Hollywoodland

It’s Tuesday and that means another DWTS report! We had different dances for different teams plus the team dances. Team Mambo vs Team Tango. But what I’d like to know is what the heck was Carrie Ann wearing?! Was that monstrosity around her neck a necklace or part of her gown? Whatever, it was UGLY.

Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas (Samba) – Parts of it were great, but other parts, to me, seemed like she lost her place. I’m not sure. The judges were all split. *g* They scored 27/30.

Lil’ Kim & Derek Hough (Paso doble) – They rocked it!!! And the judges agreed. They scored 28/30.

Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke (Lindy hop) – He’s injured his shoulder, though the doc said he could still compete. I thought they did a totally fab job!!! Even the judges loved it! They scored 27/30.

Ty Murray & Chelsie Hightower (Salsa) – Well, crap. I set my recorder wrong and missed his dance. (I also screwed up recording Doing Da Vinci.) *sigh* The judges were apparently mixed. They scored 24/30.

Melissa Rycroft & Tony Dovolani (Jive) – We were blessedly without Melissa’s presence last night. She injured her ribs, but she’s not out yet. *sigh* She was scored on her rehearsal. You could tell she was in a lot of pain. They scored 21/30.

Chuck Wicks & Julianne Hough (Cha cha cha) – I liked it a lot! Maybe not quite as much as last week’s, but still great! And the judges agreed with me again! I think this must be a record. *g* They scored 26/30.

Finally, we had the team dances.

First up, we had Team Mambo (Chuck, Melissa & Shawn and their respective partners). But since Melissa had to sit it out, Lacey Schwimmer filled in for her (with a mere 15 minutes notice!). Near the end of their dance, the girls’ skirts came off (intentionally!) and they were left wearing fancy leotards. THEN the guys hopped up on the judges’ table and tore off their shirts & pants and they had leotards/tights on! Len thought they did a great job, Bruno was too busy talking about the guys in the tights *g* and Carrie Ann found the tights/leotards thing “too distracting”. The team score was 25/30.

Then we had Team Tango. Gilles & Ty started out shirtless! The tango is supposed to be really intense and I thought Li’l Kim was smiling too much. And she made a little blunder that the judges saw but I missed. Ty & Chelsie’s solo (if you can call two people “solo”) rocked. But Gilles was The Man! Not only was his dancing smokin’, he had that whole intense Rudolph Valentino vibe going. *swoon* The team gave Bruno goosebumps. Carrie Ann loved it. Len said Gilles’ footwork was “atrocious”. What drugs was he on??? But he loved Ty’s portion. So I’ll forgive him. *g* They scored 28/30.

I swear these posts are getting longer instead of shorter!

If April showers bring May flowers, we ought to have a LOT of flowers at our house next month. Thunderstorms moved in yesterday and it’s been raining ever since. We’re now under a flash flood warning. Quack, quack!

Another busy night of juggling. Hope I don’t screw anything up tonight like I did last night. We have NCIS, Dancing with the Stars, The Mentalist, Fringe, and Life After People.

That last show gives me lots of story ideas. Not so much life after people, so much as life after a large portion of the world’s population kicks the bucket from some mysterious something. *g*

Wrote half a page last night before I unplugged all the computer equipment because of the storms.

Reading: Now I’m reading Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey. This is the first book of the Pern series. First in the story timeline, anyway. It wasn’t apparently the first book she wrote in the series. It’s about how colonists from Earth (and other planets) arrive and settle on Pern. And find dragons.

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