Bingo. Remember when Dela was asked why she wasn't on the show right before it started airing, and she gave this almost aggressive response about how she values her wellbeing and her working relationships more than to put herself through that drama? I'm now thinking that was a fairly specific comment. I think a lot of…

This book sounds like an interesting read, I might look into it, thanks.

For me a big and frustrating question mark in all of these cases (including Steubenville) is where exactly the extent of the acts committed is coming from, and I think herd mentality probably has something to do with it. I think it's fairly generally acknowledged now that sexual assault is frequently a crime about…

Sadly even prior discussions of this topic here have taught me that your second paragraph is a fairly simple connection that many people seem either unwilling or totally unable to make.

1. Knowing Ru's penchant for stealing the memes out of people's mouths, when you put it that way it actually shows great restraint that Lil Poundcake hasn't resurfaced before now.

Yeah I doubt anyone will get them until the whole season has aired. Katya said in Total RuCall that the cash tips were a very abstract concept in the context of the competition because they were so far off in the future (and also because they can't go anywhere while they're filming anyway, so money becomes kind of…

What occurred to me today is how easy it is, if you are top two, to throw the lipsynch so that you don't have to be the one to make the shitty call. If I was Alaska, that's what I would have done tonight. Let Phi Phi do her own dirty work.

5) Absolutely.

A thousand baby queens just found their drag name.

I totally agree about all your points but especially the absence of mini challenges and subsequent amount of time spent in the workroom (all of four minutes an episode?), which is making me feel weirdly indifferent to what's happening in the main challenge. I know they have to do "deliberations" now, but it's coming…

I loved Darius's reasoning for why he was handcuffing it to his wrist. "It's professional."

The first time he and Darius appeared in the pilot I was expecting them to just be a comic duo to Earn's straight man, but it's so much more interesting than just that.

As someone who was just paid today and already lost a large chunk of it to bills and can tell the next fortnight is going to be a stretch, I feel that.

Maybe just me, but I felt like Donald Glover fell back more into his stock Donald Glover role this week, and it didn't work for me like last week's episodes, which felt simultaneously like something fresher, but also really naturalistic and well lived-in.

I feel like for the most part those aspects of Diana aren't part of the American popular imagination of her, necessarily. A Commonwealth edition of Drag Race would go in.

The plot thickens because Tati apparently said at a screening tonight that she was originally assigned Diana, but was switched to Joan of Arc. (Cleopatra and Frida Kahlo were the other two names floated)

I just caught a rerun of that episode the other day and it still baffles me what Milk was trying to do with the blending on that cap. Like the edges of the cap were blended into the forehead contour and then the rest of the cap was just… there

This was my impression.

What sucks too though is that I don't know if his best music has aged all that well. I was trying to explain Wayne to someone recently and I can't remember which tape I told them to listen to but then very shortly realised it sounds super dated and not in a good throwback-y way (yet)

Four albums chronologically or four good albums max out of their entire catalogue? (Wondering why Thank Me Later doesn't count)