I read someplace that one sure-fire way to ensure you keep a New Year’s resolution is to publicly state it out loud. I guess this is so people can throw things at you and chastise you and exile you from their world if you don’t keep it.

With that…

I did have a couple moments of clarity last year before shutting down houseofsnarkdotcom. One of those moments led to printing out my favorite Amazing recaps of yesteryear…back when recapping those buggers was the highlight of my blog endeavors. They say you can’t recapture yesteryear, but you can sure as heck reinvent the future and there’s nothing like a little retro snark to rev up the creative engines.

By the by…I was doing some research on The Amazing Race: All-Stars a couple of weeks ago, and stumbled upon this bit of information:

Reality TV Magazine has the exclusive on a new reality TV baby. Amazing Race’s Jonathan Baker & Victoria Fuller are the proud parents of a new baby girl. Trease Alynette Baker was born on October 6, 2006. She weighed 6.6 pound and measured 19 inches.

So, when will Nanny Jo be visiting their house? I’m sure somehow if you rearrange the letters in “Trease Alynette Baker” you’ll get, “You left my backpack behind!!!!!!!!”

More importantly though, I wonder how much effort it would take to rig up a Fafarazzi-like system for scoring the stupid things our All-Star teams do and say during the course of the season? Say, 1 point for wearing matching t-shirts with a dumb saying…2 points for calling your teammate an “idiot” and…5 points for hooking up with someone from another team? 4 poins for mauling Phil at the Phinish Line…ooh…this could be fun…