November 12, 2008
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Yeah, I promised I’d get the site layout changed back to my Phantom theme, and I still haven’t done it. I’ll get to it eventually. In the meantime, here’s some randomness:
I have been keeping up with The Amazing Race (the only time I didn’t was the one night where I was trying to watch both it and either the World Series or Game 7 of the ALCS and I kinda ended up heavy on the game). The team that got eliminated on Sunday was one of the teams involved in that personal vendetta issue I was complaining about earlier, so at least that’s over with (and I’m kinda surprised this team lasted THAT long cuz they had a tendency to not read the clues properly all through the race). Anyways, one of the more amusing moments on last Sunday’s episode was the Roadblock. For those of you who don’t watch The Amazing Race, a Roadblock is where one member of the team performs a task by themselves. The task can be anything from eating something gross to washing an elephant, but it’s usually something culturally related to the country they’re in (although they’ve had bungee-jumping Roadblocks a number of times). In theory, they’re supposed to choose who will take the Roadblock based on a short clue printed on the outside of the information pamphlet before they’re allowed to find out what the task actually is. This doesn’t always work. For example, if you’re at a restaurant when you get the Roadblock, you can pretty much rest assured that eating something will be part of the task. Also, there are many instances where arriving teams can see what the task will be before they even get the clue. At any rate, this particular Roadblock (by the way, the teams were in India) involved running through a crowd of people (who were spraying water and throwing some sort of powdered dye at both the contestants and each other) to get to a bunch of raised platforms where they had to find a particular tag that had the next clue inside (the one team who eventually got eliminated made this a lot harder than it needed to be). The funny part about this Roadblock is that if the non-Roadblocking team member (who usually does nothing more than cheer on/berate their partner) stood too long in one place, the hyperactive crowd would start throwing dye at them as well. There’s one team that consists of a separated couple, Ken and Tina (Ken’s a former NFL linebacker, by the way), who don’t bicker as much as you’d think they would (or as much as the producers probably want them to). Ken took the Roadblock for their team in this particular episode, but Tina made the mistake of standing in one place for too long, and the crowd went after her. This would be a good time to point out that Tina has long, VERY light blonde hair, so when someone chucked a large handful of green dye at her, her hair turned bright, glowing, radioactive green. She yelled at the person who threw the dye at her, but to her credit, she didn’t complain after that. What I’m amazed at is how evenly the dye got into her hair. It wasn’t splotchy at all. In fact, it looked like a wig. And when they checked into the Pit Stop at the end of the episode (which had to be several hours later), her hair was just as green as it had been when the dye first got into it. Now, Ken and Tina aren’t exactly my favorite team (actually, my favorite team got eliminated in the third episode, and there are fewer and fewer teams that I actually like this season), but after this episode, I kinda want them to stick around awhile cuz I wanna see just how long it takes for the green to get out of Tina’s hair.
There is someone (I don’t know who) who lives a few blocks away from me who owns a motorcycle. I know this because I can hear it. The thing is, this person never seems to go anywhere on the motorcycle. From what I can tell, they just sit on it and repeatedly rev the engine for hours at a time. And they do this at, like, one in the morning. It’s getting really annoying.
