Hah--I liked bearded dude because he seemed to be taking it about as seriously as he should. But I haven't seen the makeover episode yet, possibly it's a travesty. The one dude who is all about his dad being a janitor makes me think of a vampire. Or how the fug girls always used to call Marc Anthony a vampire.

Oh my god, Lil' Rico Suave is the worst in the most hilarious way possible. He is so not attractive on any level. Totally a ghoul a la the former Mr. JLo. I don't know if I've ever told the story here, but the first time I really paid attention to Marc Anthony as a person was when he did a duet en espanol with JLo No Me Ames back in like 1999. This was way before Marc had even thought about leaving Miss Universo and JLo was still slumming with the likes of Ojani Noa. Anyway, the song is all about how this woman shouldn't fall in love with some dude because he's bad for her but gosh darn it, she just can't help it and the storyline in the video is that the dude is dying. So, I saw the video and I thought the storyline was that JLo was falling in love with this guy who had full blown AIDS and I also thought that she had hired a real AIDS patient to star in the video with her and I was like, "Wow. That's kind of brave because Latino culture is kinda macho and AIDS is thought of as a gay disease and she's challenging all these cultural norms and she also found this AIDS patient willing to be in the video with her. So nice." And I lived with this idea for many, many years until JLo had this show on MTV about dancers called Dance Life (which was ah-mazing!) and I was watching it one day with my friend Brandeis and I saw JLo on the show and sitting with her was this little man who looked like a ghoul and then I realized that it was the AIDS patient from her video and so I exclaimed to Brandeis that I couldn't believe that the dude was still alive and also that JLo had just adopted him and made him a part of her entourage. And then she laughed at me and disabused me of that notion and it was quite the mirthful scene but also sad because damn . . . Marc Anthony is busted. All that to say that Lil' Rico Suave is similarly looks challenged and I cannot understand why the judges are all on his jock.

ETA: Oh my gawd, y'all! 5 posts long. That is ridonk. So sorry.

Do not ever apologize. Sometimes I like your recaps better than the show.

I voting with Vortex!

Awww, y'all are so sweet. Not that I need much encouragement.

Kat, I was seriously looking at my next trip to LA (in LA tuesday, I have to be in San Diego that Wednesday) going "hmmm, that might be finale week. Maybe I could go watch with Kat and drive to San Diego after? It might be worth it!" ;)

Do eeeeettt! Well, except for how you might be really tired afterward to drive two hours, in which case, you know, don't do it. But my heart is saying, Do EEEETTT!

Well, yes, that was sort of the reason I was only contemplating in a crazy way, as opposed to just informing you I'd be camping outside your house ;). That's assuming the Internet is right and 9/10 is the finale.

You could always stay in the west wing and leave in the morning. I'm just saying . . .

Is it any good? Sounds like my kind of genre. ;)

It's ... interesting. Bought it remaindered - Suzanne Brockman, "Born to Darkness" - dystopian future, not too distant, getting people who use more than the usual 10% of their brains and develop special powers that way - telepathy, empathy, telekinesis. Not surprisingly, the hero's a former Navy SEAL.