Ok, if you don't want to know what happened on last night's premiere of The Amazing Race, look away now. This promises to be a good season - I can't stand the wailing banshee sisters, the Paolos are a paragon of dysfunctionality, and those little blond kids - children of the corn - are freaky but lovable. And wow, who knew those Amish horse buggies could be so dangerous? It's a good thing Ma Weaver was wearing sinful hotpants - a proper modest skirt would surely have drawn her under the wheels. And yes, Phil is sporting yet another totally hetero choker necklace. I wonder if he and Jeff Probst shop at the same store? "Totally Hetero Choker Necklaces R Us" I'm so very sad that the Black family was Philiminated. Last night's episode held just a hint of the unintentional hilarity that would have ensued had the Black family stayed on for a few more episodes. They were so cute in their matching outfits, but it was clear from the outset that they lacked the panicky driven enthusiasm that the other teams had. At least some of them. Phil: "Black family, you have been eliminated from the race." Me, at home on the couch: "He could have at least bothered to learn their names..."

OK, this is your final clue. Send your guesses to pensivefrog at gmail dot com. Good luck!

Again I reach into my blog statistics for post ideas. Someone arrived at pensivefrog.com by searching for "Can you get sucked into another dimension?" My answer is, well, what do you think this is? Oooh, I just blew your mind, I can tell. Another person was interested in "vinegar experiment on frog", which, I think is reason enough to get sucked into another dimension. Another visitor searched for information on a "game called frog it". I play this game all the time, and trust me, it sucks. Someone else queried, "I like to move it crazy frog". Well, don't we all. I do believe that "Crazy Frog" is the name of some song that is very popular in Europe right now, which might have precipitated some of the weird searches that bring people to this site. So bienvenuto, my Euro visitors! And for those of you playing the Pensive Frog contest, you may have noticed that the rules have been tossed to the wind. I don't have time to monitor the comments for transgressors, and that would take the fun out of it anyway. I'll figure something out to declare a winner. If I can get my glue gun to work, the prize will be pretty sweet. And my glue gun plans run afoul, you may get a rock with a chunk of my thumbflesh attached to it. Still, it's a one-of-a-kind collector's piece, soon to be replicated by the Franklin Mint.

Have you figured it out yet?

And a few more hints...

OK, now I have pictures from my trip! These will hopefully be better clues than the first six...

Hint: You can get a direct flight to this vacation spot from Seattle. OK, this is a boring clue, but I ran out of interesting pictures of the things I packed. You didn't need to see a bunch of socks, did you?

A little excerpt from my travel guide... Have you figured it out yet?

Chiggers, mosquitoes, and no-see-ums beware.

So we had fun interacting with the TiVo today, teaching it about all the new programs it's going to watch this fall, purging dozens of The Daily Show re-runs, et cetera, et cetera. Has anyone else noticed how hard it is to figure out when season premieres occur? There should be a single website that lists all the shows on all networks, so that you can easily see what conflicts with what, and what premieres when. Oh, here it is. So I was looking at the website for The Amazing Race, and I had myself quite a giggle fit. Go ahead, take a look at the teams. There's not much diversity at first glance, just one African-American family. And they're quite helpfully named.... the Black family. Yes, there's the Weavers, the Rogers, and the Blacks. I won't tell you all the cringe-worthy scenarios I have running through my head, I'll leave that to you. Oh, geez.