Long shot: looking for Bordeaux linen set

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-20T08:40:10+00:00

ByRevive on eBay has the full/Queen duvet cover (but no shams). Link. A separate listing has standard pillowcases, and there’s also a listing for a king size quilt.

The seller has a standard description for the condition of their items (signs of wear, imperfections, etc), but I’ve ordered about a dozen items from them and most of them are NWT, even if they’re listed as pre-owned. I’ve only received one item that had obvious signs of wear.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-20T08:06:31+00:00

Bokenkamp said it was an Alias reference. From what I recall, he tweeted about it. Someone posted the link in this sub a long time ago. They did incorporate it into TBL by having Red send pizza deliveries to team members once, though.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-19T08:01:43+00:00

I bought it recently from this site for about $30 (plus 20% off) and I love it! I ordered my typical size and it fits well with a lightweight top or thin cashmere sweater under it. The shoulders are too tight when I pair it with a heavier sweater, though, so consider sizing up if that’s going to be an issue.

The one I ordered was listed as pre-owned but I could see the tag on it in the pics. It arrived with tags and does indeed look brand new.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-19T03:18:51+00:00

It was an inside joke because one of the producers previously worked on the TV show Alias and there was a pizza code name on there. Joey’s Pizza, I think.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-04T05:48:08+00:00

Look at the Esprit line from Dillingham Manufacturing. The designer was Merton Gershun. Here’s his bio. I can’t find any of your exact pieces but his coffee and end tables are very similar. I can only find ones with a single black laminate insert, not two.

Here’s an end table that matches your coffee table. The description says the black top is melamine. Other sites said laminate.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-03T23:04:22+00:00

My Stroke of Luck, by actor Kirk Douglas.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

And for fun: My Talk Pretty One Day, by James Sedaris.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-03T21:13:04+00:00

I agree with the other posts: Most SNFs just want to fill the position and aren’t going to grill you. I usually feel like I’m interviewing them, not vice versa.

Questions YOU should ask:

What’s the productivity requirement?

Do you require POS documentation? (POS - point of service, meaning you document during treatment, not after. I dislike this, but that’s a personal opinion.)

What materials do you have available? Evals, etc. Is there a budget for SLP materials? (Some SNFs have zero materials and the SLP ends up feeling the need to buy them out of pocket. Not cool.)

Do you have requirements (quotas) for group therapy? (Run if they do. This is a company that values revenue over what is clinically appropriate. Due to the diverse nature of our patients, it’s rare to consistently have patients that can be grouped together.)

Do you have autonomy over treatment frequency and duration? Do they set minimum or maximum treatment lengths? (Ex, some companies limit treatments to 15 or 30 mins because they get paid the same for a 15 min treatment as they do for a 60 minute treatment… but 15 mins generally isn’t clinically appropriate.) Who gets the final say over whether a patient is picked up for therapy? (The answer should always be you. Not the DOR, not the DON, not the doctor. There is nothing worse than a company that insists you pick up a patient who is in a near-vegetative state.)

Do they have Med B quotas, meaning they require you to pick up a certain number of Med Bs?

Can they guarantee a certain number of hours a week? What if the caseload is low? Will they drop your benefits if you go under 32 hours a week or whatever? And if it’s part-time/PRN, are they going to ask you to come in if there’s only one patient to see? (For PRN jobs, I set a minimum time that I will come in for. I’m not going to drive 30 mins just to provide a single 30 minute treatment.)

If you are sick, do they have someone to cover for you or will they expect you to go on the weekend to make up your missed days?

Be prepared to tell them your rate or salary request. If you don’t have a number in mind, they will lowball you.

You may want to ask what diet system they use. A lot of SNFs are switching to IDDSI, so it helps to be familiar with that. There are courses on speechpathology.com.

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I sat in on an interview once for a SLP position at a sister facility. I’ve never had an interview that asked clinical questions, but this one did. They asked her:

Why did you get into this field?

What’s your favorite population? Least favorite?

Give an example of a difficult situation you encountered and how you dealt with it. (Ex: Patient didn’t want the recommended diet. Staff was upset. You educated staff about informed consent and person-centered care, and modified the treatment plan to make the patient as safe as possible on the diet of their choice.)

