I'm going to put this here because of SYTYCD -- I saw a performance of D-Man In The Waters by Bill T. Jones last night, and in a couple of moments, it was like when you see Casablanca for the first time and the famous lines sound like clichés. I bet those moves weren't cliché when Jones made them up!

Hah! That's funny, Jesse. SYTYCD starts up in May! Soon!

Man, catching up on PR is making me insecure about my wardrobe choices. I wore a neon pink jacket to work recently and got a lot of compliments on it! And my shoes and purse often match, although that's because wearing black patent shoes pretty much all the time and carrying a black & white purse is just easier than thinking about different choices.

For context, I'm just finishing the Lord and Taylor challenge. I've never been in a Lord and Taylor so I have no idea what would go in one of their windows. All I know is that I agree with Nina that the one dress is more in the $25 price range than $250.

The stripper challenge was interesting, just to see how differently the "these bodies are not what I'm used to" complaints came across than when they are dressing women who aren't models. Good thing no one won, though, what a fiasco.

-t, PR fashion is not reality. They pay lip service to "real women", but then punish the designers for not being "high fashion" or "editorial" enough.

True. And I guess I know that. I just had a momentary "standing right here, watching your show" twinge, at two different designers saying "No woman would want to wear that color" when it is pretty prominent in my closet. I have known for ages that my taste level is questionable, though, that sort of thing should not surprise me.

Wait, what stripper challenge? This season, with the teams?

Yeah, the Thunder from Down Under? I was impressed by how nice the guys were about finding something complimentary to say about the clothes.

I have no idea what it says about me that all I could think was, "I don't remember any strippers," because apparently strippers = women?

They were nice guys!

I'm going to put this here because of SYTYCD -- I saw a performance of D-Man In The Waters by Bill T. Jones last night, and in a couple of moments, it was like when you see Casablanca for the first time and the famous lines sound like clichés. I bet those moves weren't cliché when Jones made them up!

I wish they'd point out more on the show when the choreographers are referencing dance movements and vocabulary of great choreographers of the past. I mean aside from just pretending like Tasty isn't straight up copying Fosse every time he choreographs Broadway. Nigel does this sometimes, but I wish the other judges would do it more often.

The Voice: I am sad enough about some of the eliminations (like cutie head Hawaiian guy) that I hope they have a season of people who lost out in the battle rounds. That would be cool.