Nonsense. It's not as if we were talking about the Flaming Lips. GBV is a rock-n-roll band.

You whippersnappers might be on to something with the My Tunes, after all. I crank-started the jalopy, put on my driving goggles and went into town only to find that my local, independent record store didn't get the new GBV album in their shipment today. I'm disheartened.

I'm going to a music store and buying a CD today!

Carl Kasell has a lovely voice, but it makes me crazy to hear him say, "PRI, Public Radio Innernational." It's inTernational, Carl! That's a T!

Me too!

Your mom is cool. I'm glad serving in Kuwait wasn't totally miserable.

The sex-change cost him a fortune.

Where do you live where calling a public library would do you any good?

True, but it seems the producers have decided that what makes for entertaining television is to keep the teams as close together as possible. I have to agree with the producers that two teams racing to the end of simple directions is more exciting than watching one team get rewarded for figuring out a difficult clue…

Maybe they ran out of room on the typewriter ball. I thought it was funny to see them struggle with the 1/l thing. The stress of the situation had a lot to do with it, of course, but there are only so many keys on a typewriter: Just type until you find it and then retype the 3-line clue!

Or, they should plan the race route so that there were multiple ways to get from the penultimate city to the final city. How about flying to Atlanta and then having to fly to another American city to which there isn't a direct flight? I remember one season where they had to go through Hawaii and the third-place team…

Correct call on the flight sim finishing order. Also, I loved the giant maps at the end even though the challenge wasn't worth its name. Teams know they're going to be tested on what they've done during the race; it's up to the producers to find creative, challenging ways of doing that. This one scored high on the…

I honestly didn't know hipsters were supposed to like Guided by Voices. As for when things went downhill, I think the later albums are clouded by the fact that bee thousand and Alien Lanes are far superior to any other GBV albums (and I own them all). Nothing since (or before) came together as well as those two albums…

Damn right it was. I got the same feeling when I listened to it. I was in college and caught in doldrums between The Cure and Bauhaus of my high school years and the awful grunge that dominated the alternative airwaves (people listened to the radio back then), and didn't have any musical direction. I was hooked on GBV…

I just rewatched The Straight Story a couple weeks ago and fell in love with it again almost immediately. It's a beautiful, touching movie (and this is coming from someone who isn't much of a movie watcher).

Which one?

It's a tie between Baba Booey's videotape he made to get that woman to take him back, Fred's Rainbow Room incident and Cookie Puss.

I agree that they were embarrassed. It was a classic case of over-thinking a clue as a result of incorrectly expecting real-world expertise to be of use on The Amazing Race.

Wait. I don't really know what you're saying, but I think maybe you're the one who can tell me what "TV to bing about" means. Is that right?

You hit the nail on the head, Audience Member. I hit STOP and erased this from my DVR right after the horseshit scene (the scene with actual horseshit, that is, not the previous scenes that could be called horseshit).