First things first… Thanksgiving. If you missed some of my tumblelogging during the event, you can’t check it out here.

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I tweeted it before, and I’ll blog it here again: that episode was excellente! Favorite of the season so far. And in some ways, favorite episode of many seasons.

Perhaps with the exception of Mollee and Nathan, every couple had at least one dance I thought was fantastic. I supposed M&N’s cancan was decent. It just didn’t do it for me the same as everyone else’s best dance of the evening.

Ashleigh. is. amazing. I mean, so is Jakob, but we knew that. I guess his story just doesn’t have quite the same impact as hers.

And wow, I’ve never loved Sonja’s choreography as much as I did last night. That one move where Jakob was holding Ashleigh completely still diagonally upside down was… Gah! Sonja! Your choreography! Your eyebrows! Amazing!

And and AND, I’ve been cracking down on Bowflex lately, but last night he was fantastic. And did anyone else think he looked much less beefy than usual? In fact, I thought (and you may disagree with me here) the di Lello’s were the only two teams that killed both their routines.

Yeah, so I loved it. Finally the season has become what I actually watch this show for. And I have to say, it’s episodes like these that make me feel bad for some of my snarky comments about the dancers early on.

I’m not ready to take back the pervy comments, though. Last night’s perv factor was in full “paint your face across a woman’s chest” effect.

Anyway, bonus picks bonus picks! Who’s it going to be? One girl, one guy. Lay their heads down… on my pillow. Whoa, that wasn’t pervy at all. :S

Lay their heads down in the comments below.

Okay, so here’s what’s going on. Me and a few Pilgrims are meeting up next Thursday to eat some stuffing and to tell each other how thankful we are not to be utterly alone on Thanksgiving.

Part of the deal is that we each have to be in charge of, not just bringing something… but making something. I have to stop here and say, there is a competitive spirit to some of the members of this group, myself included. I won’t name names, but I will say that one of the dudes has been known to cook up a rattlesnake at social gatherings.

Okay, you know what, screw it. It’s Sean Gunn. Sean has been known to cook up a rattlesnake, a reindeer, and last Thanksgiving he brought down the house with some crazy spinach and cheese stuffed heirloom tomatoes.

I want to obliterate him this year in the cooking department. Plain and simple. And so… I am calling upon the power of Social Media to help me do so.

I need recipes. Super creative and straight up award winning recipes.

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Wow, this is a really interesting week for The Lark, yes. it. is!

First of all, EVERY person who put in a bonus pick got at least one of their two correct. That’s a first. And as I predicted, Kevin was… well let’s just say, he was the crowd favorite. Most of you put down Karen. Five of us said Channing. But Ellen was kind of the standout with her half point coming from Channing, but was the only one who chose Victor rather than Kevin. Jenn was also a bit of a standout with her choice of Noelle rather than Karen.

Amrie, basically launched into the friggin stratosphere this week. She has, so far, gotten both contestants right weeks 2 and 3… and this week, one right and the other one in her wonder zone (and that’s what she said…… whoa, pervy Cabrera?!). At this point, our best hope for defeating her lies in Ashleigh. If Ashleigh comes in either first or second place, that will seriously bring her tower of babel tumbling to the ground… Maybe.

You’re fierce this season, Amrie. You want that trophy, don’t you?

I, however, did NOT hit my wonder zone this week. And sadly, it has rocked me… like a hurricane. I had very high hopes for Channing. And I still think she’s an amazing dancer. But it’s true, she was having a difficult time really letting loose. At least that’s how it was presented to us.

But I don’t believe this crap that it makes her more likely to settle for being a teacher as Nigel seemed to suggest. There are many artists who tinker early in their careers. Some are afraid to fail, sure; to make bold moves that could backfire and damage their road ahead. But artists like Channing are just trying to figure things out about themselves as artists… slowly, carefully… and they’re smart. They have a trajectory, even if it’s still loosely defined. And many of these types break in a big way later in their careers.

Unfortunately for dancers, there is a window dictated by age and what the body can withstand over years of this kind of physical work. But many become incredible choreographers… and the ones who become teachers, believe it or not, Nigel, usually have a deep need to teach. And that is a very noble and amazing thing in and of itself.

Okay, enough of that. Scorez (<- see what I mean about that 'z'!).