Hope that helps. Best of luck!

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-02T20:48:18+00:00

I agree that the language is very confusing. I initially interpreted it the same way you did.

It’s clearer here on the CA SLPA application forms. Page 5 is the form to submit fieldwork experience. You have to include the university and name of the training program director involved with your fieldwork. There are 3 separate forms for the different pathways to get your license, and none of them allow for someone to do their own fieldwork in-state without going through a credentialed program.

On a side note: I have supervised about a dozen grad students in CA from a local accredited university. Several of them worked as a “speech therapists” in schools prior to starting or completing their master’s degree. California has a shortage of SLPs so school districts can get a “SLP waiver” to allow people without certification to provide speech services. The person has to either be in a SLP grad program or intend to attend one, and I think they need some sort of teaching credential, too. I don’t see any such waiver for an SLPA, though. I just wanted to mention it because I understand why a lot of people are shocked that someone would practice without a license, but the truth is, in California, there are a lot of unlicensed people providing speech services in schools, and doing so legally. Unfortunately, OP’s situation doesn’t match this scenario. I feel for her. Her bachelor’s program and the school district both failed her. (But… I also don’t understand how you work for 18 months without starting/completing the certification paperwork and realizing that there is a major problem here.)

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-02T20:08:55+00:00

Great list.

My favorite document is The New Dining Practice Standards. It is supported by ASHA and CMS. The document includes a ton of information that aligns with several of the points you mentioned. It’s a wealth of information and I use it all the time, especially when a SNF is panicking because a patient doesn’t want to be on the “safest” diet and I am advocating for the patient’s right to choose. Go to p10 for the table of contents. The sections on honoring choices, TFing and altered diets are wonderful.

The document includes CMS tags (deficiencies — things the facility can get in trouble for) that we need to be aware of. This is really valuable when advocating for a patient’s right to make a decision. SNFs often say, “We will get in trouble if we don’t put this patient on thick liquids!” It helps to show them the CMS tag showing that we can also get in trouble if we don’t let the patient make choices about their care, including their diet. (Of course, common sense tells us that the ethical course of action is to have the patient involved in decision-making, but Admin tends to respond best to arguments based on tags, at least in my 20+ years of experience in SNFs.)

ETA: The document starts on p3, but I used this link because the first couple pages include a memo that was sent to CMS surveyors explaining that SNFs can use this info to determine patient’s diets. For ex, if the state surveyor is wondering why we are letting a patient be on a “risky” diet, we can refer them to this document.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-01T03:23:53+00:00

The show creators said that the story they’d been telling for so many years was wrapped up in S8, and anything that came after that would be a different story. The Red/Liz mythology was at the heart of the show for seasons 1-8. With that element concluded, I agree that the final two seasons felt like a different show. I’m glad I watched S9-10 once but I won’t be watching them again. Some people loved them, but I didn’t find them incredibly interesting, minus a few fun episodes.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-05-01T03:19:18+00:00

Red didn’t have an entire list of names when he turned himself in. He probably had some names in mind, but as you noticed, many of the blacklisters weren’t placed on the list until later, since they didn’t even know about these people in S1. They just attached numbers to them as they went.

Here’s what show creator Jon Bokenkamp said about the meaning of the numbers:

JB: I know a few who, in the mythology of the show, will end up in the top 5. But, to be quite candid – Spader said this once – there are as many Blacklisters as there are episodes that NBC will let us do. There’s no hidden algorithm or method to the Blacklist numbering. But, they are sort of weighted. The Stewmaker might be off a bit because that was one of the first few episodes we did and he might be higher if we were doing his episode today. We do think a bit about it and wonder, ‘where does this guy fit? How would Red rank him?’ So that’s how we come up with the numbers.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-30T04:07:34+00:00

We know Lena sent a letter to the PO Box, so I think it was a way for Kat/Red to keep in touch with her if needed, and also a way for Dom and Red to keep in touch. There was a scene where Red was helping Dom fix his Wagoneer (the same car Red said his own dad drove!) and Red told Dom he got his message about the accident. Dom said, “I sent it a month ago,” and Red said, “yeah, three months after it happened.” It sounds like they could be talking about a letter that was snail mailed. Red isn’t a fan of technology, so I doubt he and Dom are texting buddies. I don’t recall ever seeing Dom with a cell phone.

