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The more I watch the more I think Dianne knew exactly what she was getting with the show. Did she think she deserved better? More? I don't doubt that in an instance. But she is down there each episode wallowing with the best, or rather worst, of any competitive reality show mogul. Stirring shit and well aware of all the things going on she isn't present to witness but uses as ammunition to make ratings drama. For years Diane has been a bit cranky. Maybe just typical older person wanting to maintain the relevance she feels slipping away. Maybe just ego knowing her best days are behind her. Maybe the professional go-getter feeling the market is running right over her and her share. I've seen her be very gracious. Very funny. But in every moment I see this I also see it wear the fuck out rather fast. Savvy, smart, she can be very self-aware and often can recover. But on Project Runway. On the Colbert Show most recently, she simply does not have much patience even for what amounts to a few minutes in some places. And even back in the Andy Warhol days she didn't suffer fools lightly. And right or wrong , I think Diane considers most people who aren't her fall into the fool category sooner or later. But I hold her fully responsible for this show. It was scheduled to coincide with all these events that have been on her calendar long before the show was cast or filmed. And just as the events are almost all to the glory of DVF, so too was the show meant to highlight those high lighting events. It is a grand circle jerk that might be meant to promote the business but even more soothe what I see as a rather raging ego. Don't get me wrong. I don't see that ego as evil or even offensive. I find it in the remove entertaining even. But Diane didn't only invite this show in, but she approved the inclusion into things that personally I think she should have either held out for a higher standard or simply put off limits to this dog and pony show. no one fooled her into thinking this was going to be some kind of classy documentary approach to the glory that is the inner workings of DVF. She knew she was playing the "elimination" game no matter hard they try to pretend this isn't that type of show. I do think she might have put her faith in better producers who aren't so freaking lazy in the set ups. She might have been thinking she was getting early season Project Runway or even The Apprentice before Trump ruined it with his ego about three seasons in. But that in part is also on her. She is very smart. Very savvy. I think perhaps she simply couldn't be bothered to demand or even oversee a better structured showcase. And maybe that also comes through. Because every time she looks like someone just entered the room with fresh dog shit on her shoes, she is realizing good reality show magic (an oxymoron in many ways I know) just doesn't happen because you want it to or expect it as your due. And for someone again who I think doesn't suffer fools gladly, she has only herself to blame for taking on a airport bus full as the means to pimp her brand in this way. Heck, the fact this is on E! is something even Diane should have taken pause. Not to mention the people she pays at DVF to advise her and help keep the brand fresh and visible in the way she thinks it should.

With the pig, the "well did you know...", Flo, the State Farm "school" etc. insurance companies sure don't know when to move on with their campaign themes, imo. Do they really think yet another increasingly creepy "Flo" ad is going to push enough customers to switching that otherwise wouldn't? "Oh my gawd Henry its a new Flo ad, call already!"

And here I thought it was one of my more heavy handed efforts.

I get it. I do. Cynthia is desperate. Desperate to keep that RH check coming in. Paying off the wheels from being towed. Desperate to pay the rents and mortgages on the Peter Thomas English Muffin Empire. Desperate to be relevant. Talked about. She knows that when the show says swim she jumps in. But someone needs to tell that fool when it comes to "dramatic" sit downs with the likes of Porsha? No water in that there pool hon. No matter how hard you backstroke. And her makeup. Just give in Bailey Girl. All done up like that and I think you had a stroke and think you have to first embarrass DJ at the bus before heading off to Chicago to surprise Darlene.

There have been several cases profiled on this and Dateline (and 20/20 no doubt) where the wife/girlfriend and even at least once the husband/boyfriend claims to be in such fear of the person they end up forcing a confrontation with and gunning down. I know it is not based on fact since we all act differently and often inexplicably. But I was thinking 'okay maybe she was raped and she was afraid if she didn't have evidence she had the pictures taken and maybe 'enchanced' them'. Or 'maybe she he beat her up didn't rape her, but she felt he would or could have and so exaggerated her story' Both which I find wrong by the way. But falling into the category of fear makes you do stupid things. But I can't comprehend the juxtaposition of this overwhelming fear prompting the shooting but doesn't prevent you from putting yourself into the situation in the first place. As mentioned above she had escape with her car. She even had the means to put herself into a position of greater safety. And after the Dateline episode before this one, I'm also wondering if some of these murderers who have a child with the victim figure not only will they get the cash from the insurance but also control the estate which goes to the kid(s).

