This belated Amazing Race update is brought to you by the fact that on Thursday evening I had to watch Quiz Show so I could get it back to the library by Friday, thereby avoiding a fine on someone else’s library card. It’s our next bookclub choice selected by yours truly.I like it because it’s about telly. Anyway, to The Race.

The show seemed a little bit less than AMAZING this week. Although, for one thing Tammy and Victor amazingly were not sniping at each other. Probably because they were safe in the knowledge that they weren’t coming last. What was amazing was the fact that the producers couldn’t come up with any more interesting challenges in Siberia than 1. stacking wood 2. building and installing wooden window shutters 3. going on a roller coaster and finding the letters that spelled out Chekhov. It wasn’t even amazing that only Victor (of Tammy and Victor) seemed to have heard of Chekhov – oh and of course Mike White’s Dad Mel. But then he’s old and probably had a decent education (tongue firmly in cheek there people). It was pretty funny when just about every couple’s wood pile fell over just as they were getting to the top. And it did seem that the short stuntmen pair were amazingly unobservant in not being able to find the house that needed the shutters. Perhaps, the only really mildly amazing drama was that Margie and Luke decided to U-Turn Amanda and Kris (I think that’s their names – the barbie doll dating couple anyway). So, surprise surprise they were eliminated. AND THEY DON’T EVEN SUSPECT MARGIE AND LUKE. That’s not amazing either. Because Margie and Luke don’t seem like the blind-u-turning kind of racers.

However, in really amazingly stupid news I mistakenly taped half an hour of law and order instead of United States of Tara. Amazing and annoying actually.