Concerning.

Do any of YOU PEOPLE know anything about binoculars? My mother likes to watch the birds in the tree outback, but the little cheap one she has just isn't good enough, and she's indicated she'd like a new one. I'd like to make this happen for Mother's Day, but I just haven't the foggiest; a quick Google last night overwhelmed me. She just wants a small one, nothing fancy, not one of the ones who's hundreds of dollars, but not like the cheapo ones you give little kids (which is kinda what she has now). I can't afford the former, either.

LOVED it! I never played the games, though had a vague understanding of the conceit. It really is the perfect sort of world to play in. It hits you over the head with the "Corporations are bad!" theme, but, you know, they are. Glad it's getting a second season.

The longer I sit with it, the more I think that lip synch really, really did doom Sapphira. Like, she revealed the teeth and... that was it. I was waiting for the punchline -- blood coming out of her titties, a fake heart she'd bite into, something like that -- and... it never came. Like, the teeth was the reveal. And I also noticed that her moves were very, very familiar. Like, we've seen them all before; she did them the other times she lip-synched. And, of course, all queens have their go-tos, and Nymphia wasn't reinventing the wheel, but it just seemed like Sapphira has a single routine for all lip syncs, and that just doesn't cut it in a finale.

You know, it's funny, that for a long time it didn't seem like lip synchs mattered at all to the outcome, but this season, I think it really has saved/doomed several people, even unto the last.

I am still GAGGED, though. Like, I don't remember being so stunned, and continuing to feel that way, at a winner in I don't know how long.

Color me not just shocked, but gooped, gagging, gooned, and gasping! Really, really not what I expected. People speculating that since Sasha was a "mother" win last year, they wouldn't give it to another mother this year. And she's the first East Asian winner. Still, SHOCKED!

Ru doesn't give a good goddamn about who is getting more social media support. She's gonna crown who she wants to crown, and I would be SHOCKED if it wasn't Sapphira. I think you're right, hv and DQ, that Nymphia will slay an All-Stars. Plane, too, probably, to be honest.

Hola, Hiro! What a beautiful beagle you are!

I just don't believe they have the suitcase limits anymore. Or at least they're no longer enforcing them. The stuff the girls are bringing just ain't gonna fit in a couple of Samsonites.

Plane Jane has, until the last episode or two, seemed more like an AI trained on Jimbo and Katya data to be on Drag Race (but with some accidental Phi Phi put in) than a real queen. Like, she knows what you need to do to make "good TV" and stand out, and she obviously chose to take the villain edit route, but it isn't quite right somehow. I swear there are have been times where I've seen the thought, "I must make shady remark now" form in her head, but she does it when it has nothing to do with anything.

I think she forgets sometimes, and a lot of these young drag queens do, what shade is: it is NOT going up to a bitch and saying, "You're ugly, and I hate your drag!" That's just an insult. Have these bitches not seen Paris Is Burning despite half of the whole damn show being about knowledge of Paris Is Burning?! There's just a disconnect, which is only just starting to ease, between her Ru face -- funny and wacky -- and her workroom face -- mean and offputting, and it makes the former just look like an act she's putting on, and people don't like that. And if she comes out with a high pony wig one more freakin' time...

HOWEVER, as the season goes on, I'm convinced the real cunt of the season is Dawn. She is actually meaner than Jane, she just is quieter about it and hasn't got the guts to say it to people's faces. I think because she's an "elf" everyone thought she was sweet, but really she's a vicious little twink doing a less-good Willow Pill. And bitch sure has a lot to say for someone who hasn't actually done all that much in the competition!

Also, Michelle asked her weeks ago to not do the elf ears, just once, to show "versatility." She was all "I got you, girl!" and then... did the elf ears again. I actually think the Polka look was the first time she didn't, but still, you were supposed to do it immediately, Dawn! Oh, and your Meghan McCain SUCKED, and you are soooooo lucky they decided it was Morphine's week to sweat it out.

Ahem! Anyway... I've thought all along Nymphia was the frontrunner, and, you know, I still do. I actually think her stumble with Match Game will help her; it shows the vaunted "vulnerability" that Ru loooooooooves to see. Bulldozer winners who never stumble are very, very rare, and I don't think have really been a thing since Bianca. Even the Sasha Colby meet-and-greet had a few bad moments.

Sapphira is my other frontrunner. Just all-around great, and as the "grande dame" of the season has the maturity and experience to let bitches just defeat themselves. Morphine has an amazing mug, but she's very "good, but fairly basic, drag queen," which does not a winner make. Mhi'ya... I wish I knew what people saw in her, because I sure don't see nothin'! The girl can flip, but every look has been pretty bad, really, and there ain't no personality. Plasma is annoying in that New York theater queen way, but I don't know, I still kinda like her. Q is faaaaaading. I thought she was a big contender at first, but the more things go on, the less strong she looks. And given her meltdown on Twitter this week, I suspect we're getting to the part where she goes home soon.

That people don't realize Buddhism is like all religions and philosophies, expressed in different ways in different times in different places at different levels is astounding to me, especially when they say they've been studying it. Like, do they think all those statues are just there for kicks? Some people sit around meditating on only the most rarefied sutras, and others are grandmas praying at the family shrine for luck and wouldn't know a sutra if it fell on her.