Another recap is up, life is good, and another triffic time next week will be had on TAR. But for now, lament for what could have been: the Hamsterball Race of Champions, desperately going boingity boingity boingity down the hill and against each other and knocking each other off course trying to get to the finish line and the nearby Pit Stop. Ahh, if only the 3 trailing teams had a lick of navigating sense, hysteria might have broken out in a rolling wave through all US time zones and around the world. Aaaand inside the zorb, Colin gives the…

Gotta go, we’re off for a drive to celebrate our anniversary. When I get back, I’ve got a new recap to read. Huzzah for Miss Alli. To Baldly Go…

Racing ineptitude abounds as lost bags, new taxi arguments, and misread clues send the teams on a remarkably sloppy trip through India. Ah, India. Can Colin find a more intense way to make a brick? Can a Twinkie make a brick at all? Will Linda be this week’s arrested contestant? Will Nicole stop into a mosque for a latte? Will the locals hurt themselves pushing taxis for teams who don’t even want to help? And most of all, will Brandon shave his head for his half of a million dollars? The answers to these and other questions in this week’s…

Up at the counter, Colin repeats that he will pay 50 dollars, and no more. But he has no problem paying the 50 — “No problem,” he says. “Hakuna matata.” I’m sorry, my head just exploded from him being such an enormous tool. Ahhhhh. Miss Alli drops the hammer on the Biggest. Tool. Evar in her latest recap at TWOP. It’s late – I stopped reading here. I’m behind on my “reportage,” but it seems like a lot of other bloggers are offering their 2 dinar on the latest episodes. The “Colin’s going to jail” episode continues to enthrall folks,…

The TAR recaplet from Miss Alli at TWOP: Colin puts the Colin puts the “ugh” in “Ugly American” this week as he decides to stage an international incident over 50 dollars. Snarky local authorities (why yes, they do speak English…does Colin speak Swahili?), lectures on contract law, bugged-out eyes, and an aggravated girlfriend combine to make him appear to be just about the biggest jackhole they’ve ever put on this show. And remember, we know Wil. Elsewhere, the Twinkies learn that even stopped instincts are right twice a day, Chip learns that being a generous tipper is a dangerous game,…

Holy crap! It’s the Farscape trailer! Man, I have to remind myself what the backstory was with all the secondary (and tertiary) characters. This show was a Friday night staple for years, and I’d forgotten how much I’d enjoyed it. Via June, the speaker for the dead.

It’s official. Colin and Christie are my new favorite TAR team to despise. More taxi shenanigans, and boy did sweet karma bite him in the Xtreme ass: a flat tire, a tantrum in which he attempted to short the hapless taxi driver, and very nearly, a stay in the Kilimanjaro International Airport hoosegow. And still this team came in first and won a trip to the Caribbean. However, the laggards finished up most satisfactorily; the idiot twins drove right into the gate of the location of the skydiving stunt, but in spite of a big honkin’ red and yellow flag…

Two more of Miss Alli’s TAR recaps from TWOP: The amazing brothers get Philiminated out at the Egyptian “archeological dig,” because Lance just plain threw in the trowel. The amazing cousins end their bid to make Desperanto the lingua speak-o of the world, after Charla performs one more eating Roadblock that her cousin Mirna pushed off on her. Mmm! Yummy scrambled Tanzanian ostrich eggs!

Wow, I started out looking at this photographer’s website because there were gorgeous photos of monkeys that made them look like beautiful alien celebrities. Then I went and browsed under her actors link. And then I found 2 beautiful portraits of people from Firefly. One is of Mal and Inara, and the other is a group shot of the crew of the good ship Firefly. Captain Tightpants is in very good form, too. And there’s Zoe, who could kick ass if she ever faced Teyla of Atlantis in a fair or unfair fight. All of the photos are interesting –…

The mini-recap is up at TWOP for last night’s episode: Television Without Pity » It’s another week in Egypt as the teams climb down into a pyramid, get to know the local wildlife, and dig that crazy thingamajig that none of them has ever heard of. Mirna experiments with a theory that she can take your taxi even if your stuff is still in it, and when it doesn’t work the way she hopes it will, you will not be surprised to hear that she concludes that people who want to continue occupying their own taxis are “maniacs.” Even goats…