Yes, I can.

It's safe to assume that if the length has defeated you in slightly shorter tomes, it will defeat you here. But I don't think that means the book is inaccessible. It's really compulsively readable.

Fixed — thank you!

Good Lord, you're right! Correction on its way.

What was your favorite routine of the season?
Let's play judges and pick the routine we most want to see again. My choice: the Mia Michaels Steve Reich number that Jeanine and Kayla danced last night. Despite the wardrobe-shedding problems, I was so moved by the yearning, struggling emotions being portrayed and the…

The blatant issue tearjerker dances usually don't get to me, but I surprised myself by welling up during the breast cancer dance.

It's not the same guy. However, he would be played by Newly Ubiquitous Asian Comedy Actor (actual name: Ken Jeong) in the non-reality-show version.

There's no addiction presented, it's just a hooky name.

Smm, you've made my day.

That only serves to remind me of maybe my all-time favorite SNL recurring character — and quite possibly the one that gets quoted in our house more often than any other: Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

I confess that in that "Stray Observation" I'm blatantly begging for Paul Simms to send me a T-shirt.

Thanks, y'all.

Yeah, but as much as I enjoy HELL'S KITCHEN (watch for round-robin TV Club coverage of it, starting next week!), there's no indication that the contestants have intrinsic talents. They're so blatantly chosen to create drama that the drama loses a lot of its savor. (And I really feel bad for Ramsey, whose high…

Absolutely, DeGroot. We love newspaper comics, and so does Josh.

The dress wouldn't have been so bad had it not been for the super-severe up-do and garish makeup. Not good.

The difference being that America doesn't vote on those shows (which I love). What amazes me about SYTYCD is that the Idol format doesn't lead to appreciable dumbing-down. Even though America occasionally refuses to let the judges lead it around by the nose, unfortunately.

Interestingly, Aldrin was not a test pilot — one of the few astronauts that didn't come from that corps. It made him an outsider of sorts. When he was tapped to head up the Air Force's test pilot school in the seventies, things didn't really work out.

I wasn't putting down requisite sitcom elements. I was just saying that it didn't seem extraordinary to me, the way it did to Gorg. I yield to no one in my love for requisite sitcom elements (RSEs).

To return to the OP's point, I use a tablet at work and will until they tear it away from my cold, dead hands. I never want to go back to grading papers and taking notes in meetings without it. I've been pining for a Mac tablet for three years now. Here's hoping that the rumors are true this time.

No way they were referring to an academic college inside a university. You'd never say "North Carolina Liberal Arts" to refer to the college of liberal arts at UNC. Nope, just makin' it up.