They actually changed the scoring system due to the French judge who confessed to fixing her scores back in 2002. I heard them explain it on NPR the other day, and the new system is kind of ridiculous. 13 judges score the performances, and then a computer randomly selects 9 of them to average into the score.

We don't need parties, parties are just an inevitability.

The show is also called Top Chef, not Mediocre Chef Who Squeaks by All Season and then Cooks a Pretty Good Meal.

Guess I should finally watch Veronica Mars, then.

I was always kinda bummed that I never got into Animorphs when I could have. When I was the right age, though, there were just so many of the books, and it seemed like such a commitment to actually start at book 1 and have to read the entire series. Sounded like an awesome premise, though.

This joke made me laugh much harder than it should have.

Recommendation seconded. Well, I've only seen the first series, but it's fantastic and even if the following seasons are only half as good the entire run is worth watching.

Didn't her Robert Galbraith stuff get good reviews?

You are not alone. Luna's probably one of my favorite characters too.

Yeah, he definitely will be. Along with Maximilian Schell, for what it's worth.

You really do have to be an amazing actor to carry the wide range of roles that he did, both on stage and screen. I will really miss him.

That's always been my experience with getting drunk when I'm depressed. It never helps.

I generally agree, though I think its possible to be a fairly casual viewer of football who doesn't really care enough to follow every game (or even any) but likes the party atmosphere the Super Bowl provides and likes football fairly enough. That's why I like to watch the Super Bowl.

I always hated that reason for watching the game. I know that Super Bowl commercials can be very entertaining, and sometimes even moving (like last year's "God Made a Farmer"), but at heart, they're fucking advertisements, and they don't even take up a majority of the screen time! If you want to watch ads for four…

I completely agree, and I think of all the people who say things about sex offenders like "Oh, I had no idea that so and so was such a disgusting pervert! He was always so nice about this and that." Sex offenders are people, people who have done horrible, horrible things, but pretending that they're all horrible,…

How could it go wrong?

To my knowledge, the Starving Games went straight to video on demand. So…the reign of terror might be ending.

That's worse than I feared. Half of those things are fucking gay stereotypes! Does he think he's blowing straight people's minds by saying "hey, some gays AREN'T monogamous!"?

…how can all gay guys like bottoming? That doesn't even make sense to me.

Yeah, I just caught up with the show myself after sorta liking the pilot but not really being engaged enough to keep up with it. Now it's a show I'm going to watch every week.There hasn't been a miss yet.