Well, crap. I screwed up the priority on TiVo and Amazing Race: The Lame Edition didn’t record. On the other hand, we get to see Commander in Chief before Saturday, when it repeats. So every cloud has its silver lining. Last season, and every season before that, this would have been a catastrophe on an epic scale, but this season? Meh. So I’ll just make a note of who left first, and who arrived last and got eliminated. Godlewskis – Departed Philadelphia: First. Arrived Middleburg, VA: Third Gaghan – Departed: Second. Arrived: Seventh (ooooh! Burn!) Weaver – Departed: Second. Arrived:…
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Television Without Pity | The Amazing Race Season 8 Episode 1. Yep, it’s Miss Alli’s recap. I’m not done reading it. At least there’s plenty of raw material for her to snark with.
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Chicago Tribune | `Close to Home’ pilot is stuck on the dark side And so it does. On her first day back at her job as a prosecutor, that new mom, Annabeth Chase, learns that the fire that she spotted from her living room window was set by a woman who purposely set her home ablaze — with her two children inside. Chase, who has a perfect record as a prosecutor, is determined to put her neighbor in jail, until Chase learns that there is much more to the story of the unfortunate woman and her two kids, who, as…
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Dorothea sighs All the cool kids are going to see Serenity. And I’m not. Because public transportation around here sucks beyond belief, especially on weekends. Sigh. We saw the Big Damn Movie earlier today. After all the lead-up, it was satisfying to see it all on screen, although David warned me the ending might not be completely to my liking. And he was right, but it also wasn’t the standard neatly wrapped package devoid of loose ends. There was one sequence that seemed kind of unnecessary, and it’s not giving a spoiler away to mention that once again the climax…
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This was the Get Fuzzy from the day after we brought Riley home.
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Today’s an interesting day, all right. We’re hoping to visit Steve and hang out and see how he’s doing and what not. I was laughing earlier today, remembering when he and my husband David and I went out to dinner at Max and Erma’s up north, where Steve’s very cool nephew Benjy works. We have Benjy a ration of shit, and he very politely gave us a ration of shit right back, while taking care of our every niggling little request. That was a good time, I’ll remind Steve of that. Serenity opens tonight and it sucks that Steve probably…
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Oh, yes, it’s been posted to HIGHLA-L: Highlander in 30 seconds with bunnies. Of course, you knew where this category got its name, right? Right. Via **Dave
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Miss Alli checks in with her recaplet of the TAR8 premiere… you know, the one that I called an “interminable crawl to the Pit Stop.” The overnight opinions on TWOP are still mixed but not terribly enthusiastic, with some exceptions. Almost everyone thinks Godly Ma Weaver getting run over by an Amish buggy was a highlight, along with the appearance of our beloved Kevin and Drew. Who’re fine, by the way – Kevin’s already checked in at TWOP and gotten his post edited because he committed the sin of adding a signature (signed posts are frowned on there). So Miss…
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Hey! Amazing Race’s 8th season premieres tonight, and I’m really just very “meh” about it. I’m going to attempt to blog about each family in real time, more or less. I can’t find handy little thumbnail pictures, due to CBS’ use of Flash on the TAR8 website, but I’ll try to make do. The teams are: Gaghan (oh, I sense a nickname coming on) This family includes kids, and the daughter is a little too icky-poo cute for my admittedly unkidly taste. Schroeder – featuring a hawt daughter and a really sullen looking son. They’re from Louisiana, and had a…
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Oh, my GOD!! This Canadian band, The McDades, played at the Chicago Celtic Fest earlier today. This crappy cameraphone image does not do them justice. The music they play is just… so assured and totally off the scale (not the musical one, the incredibly ****in’ cool one). As you can probably tell, I pretty much took pictures with my cameraphone all day, but this is the only one that I really regret is not a much better quality image (okay, the one of Buckingham Fountain could be a little better, too). I’ll be getting a better cameraphone in a few…