Dear Savage Dik,

Micro-burn!

Her cloaca?

I think he was some ineffectual dweeb on "The Secret Circle" and I can't take him seriously.

Oh I love that idea. The characters can resist/embrace/some mix of the two the arrival of the telegraph and laws and every other fucking thing. Defiance becomes a boom town—"Soap with a prize inside!" and all—with a lot of winners and losers. Uneasy alliance between the Al characters (the albino couple) and the…

Carrie is right, the resolution to all the mysteries won't be as compelling as the *promise* of that resolution, but there's one aspect that gives me hope. No one is trying to deny that the dude killed his aunt. When his father inevitably comes back from the dead, he, the father, won't suddenly be revealed as the…

Okay, I did not know that Jason Robards had been married to Lauren Bacall. That is some pedigree our police chief has.

It's a good part for her, IMO—good casting fit and she's also doing a good job. The honest way she told her son about the house and their real reason for staying came across really well. I'm glad the actress was allowed from the outset another gear beyond "cares about social standing and is fake."

Lacey's face is oddly enthralling. Nefertiti profile maybe? However it's achieved, she's quite beautiful.

*face staple*
*face staple*

I did not pardon them.

Amanda's beau is described as an E-Rep representative, an E-Rep rep. This is "30 Rock"-worthy!

Easy, tiger.

(sheepishly)

"My other wheel is a cheese wheel."

Re: Brandon's girlfriend, from the outset it was clear to me that this character will provide no pleasure. If we have to sit through this part, I'm glad it's progressing quickly, with Brandon ditching her for the jam session with Callie.

The healing here is so advanced that I can almost imagine it's cheaper to let yourself get malnourished and then be healed rather than to keep yourself fed (in a balanced-diet kind of way). But I'm sure that violates some law of economics or thermodynamics. (I'm also not sure either how much the Doc charges.)

Another site described her as a "Little House on the Prairie" LARP-er. :)

Is the "Based On…" thing a selling point to attract viewers or get on the good side of critics? I have always assumed that it's mainly a way to avoid getting sued, but the show is generic enough (non-suable enough) that I don't see why they'd bother getting the rights in the first place.

(Phew.)