I thought it was established in the first ep--his assistant has said he his alone when he is talking to her

Oh, well, see, that's what I get for not actually *watching* the show.

I don't think we've seen anyone else talk to Sandy Cohen, and I can think of three occasions where she's not been real--his TA sat on her in the quad, he stayed home from the ball game to watch with her, and the LEO watched him walk and talk to nothing when we'd seen him conversating with her. I'm waiting for the first other acknowledgement. I might have missed it, though,

I am watching Burn Notice, but I am completely failing to connect, at all. The closer he got to who burnt him, the more obsessed he got...the less interested I was. I liked him "randomly" finding people in trouble and him and Fi and Sam and Sugarlips getting them out f trouble with a little violence and some sexy moves. But by now, the prologue is way tired...

I have not been enjoying Burn Notice nearly as much as I used to. Even the Macgyverish spy tricks are not as cool. Honestly, they could repeat some of the early ones, I would be okay with that. Sam and Jesse can still be fun, though. For some reason, I have hope that once Fiona is out of jail some corner can be turned it will get better. That isn't based on anything, of course.

I don't have face blindness, but I meet and talk to a really really lot of people, who then turn up randomly at other places. Like tonight there were two guys at the show in Indianapolis (who we know from before) who were also at the previous show in Cincinnati. And I knew they were coming, and I still had a hard time placing them out of context at the next gig.

Lee, I was bothered by that too. I am hoping it comes up again later as Michael crossing the line when it comes to Fiona.

I am hoping it comes up again one way or another, because right now it's either really sloppy writing or just plain wrong, or both.

I laughed *so* hard at the El-eee-ot line in the preview for next week's Leverage that I had to ask John if they've been sitting on that, or it was a surprise.

He hadn't seen it coming.

I don't really care what the rest of the episode does. I'm so amused by that one word.

Right? So funny. I wanted to gleeble about it but I couldn't figure out how to make enough sense that it would be clear what I was talking about. Dear lord.

I know I'm late to the party, but I just got a total Professor X/Magneto vibe when Rosen was looking at the pictures of Stanford Parrish.

Seems to me that Rosen still has conceded a heck of a lot of control. Yeah he gets operational control (if he is not overridden by men with guns) but they still choose his missions. Not that they were not still holding the leverage of putting him back in his cell and drugging him again.

X/Magneto vibe

I missed that. [Edit] I mean I saw the pictures, but did not get that vibe at all but you could be right.