. Chris Pine is Nick in my view.

Gawd, I devoured Fool's Assassin. Got a e-galley of it and then a physical copy and I still bought it in hardcover for my Hobb collection. I love all her work I should mention since Soldier Son does not get many raves. For me it, after the last Assassin trilogy (Golden Fool etc), it is her best. This new ongoing series she just launched looks to shove it down to second and Soldier Son to third. I liked Ruckley's Winterbirth series quite a bit. But I felt the publisher rushed it a bit when it didn't take off as big as the likes of Abercrombie or Sanderson (blech). I'm hoping this gets enough attention that even as a standalone it might still get Ruckley the attention he deserves and a re-visit to a world I really enjoyed. Red Knight took me a bit to get into, I'm not a huge fan of Cameron's historial fiction he writes as Christian Cameron. But I did enjoy it. The Fell Sword is a bit faster paced but in the end a slighter book since most of it is setup for a climax that never quite delivers since it serves to merely remind us there is a third book. Still I have enjoyed the series. I have Richard K. Morgan's The Dark Defiles and might read that next. I loved the first book of that series. Enjoyed the second a bit less. Still I really like Morgan's imagination and his ability to share it in prose.

It might need an author to accomplish that....I'm just saying titles are not unique! ;)

If it was real shade it just shows Meredith's ignorance since Lauer, before his descent into raging dickheadedness, actually was one of the best morning news show hosts. Up there with Harry Smith, Charles Osgood, Charlie Rose and Jeff Glor. He put up with Bryant Gumble's arrogant jealousy as the newsreader and reined in Katie Couric and her overwheening ego for several years before it finally galloped out of control and he started seeing the financial windfall from letting La Couric beam her way as she basically torched the Today Show to the ground and then moved on. Lauer had the chance to rebuild the show and instead decided to let continue it's descent. Meredith didn't help any imo. The real sad fact about Lauer is he started out being very good at his job. That's the real element of his being such an asshole now. He made the choice. Now real shade would be to ask who Cohen has been blowing and ball cradling to get the jobs he clearly has no skill or talent or ability to carry. Talk about coasting on corporate coitus. Somewhere in Palm Springs are a couple of ancient GE/NBCUniversal prostates that miss the gentle but clever lapping of Andy Cohen's tongue.

As beautiful and charming Ericka seems to be, after tonight I am even more firmly believing one of her chief attributes Lee admires most is the fact that dating her exclusively doubles his airtime. Kerry really seems to think this show makes her the new bachelorette. Wrong network Kerry. But you are a complete tool. So. You do have that in your ABC crappy fake dating show favor. Just, well, the wrong network. Poor Francesco (well not really) that look in Ericka's eyes is what here in the U.S. we call Production Notes. The Eyebrow grinning fool just cannot seem to realize what a complete and utter tool he is on camera. He has weeks of evidence now on film and he just cannot see it. First recorded Personality Comb-over. Well not so much the first, BRAVO has been airing "reality shows" now for how many years.

But first Tripp, run your fingers through her hair....really Kerry? I couldn't tell if she was trying to be wry or just wanted to create an image. Either way it is fascinating to watch as each episode she crawls further and further up her own ass.

You mean Jamie and Doug willingly and eagerly hoping they just provided the "last season on 'Married at First Sight' clip"

Well he is a juvial (sic) eventualist (sic) after all.

The Inifiniti Q50ad that shows the worst driver who apparently has the attention span of a toddler who still automatically grabs his little penis when stress or, well, BRAVO's Andy Cohen. And says the car allows you to drive. Well no. According to the ad it lets you be a completely and utterly irreponsible idiotic asshole who should have to use public transit. Gee imagine the stunning shock that cars in front of you might brake. might turn. Might merge into traffic. This idea that somehow cars have to make the crass indignity of having to share the road as little the driver's responsibility does not make me admire their car or new shiny system that allows and encourages less of such responsibility. It makes me downright road rage-y from the comfort of my tv lounge.

Poor Vaughn. Seems clear he doesn't really like women other than his mother and those willing to provide short term storage for his cock and thank him profusely for such a favor. I think a lot of his anger with Monet is his own issues with not finding women attractive beyond the bang. He has this idealized sense of what he thinks he should desire and no woman exists on earth that would provide that. Vaughn is a clear example as to why there are valid arguments as to legalizing the sex trade. He just needs fucked regularly and anonymously in between mom cooking him a meal a week. Monet has issues otherwise she would not have done this show in the first place. But she does have a glimmer of self-awareness and hope she takes that and grows with it. She'll also find that a quick bang is better even if she never sees the guy again when the guy says goodbye and doesn't act like he just tarnished his golden dick. The experts are so desperate. Clearly you can see the thought bubble over their heads to the book deals, the talk show appearances, the dating service and the second season expand every time they opened their clueless self serving traps.

Or if they are going to play maudlin music, maybe the kind of spirituals that you usually hear during chain gang scenes in movies. Rivers of Babylon or something. Or just Working on a Chain Gang as sung by the Harlem Choir.

Cherie Priest has an upcoming novella set in her steampunk series world. It is published by Subterranean Press and I believe is scheduled early in the next year. I'm pretty sure they do Kindle a little while down the line since they are a collector's press. I really enjoy her series and am glad there is more coming since she started another urban fantasy series I have yet to check out. Other steampunk series I have enjoyed (though I might be using the term a bit looser than others). Stephen Hunt's series. The first book took a little while to get into but I have read all but the last in that series. From the Wikipedia entry: Jackelian series The Court of the Air (April 2007, ISBN 0-00-723217-9) Published in the US in June 2008, ISBN 978-0-7653-2042-1 The Kingdom Beyond the Waves (May 2008, ISBN 0-00-723220-9) Published in the US July 2009, ISBN 978-0-7653-2043-8 The Rise of the Iron Moon (Feb 2009, ISBN 978-0-00-723222-2) Published in the US March 2011, 978-0765327666 Secrets of the Fire Sea (Feb 2010, ISBN 978-0-00-728963-9) Jack Cloudie (July 2011, ISBN 978-0-00-728964-6) From The Deep of the Dark (Feb 2012, ISBN 978-0-00-728971-4 ) I also loved Gordon Dahlquist's Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (and sequels) and Ian R. MacLeod's The Light Ages (and sequels). Their settings are all "created" worlds but are easily recognizable as mirrors of our own.