Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

I blame this partly on the fact that SYTYCD doesn't use the dancers' surnames, but: I just got an email advertising a chance to take a dance class with "Ricky Ubeda, winner of So You Think You Can Dance" and had zero idea who that was.

And speaking of SYTYCD, I've had several conversations with friends about the new format, and I come out of every one disgruntled with the changes. That said, I didn't really understand the announcement (which seemed to me like there were going to be dueling top 20s, which can't possibly be true given their constantly decreasing resources and timeslots)

Also, don't really care quite enough to go looking for more information. I think* I still love the show, but I'm fatigued. How do people who watch every season of Survivor or Amazing Race (or, IDK, The Bachelor) keep track of it all?

So I'm a million and a half years behind on everything, but I need someone to come talk to be about Emilio and Teddy's routine to Nightshift by the Commodores on SYTYCD tonight. Help. So adorable.

The nice thing about Dancing With the Stars is that it only takes me about an hour to watch a two-hour episode, because I fast forward through almost all the talking and half the dancing...

They added contemporary last season, and I missed the news until the first of three routines tonight which were... awful. Even the parts that were danced well were terrifyingly overwrought.

The woman who plays Mercedes on Glee (Amber something?) is on this season, and a good chunk of the original cast was in the audience to support her. Absolutely adorable. Made several times more adorable by the fact that she brought it with an amazing cha-cha.


Also, Snooki. So. At least she acknowledges that she was a hot mess, and seems to be slightly less so now.

In addition to Evan Kasprzak and Alex Wong, if the Newsies The Musical cast list is to be believed, which I think it sort of has to be, Jess (Le Protto? I am pretty sure I have never heard or seen his last name before) has also joined the cast. I'm going to guess that the people who are just labeled "ensemble" may basically be filler for the larger stage at the Nederlander, which I am more excited about than the way I phrased that implies.

I'm still sleeping a lot, and not entirely when I plan to, and I'm a little worried that I might be ill, but almost equally willing to keep my head stuck in the sand about it. That's neither here nor there to the rest of the subjects in this post, but I felt like I should mention it, somewhere.

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This is lovely, and makes me miss watching dance. ( Thought of You - Ryan Woodward ) I wish DWTS hadn't bored me so much this season, because I'm not even watching the Stars of Dance bits.

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I find Hal Sparks to be very amusing, which is an opinion I mostly formed from watching I Love the 90s or whatever talking head thing he did on VH1. I had Hal Sparks: Charmageddon in my Netflix instant queue for some reason, and watched it tonight. The first half hour made me laugh harder than pretty much anything else in recent memory. The second half hour, still funny, but he gets a bit preachy and it loses its comedy edge.

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Also available for instant viewing: Sports Night, The A-Team seasons 1-5, White Collar, and something else which I've forgotten, but was really important that I tell you all about when I first saw it listed.

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I had sort of meant to cancel my Netflix account in protest around that whole Quikster mess, but then I forgot, and I don't know. I feel like I should cancel my DVD subscription, because I've had the same three DVDs for months, and I don't have time to watch the TV I'm DVRing already. And then I feel like I should cancel my instant viewing, because ditto. So now, its functioning as one of my many minor lazy taxes, things that I continue to pay for despite my better judgment because of lack of effort.

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I had a really hard time with the Yuletide signup for some reason. Both the form, and the choices. IDEK, y'all.