He’s a longtime reader of this blog! The Three Lies of Politics Seriously, it is scary how hard he is sticking to something I wrote in 2010. His primary “campaign plank”, if you actually want to call it that, is “We’re going to build a big wall to keep all the Mexicans out and we’ll […]

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And we’re back! Phil starts off by reminding us that Blair and Brodie are a sort of maybe kind of thing, and that co-operation sounds really awesome unless you’re the one team nobody is helping. Brittany and Jessica are gone, we’re down to eight teams, and it’s starting to feel a bit like a competition […]

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And we’re back! Phil once again reminds us of Erin’s claustrophobia, Rachel’s money-counting problems, and Darius and Cameron’s Race-ending mistake. On with the Race!

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And we’re back! Phil reminds us that Darius and Cameron made a huge, disastrous mistake, but another team made an even bigger mistake so they’re still around this week. (Not that this is going to turn into a pattern or anything…) Oh, and apparently people were planning to feed fish offal to stray dogs, which […]

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And we’re back! Last time, as Phil reminds us, everyone was just hanging out at home with their bags packed when they got an unexpected call reminding them that it was time to start the Race! Ashley nearly got killed by rogue fireworks, but Scott and Blair came in last. But it was a non-elimination […]

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So since I last wrote about the 2016 race for the Republican nomination, eleven candidates have dropped out (plus probably a few too obscure to even mention), leaving the field with Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump. Basically, the field has been pared of all the no-hopers and […]

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And we are back with a brand-new season! This time out, Phil is not at the Starting Line…because there is no Starting Line. Instead, he’s waiting for the Racers in Mexico, and in keeping with this season’s theme of “everyone is a social media celebrity”, everyone is at home surfing the Internet. (With their bags […]

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This Friday brings us yet another season of ‘The Amazing Race’. Which means yes, more TAR recaps incoming! I would like to make a tiny request, though, as we prepare for the season. Consider this a polite attempt to pre-empt a certain type of comment. Can we not call these people any variant of “fame-addicted […]

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Sorry for the delay in this post–I got hit with a bad cold over the weekend, and I’m just now to the point where I can think about saying anything coherent. (I don’t know if I can actually say anything coherent, but I can at least pretend now.) And I figured I’d talk about ‘Moon […]

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First, it’s important to note that I’ve seen none of ‘Arrow’ or ‘Flash’. That’s not because I dislike them or think the CW should stay out of the superhero business after ‘Smallville’ or any number of other Cranky Internet Person reasons; it’s just because there are only so many hours in the day and I’m […]

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There are probably two target audiences for ‘Welcome to Night Vale – A Novel’. Neither of them will be entirely satisfied. The first is the actual fanbase of “Welcome to Night Vale”, the podcast that began in 2012 and has been spreading through the collective consciousness of geekdom to the point where Stephen Colbert brought […]

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I just finished ‘Raising Steam’, the last of the “adult” Discworld novels (although of course, Terry Pratchett famously considered the difference to be nothing more than branding). It’s the saddest of ironies that even though Pratchett’s memory was failing him by then, this is really the most consciously retrospective of his novels; it is, even […]

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Q: So what is Axanar, anyway? Is it a prescription drug, or something? Wait, I think I read about this, it’s that “female Viagra” thing that– A: No, no, no. Axanar was a pivotal battle in the history of the Federation, fought by Garth of Izar before his descent into madness. It was taught to […]

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So since I’m not really sure that I’ve got anything to say about the new ‘Star Wars’ movie beyond, “Gee, that was pretty cool,” let’s talk trailers! Obviously, the trailer everyone is talking about is ‘Captain America: Civil War’, because I could watch a constant loop of Cap and Bucky beating the living shit out […]

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And we’re back! As always with the season finale, Phil takes the time to recap the humiliating exit of each and every team before reminding us that we’re down to a pair of reporters, a pair of superfans, and two people who most emphatically strain the definition of the word “pair”. And now, on with […]

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