To say this blog has laid fallow would be an understatement. And I own that. This new job at Vulture is exhausting. In a good way, mind you, but I find myself having to work so quickly that when I leave at the end of the day I feel like someone’s been chasing me with an ax. In a good way. An ax that has an Amazon gift card taped to the blade.

So I come home, help put the kids to bed, and then think, “Tonight I blog!” and then I realize that I can’t quite muster the mental energy to untie my shoes, so writing is right out. So over the past few months I’ve had countless moments where I’ve ‘thought, “That could be a blog post!” and then I never do it. So tonight, when I have the tiniest amount of motivation, I will try to clear my plate of all the things I’ve considered blogging but didn’t, all in short order. I lay no claims to them being interesting or related or otherwise noteworthy. But it's just something I had to do.

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As sad as I was to give up the Amazing Race TV Watch at EW.com, I was kind of thrilled to have my Sunday nights back. Usually, I would watch the show, then turn off the TV to go write the piece, thereby missing the rest of the delights that Sunday night TV has to offer. And then I would spend the next day dodging Mad Men spoilers. So tonight, even though Mad Men was over, I was still thrilled to have the rest of the night to myself. Except once the show ended, I found I’m suffering from a little TV Watch withdrawal syndrome. Which I suppose is a euphemism for “I can’t bear to have an unspoken thought.” So while this won’t go into nearly the detail of a TV Watch—because as much as I like to talk about it, I like going to bed before 2am even more—I have a few thoughts I’d like to get down. But the beauty of doing it for my own site is that I don’t have to string them together in any coherent way. Ah, the freedom of illiteracy!

Man, I wish I felt the same pull to write another book as I do to jabber on about a reality show.

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We just made another EW.com Must List Live! video for which our EP Jason Averett has outdone himself.