I’ve been so busy lately I got out of the habit of checking TWOP for new recaps. So tonight I’ve got two to catch up on: Television Without Pity » The Amazing Race » Recaps & Extras » Season 6 Episode 9 … in which our long international nightmare finally came to an end on a beautifully woven rug with the Amazing Race logo in Ethiopia. She gripes most tellingly: So to sum up, of the six episodes preceding the one you are about to watch, two resulted in eliminations. You want to know why the season is dragging like…
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AAR is broadcasting live from Washington DC today. Their website notes: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Since Nixon Amid the most biggest (Ed.: hee!) security lockdown ever for an inauguration, a new CBS/New York Times poll shows that President Bush has the lowest approval rating at the start of a second term since Richard Nixon. Bush’s 49 percent approval is below Nixon’s rating of 51 percent in January 1973 and Bush trails Bill Clinton’s 60 percent and Ronald Reagan’s 62 percent at similar points. Every time an administration official repeats the words “mandate” and “majority” let’s just remember that approval rating,…
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At last! Jonathan and Victoria were eliminated through their own failure to read the clue, and in spite of getting Adam and Rebecca to Yield Freddy and Kendra. That’s the last ugly hat we’ll ever see, and the last time Jonathan will strip his shirt off for no reason. Unfortunately, he stripped down to his bright red bike shorts for a mud-related task. And that was way too much man package than I ever wanted to see, frankly. Just HOW many ugly hats did this guy pack? He had a new one every week! And this week he busted out…
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The Amazing Race (2001) Availability: NOT YET RELEASED: The studio is currently not producing this title on DVD, but to be notified when it is available, enter your e-mail address at right. You’ll also be voting for this release; we’ll let the studio know how many customers are waiting for this title. Starring Phil Keoghan, See more Encoding:Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.) Rated: Unrated Studio: (studio name not provided) From IMDb: Quotes & Trivia ASIN: B00005JNOH Oh, you know we desperantly want this. Or, I…
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Another recap-let saved for posterity: Another unlovely leg unfolds as a rush through a gate leads to a couple of bumped heads and an explosion of temper from Freddy that has not been hinted at until now. You know it’s getting bad when Jonathan is telling you to calm down. It turns out that water polo isn’t very hard, but spicy soup is extraordinarily difficult, and may just wind up in a puddle under your chair if you’re not careful. But seriously — don’t puke it back into the bowl, because that is really disgusting. Jonathan does some more out-of-control…
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At the next challenge, the McLeods were the only team to choose paddling a boat on the Danube River instead of scoring a goal against a Hungarian water polo player. “We had no idea that the national team was so terrible,” said Hera. “They didn’t block one shot. If I would have known that, I would’ve said, `Dad, put a Speedo on. We’re playing water polo.'” Gus called the decision not to don skimpy swim gear “one of the best things not to happen on national television.” Dear Gus, I love you. Enjoy that next beer. Dear Hera, you are…
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This book is getting all kinds of attention. I’ve just started it – I think I’m on about the second chapter. So far it reads like an agreeable, drily humorous novel by Jonathan Swift or Lawrence Sterne (it’s a lot like Tristram Shandy in tone and era, except with wizards). Nobody corresponding to “My Uncle Toby” yet, though.
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Previously: Well, there are no previouslys, except in the sense that the entire episode is nothing but a string of previouslys, so it’s not clear that anything can be considered to be the previouslys to what happened previously. Look at me, bending time and space. You can thank me later when the pizza that you order on Thursday arrives on Wednesday afternoon. Miss Alli attempts to deal with the time paradox posed by a TAR clip show depicting events that happened months ago, but they’re new to us so we’re all exercised and outaged over assy-brat behavior now. So where’s…
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I’ve been chuckling evilly while reading this book; Bill Bryson looks very cuddly and teddy-bear-ish, but writes like a born-again curmudgeon. He’s just about to start the West portion of his self-drive nostalgia trip, headed toward Colorado. Which is pretty much how we started our epic road trip last May, so I’m looking forward to going along for the ride. Also in “Books” news, I’ve added links to my All Consuming Favorite Books and Currently Reading pages. Apparently both pages have newsfeeds, so I may add links for those later. For now I’ll continue using BookQueue in conjunction with All…
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Currently struggling to get BookQueueToo implemented. It doesn’t seem to want to work with MT2.661, but works well with MT3.x etc. Other places to check: MT Plugins Amazon Web Services Blog WYSIWYG, with a helpful hint about which folder/directory it should be in. I ended up uninstalling BookQueue, BookQueueToo, RE-installing BQ2, and then uninstalling it and trying to reinstall the original BQ. With me so far? The books are still showing up on the blog, but now I can’t access the old interface, probably because David needs to re-set the permissions on the original version. Fooey, I don’t want to…