One interesting thing about The Amazing Race is how quickly a team can go from the front of the pack to the back. Nick and Starr had a bad day with Moscow taxi drivers and ended up dropping to third. I strongly suspect that they edited it together to make it look like Dan and Andrew were a lot closer to them then they were. The lighting when the frat boys arrived at the mat was quite different from when Nick and Starr got there, which makes me think significant time had elapsed.
I watched most of The Sentinel on FX yesterday. Never heard of the movie before, but it stars Michael Douglas as a Secret Service agent who’s having an affair with the First Lady (Kim Basinger) while his friend and co-agent Keifer Sutherland investigates him for treason. Eva Longoria’s in it, too, as a Secret Service rookie. It wasn’t terrible—something to have on while I worked on other things.
The 60 Minutes follow-up report on savant Rex Lewis-Clack, the boy who was born blind and with a brain absess who can play the piano like a master but can’t button his own shirts, was fascinating. What the brain is capable of doing even when severely damaged is amazing.
I posted two new reviews at Onyx yesterday: Red and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton and The Spy Who Came for Christmas by David Morrell.
I received some more editorial feedback about the short story I’m revising for an anthology series I really want to crack. The editors liked what I had done to the story but had a few more requests for changes to the final sentences. Feedback at this level is always welcome, and I’ll never forget the lesson of Borderlands 5, where if I had lingered too long getting back to the editors with their requested changes I would have missed the boat on that anthology. Less than half an hour after I sent my revisions to them, they posted the table of contents. He who hesitates sometimes is lost.
