It could have been any girl in any clique at any school where Dan Humphrey wound up … But it was Serena on the Upper East Side at Constance Billard and St. Jude’s prep and so it began. He had more »
Taylor x Brandi book deal brawl
Dear Camille - please send us the details of you etiquette coach. A year ago, you would have been the the focus of a book deal brawl but this season, we don’t hear a peep. It’s hard to say who wont the dinner party …
Dear Yolanda – Did you say “unborn fetus of a baby lamb”? Let us know.
Dear Kyle – Why are you always attacking Lisa? This started at the end of season 1 and it’s never been addressed.
Dear Lisa – We were pretty sure you wouldn’t play a sport where bad-mitten balls fly at your face.
Dear Adrienne – When cartwheeling amoung friends and a TV crew, do first put on eunderwear wti some coverage and if your friends can only lend you a g-string, leggings are a next best.
Dear Brandi – Congratulations on your book deal telling the unknown story of your divorce. Also, props for the following quote: Adrienne took her weave out and did some work.
Dear Yolanda darling – You may indeed want to find a new crowd of friends. Also, you are throwing your ice water way to hard for America. Take it down a notch.
Let’s skip right to the trailer for next week’s episode with the plane crash. According to the internet Chuck does not actually die in that crash because Victoria Grayson taught him how to fake die in an air plane. So more »
Last night’s GG was trickier than Battleship. William van der Woodsen returns in a surprise twist where he is revealed to be conspiring (with benefits) with Ivy. They teamed up after he helped Lola transfer her share of Cece’s inheritance more »
Due to a boring, over-promotional episode of RHOBH last night with one too many stretch Hummers, we are refraining from our usual coverage. Let’s not make 90210 the laughing stock of the world people. Thoughts: The best moment of the more »
The title of this episode should have been The Return of Blair, our own personal Jedi. We now understand why Blair has been so lame on every episode this fall; it’s all been a set-up for her ultimate comeback. It more »
This episode of the Housewives raised some key concerns: Kyle keeps bringing Taylor to people’s houses, Kim must actually be sober because she is now consistently attending events, and Yolanda and David Foster are hands down the most awkward dinner hosts more »
We have a theory the CW is forcing the writers to tank a couple of these final episodes so we recover from our depression in time to start watching the Carrie Diaries come January. We forgive the writing and make more »
Finally someone we worship is on this show: Gigi Hadi, the calm, collected teenage model daughter of real life stage mom Yolanda. In other notable news, Kim shows up again; maybe she is sober. Kyle’s child Brandi makes a passive aggressive exit. The gang flies to more »
Last week (well, two weeks ago due to #Sandy) we were complaining about Chuck’s Zero Dark Thirty buzz cut. However this week on Gossip Girl, we got to the bottom of it. I learned it from watching you, dad. I learned more »
Quotes: Brandi: ”We’ve all slept with everyone, right Yolanda? You and me? Because we’re the hottest housewives, right? I’ve got you, gurl.” Adrienne to Lisa: “Look, I accuse a lot of people of selling stories to TMZ. It’s nothing. Time to more »
This episode was so horrifically boring we almost decided to not re-cap it, but here is what you need to know. After Blair gets Charlotte Casiraghi to walk in her show only to have her back out at the last more »
We were convinced this episode was going to be all about the return of fauxialite Poppy Lifton however the real arc of this story turned out to be the new Queen of Constance — Serena’s 40-year-old boyfriend’s secret 17-year-old daughter more »
There were a lot of things worth noting about Gossip Girl’s (final) season premiere last night. First of all … I think we can all rejoice that Lily and Rufus are through. She is finally back with Bart Bass as more »
This week’s episode of White Collar drew upon the historical spy ring “The Culper Ring” which was organized by George Washington at the height of the American Revolutionary War. Conspiracy theorist speculate the spy ring still exist and operate under numbered code names handed down from generation to generation.
This week on White Collar, Mozzie posses as a fellow Culper Spy to infiltrate their circle and intercept a priceless US flag thought to have been destroyed.
The purpose of The Culper Ring was to spy on the British and bring back intel. The general public was not aware of the Ring’s existence until the 1930s, with the discovery of a trunk of old letters. Among the techniques they used to relay messages were coded messages published in newspapers and developing a method of using invisible ink to write between the lines of what appeared to be a typical letter.
Mozzie befriends one of the Culper spies and brokers a deal using assets obtained from Neal and Peter — the location of the first clue to the flag (an old condemned infirmary) in exchange for a collection of hand-written letters with a code for how to deciper the clue once there (using butter and heat to expose the invisible writing, Mozzie discovers a secret sentence reading “look at the eyes”).
Once at the infirmary, it becomes clear a painting of a woman are the eyes that holds the answer. But how? Neal and Mozzie determine a series of holes drilled on an opposite wall were attempts to show a path between the eyes of the painting and the location of the flag. The correct hole showed the correct path, which they later determined with a clue from another Culper Spy who was holding a set of coordinates in centimeters.
In the process, Neal and Peter uncover several crimes committed by the ring in their efforts of vigilante patriotism.
George Washington’s code was 711. Women were referred to as 355. Two of the main original members were also referred to as ”Samuel Culper, Sr.” and “Samuel Culper, Jr.” Two more by the names Nathan Hale and Tallmadge were close friends at Yale.
Via
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culper_Ring
The Culper Ring *http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536600501.html
Brad Meltzer’s Decoded, The Presidents Inner Circle *http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-decoded/episodes/decoded-season-1#slide-4. 2011-02-18
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