@dissolver: The only other alternative is the Liz Lemon solution: tape. Godspeed.

@dissolver: Can you cannibalize a hanger? This worked for me once. But visitors to your bosom may require a warning.

@Mafalda para Presidente: Yes. I had a stern talking-to with a friend who recommended it: "Really? So let's test this theory on, say, third-world citizens and Holocaust victims. Doesn't hold up too well to critical thinking, DOES IT?"

@PrettyPrettyPrincess: No, but I'm intrigued. How do you like yours? Is it better than Stanza on an iPhone, say?

@dissolver: You must be a saint, because I would have ripped that couch out from under them and whisked my tv/dvd player into my room a *long* time ago. (Easy for me to say, I know.) But c'mon!

What? I weave tinsel through mine for Christmas. Once I used pink flocking for a Beverly Hills effect. Eyebrows are an underrated accessory.

@stoprobbers: If Amanda Hesser is so jazzed about the idea, then I say she show up at the White House and do it herself. Why is it that everyone feels they can foist their own values onto the First Lady? Jeez, the garden wasn't enough? Blue Hill was not enough?

Write Tropicana and tell 'em you don't like it: [cr.tropicana.com]

@undefined: @poires et poireaux: Do they need a copy editor/writer/bringer of coffee and scones?

@Beat Girl: It's worth watching for the Finnish judge/ex-model alone.

"Who bought me these shoes? I'll kill 'im."

So glad to know my ear-wiggling ability translates into a cheapo facelift. Recession skills, FTW!

@Miss Bojangles: Australia's NTM had a contestant with Aboriginal roots, Shannon McGuire, in Cycle 1 (according to Wikipedia). I thought someone in the latest cycle did, too.

I can see it now...

Ministry of Silly Walks: St. Lucia Branch.

You guys sound swamped. I'm exhausted, just reading your Tweets. May the force be with you!

@MarissaExplainsItAll: What, now?

I'm a tiny bit addicted to the non-U.S. Next Top Model franchises, though they're all so closely modeled on Tyra and her entourage that the shtick is wearing a bit thin in any language... The Australian one had some amazing-looking women, though.

Perhaps Chelsea could be recruited to hold a seminar for the Qadhafi clan on the finer points of growing up as a smart, well-adjusted politician's kid.

Was it wrong of me to believe that the Travel Channel's main demographic was something other than eighth-grade boys? Crap.