Update, 7 Aug 2014: I’m going to work on making this link usable for finding all my writing about Amazing Race, Survivor and of course, Big Brother. There’s a lot of work ahead to make that a reality, as most of them are just posts on this site, as well as pages I made on my old site. I also have to finish the work of getting my RealityNewsOnline pages all put up locally. I am finally doing this work as I realized after working on the Travelogue section that I also had all this writing just floating out there with no real easy organization. Well, here goes!!!
Update: Because the owner of the RealityNewsOnline site got tired of managing the site while also trying to manage his own life, the site is now dead. I managed to save all my articles before the site disappeared, so I’ve put them up here for my own sense of posterity. Believe that these truly were on a site independent from my own and that I was showered with praise and adoration when each installment was released.
I’ve also played a bit with the menu system built within the WordPress toolkit. I’m leaving this comprehensive list here, because why not, but I’ve also built up the menu so that each season is readily navigable.
I was able to wrangle the opportunity to write for Reality News Online, which is a site that covers nearly every reality show out there. I remember first reading it back when Survivor just started as there were so many cool articles about strategy, Why So-and-So Lost, etc. As shows like Amazing Race and Big Brother also were covered, it was definitely a good resource for recaps but also strategy. Seriously, if you ever plan on being on one of these shows, well, you’d do well to study! There was a notice on the page asking for people to submit samples to them at one point for new writers – I submitted links to all my old site’s Survivor and Amazing Race pages, not to mention my Forum. I didn’t hear back immediately, but soon enough, I was tapped to write recaps of Amazing Race’s extra videos, which I’ve done now since Season 13. I also did a few recaps of I’m a Celebrity… I guess I just like to write! Here are links to all my articles thus far at that site:
The Amazing Race, Season 20 (CBS)
- Apr 12, 2012, Ep 7: Fight!
- Apr 4, 2012, Ep 6: Rachel Explains it All
- Mar 23, 2012, Ep 5: The Leg When Everyone Lost It
- Mar 16, 2012, Ep 4: The Real Housewives of Turin!?
- Mar 1, 2012, Ep 2: Never Give Up, Never Surrender!
- Feb 24, 2012, Ep 1: Whorebaths, Secrets, and Callboxes
The Amazing Race, Season 19 (CBS)
- Dec 8, 2011, Ep 11: The Taxi Driver Judgement
- Dec 2, 2011, Ep 10: Of Mustangs and Atomiums
- Nov 28, 2011, Ep 9: Preparation is Key
- Nov 18, 2011, Ep 8: The Bill & Cathi Show
- Nov 10, 2011, Ep 7: What Went Wrong
- Nov 4, 2011, Ep 6: Someone Who Knows Where They’re Going
- Oct 27, 2011, Ep 5: “Just Don’t Wanna Be Last”
- Oct 20, 2011, Ep 4: “We’re the Lame Horses of the Race”
- Oct 14, 2011, Ep 3: Keeping it Together
- Oct 6, 2011, Ep 2: “Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste”
The Amazing Race, Season 18 (CBS)
- May 6, 2011, Ep 10: All’s Fair in the Amazing Race?
- April 28, 2011, Ep 9: Racing Back Home
- April 22, 2011, Ep 8: “Full of Schnizzel”
- April 14, 2011, Ep 7: Enemy Number One
- March 31, 2011, Ep 6: The Season 14 Curse Continues
- March 25, 2011, Ep 5: “If I’m Meant to Die Out Here on the Race, Then I’ll Die!”
- March 18, 2011, Ep 4: Drama on the Orient Express
- March 11, 2011, Ep 3: Lost in Translation
- March 4, 2011, Ep 2: The More Things Change…
The Amazing Race, Season 17 (CBS)
- December 10, 2010, Ep 11: Calm Before the Sunshine & Palm Trees
- December 3, 2010, Ep 10: The Nick of Whine
- November 26, 2010, Ep 9: “I Look Like a Petrie Dish!”
- November 12, 2010, Ep 7: “Are We Done?”
- November 4, 2010, Ep 6: Midterm Selections
- October 29, 2010, Ep 5: “Daggers in the Back”
- October 22, 2010, Ep 4: Connor & Jonathan’s Last Song…er, Stand
- October 15, 2010, Ep 3: “Fill Our Life with More Phil!”
- October 8, 2010, Ep 2: Woo Boys Stuck in a Beauty Sandwich?
- October 1, 2010, Ep 1: “I Didn’t Even Want to Be Here!”
The Amazing Race, Season 16 (CBS)
- May 7, 2010, Ep 11: Dreams, Drama, and Delusion
- April 19, 2010, Ep 9: “A Fair, Fun Final Four…”
- April 10, 2010, Ep 8: Malaysian Mysteries
- April 2, 2010, Ep 7: Details, Details…
- March 26, 2010, Ep 6: Champagne Wishes
- March 12, 2010, Ep 4: Who’s The Boss?
- March 5, 2010, Ep 3: Mass Distraction
- February 26, 2010, Ep 2: Oh, My Gravy!
- February 20, 2010, Ep 1: “Am I at the Kiss-Level Yet?”
The Amazing Race, Season 15 (CBS)
- December 4, 2009, Ep 10: “Wonderfully Awful Thing”
- November 25, 2009, Ep 9: How to Win Friends and Influence People
- November 19, 2009, Ep 8: Time to Move On, Guys!
- November 6, 2009, Ep 6: Schadenfreude
- October 30, 2009, Ep 5: “No Matter What, Don’t Give Up”
- October 22, 2009, Ep 4: Frustration Station
- October 15, 2009, Ep 3: Case of the Missing Passport – Solved!
I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (NBC)
The Amazing Race, Season 14 (CBS)
- May 9, 2009, Ep 11: “Who Do We Think We Are?”
- May 1, 2009, Ep 10: Candy & Feet & Fights, Oh My!
- April 24, 2009, Ep 9: “I Don’t Really Wanna Fight No More”
- April 16, 2009, Ep 8: “If The Shoe Fits”
- April 10, 2009, Ep 7: “You Say Phuket, I Say…”
- March 27, 2009, Ep 6: “You’re Really Not THAT Nice…”
- March 20, 2009, Ep 5: I Said, BRRR, it’s Cold in Here!
- March 15, 2009, Ep 4: Changing Perceptions
- March 6, 2009, Ep 3: Climb Ev’ry Mountain
- February 27, 2009, Ep 2: Dirty
- February 20, 2009, Ep 1: “When You’re Leading a Pack of Lemmings…”
The Amazing Race, Season 13 (CBS)
- December 12, 2008, Finale: Big Group Hugs
- December 4, 2008, Ep 10: “Stuff Happens”
- November 29, 2008, Ep 9: March of the Dandrew
- November 20, 2008, Ep 8: “Who Was the Ass, By the Way?”
- November 14, 2008, Ep 7: Can’t See the Racers for the Paint
- November 6, 2008, Ep 6: “Everyone Loves a Comeback”
- October 30, 2008, Ep 5: It’s “˜The Amazing Race,” not “The Amazing Vacation”
- October 23, 2008, Ep 4: Bring Your Dad to Work Day
- October 17, 2008, Ep 3: “Welcome to Hell, B!@ch!”
- October 9, 2008, Ep 2: Easy Come, Easy Go
- October 2, 2008, Ep 1: “If I Had a Million Dollars for Every Time I’d Heard That…”