I've always heard as shifting the itty bitty 'h'. The French name has the slightest hint of an 'h' sound if you will, before the 'r'. The magazine has it after. Mehree. Antoinette. Meerhee Claire . . Not quite but as close as I can explain without hurting my head and trying to bring back what I learned in linguistics: phonetics 101.

Maybe they keep hoping a production assistant will hand them all a stick and if they hit her hard enough all kinds of good things will fall out? I do the one time, two weeks ago? when she came out on the runway to announce what the challenge was, the gasps were shocked embarrassment for Milano which was followed by stuttering "awws" to try and unsuccessfully sell how adorable she looked all pregnant. Not buying it.

You mean Becks don't you? Part of the formation of Anheuser-Busch InBev. The ruination of Hoegadden as well. A bunch of other beers I would recognize but can't think off of the top of my head. At least one Canadian one and I think another German. And David Peacock was the guy in charge after the merge and was very much here in the US. Including the ad blitz for SA as the European whimsical blue blood This Christmas one is puzzling. But at least it is better than those creepy bizarre Adrien Brody ones that Peacock absolutely loved and then suddenly hated when they did not grab the audiences in the manner intended.

I crossed off a few of the Man Booker Prize long list. It is the book version of the Oscars for me. I try to read/watch as many of the listed/nominees and then every year after doing so swear never again. Until the list/nominees come out again. I had read Karen Jo Fowler's book, We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves a year ago (it was okay but I loved her short fiction collection that came out the book before). And Joshua Ferris' To Rise Again at a Decent Hour ( second favorite of the bunch so far) the end of last year in an advanced readers copy. I already mentioned The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell which remains by favorite so far. So I figured I was doing really well. Actually having read or getting ready to read three books right out the gate before the long list was announced. I thought J by Howard Jacobson was okay. But as mentioned by me elsewhere it is a victim of being too invested in the style of the book. For me a deliberate device to make the reader reach harder and further is an annoyance not a charm. And at this stage of my life I don't need an author to "push" or "pull" me. Or rather deliberately pursue a style I feel they are thinking is doing just that. I find I get pulled or pushed intellectually by authors, They just don't do it with jackboots as it were. The worst so far of the list is The Dog by Joseph O'Neill. Very disappointing. And it didn't make it better when I looked at reviews after I finished (I try to stay far from actual reviews going in since that has ruined some reading in the past for me) and saw people who said the book was wonderful and that some readers obviously would not get it, it being so smart and intelligent etc, etc, etc,

I love historical fiction. The good kind (I know) not the endless Tudor books that feature women in dresses without heads. Nor Conn Iggulden. I'm talking Dorothy Dunnett. Or going back to what a bored kid found on his grandparents shelves that they probably got from their parents. Mary Renault. Harold Lamb. So I jumped on Hilary Mantel's award winning books about Wolf Hall as hard as a reader could. Yech. Bland in some places, good in others. When it did not meander though it seemed it was deliberately oblique with perspective and inner thoughts in a way that felt too contrived a style over actually story telling. Critics jump on it too. and dry hump it in an orgy of praise I found baffling. So much I went back to read it to find out why I was so stupid not to see its glory. Nope. And awards fell down out of the sky to dry hump it. So when she wrote the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, I perversely gave it a go. It was slightly better. I think in part because I was used to her style of writing. It won awards. It was a light terser in prose and less indulgent but still. I was so disappointed. And more and more i;m noticing how praise is being heaped on authors who go so heavily for contrived style over simple story telling. Maybe I am getting dimmer as I get older. but I also think that reviewers and many readers simply adore reading a book they think validates them as being better, brighter and smarter than anyone else. i recently read two books get natter. And several reader reviews just gushed over how the book is a challenge and you have to be smart to "get it". I want to let the hounds run those people down.

