I think Billy does seem arrogant, but I don't think it's necessarily because he IS arrogant. He doesn't show a lot of excitement about the routines or his partners, and doesn't react to critiques with much emotion. Either he's naturally reserved, or he's withholding his real personality from the audience (for whatever…

Artists have always been beholden to patrons and sponsors. It's just that the transactions are usually a little better hidden.

Preach!

Finale suggestion
They need to get Beyonce on the show so Alex can do "Single Ladies" with her.

Let's all go down to Market Street and hurl a brick at WTXF.

Fine artists don't know shit about typography. It's a marketable skill, and artists look down upon anyone with marketable skills.

I thought season 5 Jason was gay, but he's dating Janette now:

God damn you to Hell for putting that image in my head.

Cracked open an Artforum lately?
"I worry a little that the artists who are good at advancing bold concepts and defending them eloquently might have an edge"

I'm a professional painter, and I was quite happy not to have my field represented on a reality show.

After Arlo wondered how big a bump he was going to get from the FBI and DEA's involvement, and said "Predictable, aren't I?"—I loved the weary way Raylan said, "Like the phases of the moon." A lot of people talked about Olyphant as the weak link in the Deadwood cast. He's spent this whole season proving them wrong.

It does seem unlikely, but I'm holding out hope that Bo wasn't dead either, and simply realized that playing possum was the best strategy at that moment. Villains that good don't come along every season.

It's not that Leonard is a dick and Sheldon isn't.

Didn't get the chance to say this on the liveblog
but I can't believe there are other people in the world who remember "Boys and Girls of Rock 'n' Roll".

Jakob's shorts
Honey, no.

The frog dance leapt (ha! … I'm sorry) to mind. Also "Cha Cha Heels."

Wow, do we differ on that point. I thought the robot dance was fucking electrifying. Also, despite the overtly "emotional" choreography, the Jakob-Kathryn contemporary didn't touch me at all; it was almost channel-change territory. [Insert a perceptive comment on the subjective nature of art here.]

Kathryn isn't quite Jeanine II—she doesn't have an unusual (by contemporary dance standards) physique to work with.

Ah, but the greater question is: which was worse, Evan & Randi's samba or Nathan & Mollee's salsa?

That Ellenore-Jakob routine
made me want to go find Evan and Randi and say, "That's how Fosse's done, bitches."