holy shit! i'm so fucking sick of the bluefly commercials! so '80's. who okayed those disasters?!!?!?!

"padma, like you, has a scar."

Dan, love your column, love your books (my mom spent Tgiving at my house this year tearing through "The Commitment"), but I'm very disappointed.

How could you not mention the single most problematic/awesome moment in PR history? "I love Asians. Asians are fierce."

the best part about the show was the ad about Kathy's special airing tomorrow.

Dan, I love ya (and agreed with Terry's picks), but please bring Schmader next time. I miss his podcasts.

What is the deal with Elisa? She won't touch the male model's body because she only likes to touch her boyfriend's body? Does that mean she wears all-over body condoms when she walks down Manhattan? Seriously, I'm just waiting for her to break out the tin foil helmet to shield her thoughts from the aliens.

Everybody sucks.

Tim Gunn is unusually red lately. But I'd still let him tax my ass. Growl!

This episode actually pissed me off. The challenge was abusive, and, as the results proved, rewarded TAILORING not DESIGN. It's supposed to be a design show.

Jack won with a shirt. Big whoop. There are a thousand old guys in Hong Kong who could turn out that same shirt in an hour. It's an eighty-year old design -- men's dress shirts haven't changed since they started sewing the cuffs and collars on instead of buttoning them on.

Sweet Pea screwed up, but the ONLY DIFFERENCE between her shirt and Jack's shirt is the tailoring. Her tailoring sucks; she's never done men's before. But as DESIGN hers was no worse than Jack's, really. I'm not saying she shouldn't have been in the bottom, but the criteria for separating them was deeply hosed.

Ricky's was bad tailoring too. Stupid bitch Heidi said "just a boring suit", but what the fuck do you think Tiki Barber wears every day? And Kors -- what a fat, pompous asshole -- he couldn't tailor a suit by himself in a month, I'll bet, and look what he fucking wears every week -- a fucking black t-shirt. And Nina, oh, I just want to break her nose.

I guess it's fun to beat the shit out of the contestants, and to watch. I think it was a crappy challenge because of the unrealistic time constraint. In the end, the right person got aufed, for the wrong reason, and the winner was just WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.

You really need to get in on the REAL liveblogging. This is just silly.

Every time I see that car as a present story from one spouse to the other, I think - "Gee, thanks for putting us into debt for $25K without asking what I wanted or if it was a good use of our combined finances."

I mean, seriously!

Dan? Are you drunk and/or high?

The problems with Jack are numerous. First his face looks like he had a botched face lift at some point or several bad botox injections. Second, he sounds like Britney Spears except with a male body. Third, his talent for clothing is minimal. I mean WTF was that thing he made tonight????

And Tim is wrong, this is NOT the most talented group of designers they have ever had.

I think it's precious that no one here has said anything negative about Miss Carrie Bradshaw's performance last night.

Didn't they make clothes for *dogs* last season? I know menswear is different from women's fashion (to an extent) but I don't think it's all that unfair a challenge. Use a tape measure and adjust accordingly.

That was some seriously bad "liveblogging."

"Okay, now we're at commercial. Oh my God! What if I don't want to Watch What Happens? Okay, now Jack is rolling his eyes. Okay, now I'm watching Jack roll his eyes. Okay, why does he have to roll his eyes? I can't watch!"

Christian is a big pile of fail.

They need to bring Wendy Pepper back to add the element of evil to the show. They have been missing the element of maniputlation on this show for too long.

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I was wondering the same thing. This entire post resonated with me, and I am quite drunk. It does make you wonder...

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The problems with Jack are numerous. First his face looks like he had a botched face lift at some point or several bad botox injections.

Jack's face looks like he's had collagen injections to overcome facial lipoatrophy (wasting) that sometimes occurs in HIV-positive people. His current look is probably many times better than the near-death skeletal appearance he'd have otherwise. (Speaking from experience here.)

There are other possible treatments, but the collagen is least invasive and less likely to be irreversibly botched.

Kit should have won. Jack's design was boring, boring, boring.

I think this challenge was designed to weed out the terrible sewers. Seems like this is an issue every season -- great sewer does not equal great designer, and vice versa. You could have an excellent designer who can't sew a suit in 2 days, and therefore gets the boot. It's a problem with the show, but there's not much of a way around it...

Thoughts: I agree Kit should have won this round. And it was an incredibly abusive challenge. I was really hoping they'd send in surprise guest Nick from Season 2 to lend some assistance. Total missed opportunity. Also: take a shot each time Ricky cries. And: I still want to die every time Christian says FIERCE!

I love it when Dan fags out; it's so endearing and makes him seem more human and less iconic. or totemic. or anemic. or something...

and yes, I'm completely stoked for "Sweeney Todd". SIFF is doing an advance screening in a couple weeks, and I'm SOOOOOOO there!

jack so did not deserve to win. my first impression upon seeing his outfit was, "ew". head-to-toe stripes? isn't that some sort of fashion faux-pas? well if it's not it should be.

carmen deserved to lose for being so fucking stupid, making the jacket before the shirt. D-U-M-B.

and i wanted to shoot christian in the face for the "asians are fierce!" comment.

Kit Pistol(how the hell do you insert the TM on this thing, and who the hell trademarks their friggin name anyways?) and her bad dye job annoys me to no end.

Fnarf, you sure you aren't gay? Your analysis was spot on. The Stranger should pay you to liveblog PR every week.

Watching the boys squeal over the male models was pretty adorable. Season 3's overabundance of straight men skeezed me out, and I'm glad they're back to the "one straight boy only, please" rule of Season 2--and I like Kevin way more than Daniel Franco.

Also adorable: Jack carrying Christian into the workroom (in the bag one time, in his arm another). I know it probably makes the rest of ya'll gag, but I'm waiting for it to escalate into something seriously pornographic.

Ricky has not only the hottest female model, he also got the best male model for this challenge, build/skintone-wise, considering the client. Shenanigans. And he's not even using it to his advantage.

Every single past-contestant blogger (Nick V., Santino, Jay McC.) is completely in love with Elisa. Either they know something we don't about her, or ...well, they know something we don't about her.

Am I the only one who has at-a-glance trouble telling Sweet P from Kit Pistol?

Dan, please keep doing these! :-D

Kit should have won. Jack, well....yeah the outfit was nice, but still not that great.

and seriously all the ads for Tim Gunn's new show made me want to smash the television. How many times can we see the same promo?!?! At least they could have made 2 different ones to cycle through every single commerical break.

But seriously, when did the judges get all stuffy and unoriginal???

Click here for DavidDust's recap of last night's beefcake-filled episode!

i missed it! but thanks to you all, i feel like i was right there!

We were so happy when Carmen grabbed that fabric and tucked it around her model's neck at the last minute. Awesome! I was sad to see her go though... seemed nice. She complimented her peers a lot, and I liked that (but her tears were a little forced on the runway last week next to Christian).

Fnarf, you are so wrong about the difference between Jack's and Sweet P's outfits. They are not the same besides the tailoring. Jack chose a bias cut on the front seam and the pocket which, while not a huge deal, is exactly the type of detail you have to do to make menswear interesting. Menswear is so freaking boring most of the time and it's only those details that will make anything stand out. You can't go too far out there, however, or someone like Tikki Barber, who SAID he embraced color, will wimp out when he sees a purple shirt (like the straight guy's design).

Sweet P couldn't even make a boring button-down interesting.