This has got me bothered. What if the two hours is right? But that means going back two hours from the discovery a little after 7 am. that would put her death as far back as a little after 5 am. I always go by the "blood flow" indicates time of death but I also saw an accident once where the person's body still leaked well after death. With the damage done to the head area, could that be the reason there was a pool of blood? If not I don't think that doesn't rule out the time problems. Later with that. Everything the police used to build on starts with 1.the video of her car. You have no idea who is driving that car. 2.the time cards. Not to beat a dead horse, but I don't see how they used that to determine SHE was present alive and well at that time. If she had her own time card and was not salary, anyone could have punched her card. If she was salary and did not have a card, then they were determining the time still based solely on her car on the video. Her car and Michelle are not necessarily the same thing. Sloppy. Now I'm starting to think the husband could have done it after all. He is the only other means of establishing time. It is his word. If the M.E. is correct about the two hours and the pool of blood could have somehow released from her wounds even after death, then the husband is lying. However if everything I learned from CSI is true, it still means that she could have been brought to the warehouse by her husband dying and bled out her last moments in that upstairs space. Hubby drives her there. Stages the office break in. Leaves her car and walks home or has his car somehow stashed close by. Yeah I've watched way too many of these things.

But the people who find the topper are the ones who make the brand new star bottles. If the topper is broken (I thought it was lifted out of the box whole but maybe the star part is separate from the part that would hold it on the tree), why not, you know, fix the topper? I mean if you can blow a bunch of brand new bottles because the star is raised so its not just etched, you can't maybe fix a tree topper in that time? Or rig it somehow? Instead of going to the brewery to make brand spanking new bottles. For the whole village. it still makes no sense. how about you have them making the star ornament at the brewery's glassworks which inpsires them to also decorate their bottles with the same star. As the star is lite on its tree have the locals raise their newly star'd bottles in homage. instead they try to make a cutsey little myth and more convoluted not only than it needs be but than the actual visuals support. And I lived in Belgium for two years. They are better at crafting beer legends and myths that are both whimsical and make sense than they are at making beer. Figure Anheuser-Busch to fuck it up. Maybe if A-B was so determined to keep Stella wrapped in its (no-longer) pristine European roots, they could put out a better ad, For me at least. I'm sure millions find it charming and wonderfully in the holiday spirit. Bah.

I'm just going by the statements these stores themselves have issued when it became an issue in the media. Like it did last year and did as far back as Wal-mart when they started all this by opening for limited hours Thanksgiving Day morning. I think that started back in the late nineties. Sure there is outrage and hyperbole on both sides. But not a single store has come forward and said categorically that not a single employee who does not want to has to work Thanksgiving. Many have said employees can request off though.... I know there are many people who do like to work the holiday for the pay. But exceptions don't always break rules.

