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• Amazing Race 8 - Episode 6 We’re just past the first commercial break and nothing interesting to report, other than the bickering irritation of road-weary families. Blah. Wait, they’re visiting Costa Rica’s Doka Estate Coffee Plantation. Totally makes up for it. Roadblock: Find the red coffee bean Jen: “Digging through 800lbs of green coffee beans, that’s all you babe.” Detour: Relic or Ripe? We’d harvest bananas
• Hugh Laurie on KCRW’s the Treatment Elvis Mitchell interviewing Hugh Laurie from Fox’s House - my favorite new show. It’s a great listen. I was completely taken aback by Hugh’s extremely British accent. I think that’s a mark of a fantastic actor - being able to remove yourself from the character completely. On a slightly related note, Cayenne Chris‘ voice does
• Amazing Race 8 - Episode 5 “I’m so excited we’re getting out of the country.” Yeah, me too. What fun is the Amazing Race if you’re only touring the east coast (midwest *cough* midwest). Then again, the Amazing Race producers have double the people this season - so much higher airfare costs. But here’s the real reason families haven’t left the US
• Audio is to Books as Video is to Car Crashes A conversation at last night’s PodcastMN meet-up got me thinking about the difference between audio and video. As I see it, the goal of writing is to use the fewest words possible to illustrate the most to the reader. Density. In fact, I’m pretty sure the job of an editor is just that.
• Amazing Race 8 - Episode 2 On a good note, the suitcase-exchange Road Block in the Tidal Basin is one of Amazing Race’s best challenges; it’s place appropriate, anyone can do it, it’s sexy, and success is a random process of elimination. As always, a good road block like this shakes up the rankings. It feels like the teams are spending 80%