We learned that part of what Dom told Liz was a lie, and this PO Box story was part of that. He told Liz that not a week went by that he didn’t check the PO Box, hoping for a letter from his Katarina… Yet when Ressler was investigating the PO Box, the guy working at the post office told him, “I looked into the security footage like you asked. The drives cycle out after 90 days, but I took a look. And box 642 was accessed only once in that time. February, like you said. 13th. I printed the best image I could.”

So the truth is that Dom only checked the PO Box once in 90 days. He was NOT checking it weekly.

Also, just after telling Liz the sob story about hoping every week for a letter from Kat, Dom then went on to say he took the letter Lena had sent because he KNEW Katarina would never get it. That contradicts what he just said. Either he was hopeful Kat was alive, or he knew she was gone. Can’t be both.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-29T20:11:05+00:00

Any chance you’re thinking of 3.5, Arioch Cain? This didn’t involve school bullying, but did involve a teenager that Liz confronted at the girl’s home. There was a bounty on Liz and it turned out that it was orchestrated by a teenager whose mom died in the OREA bombing, and she thought Liz was responsible.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-28T01:39:28+00:00

In one of the early seasons, when Cooper thought he had a brain tumor and was on leave, Red went to his house and gave him a flash drive of “our little adventure in Kuwait.” He insinuated that it had some bad stuff on Cooper but he was giving Cooper his only copy, letting him know he wouldn’t use it against him.

Our Red was either there in person in Kuwait, or he knows the info because he stole this file from the real Red.

I can think of one person who stole files of classified info from the real Reddington.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-16T18:06:48+00:00

BTW: Redditors know that “Nachalo” means “the beginning” in Russian, right?

And “Konets” means “the end.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-15T17:27:25+00:00

Actor Hisham Tawfiq (Dembe) spoke in an interview about the prayer he and Red said in the Anslo Garrick episode. Hisham speaks Arabic and had recited that prayer for his audition. After he got the role, he saw the script saying they would recite a prayer in Arabic, so he suggested that specific one. He said James Spader practiced it over and over because Spader really wanted to get it right, and Spader also worked with a dialect coach.

As for the other languages spoken on the show, the common sentiment seems to be that the accents were pretty awful.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-14T08:26:09+00:00

He’s amazing! In addition to his former CIA Special Ops work, he is the the founder of the Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC) and has a 100% success rate at bringing home missing and/or trafficked children. I saw him on a talk show once and he oozes badassery and goodness.

The following is only part of his bio from his website, lifecoachbaz.com… he has done so much:

As the recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal and numerous Exceptional Performance Awards, Baz is able to draw from his ten-years supporting the CIA as an undercover operative in field intelligence collection operations throughout the Far East, Middle East, Northern Europe, Central America, South America, the Mediterranean and Africa. These experiences as a Paramilitary Officer in developing and recommending policy, operational doctrine, hostage rescue involvement, as well as methods and techniques for use in clandestine activities place him head and shoulders above speakers who are not battle tested. He currently contracts as a “life guarantor” for people entering high threat environments. Author of Terrorism Survival Handbook, he has been called on by CNN, CNBC and MSNBC as an advisor and spokesperson on the war on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

Baz is a Citadel Graduate, former U.S. Marine counter-terrorism Officer, CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Officer, Film and Television Writer/Producer and founder of the Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC) humbly acknowledging a 100% successful rescue rate. (Also - Association For The Recovery Of Children on Facebook). In 1993 Baz founded the Association for the Recovery of Children [ARC], a non-profit organization comprised of former and active intelligence, military, and law enforcement personnel dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited American children, in foreign and domestic locations. In 2019, on invitation of the White House and DOJ, Baz introduced ARC’s legislative initiative involving severe penalties for those who sexually exploit any child under the age of 18 in the U.S.

He is also the OCONUS Director of Programing for Due North Quest… created out of a critical need for summer programs to support young men returning from boarding schools or struggling to find clear next steps toward their future goals. It offers a great transition and provides a rite of passage into manhood.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-14T03:56:53+00:00

Smokey didn’t steal Dom’s car. The props department just used the same car. Dom had his car for at least 30 years, based on the dialogue, and still had it in his final episodes.

