Previously on 101 Reasons To Fire Your Contestant Screeners: Kendra discovered that if you can’t put the word “good” in front of it and use it to describe the practice of not spitting when you talk, it’s really better to stay away from the word “breeding” altogether. Gus experienced a moment of revelation right here in the middle of this here game show, leaving thousands of confused viewers who saw this listed under “reality shows” to scratch their heads, pop another mouthful of caramel corn, and say, “When do they get naked and eat the bugs?” Lori and Bolo wanted…
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I had to go to our other location today and try to swap out one of our brand new Windows XP computers for a somewhat older computer at the “onsite.” This project was laid upon me late yesterday, and I was told to go out today after lunch. Turns out that the lady at the onsite would really, really have preferred I come out in the morning, and I was missing half the technical info I needed, and had to call the “hardware” help desk twice, and learned way, way more about how SABRE sets connect together (physically putting the…
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… to read this book. It’s true crime, a genre I normally like a lot if well written. But it’s all mixed up with the author’s outlook, personal problems, and some rather shameless self-justifying prose defending his reasons for wanting to gamble, frequent strip joints, and buy glitzy jewelry in the interests of “color” or “background” or “research.” It’s called Positively Fifth Street and I was positively certain I’d never manage to finish it if I read the author’s “background” stories about playing poker in Vegas, so I stuck to the courtroom drama and dramatized reconstructions of a famous Sin…
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Finally got around to checking for a new full-length recap at TWOP today – this is for the Budapest episode of Amazing Race. Tonight’s episode is some kind of clip/highlights show, perhaps using some of the online clips from the CBS website? I don’t know, this is a clip-show TAR is a first for me, too. I hope there will be hints regarding the fate of Lori and Bolo, sleepin’ on the bench. In the meantime, I can enjoy some savory snark from Miss Alli.
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Just in case my sister needs ideas for next Christmas: she’s one of those people that starts shopping in January. I’ll have to decline the kind offer from the same site for their Bobblehead Jesus page linked to the Holy Moly site, though. I don’t think Father Ted would go for it. Happy Blogoversary To Me (and Rance) I got a couple of emails this week reminding me that Rance first started blogging about this time last year. As it happens, so did I, about 2 weeks earlier. And what with the holidays and shopping and screwing around last week…
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It's that most wonderful time of the year, the season of Xcess! And it's not quite over, as after a successful morning's buffet breakfast and an afternoon of lying around contentedly with full tummies, we headed to the home of nearby friends for a Solstice party of eating, geeking out, and comparing holiday horror stories. It was a really lovely meal, with an actual Christmas goose, served with "goose juice" (Cumberland sauce) instead of gravy and lots of delicious side dishes. Also, there was a flirtatious kitty to wheedle, and wacky Xcess holiday tunes. The day ended on a fun,…
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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…