Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's my favorite Blur album too, though The Great Escape is a great companion to it. I honestly don't know what album I'd pick as my single favorite of the '90s, that's even tougher than picking single songs. It's probably not the Blue Album, and I don't *think* it's a Blur one either, but…

Yeah, exactly. There weren't really any good options for that, which is the problem.

Yeah, "Burndt Jamb" is a close second on Maladroit for me. That was the one that I fell in love with immediately when I bought it. I think if Maladroit had better singles it would be remembered fondly.

Man, years ago did a list of my top 100 songs of the '90s for a message board when we were all on a "let's post ridiculously long lists of songs we like" kick, and "Only in Dreams" ended up winning out over "Coffee + TV" by Blur for my favorite. I remember when eighth-grader me got the Blue Album in 2002, the first…

Seriously, that had to come within months of Weezer releasing "Photograph" as a single. And the best song on Maladroit to me was "December," which you could rearrange into a '50s pop ballad with minimal effort.

And Spencer was supposed to be one of the season's ubervillains. Basically we got everything wrong this time.

Yeah, it's funny because in the preseason discussions there was generally the feeling that everyone BUT Sarah on the Brawn tribe were likely to really not get how the game works, but aside from Lindsey Sarah's probably the worst of them. Tony, Trish, Cliff, and even Woo all seem like smarter players than her.

Yeah, from BvW you know Brad, Ciera, and Hayden are coming back at bare minimum. It's honestly kind of a relief that they've turned up so many great Survivor characters in the last two seasons.

They're going to pull from this season *heavily.* It's this period of Survivor's equivalent to Cook Islands or Australian Outback where there's just an embarrassment of casting riches. Of the people still in the game the only one I'd say for sure won't come back is Jefra, because why would you invite Jefra back?

Seriously, there was so much preseason hype for Sarah and Kim Spradlin comparisons, and then she turns out to be incredibly gullible and about a decade behind on Survivor strategy.

Kass and Sarah engaged in an epic battle to determine whose preseason hype as a player was less deserved and I'm not even 100% sure who won.

I actually loved it. It's Dewey Crowe's one moment where he gets one over on someone and improbably comes out on top of a fight. He even has cool music playing while he does it! But instead of walking off into the sunset like he planned, having finally done something sort of cool, he sees Boyd and instead goes ahead…

Man, I liked The Master. Certainly low on the Big Bad pecking order (not sure if I'd rank him above or below Adam, though he's certainly above The First) but his actor was having fun. The Anointed One, uh… yeah.

"Plus, when’s the last time SNL featured a sketch with three people of color as the leads?"

I loved that the pajama foreplay sketch actually more or less transitioned into Dyke and Fats, with both presumably being shows on the same channel. SNL never does that stuff.

I was totally on some of those sites, doing terrible java chat room RP as Visser Seven, who was a Visser who could morph and was an alien race that wasn't in the books because of course I did that. I think I picked a random element and added "ian" to the name. Argonian? I don't know.

Just barely but yeah, I think so too. What blew my mind when I looked at the air date was that it actually came out a month before Extras did, and aired in between the first and second seasons of The Office (US).

God, the look on Kass' face while Alexis was spilling every last detail of her tribe was amazing.

"Has a player that played from the heart every won?"

Well, it does make her only the fourth-most successful graduate in this ridiculously improbable world Glee lives in where one glee club in the middle of nowhere has produced the lead in the same Broadway show, a budding recording star, and a Harvard math savant.