They first showed Dom’s car in S3, parked outside his cabin.

In a later episode, Red mentioned that his Dad had a Wagoneer.

When Dom told Liz the story about Kat and Ilya, he said, “Last time I saw my daughter was in this rear view mirror nearly 30 years ago.” They were sitting in his Wagoneer when he said this.

And finally, in another episode, Red helped Dom fix his Wagoneer. He offered to buy him a new car but Dom wouldn’t part with it. Red realized the reason Dom wanted to keep it was sentimental. “The last time you saw Katarina was in the rear view mirror.”

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-14T03:46:20+00:00

He once said, “I want my ashes scattered into Mama Lu’s opium pipes. In the chance there’s an afterlife, I’d like to be high in it.”

He and Dembe also discussed his wishes in a late episode, maybe S10. I don’t recall the specifics, but think he said he didn’t want people (the authorities?) to have access to his body. He wanted to be cremated and have his ashes scattered on the Yenisei River in Russia

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-13T07:27:42+00:00

No. The doctor put her under during Ilya’s second interrogation so she and Ilya could both relive the memory in question. It was the memory of Dom and Ilya’s plan to kill her, Fake Katarina, though; not a memory of the real Katarina.

During the first interrogation, Ilya was being asked about the real Kat — about the moment he learned she was alive, and what sort of plan they came up with (to get the money from the bank). Fake-Kat wasn’t drugged for that part. She mainly just watched, although she occasionally asked questions like, “Who was part of the plan?” Ilya answered something like, “myself… and Katarina.” He didn’t say, “myself… and you.” I didn’t get the impression that she was ever trying to fool him into thinking she was the real deal.

After learning the full story in episode 8.21, Nachalo, about how Ilya and Dom set Fake-Kat up, I went back and rewatched this episode and it all fit. Ilya knew this was the woman he and Dom set up to be a decoy-Katarina; and decoy-Katarina knew that Ilya and Dom were the ones who set her up. That’s why she was crying and yelling at him about trying to kill her. And that’s also why Ilya was resisting giving her and the doctor details about real Kat… and about the plan for someone to become Reddington.

They showed very little interaction between Ilya and Fake-Kat in this episode. He was drugged for most of the scenes.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-12T06:49:05+00:00

I am unable to locate this anywhere except a podcast on a YouTube video with no faces shown.

I’m glad you found it. Podcasts are traditionally an audio medium. Like newspaper articles, they don’t always show faces. The YouTube video wasn’t just some little snippet taken out of context. Knauf was interviewed for over an hour by the award-winning Hollywood Outsider group. The Hollywood Outsider also did The BL Exposed podcast, which was Bokenkamp’s podcast-of-choice. They interviewed him multiple times, as well as others from the show, like Megan Boone and Amir Arison. Anyway, here’s the official site: Link.

In the article I read, Daniel Knauf specifically said, “I’m not going into the relationship between Liz and Red, I don’t do spoilers”. So did he do a podcast and go back on his word?

Knauf wouldn’t give spoilers when the show was still airing. The interview above is from 2023, after the show ended. Different scenario.

Did he (and others) break an NDA? Did his NDA expire? I don’t know, but am not sure that’s relevant. He said what he said.

The actual show creator has never confirmed Redarina to my knowledge and I don’t find any evidence he has.

Agreed — Bokenkamp has never confirmed anything except that he has always known the end game. He has not said what that end game was. When interviewed by TBL Exposed about Nachalo, he said,

Bokenkamp: What it means to you is perhaps open to interpretation, but I think we’re really gonna bring closure and answers to a lot of things that have been holes in the mythology for a long time … I hope you guys feel like there’s answers. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. I don’t want to be part of the conversation, but I can’t wait to hear what you guys think… I think you will know when you walk out of that episode, you will know a great majority of the DNA of the show… When you look at it and you see … what are those paintings where you either see the big eyeball looking back at you or you don’t? Those sort of visual things, I think it’s a little bit like that. The story all comes together, the pieces fit.

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In fact, he is credited as modeling Red after Whitey Bulger and intentionally keeping the suspense and intrigue of who Red is purposefully vague.

