I'm just wondering how many guys are now fantasizing that their friend's hot girlfriend is the LW screaming out their names when she comes.

Earnest reply: Body language is key. Arched back and sort of leaning into you at the same time = breast access granted. Arms around the neck while leaving just enough room for you to get your hands up = access granted. Sort of curving the shoulders in (to increase breast-to-you distance) and/or blocking with the arms…

One of her tentative diagnoses is Asperger's. Going up to a hotel room with a guy and being stunned when he tries to get some is a pretty extreme failure to recognize social norms. Most women don't need that spelled out. (Although the LW might.)

LW 1 avoids having sex with anyone on top of her because of the dry-humping incident, which "hasn't scarred her too much." GO SEE A THERAPIST. The only person I know with a similar experience, my sister-in-law, does not understand social norms (various diagnoses) and was genuinely traumatized in her 20s, when the guy…

Re the porn: Getting your mom to buy you Playboy is a self-cheat, and so is being able to access whatever you want at all times online. (Stealing from a store is also cheating, and the security is a little tighter now than it was thirty years ago.) It's just a good life lesson to have to procure your own porno. When…

The origin of Archer's fear of alligators (associated with a loved one/traumatic childhood) made me think immediately of Anya's fear of rabbits and the flashback to Aud raising rabbits with her future-troll husband. I'm sure that was a deliberate homage to BtVS.

You really have — read old entries, too. It's worth it. He has great turns of phrase and is charmingly self-deprecating. He's as funny as Bourdain, but seems … happier, maybe. Or just more relaxed.

So: Did Bravo spring for Whitestrips, or did all three of them wake up in ice-filled bathtubs with their teeth forcibly bleached sometime before the finale?

Jiro as guest judge! He wouldn't say anything, just look politely disappointed.

There was a high-school or college photo of him (as a wrestler, I think?) thinner and sans Snidely Whipstache. He was pretty cute. His daughters were awfully cute, too. When they showed them, I had a momentary chill that they might be doing the send-home backstory and that Josie would skate by for one more week.

She did also win — what was it, about 50 grand? And Tom and Hugh were both very complimentary in their blogs, re her professionalism. I would guess that even if we (the non-culinary public) never see her in a celebrity role, she will have a nice advantage professionally, as Pairesta said. (You know, besides being an…

I can see why they sent Kristen home. I thought it was incredibly tacky of Padma to pull out the fake elimination, given that Kristen was basically sent home for showing too much integrity (as Tom indicated in his blog post).

Padma really went for the throat … I assume because Kristen is also a model? A younger model? And also an actual chef?

… Go and fire the damn bouillabaisse!

I keep feeling inexplicably happy for a nanosecond when Josh comes up onscreen, and then crashing when I realize he's not Kevin Gillespie. It's the Top Chef version of seeing Superman in the distance, thinking "Oh thank God, we're saved!", and then realizing close up that it's a failed-clone Bizarro Superman with a…

I keep feeling inexplicably happy for a nanosecond when Josh comes up onscreen, and then crashing when I realize he's not Kevin Gillespie. It's the Top Chef version of seeing Superman in the distance, thinking "Oh thank God, we're saved!", and then realizing close up that it's a failed-clone Bizarro Superman with a…

Daniel was a little cringe-inducing (although when he's good, he's amazing), but I thought the battle round between Jordan and Adriana was godawful. It's the only one we've ever fast-forwarded through after the first half of the song. The judges' response was truly baffling — maybe they sounded better live?

Daniel was a little cringe-inducing (although when he's good, he's amazing), but I thought the battle round between Jordan and Adriana was godawful. It's the only one we've ever fast-forwarded through after the first half of the song. The judges' response was truly baffling — maybe they sounded better live?

I liked the part where Christina responded to controversy by reassuring her fans that she has a strategy, complete with a wheels-turning gesture.

Me too. And I really liked Lex; she was a dead ringer for Maggie Gyllenhaal. Heavier, of course, but who isn't?