Boogie Chillen
August 28-29, 2006

Oh look -- Danielle finally remembered who Josh was -- oh YEAH -- the guy that relieved her of her VIRGINITY -- THAT guy (if you're missing my sarcasm, she acted like she had no idea who he was at the opening of Confusion).

If all the yelling was too loud for Lily, why did she rush from another part of the house to put herself into the middle of it instead of trying to get as far away from it as possible?

Ryan to Annie: "Not EVERYone thinks I'm God's give to Womankind." Ah, so Ryan HAS been reading R.A.T.S.A

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Jesus Christ on a raft, WTF is WRONG with the cameraperson? Is he JOGGING over rocks while filming Tad's scene with Jamie & JAR, or merely trying not to hurl (I know that's what *I'M* doing)? And I'm not even WATCHING it -- I was doing something on my laptop while just LISTENING, but the movement was so OVERT and distracting, just in my peripheral vision, that I had to turn it off in order to finish what I was doing! It won't be long before I can no longer watch the show at ALL. Maybe the cameraperson is crying uncontrollably over the shambles of his/her career and brought on by being forced to film this way. Maybe the camera is actually remarkably STEADY, considering that there are pissed-off long-time fans that broke into the studio and are trying to beat the cameraperson senseless as he/she gamely tries to continue filming.

That said, some scenes DO seem to be more stable than others. I'm guessing there are different camerapeople at the helm for different scenes. At least ONE of them is in the wrong business or needs to stop drinking.

What's different about Del? I think he's lost some weight, for sure. Did he get his eyebrows done in a shape resembling something that's actually seen in nature? No wait ... he's either had Botox done to the sides of his nose or had a nose job to make it stop looking so pinched back on the side (which always makes me think he's trying to dislodge or accommodate rock-hard boogers) -- either way, it's an improvement. And his eyebrows DO look a little different.

LOL -- was I the only one who, at first, heard Di tell Aidan (who had said "There's nothing *I* can do that YOU can't!"): "Yes, there IS -- your TITS are WAY bigger than MINE!"? She actually said FISTS, but that's not what it SOUNDED like ;-) And THEN he asked Di if she wanted him to beat some sense into Tad, which sounds pretty funny if you go with my FIRST interpretation I can just see it now -- Aidan walks up to Tad and smacks him upside the head with his massive mammaries -- Tad reels, but, strangely, keeps coming back for more as Aidan wildly whips his outthrust chest back and forth. Tad finally collapses into a gibbering heap on the floor after being smacked into oblivion by Aidan's impressive man-boobs.

Was I the only one skeeved out when Tad said: "When I found out that she'd destroyed my last chance of ever hooking up with Kate ... it makes me SICK"? Now, the phrase "hooking up" used to simply mean meeting up with in person -- simply getting together for whatever reason. In the last couple of years, however, the phrase has become overused to the point of nausea (PARTICULARLY on soaps) to mean sex for the sake of having sex, with all the passion of hooking up a couple of railway cars. Okay, fine, now I'm used to that meaning; so to hear Tad us it in regard to himself and his little daughter (coupled with the currently heightened pedo-sleaze atmosphere surrounding the JBR murder, not to mention the Emma/Kate storyline)sounds just plain creepy.

One more thing about the jerky-cam: I have to say that some people ARE more sensitive to movement and balance, in general, than others -- I happen to be one of those people. I can sometimes detect earthquakes when others do not. I can often sense (and be bothered by having to adjust to) uneven surfaces when others don't notice. I suppose I'm just one of those princess-and-the-pea kind of people, so this kind of thing really IS more noticeable to me. Maybe it's one of those things like allergies -- some people get them and some don't and the people that don't can't really comprehend what it's like for those that do. So when I grouse about this asinine gimmick, I'm not jumping on any kind of bandwagon -- it actually has a PHYSICAL effect on me, and I'm dead serious about the fact that this may very well be what finally drives me away from the show after 36+ years of watching it.

Robin "the wrong demographic" Coutellier