Delve Into Lunacy

As you might have noticed I haven’t posted recently. Prior to stopping I was mainly only doing updates for episodes of reality shows and the Chiefs games and it was just too much. Plus, the newness of the blog wore off and I got bored and went back to my real passion…masturbation. So anyway, I’m no longer doing the episodic updates unless something happens that really chaps my ass and I just have to rant. I’ll try doing other types of posts more often however.

As a treat for all those that wake up each morning eagerly looking forward to not reading this blog I’ll give a quick update on the things I had been covering. No need to thank me, I know you don’t really appreciate it.

The Amazing Race: Family Edition
This season is worse than even I expected and for once I seem to be in the majority when it comes to bitching about something since all the TV writers are tearing this season a new one. The only good part of the show so far has been that the only African-American family on the show actually has the last name of Black and the immigrant Italian family that: live in New York City, have a husband in waste management and have a last name that is pronounced the same as a slang term for bribery. Excellent casting job TAR although I’m sure you could have fit a few more stereotypes into the line up had you really tried.

I also love how much material the Weavers, a team consisting of a widow and her three hood-rat children, give me with which to feed my endless hatred of them. This lady is trying to learn leadership by racing with her kids and in the first episode she nearly orphaned them by getting run over by an Amish buggy. That one really tickled my sadistic side since she’s a widow due to her husband walking onto a NASCAR track in the middle of a race three months before this show started filming. Oh how I love thee, sweet irony. Next week they get to do a challenge at a NASCAR track and it looks like the kids break down….should be a good show.

Survivor: Guatemala
So far it’s a pretty boring season as there isn’t any real drama yet. Even the abnormal team shuffle didn’t stir things up. Oh well, it’s still Survivor so it’s all good.

The Chiefs
Jesus Christ on a cracker this season is looking bad. I already thought the first two games were fluke wins and the last two games just seem to back that up. If you think any aspect of this team, from coaching on down, is looking good so far please leave a comment with your address so I can come over and extricate your head from your ass.

Well, that’s a wrap on another season and as much as I quit caring as soon as it was down to the final two I have to say I’m already missing it. I wish they would get rid of the audience for the finales but that seems to be the new black for reality shows so I doubt I’ll ever get that wish granted. Even with the audience there it was still much better than last year’s finale as far as production values go.

I thought it was really surprising how blatantly they had Julie try to get it across to the Friendship as to how disliked they were. I was expecting them to go the gumdrop smile route and acting like the season turned out wonderfully. So at least some of the drama that I was hoping for ended up being there.

As usual the Friendship folks were their usual selves. Eric acted like an ass the one time he got to talk as expected. Maggie acted like she had just witnessed someone stabbing a baby when Howie made his comments. Beau was flabbergasted that anyone could accuse Ivette of ever acting without integrity despite the people from his own group agreeing with the comments. April never could shut up and yet again her comments came back to bite her in the ass and her back-peddling just dug the hole deeper. Jen was in uber-bitch mode and actually took it to levels that I didn’t think she could possibly take it too.

Speaking of Jen, she was the one that was a huge fan of BB and brought April along with her when they needed to bring a partner. She always talked about how she was a good strategist and knew how to play the game. However, with the way she acted last night it was apparent she didn’t play the game with the slightest bit of strategy and instead really did just view it as a summer camp where she could try to be the popular kid. I especially liked her comments after Kayser said he wished she could think for herself. Immediately she replied with “I can think for myself”. At that point Julie started talking to send the show to commercials, but Jen kept yammering in the background and said “My team were the ones that decided to get rid of you.” Apparently she doesn’t realize the meaning of “think for yourself” since she admitted that she just followed what the team said to do.

I can’t finish off my posting on this season without a final rant about Ivette so here goes. Was it possible for Ivette to have been more of a sore loser immediately after Maggie was named the winner? They pulled the key and as soon as she saw Maggie’s name she got all frowny and stood up and started to walk off. Had Maggie not ran over to her and given her a hug I think she might have just walked right out of the house before she was supposed to. Then once they were out in the studio she kept acting the same way. I know it’s got to suck making it that far and then losing but she should have expected it. It was her friend that won yet it looked like she wouldn’t have even congratulated her if she hadn’t been forced to. What a self-centered bitch.

Wow, hopefully the family version of The Amazing Race starting next week is as awful as I’m expecting it to be or I won’t have much to bitch about now that BB is over with.

What a great game. I love blow-outs (assuming it’s the Chiefs on the winning side that is) but the games that are such a struggle that you’re on the edge of your seat the whole time are a close second. I was a smidge off in my prediction of the Chiefs winning by ten, but since it was only by four points it’s close enough.

As far as the offense goes I still think Priest isn’t quite back to his old self. He was getting more yardage per run at the end of the game but prior to that he was at like a 1.5 average. I don’t recall what Roaf injured but hopefully he’s back soon because the line, although still good, is definitely hurting without him.

I still need more convincing that the defense is as improved as much of the press seems to think they are. No doubt they are better than in the past few years, but so far we’ve had two games where the opposing team made a lot of mistakes that made their stats look better. Even with Surtain back they were still getting chewed up as far as the passing game goes. They did make some great stands when absolutely necessary though.

My biggest concern at this point continues to be injuries since they’ve already had an inordinate amount especially for only being two games into the season. If the injuries stay fairly minor overall and/or slow down then I think they’ll be in pretty good shape. We’ve had a lot of luck so far and hopefully that continues for a while.