I wonder if the prosecution had anything to point to the door being pried open after the murder? I have gotten to the point I really do not trust dateline's narration since they seem to want to keep the viewers going for the full 42 minutes (or however long a show is these days). I think with the digital age all those two-way tv boxes might be honing some of these shows (particularly a show on the Comcast-NBC network), I joke. Somewhat. But this show in just a couple of years has really played fast and loose with certain elements -- placing reveals in unnaturally occurring segments of the narrative. I keep thinking they did a study and found out when it was revealed who and how they did it, audiences were turning the channel and only coming back in the last five to find out the verdict. But if I accept the janitor did do it, which I don't. I would posit that he came upon her in the open office, picked up the tape dispenser wonked her good with it. Locked the door, went and got some kind of pry bar to crack the door open so it would look like someone who didn't have a key did it. So if they had some kind of real proof that janitor did the deed and locked the door behind him and then went back to cover his crime? All in a little over and hour before she was found? That seems a stretch. Was anything made of the fact that her hands were taped behind her back but her injuries were so severe? If you had someone bound why would you go to such extremes with a tape gun? If murder was not the original intent but a result of being startled, would you continue to bludgeon someone with a tape gun until that person had injuries consistent with a car accident? And she was covered with a plastic bag!! If you cover someone with a plastic bag, you have tape, wouldn't you just tape her mouth and nose closed? It would take a few minutes to smother someone. Without have to beat that person until her skull was crushed I've watched too many of these shows, but covering someone's head and yet beating them so brutally is a personal crime. Someone wanted her dead and yet couldn't "look at her". It is kind of a classic profile isn't it? I also had questions about the time cards. They were found with her. Since it was the Tuesday following Memorial day when was the last shift worked? I was thinking they would have been from the pay period that ended the week before. So did they determine that she hadn't taken the cards home with her and was coming in early to enter the times of the employees? Because the janitors arrive at 5:30 right? Again. the cards were found with her. That is odd for someone who was presumably caught committing fraud with them to take them with the victim to the place he stashed her. He was smart enough to not leave a speck of physical evidence -- heck he caved her skull in with a tape dispense and yet did so in a way that did not leave a single piece of plastic or tape residue on her or the bag over her head. But was stupid enough to take the timecards with him and leave with her purse and her body. I think either someone who knew her killed her, to kill her. Knew she was going in early (how many people did she see over the weekend being a holiday that she might have mentioned this to? Or co-workers when she left the last day before the holiday?), surprised her as she went in and killed her. Or she surprised someone who had broken in and was familiar with the place. I have tape guns and I couldn't imagine for an instant I could inflict the injuries they described without either breaking the gun or even inflicting cuts or bruises on my own hand. My biggest problem was that the janitor has the easiest means to carry out his motive without running the risk he presumably did. And he also had a much greater level of resources to hide his crime for more than the little over an hour. it seemed odd they were so tied to the timecard issue and not the fact that she was killed at a time when she was expected to be where she was, right? Why commit such brutal damage to someone you are only killing out of unintended consequences? You move the body, you have a plastic bag and the body is bound. Why bludgeon someone like that? If the janitor supposedly took her there to "hide" her, he would have presumed she would smother to death if he truly wanted her dead but hadn't set out to murder her in the first place. her wrists were cut and it seemed like that was also a means to try to kill her. The broken arm I thought was odd since they never could prove where she was initially attacked that I could tell. Saying it happened in the process of moving her seemed a bit self serving for the prosecution. They don't know that. it could have been broken when she was struggling and the murderer was taping her wrists. It could have been broken in the initial assault that overwhelmed her in the first place. And maybe, forget the profile I mentioned above, the murderer put the bag over her head to keep her blood from leaving a trail. I think since the examiner had her time of death being a possible two hour spread, could someone have bludgeoned her. Put a bag over her head to keep the blood intact, and taken her to that part of the building using her key? Maybe she never entered the building on her own? Considering the extent of her injuries, the murderer did not realize she was still alive when she was left and so she continued to bleed out? Because I never heard any evidence that proved her head injuries had to have taken place where her body was found. I think it is funny that the broken in door was focused on so much but was never taken into consideration in any other way but the one that served their theory Dooley did it. Could they ever prove she had been in the office? Again. The timecards were with her body.

Well what I did hear from Aimee has me thinking @Midnight is a perfect venue for her talents. I found her hysterical and it seemed everyone else did as well. I think a problem, blasphemy I know, is that Ron's meme of adorability it outpacing the reality. For me some of the responses to his bits this and the last time he was on seemed over the top. Like a live studio audience's response to a joke pretty much seen as soon as it leaves the gate. I wonder if they know what kind of viewing audience response he seems to have and pander to it. I would have no problem for a Ron-centric show if he was on with D'Elia or the Sklars. But. rare duck that I am, I sometimes want a more equitable episode as Ron is not always the funniest or only funny person on the panel.

What I find both derisive and loathsome is the verbal dancing Big Lots, Sears, Wal-mart, Target and Best Buy (that I have seen) try to word the hours open on Thanksgiving. Gawd I just want to knock Anthony Anderson and Melissa joan Hart's heads together as they prate about being open Thanksgiving MORNING. I get so rage-y every time I see this idiocy that tries to sell how Thanksgiving is a holiday to celebrate and then declares all these expanded hours with workers forced to man these stores or face losing their job. And if I hear one more Fox news ass tell me it is the same as a doctor or nurse. Because ringing up a flat screen with an extra ten percent is exactly like caring for the sick. Best Buy is the worst though as they try to sell being open as a way they are taking care of their employees. Of course Wal-mart tries to be subtle by airing random Wal'mart loves the people it enslaves, I mean work for China, I mean work the Waltons. Yet as soon as the Fox newsies get done telling us how those workers should be lucky to have a job, they'll start in with their diatribes about the so-called war on Christmas. Now Thanksgiving has it is poor thighs spread for the shoppers who can't wait twelve hours, how soon do you think Christmas' merchant cherry will remain intact?

