There is a lot to say about the massacre in Orlando. There is my sympathy for the victims and their loved ones, all of whom must be kept close in our hearts. They were victims of a horrible crime committed solely because of who they loved, a heartbreaking tragedy that we must always remember. There […]

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This isn’t going to be thoughts on the actual issue; I made the decision back in about April 2007 (during the execrable ‘Countdown to Final Crisis’ and ‘Amazons Attack’) that I wasn’t going to be spending any more money on DC’s comics without a wholesale shakeup of their senior management. Apart from a few good […]

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This is the most depressing goddamn book I’ve read in ages. Everyone should go out and read it right now. Okay, that probably needs a little background. Like, for example, what the hell I’m talking about. ‘Shrill’ is the new memoir by Lindy West (of Jezebel and GQ fame), which jumps around a bit chronologically […]

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And we’re back! Phil recaps not just the episode this time but the entire season, reminding us that over the course of eleven previous legs, the happy sparkly friendly Tumblrvinstagramchat generation was gradually whittled down to perpetual bickerfest Dana and Matt, barely competent but adorable and lucky Sheri and Cole, and five-leg winner Tyler and […]

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For those of you who haven’t seen it, ‘Civil War’ was a great movie. It was an incalculably vast improvement on the comics, with characterization that felt more grounded in the previous movies and less crammed with Millar-esque swerves for the sake of swerves (part of this is that much of the genuinely despicable stuff […]

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And we’re back! Phil helpfully reminds us that last week’s episode was mostly about the Double-U-Turn, plus a heaping helping of fetch-and-carry, and that it resulted in the final exit of the Frisbee Boys. We’re down to the Final Four now, and the nice times are over. Right?

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And we’re back! We begin the episode with Phil’s reminder that Rachel had a hard time lugging around buckets of water, while Brodie had a hard time putting a kite together. Brodie and Kurt escaped elimination by the skin of their teeth, but it’s a sobering reminder of just how much Kurt has carried the […]

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As I have previously mentioned, the one bright spot about the existence of the otherwise extremely uninspiring and uninteresting ‘Batman v Superman’ movie (really, I remember having huge misgivings as soon as the project was announced–Zack Snyder, talking about DKR as his inspiration, feels like it could be the dictionary definition of “toxic masculinity”) was […]

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And we’re back! Phil starts the episode by reminding us that Kurt and Brodie managed to beat a camel in a bike race and still needed to use the Express Pass, thanks to Brodie’s poor performance at Roadblocks, while Sheri and Cole got so badly lost that they were briefly concerned that they had departed […]

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I feel like I should say something, as the site’s resident “Doctor Who” fan, about the casting of Pearl Mackie. The problem is that I will then have to expand out, “Um…good, I guess?” into a full blog post. But with that said, here goes. I have no feelings on Pearl Mackie as an actress. […]

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And we’re back! Phil starts us off with a reminder that last week in Georgia, everyone stabbed themselves, then danced until one team (Scott and Blair) finally keeled over dead. Or at least eliminated. On with the Race!

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And we’re back! Last time, as Phil reminds us, everyone went through Armenia looking for the Express Pass, which went to Kurt and Brodie while Sheri and Cole avoided elimination only due to a conveniently timed double leg. We rejoin the action with them sprinting to catch up…which isn’t that hard, because everyone’s leaving on […]

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While it does, unfortunately, appear that Warner Brothers has not responded to the mediocre performance of ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ with any kind of interesting panic (although Marvel is amusingly enough flaunting their confidence in ‘Civil War’ with a preview screening in twenty-five cities a full month in advance to build positive word-of-mouth), […]

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And we’re back! Phil helpfully reminds us about the events of a couple of weeks ago, where Erin and Joslyn failed to sprint through knee-deep snow fast enough to literally take flight. Oh, and Tyler and Korey took first again as part of their “First Place Exchange Program” with Brodie and Kurt. On to the […]

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Those of you hoping for a review of ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ on this website will probably need to look elsewhere; I’ve never been particularly interested in seeing Zack Snyder’s take on the Batman/Superman rivalry, to say nothing of the fact that I’ve always felt that giving the two a “rivalry” was a […]

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