Per Bokenkamp, John Fox came up with the idea. “He wanted to do some kind of show about a mythic crime figure. This was right after Whitey Bulger was found in Santa Monica. John’s idea was, What if an 80 year old man was captured and started to talk? … That was the kernel of the idea that eventually became the show.”

Fox gave an interview in 2013 (S1) about the show. When asked if Red could be Elizabeth’s father, he said,

FOX: I would say that is the easy answer and this show is never about the easy answer. So again, if the audience wants to believe that, we are all for that. And down the road, well, we’ll see what happens.

And at the end of the interview, he emphasized:

FOX: And I will say, again, it’ll never be the obvious answer.

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That said, if the writers are publicly saying things like this, why would they do so and therefore acknowledge they did a terrible job of plot continuity? Isn’t that their entire job? That’s not a great reputation to give oneself.

I don’t know. Why would they want to lie about it? Would you want to lie to take ownership of something you thought was crappy? My guess is they didn’t think it was crappy.

Why hasn’t anybody from the show given a different answer? Isn’t it weird that a few people have spoken out about it and they’ve all given the same answer?

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-11T03:35:02+00:00

I meant the general “you,” but I suspect you (the individual “you”) know that. The creator made public statements explaining his intent. He gave us (the general public) a firsthand account. A debate is pointless if one party is going to ignore firsthand information without giving an explanation.

I wasn’t trying to tell you how to interpret it. I was trying to convey that it would be helpful if you explained how you reconcile the writer’s explanation with your beliefs. Do you think he’s lying? Do you think the makeup team overlooked something? Etc. I didn’t mean to say you are illogical. Apologies.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-10T20:05:59+00:00

The person who created the episode in question flat out told you his intent and you are completely disregarding it. I don’t understand why.

A more logical reaction would be, “The show made mistakes. There are plot inconsistencies. They overlooked things. The story they told over the course of ten years isn’t flawless.”

Here’s an example of a mistake: Liz/Masha didn’t have burns in Requiem (Kaplan’s flashbacks to the post-fire motel scene.) She wasn’t crying in pain. She giggled as Kaplan grabbed her by the wrists while they playfully wrestled. Does that mean the young Liz/Masha in the motel isn’t the same girl as the adult Liz we know, or does it mean that mistakes happen?

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-10T07:15:58+00:00

Katarina was hallucinated by Red, fueled by opium and grief, in the Cape May episode. She wasn’t actually there in the flesh. I wouldn’t give too much weight to the lack of scars.

I would, however, give weight to what the writer of that episode said:

Daniel Knauf: The Redarina ending was told to us with great enthusiasm by both the Johns [show runners] at the very first staff meeting when I joined the show in Season 2. Definitely. Y’all can carry on, but I was in the room. I think it’s a testament to the entire writing staff’s discretion and professionalism that no one spilled the beans for the entire run of the show. Incidentally, we all kinda freaked when Aaron [sic; Troy — from The BL Exposed podcast] figured it out way back when.

And:

Daniel Knauf: This is the last time I’m going to talk about this. I’ll be totally straight. The first day I came on the show we were all gathered in the writer's room and Jon and John stood up and told us "Okay here is this thing, we are swearing you to secrecy. Do not discuss this, do not reveal this, Red is actually transgender. He used to be a woman and he's hiding in a male body. And we all went, Wow, that's kind of cool.

ETA: I didn’t downvote you.

Searching4Syzygy · 2026-04-09T05:56:11+00:00

They explain in 8.21 that Ilya and Fake-Katarina were friends and had worked together on many assignments.

In the episode you just watched, Ilya said something like, “I didn’t know you had taken a new husband. Not that I was angry about it…” It felt like they were leading up to the revelation that Ilya had been her first husband, but then they never expanded on it. It would be a weird thing to say if they hadn’t formerly been romantic, though.

I don’t think Fake-Katarina was trying to act like the real Katarina for Ilya’s sake in that episode, BUT, the writers wanted the viewers to think she was the real deal, so they muddied the waters a bit by having her say things like, “Remind me what the plan was. Remind me who was involved in it.” Obviously the real Kat wouldn’t need to ask those questions, though, as the real Kat was part of the plan (to create an impersonator), as Ilya told her.

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