"the "Simulacrum" print from Jean Baudrillard Textiles."
Mr. Teti, I salute you.

Great song. Too bad it was cut from the original film. It's also too bad that none of it describes the real Dickinson's position with anything vaguely resembling accuracy.

Trapped in a mine what had caved in
I am shocked—shocked!—that there has been, as yet, no love for the Buoy's "Timothy."

Speaking of Fussell, here's his (highly impressed) review of BoB:

Lauren Froderman, everyone.
Long may she Worm.

"I think contemporary is often harder for an "outsider" to understand than other genres"
Aha! This is why the judges treat contemporary as if it's on a plane above hip-hop and ballroom. If it looks ridiculous to the uneducated masses, it must be art.

You have a point re: blondes as acceptable targets. However:

Benji?

Yeah, I was expecting a lot of online tearing of hair over Billy. Count me out—if you can't dance hip-hop, you ain't no friend of mine.

What is the deal with the female Kent fanbase? Adechike is hotter by a factor of one million.

Well, now I'm depressed.
Good article, but Jesus Christ. Just the thing for a Monday morning!

Nigel definitely promised Alex a ticket to Vegas for season 8, I'm sure of that.

I had no comments on the judges because I muted them this week, and will continue to do so until such time as they put Lil C on the panel again.

Lauren all the way.

Oh, yeah, the Steve Reich routine. Was that Mia? I missed almost all of it because the Philadelphia Fox affiliate cut in to tell me about a jogger who had been killed by a falling tree. (And now they're replaced the Simpsons with Craig Kilborn. Fuck you, WTXF.)

The salsa was my favorite Latin routine in a season which has, so far, been really lousy for Latin. (Yeah, there was the Christina/Pasha paso doble, but I hate paso doble.) It wasn't great, but considering the difficulty, it earned Adechike some votes from me.

Awkward.
So, Billy's rehearsal package is all about how playing at sexiness with Anya makes him uncomfortable. Then the music chosen for his routine wraps up with the lines, "I'm prayin' for the end of time/So I can end my time with you."

Now if only they could get over their gender stereotyping. The last time two women got great choreography was Wade's Sabra/Lacey kitsune routine, which was too abstract for the judges' tiny little minds.

I was extremely surprised that Ashley was in the bottom three—I tried to vote for her twice on Wednesday and could never get through.

If Joshua's busy, Brandon.