The Mock Dock

This is Kate Gosselin performing on Dancing With The Stars, and then looking like she might cry when the judges criticize her.

Why does anyone watch this show? I will never understand this. Especially when you could be spending your time watching people with Actual Talent dance. People who dance so well that it practically makes you cry. BEHOLD, a perfect example – and one of my favorite dances ever from SYTYCD, which is so much better than Dancing With The Stars that it’s inexplicable to me that Dancing With The Stars even still gets to be a show.

I mean, that move at the 52 second mark? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Brilliant.

Or there’s this one:

(Sobs)

Seriously – someone explain the DWTS appeal. Because I Do. Not. Get. It.

I think it’s fitting that this dude is in a room with sheet plastic on the walls.

It looks like he’s doing that “here’s the church, here’s the steeple” thing, doesn’t it?

Totally off topic, but I just read that Shane Sparks, one of the choreographers from So You Think You Can Dance, was arrested for child molestation.   And he’s the SECOND choreographer from that show to be arrested for crimes of a sexual nature.  WTF?  What is it with choreographers hired by Nigel Lythgoe?

Totally off topic again, but currently I am nibbling on Triscuits and swiss cheese.  This is a far cry from the meals I’ve been having all week.  You guys – you can eat like a KING in Isla, for absolutely no money.  We had surf and turf nearly every night and after the peso conversion only spent like $40 TOTAL, and that included several cocktails and an appetizer.  It was insane.  On our last night, we ate at our favorite restaurant, Jax, and decided to really go all out.  I ordered the “market price” lobster tail with veggies and mashed potatoes, and Mr. Mock got steak, and he had 3 Pacificos and I had two girly cocktails, and we had an app, and the total bill was $58.  Can you even stand it???  You can’t get lobster tail by itself here for that.

Anyway.  My point is that it’s really weird that so many choreographers from So You Think You Can Dance are sexual predators.

And those are the SYTYCD dancers! Which by the way, premieres again tomorrow, along with Glee, at the exact same time that Obama has his, like, 84 zillionth press conference.

What’s a girl to do?

This was totally HOT, you guys. At minute 3.23 – when he opens his arms and then slowly wraps them around her? Hhhhhhhhhhhhhot. And sweet all at the same time.

LOVE.

This was one of my favorite performances from last night’s SYTYCD. But there were LOTS of others that were good. It’s just that I particularly loved this one. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

…then you are seriously missing out.  This top 20 is the best EVAH.  I cannot TAKE how good the show is. 

That is all.

For those of you who don’t watch SYTYCD, you missed the first male/male ballroom dancing couple audition. And you know what? It was totally creepy. NOT because they were gay, but because ballroom dancing is SUPPOSED to have women in flowy dresses dancing with strong guys who pick them up and spin them around. That is the ESSENCE of ballroom. So for two dudes to try it, sans woman, regardless of whether or not they’re gay, just doesn’t work.

Anyway, appropriately, Nigel Lythgoe, judge and executive producer of the show, told the dudes that the routine didn’t fly for him. And that he’d be giving each of them a second audition with different (female) partners. He wasn’t nasty about it, he simply said what probably zillions of people were thinking, which was basically that ballroom dancing is meant to be done with a male/female couple. It wasn’t homophobic – it was just TRUE. And in the end, one of the men went on to the next round – the other was cut.

So naturally, GLAAD is pissed off, because OF COURSE they are. “It’s unacceptable for this kind of blatant homophobia to occur,” GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said in a statement. “Fox Entertainment and Nigel Lythgoe owe Misha, Mitchel and the whole LGBT community an apology.”

What a load of crap. Nigel and Fox owe the LGBT community NOTHING. This wasn’t homophobic and had nothing to do with discrimination against gays. It was simply Nigel saying he didn’t really feel like having a Blades of Glory dance competition. And I applaud him for that.

After GLAAD’s attack, Nigel said via Twitter: “I am very sad the word ‘homophobe’ is being used. That is someone who hates homosexuals. I dislike effeminate dancing! Wake up and listen. I believe overtly effeminate dancing destroys the opportunity for many male dancers to be supported. Being gay doesn’t mean effeminate.””

I’m so freaking sick and tired of everyone being so thin-skinned and offended by everything all the time. I hope Nigel doesn’t back down, because this is just utterly ridiculous. If Nigel were homophobic, and wanted to discriminate against gay male dancers, we pretty much wouldn’t have a show anymore, now, would we? Because hello – probably more than half of the finalists in any given season are as gay as the day is long.

Thoughts?

Sean Penn has decided to cancel his divorce plans from Robin Wright.  AGAIN.  They probably should just separate, and stop filing for divorce already, because this makes them look like total idiots.

Then again, this is Sean Penn we’re talking about.  So I suppose that comes with the territory.

But you guys, it’s only 1/2 and hour into SYTYCD and it is already the best season ever.  I can tell.  I love this show so much, that it almost makes it easier to tolerate Sean Penn.

ALMOST.

SOOOO totally excited. Here’s a few of last season’s best promoting the premiere! WOOT!!!

Look at this. This is Danny from a couple seasons ago. He made the finals but lost to some totally forgettable girl.

Danny’s physique is perfection and his smile is killer. And for crying out loud, he dances like he’s on SKATES. I don’t even understand how a human can do what he does.

Compare this routine to the hardest thing you’ve EVER seen on Dancing With the Stars, and I DEFY you to tell me you saw anything more impressive on that stupid show.

LOVE. Cannot wait for this season.

Ok. I’m done talking about this show now.

For now.