Actually, I do have a life, but the most interesting parts of it do not for blogging excitement make. However, last night’s TAR episode showed all kinds of karma queued up for our least favorite racing team, Victoria and her sidekick. Miss Alli pops out the mini-recap in near-record time: From Checkpoint Charlie to a morning date with bungee destiny, the teams literally get off to a flying start. After that, there is airport maneuvering resulting in the very satisfying foiling of Jonathan, who thinks that haranguing the airport staff is a good way to get the plane to come…
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Here’s something Joe might enjoy, since he’s a big, big, ginormous Stitch fan. I was telling David the other day about how Disney World has changed “Alien Encounter” into “Stitch’s Great Escape,” and here’s the little blue guy just in time for Christmas. Might have to check that out for a long weekend sometime…
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Guest recapper and Velcrometer blogger M. Giant does the honors for last week’s Ile de Goree-Berlin leg on The Amazing Race: In a leg that takes the teams to Berlin (the German city, not the ’80s New Wave band), Kendra and Jonathan indulge in some gasp-inducingly poor behavior. Don and MJ must beg, steal, or borrow cash for the leg. Kris and Jon are confused by the metro. Jonathan has a brief masquerade as a bearable human being, but his treatment of Victoria when they come in second nearly causes Phil to have no more words. And Don and MJ…
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Thomas Covenant Books In Film Deal Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I don’t care that Covenant’s character was unique (so far as I know; it’s a long time since I read a lot of fantasy novels) for his unbelief in the world he found himself in. I don’t care that he was a modern-day leper who found himself miraculously cured of his ailment soon after waking up in The Land, forgiven for his many and continuing transgressions by the inhabitants of the fantasy world that he refused to believe was real, and worshiped for his ability to defeat the Big Bad Evil…
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Amazing Race: How To Reflect on Human Depravity and Learn Absolutely NOTHING A picture is worth at least a thousand words, and every picture tells a story, too.
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SCI FI Channel confirmed that Farscape star Ben Browder will join the cast of SCI FI’s original series Stargate. Browder will join the cast in the show’s upcoming ninth season; no information on Browder’s role was available. Meanwhile, the show’s producer, MGM, is still working on a deal to bring back Stargate star Richard Dean Anderson (Gen. O’Neill) in some capacity. Oh, this could be good. Oh, very good. Can’t wait to see sparks fly between Carter and the new guy. I expect fanfic writers will be looking for different sparks than I am, but it’s all good, eh?
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Ow. For some reason my neck really hurts today. Probably too much time spent unched over, reading webpages. Also, it starts hurting if I try to use my cell phone for a lot of texting, wich is not good because it locked up and had to be swapped out for a new one. Thank goodness for warrantees; but unthank badness for not being able to pull all my phone numbers and snippets of quick text over from old to new. I’ve been working on vacation stuff at last. Should have booked the accomodations back in February when I yapped about…
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Chicago Tribune | Not so amazing Media attention focuses on TAR’s ugly, botoxed underbelly this season. A column at Entertainment Weekly has reader comments visible if you are a member of EW or AOL. There’s a lot of backlash there for Kendra’s uncool comments, also. In happier news from the same column: Ben Browder is joining the cast of SG-1! This is cause for a mighty “woo-hoo!”
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I missed doing a snarklist last week, so here’s this week’s remarks, hot off the airwaves. As before, the team member in bold did the Roadblock. However, I’ll be saving most of my snark for one team (as you might suspect). Kris/Jon Jonathan/Victoria Lori/Bolo Hayden/Aaron Freddy/Kendra Adam/Rebecca Gus/Hera Don/Mary Jean Right. There’s the list, and here’s my two cents’ worth…
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“I uncovered information that now leads me to question the immigration status of a person who had been in my employ as a housekeeper and nanny,” Mr Kerik said in a statement. “It has also been brought to my attention that for a period of time, during such employment, required tax payments and related filings had not been made.” Masterful use of the passive voice and other linguistic tricks to distance yourself from the issue there, Mr. Kerik. By the way, has anyone ever counted how many nominees of either party have scuppered themselves by employing illegal immigrants and paying…