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• Amazing Race 8 - Episode 9 “The Amazing Race has cured me.” The promos for this week’s episode were edited to look like a hot air balloon collision caused the Weavers to freak out. After watching the episode in its entirety - it’s clear that wasn’t the case. Detour: Spike it or Steam it? We’re spiking it. Knowing how a railroad gets put together
• No, Not Schaumberg On tonight’s SNL Weekend Update, Tina and Amy were trying to prove their Chicago cred with someone from the Sox (this is me, not a sports fan). He was kind enough to donate the World Series win to all Chicagoans. Southside, Northside, Skokie, Evanston, Wilmette, but not Schaumburg. Ha. (For the Minnesota readers unfamiliar with Chicagoland geography:
• Amazing Race Season 9 - Episode 3 The hippies (BJ & Tyler) are playing better than anyone yet - in any season. They’re playfulness at the beginning of this episode - greeting everyone at the zip line by jumping on their cars - is what this is race is all about. “I was hoping we wouldn’t have to go to Russia.” -
• RocketBoom Ads Not Worth $15,000 I wasn’t surprised to hear RocketBoom is pursuing a sponsor (via eBay even), nor was I surprised they want to keep full creative control (they should). I was surprised that the high bid (as of this writing) of $15,099.99 hadn’t passed their hidden reserve. Now, I know you need 10x that for a decent music video,
• Duh. Advertisers are the Customers, not Viewers. Listening to Tod Maffin’s latest Todbits (made my Podcast Picks as well) and pondering his bit about American Idol running 3 minutes after the hour to thwart PVR-watchers and encourage live-TV-watchers. Honestly, I feel a little silly. All this time I was wondering why it felt like broadcast media outlets despised their customers. Switching up schedules,