Yeah, winning both the season and the record for most legs doesn't necessarily mean you're the best team ever. It might mean your competition was just that sad. If a team like Brendon and Rachel can make it to the final three, that should tell you all you need to know about who you were facing this season.

So, judging from last night, with his glasses and his hair mussed up a little, Scorsese looks disturbingly like Woody Allen. When in the hell did that happen?

Do you have a problem with

Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little Peri Gilpin lust. You just have to look past Roz's 90s-style high-waisted pants.

I also figured, enjoy it now, what with the sheer inanity of "serious" Castle returning next week with the ongoing conspiracy, contrivance-generator plot.

Eh, as soon as I realized this was their zombie episode, I knew it was going to be stupid, so I just turned off my brain and enjoyed it for what it was: a stupid-fun zombie episode. The only part I unequivocally disliked was the last shot of Castle breaking the fourth wall. That went from stupid-fun to straight-up…

Yeah, I never watched Survivor, either, so that might have helped my attitude. Or, who knows, maybe I would've liked them even more. I don't remember the specifics anymore of what sarahmas mentions, but I do recall thinking they were the best competitors on their first season and their loss was completely unjust. When…

Whatever other people may think of them, Rob and Amber are my favorite Amazing Race contestants. They were supportive of each other and rarely got snippy, they usually stayed positive, they were smart, focused, and physically capable, and unlike Art and JJ with their "strategizing," Rob was frighteningly effective at…

No, Dave's a dick. (Or at least the producers are giving him an edit to make us think so.) There might have been one or two exceptions, but it always seems that he makes Rachel give in. They might get equally frustrated, but he's easily the more bull-headed of the two and not at all gracious about it.

I don't have much to say about The War Machines as a serial, but there were a couple of times during closeups of Krimpton that I found myself thinking, "Wow, if you weren't cast in Planet of the Apes, someone wasn't doing their job." I don't know if I've ever seen anyone so closely resemble a chimpanzee. But…

Wait. Did the bot not only steal my comment from above but also like its own comment? That's . . . disturbing.

That might be the most terrifying thing I've heard all week. Jesus.

blue vodka lemonade, I never checked out 1408, but can it really be worse than Dreamcatcher?

Which is exactly why I'm afraid to reread The Corrections. I hate that feeling.

Hey, Joe. I just posted a long reply to Black Orpheus above trying to outline why I disliked it. Short version: it's not that the characters are horrible; it's that I never found them believable for a second. As a result, I could never invest in the book. It took me a month to get as far into it as I was and every…

Black Orpheus . . . um, bro: sorry it bothers you that I loved one and hated the other. Here's where I'm coming from, though. I read The Corrections when it came out, so that was around nine years between it and Freedom. I haven't read it since. Tastes change over the years, so it's very possible if I reread it now,…

I'm not sure what to think. The same reviewer gave Freedom an A, and I hated that book so much that even though I was three-quarters of the way through, I still put it down. Yet, to me, The Corrections is one of the best novels of the new millennium (though obviously there are plenty of people who feel about it the…

I tried reading the book in January and had to give up from boredom after 50 pages or so. But then my patience for sticking with books has decreased over the years.

For historically being such a strong evaluator of talent in his shows, Whedon does seem to have a blind spot when it comes to Dushku.

"I continue to believe that the show’s biggest problems this year stem from resisting a
reboot or a more dramatic retooling, and if a few contract negotiations
force their hand, this has the potential to be a far more interesting
show next season."