I took piano lessons for like a decade and my nails have always grown long and strong. According to my teacher, it's because of the increased blood circulation in my hands from playing piano. Ironically, to play well, you can't really have long nails because of all the clicking they'll make.

You said it, Darren.

I wonder what this says about Aurora's sex life.

Yes.

Ah, there we are. American. And Allen Wrench sounds far less wimpy.

The piedmont of North Carolina. The worst we usually face is flooding, but if you build on high ground you're fine. Any other extreme weather conditions are highly unusual and none of the other houses here are really built to withstand them.

I've always heard them called Allen Wrenches.

I think the thing that really separates Latrice from the other big girls that have been on the show is that she seems to be completely at peace with her body and has fully embraced her figure. Body insecurity and bitterness about it has been a poison and downfall to many a promising big girl on the show (Delta Work,…

Who are they all paired up with, though? I j'adore Derek Hough, and whoever's paired with him is practically guaranteed to be in the top three. Hopefully it's someone awesome and not annoying.

Or a LGBT charity. Or a Polish charity. Really, any number would do.

Unless Loret's kids are really poor or something, they should donate the royalty money to a Jewish charity. That would be very fitting.

I'm getting "Hellfire" flashbacks from the Disney Hunchback movie.

Poor boy- no one apparently taught him the difference between attractive and "inappropriate", as in, just because you want to do inappropriate things to her, does not make her inherently inappropriate.

"Douchecanoe". Hearted and added to my personal vocabulary.

To any who think male privilege doesn't exist and believe we have gender equality in this country, these proceeding prove everything to the contrary. Didn't we have a rebellion or something one time about people passing laws that affected us without us having a say? You know, that whole taxation without representation…

If you look at the tracklist, though, on the itunes preorder, Taylor and Miranda Lambert are the only "big name" artists. I feel like the series and movie is so hyped that needlessly attaching a big name to a song that doesn't need it is obnoxious. And at least Miranda Lambert is a MUCH better match for the series in…

I like Adele, and I don't have as much an issue with her love songs because a) they're very good, and b) she sang about other things on 19. The key difference, I suppose, is that Adele's music comes off as being mature and sophisticated, while Taylor's sounds like a 14 year old whining into her diary, even though…

What's more, Ru is so campy and shameless about her product placement that it's funny, rather than obnoxious (which I've seen happen on other reality shows). And I didn't get the "sharing needles" pun either.XD

As far as I'm concerned, she's the Twilight of singers- overrated and overpraised, reinforces gender roles and stereotypes, and misuses literary influences. And then there's a whole other rant I could go into on her perpetuating the Madonna/Whore dichotomy. That, in a nutshell, is why I cannot stand Taylor Swift.

Doesn't change the fact that it doesn't sound like her song at all. It sounds like a Civil Wars song, despite what anyone's said. And I can't stand that she's attached to the Hunger Games at all given how her music is as pretty much as far removed from the message of the Hunger Games as it's possible to be. It's like…