Last night was…interesting. One of my roommates, Samantha, had gone to pick up pizza on account of how none of us felt up to cooking. I was in the living room watching TV when she got back, and I suddenly heard a startled yelp, the words, “No! No! Bad!” and a thumping noise. Naturally, I […]

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And we’re back! This time, the Race opens with a reminder that Logan and Chris can’t stop hating each other, Justin and Diana can’t stop winning, and Denise and James Earl will be meeting us next week at the finish line. On to this week’s episode!

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And we’re back! Phil recaps last week’s episode with a reminder that Chris counts manipulation as one of his Dunning-Kruger specialties, and that Josh and Tanner have trouble trying to do two full legs in the same time everyone else gets to do one. They’re out, Justin and Diana are in first again, and they’re […]

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 is coming back! Right now, they’ve got the funding to make three new episodes, which will probably feature Jonah Ray from the Nerdist as “Jonah Heston”, the guy who gets shot up into space and forced to watch cheesy movies by Felicia Day’s Kinga Forrester, daughter of Clayton Forrester and grand-daughter […]

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And we’re back! Last week, we went to Poland, and the Texans showed that they’re both nicer and less competent than they previously demonstrated. Luckily, a non-elimination leg gave them a reprieve…but can it last?

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Recovering from a migraine, so creativity just ain’t happening (I know, I know, what else is new) but here’s a blog post I did back in 2009 on my own blog, ‘Fraggmented’, inspired by a joke in the Cinematic Titanic release “Blood of the Vampire”. (And as an aside, if you’re at all a fan […]

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And we’re back! Phil reminds us that Justin and Diana bickered hard last week, but came in first, while the Chacs finally retired their catchphrase for good. On with the Race!

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There was a time, back around 15-20 years ago, when I was able to get genuinely enthused about “reunion projects”. They were much rarer back then–the archival nature of modern pop culture means that there’s always someone willing to throw a little money at any intellectual property to see whether or not their fans will […]

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Back again! I know, we’re settling into a schedule of recapping last week’s Race about two days before this week’s Race, but on the other hand you’re not just getting hammered with 12 straight posts of TAR content, so hopefully it evens out. Last week, of course, we had a lot of running around through […]

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Wow. That title sounds a lot more ominous than I planned. No, I was thinking about “the worst” not in the sense of the impending global war between the zombies and the Lizard People (sorry, folks, but this Tuesday is gonna suck) but in the sense of the way we define quality in entertainment, which […]

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When last we left our intrepid Racers, they were in Zimbabwe. Josh and Tanner continued their poor habit of underestimating the abilities of everyone who isn’t them, Logan and Chris amped up their long-simmering feud with each other, and Jazmine and Danielle went to the Pit Stop twice without having finished the leg and were […]

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Full disclosure: I was provided a free copy of this book by the author, David Kahn, for the express purpose of reviewing it on this website. I was not previously aware of his work and have no bias regarding him, but if you give me a free book I’ll happily read it and tell you […]

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Welcome back to the Race! Phil fills us in by reminding us of Josh and Tanner’s devious, brilliant perfect strategy to knock the Green Team out of the Race, which was marred only slightly by its complete and total failure on every level imaginable. We return to the Race, already in progress, as Josh and […]

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I did promise that I’d be providing you with content every week in between Race posts, because as much as I love writing them and as much as some of you love reading them there’s definitely a contingent of people who want something to break up the string of Race-related posts and I don’t blame […]

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I’m going to say right off the bat–this episode was great. It’s a Race-themed political thriller that has the seamless thematic unity of a Greek tragedy; we’ve got our hubris, our hamartia, our anagnorisis, and all in a story about two douchey fratboys who see a chance at a million bucks. This is the Race […]

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