I thought it was odd that the juror was so insistent that the rape had happened. Maybe it was just short sightedness on the juror's part or just a determination once seeing the word rape she latched onto it and didn't think it through. I thought it was also interesting how slightly sly her friend who took the pages was when she was interviewed by Erin. She said how bruises progress and it seemed she knew that she had opened the door slightly since Erin could have followed with "bruise progress whether they were inflicted in an assault or faked to make false accusations" There just this tiny moment where I think the friend knew damn well those bruises did not come from the so called attempt. I also noted that a couple of days latter the supposed "progressing bruises" actually weren't. I think if you grab and throw someone around, you score much different levels of bruising that would age differently no matter what kind of excuse the defense gave. In stead it looked the bruises were placed with a uniform degree of pressure. There was different patterns but in some places a rapist would hold really tight and others he would grab and slip or grab and then move and grab again. I had this one this morning and didn't save it to go back and check. Did they look at the friend's computer or phone? Because I wonder what kind of searches were going on with her computer. I definitely think she called the insurance company to make sure the policy was in order. She asked if they had her correct address knowing that when they pulled up the policy they would inform her if there were any problems or issues. When the service rep didn't do anything other than affirm her address she knew she could load her gun.

The thank you note was such a ass licking hoot. Probably part of Kier's attempt to be the one, who is she doesn't get the "gig" is at least featured on more clips shows than the others. That or she is flat out a plant and told to ramp up the silly behavior. Or maybe I am the only one that never sent a thank you note to my boss for hiring me. Well analogous in this case would be human resources for vetting my application and passing me on for an interview.

Mo popped up first show in. I want bets on how many episodes he manages to finagle this season.

Just goes to show, you can slap a set of prank teeth and a suit on a turd but you can't expect an ounce of self-awareness from this vicious little tick on the butt of entertainment media. I just wish he would get the response he deserves for such a petty little heinous. What he deserves is to land someone as a guest on his show that he desperately wants to validate his vapid little existence, have that person come on live and immediately call him out for what I suspect was nothing but an exercise in self-loathing and maybe a score to settle. Explain to this tiny little small man what an offense he is. Then with 20 some minutes of live air left get up and walk out.

Love Actually does not bother me and I usually end up leaving it on whenever (especially this time of year) it's on. I like the story with Walking dead guy. First because the three actors in that plotline are all so hot. Also I think it is the most interesting of all the arcs. In that one bit is a great movie that never came out. Going anywhere from all kinds of dark to rollicking comedy. Other than that, all the other story lines I find meh. It is only as they intersect and shift that keeps the movie from being a complete bust.

His name is Thomas Beaudoin. Google-image yourself out.

At least the new campaign is better than the prior one where a male model in his thirties pretends to be older because he has a touch of gray. He burbles about after all these years his precious little wife still looks just like she did. Cut to wife tossing her lovely hair without a touch a gray. Letting us all marvel at the miracle of his wife, who we can only guess he married when she is nine because she pretty much is in her early twenties. Something they think we are too stupid to notice since they cast the slightly craggy hipster male model. And speaking of male models. The I Can't Believe it's Not Butter ad. ugh. Throw a hipster beard on an underwear model, slather on the innuendo and creepy lingering tight shots of his eyes and mouth and it comes off more like an ad honoring Charles Manson's marriage than it does a sexy push to spread congealed oil on my muffin. When he says "I'm here all day" I think "because of that ankle bracelet monitor keeping you there".

For me it is simply that Camille has: 1.made public amends even if she is a raging bitch on wheels 2.removed herself from the show pretty much. No familiarity, no chance to air my contempt 3.used her realization of how she came across season one not just as a modification of her public persona, but has proven to be a rather enjoyable foil when she does interact with the rest of the women. I think Lisa, Brandi, Kyle and Yolanda all walking a little more wary when Camille is around. For various reasons. Or maybe not so much foil as a speeding hazard. You drive through a neighborhood and you see a sign for one and you slow down even if you don't know where or when you might come across it. But I don't like Camille more herself. I thought she was heinous the first season and I think she would drive a stiletto through the skull of anyone who crossed her and she thought she could get away with it. But she not only ate humble pie but she has admitted to eating it. And that I do admire. Self awareness associated with anything on these shows can be refreshing. Plus I so love the shadow of Season 1 Camille making Brandi and Yolanda in particular ever so slightly skittish whenever she slithers around.

Probably? In the previews he already has the poor woman going out dressed like Urkel the Clown. And even with those glasses she still had her makeup looking like she just did a walk on role for one of Tyler Perry's OWN "comedies".