"I just can't support spending $700 on a pair of shorts." - Kimberly

The new cycle of America's Next Top Model has commenced, hear ye, hear ye... it's the 10th "cycle" as they like to call it, and frankly I can't believe we've been through over 100 model candidates and 9 winners. I can't remember a single one. Except maybe Elise from the first one, remember, that really mean girl who was going to go to medical school?

Here's some observations:

• The screaming is still going strong, but it's lessening. I really hope producers in the background with cattle prods are the root of all this noise pollution.

• Paulina P: excellent addition, especially her inauguration of the "drag queen" commentary about the one from Ohio. We should put this aspiring model together with Chris March and see what kind of magic happens. Chris, by the way, did not make it to Bryant Park -- in his place will be "Buffalo Bill" from The Silence of the Lambs, his design partner: "The model puts on the dress made of hair, the hair coat. The model brushes it's pantaloons -- not with the wire brush, the bristle brush! The bristle brush!"

• That monitor/teleprompt that sends the Tyra mail: my god, could you hate your contestants any more, Tyra? The sounds of them reading the message as it is slowly fed to them makes them seem (ahem) like a bunch of illiterates. In cycles past, the model with the best reading skills got to read Tyra Mail, and wasn't that better than outing all the rest of them?

• Wouldn't it be great if Mr. and Miss Jay became a couple? They are so cute together. And there'd be no debate about who took whose name.

I am loving Marvita, Clare and "Lauren the ratings plant."

All right, that's all I have for now. If you are all lucky, the next time you hear from me on ANTM it will be in another space and there'll be more than just me making cutting observations.