I didn't liveblog since I'm worn out on bloggery in general (also I'm two weeks behind).

BUT SWEET FANCY MOSES the women's group dance tonight? Made of awesome with badass-sauce! The costumes, the attitudes, the concept... yeah, I want to do choreographer Sonia's taxes for free in perpetuity. [Will post video when I find it]

Honestly, I was worried when I heard they were going to do gender group routines-- previously when they've done that in the finals, the men got some awesome hilarious routine (see: Travis and Benjie's nerdcore, last season's Russian folk number) and the women got something weird or boring (Heidi and Donyelle's lackluster broadway, Sabra and Lacey's way-stylized "we are foxes or something" routine). So I was annoyed that Lil C came down on them for not being good enough (not to mention Nigel's thinly-veiled reference to Jeanine's breasts as her superpower). Whatever. The dance was fantastic, and got my waning-after-two-hours attention in full. Moar plz.

i'm watching so you think you can dance. i keep it on mute most of the time, because i dont like to hear well-meaning but mediocre dancers mocked, but i don't want to miss the good dancers that'll be on the show later. so i was amusing myself by reading the really amusing take-downs of this incredibly sad article about a woman who claims the game rock band saved her marriage (since as it turns out, video games *aren't* solely the domain of middle-aged men who refuse to grow up. who knew?). [possibly more forthcoming on this topic. if i stay awake that long.]

anyway, that's all a tangent. the story is: i look up, and there's a woman pole-dancing. apparently, the current contestant on stage is a strip club dj. so clearly, what we need is footage of the strippers. lots of it. never mind that the guy is the one auditioning for the dance show... as well as the *clothed* one. bring on the mostly naked chicks. and for the rest of the show, they're careful to refer to him as "strip club dj" whateverhisnameis. as if "strip club dj" was his first name.

but of course, the stereotyping goes both ways. to wit, this is all in salt lake city, where (either in reality or through the magic of selective editing) it was shown that almost all contestants (evidently about my age or younger) were married with at bare minimum three kids.

i guess we're not really in this for stereotype busting. gah. i really hope someone starts an open thread at shakesville so i can rant cooperatively (solo ranting is only satisfying for so long).