As far as Denver next week I’m going to guess Chiefs by seven, but since I didn’t see any of their last game that’s just a wild ass guess is all.

Well, the season premier has come and gone and as usual I got myself all worked up waiting for it despite the fact that all of the first episodes are kinda boring since you don’t really know the people yet. At least this season started off with a really good challenge. I guess Jeff wasn’t kidding when he was telling interviewers that this was the toughest season yet.

I’m kinda torn over whether I like them bringing back Stephenie and Bobby Jon or not. I think Stephenie is one of the best players the show has ever seen and I was really wishing she had won last season. However, I’m not big on giving folks a second chance at reality shows. To me it’s kind of like they had their shot and missed and that should be the end of it. I know they got stuck with a really shitty team the last go around so you could argue that they never really had a shot to begin with, but life isn’t always fair unfortunately. At least they didn’t take the spots of two other people that could have played since they were just added to the other sixteen, but it’s unfair for the newbies since these two are familiar with the game, the cameras, the going without food, etc. Plus the fun of reality shows is learning the new people each season and when folks return for a second time (be it the same show or a different one) it makes it tougher to figure out the other people since they always have so much of the spotlight on them.

Despite all that I’ll still root for Steph unless someone else really stands out. I’ll also probably root for Danni since she’s from KC even though she didn’t do a lot in the first episode. The only others that jumped out at me so far were the ones I think I’m going to dislike. The first is Rafe. Every time I see his name I think of Raffi and that’s just not good. Plus, the dumbass is a freakin’ wilderness guide yet he refuses to even help read the compass when they are lost because he’s scared it will make him look like a leader. You know at some point they’ll find out what he does for a living and hopefully remember his lack of help on that first challenge and send him packing. He’s also my first pick for being gay, which isn’t bad or anything, but it’s an ongoing thing each season to “guess the gays”.

The second one that jumped out was Brian. He didn’t get much screen time really, but the small amount he did he just came across as kinda creepy for some reason. Can’t really explain it. He’s my second pick for being gay and my pick for being the jackass that always talks about how much smarter he is than anyone else there.

The third standout was Morgan. Again, not a huge amount of screen time, but she already reminds me of Holly from Big Brother 5 except with just a slightly less high pitched voice. She’s my pick for being the dumb one that always takes a while to get what people are saying to her. She’s a frickin’ magician’s assistant for crying out loud so you know things haven’t exactly gone like she planned in life.

Regarding the guys on that one tribe all getting sick, the consensus seems to be that they were out drinking the night before in a celebration of their final night of freedom. Just seems odd that only those guys had any problems after completing the challenge. Everyone tried to justify it by saying the guys were carrying more at the beginning but the girls weren’t carrying much less so I’m not buying that. Plus it’s 24 hours and you simply don’t have an entire group of people get nailed that badly from over-exertion unless they were already somewhat dehydrated to begin with.

Jim was a good pick to get rid of I think. Between the combination of him being older and less able to do things to start with and then hurting his arm he was the weakest link on the team physically and it looks like it’s going to be one of those seasons that focuses more on the physical rather than mental aspect of the game. While on the subject of Jim I’m getting a little tired of firemen being cast on every reality show that’s occurred since 9/11. I like firemen as much as the next person, but it’s to the point where every show feels they have to have one every season and I get the impression some of them are being picked solely for that reason. Didn’t get to know Jim well enough to say if that was the case here, but him being on the show continued the trend.

I’m running behind on posting and the season finale starts in like an hour so I’ll keep this one fairly rant free. I normally don’t follow the postings about what is occurring on the live feeds since I prefer the being surprised by the episodes, but I accidentally saw the winners of rounds one and two of the final HoH in a comment following an Entertainment Weekly article. So I was at least happy going into the episode knowing that Janelle had already made it to round three. Unfortunately, she lost the final round. I’ll give Ivette credit for winning fair and square and she actually surprised me with the math questions since I never figured her as being bright enough to do basic addition problems.

There were two things that really jumped out at me in the episode. The first was when Ivette and Janelle were playing chess and talking about how Ivette could use the money she made a comment like “Man, if I won that money my family could finally get everything they’ve wanted.” Now it wasn’t surprising that she mentioned her family yet again, but for the first time her tone and comments suggested she was backing off her thing about them being “needy” and instead just saying they had stuff they could use the money on.

The other moment was when Julie was interviewing Janelle after her eviction and she said “Ivette has talked a lot about how much her family needs this money but you’re saying that by not taking you she’s pretty much guaranteed only second place. What do you think about her picking friends over……the money?” You could tell Julie wanted to say “…her family” but I guess she considered it to prejudicial.

I’m torn on who might win at this point. I have a feeling Janelle might flip and vote for Ivette since Ivette actually won a few things at the end versus Maggie who was just drug along since she was a friend. I think April and Jen will vote for Maggie. Beau is obviously going to vote for Ivette, although that would be hilarious if he was miffed about her shunning him the whole season and voted for Maggie out of spite. I’m pretty sure James will vote for Ivette as well due to the friendship they developed and since Maggie didn’t really play any better of a game. That leaves Howie and Rachel. If Janelle flips to Ivette will she convince them to do the same? Who knows, but I think the winner will hinge on their votes.

Since I can’t stand either person that’s left I don’t really care too much about who wins it. Hopefully either Julie or one of the folks that got booted early enough to not be sequestered will stir things up by finally revealing to the Friendship just how reviled they were by the viewers. I doubt it will happen but I’ll keep hoping anyway.