Category: Television

The Amazing Race: Give Us This Day Our Daily Hypocrisy »

Previously on, The Amazing Race…
Skunk-haired female Weaver:
“We’re all Christians, we don’t care if the other teams like us, we aren’t going to stoop to their level.”
A few minutes later…
“Dear God, please help us find our way to the clue and help us beat the other teams–if that’s your will, amen.”
Still later, after getting yielded [...]

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Shaking the Tree
This update is a bit of a brain dump in the interest of putting up something new. Nothing as interesting as B-Fest has happened in the last 10 days.
Things I’ve Done
Worked on lots of flow charts. This job is exercising my brain and eyes in lots of ways and it’s easy to see [...]

Survivor »

Survivor: Lesbos
What in the frickety heck is going on with this season of Survivor? There is some seriously bizarre lesbian business happening this time around and I was going to skip blogging about it but decided after this morning’s political rant we could use some lighter fare here.
As far as I’m aware, there is only [...]

Television Season »

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
This is quite simply one of THE most blatantly manipulative shows on the television today. And in my opinion it is also brilliantly timely, incredibly watchable, and an absolute marketing/advertising triumph, particularly for Sears.
And honestly, I can’t stand Ty Pennington, but I find myself actually looking forward to this show from week [...]

Nasty Pizza »

Stuff I Learned This Week
The Spinach Alfredo/Chicken Tomato pizza from Papa John’s is nasty. Wicked nasty. Also, their chicken wings? Mediocre.
It is not possible to watch too many episodes of CSI. The marathon showings on Spike TV have entertained us all week long. Between that and Law & Order, I am this close to being [...]