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The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week!

First, we want to briefly mention that the last leg of "The Amazing Race: All-Stars" finale took place in San Francisco. How did we not hear about this back in December when it was filmed??

Well, we lost two of our locals when the Cho brothers were eliminated on "The Amazing Race" last week. If you're wondering what they're up to now, it apparently involves random acts of karma. We just hope they don't partner up with some ungrateful Alabamians for this venture.

Previously on "The Amazing Race"--Superleg! No teams hit the pit stop and no teams were eliminated. And that meant our local Cho Bros were still in it! Ah, but for how long?

Thanks to Rita for filling in last week! That was an awesome post. We need to go on vacation more often!

First up: The Amazing Race. We've never watched this show before until this season, and now we are . Go (local) Cho Bros!

Last week on "The Amazing Race" Godwin and Erwin Cho were incredibly nice to Team Kentucky and helped them move from last to first place, while the Chos came in fifth. And, in other news, Creepy Peter and Sarah were eliminated.

The Amazing Cho Bros maintained their fourth place position at the end of last week's "Amazing Race." This week they opened their first Amazing Clue to learn they'd be leaving India and heading off to Kuwait to find a mystery location which was revealed to them via some video on a cell phone (it was Kuwait Towers). The Chos maintained their alliance with Team Doing It For Our Kids (aka Team Bama) and Team Kentucky (who were in last place). All the teams managed to get on the same flight to Kuwait.

Once again, we begin with "The Amazing Race." The Cho Bros started the race in fourth place and set off on a train to Hanoi where they'd then have to catch a plane to Chennai, India. Uh-oh! Here comes the dreaded Indian leg of the race! At the train station, the teams were bunched as they waited for the train station to open. The Cho Bros seem to have an alliance with the Team Doing It For Our Kids and Team Kentucky, and tried to pull a fast one on Creepy Peter by pretending to make plane reservations by phone. That plan kind of backfired when Peter saw what they were doing, and got a phone of his own to make actual reservations. In the end, it didn't really seem to matter as Peter still had to go to the actual travel agency to get the tickets. The Cho Bros managed to get on the second of three flights and then we lost track as there was much flight changing by the teams. Ultimately, the Cho Bros got to India in third place.

Last week on "The Amazing Race," the Cho Bros checked in at the pit stop in first place! Were they able to maintain their lead this week? Let's see, shall we?

This was a much better week for our locals than last week when we lost two of them--TWO! Read on.

Well, it was a tough week for our reality locals. Let's see how they did, shall we?

We're so pleased to have some locals to root for in reality TV this season. Here's the first of what we hope are several weeks worth of updates on how those locals are fairing. So far, they're all still in the running towards becoming America's next amazing race war model!

Maybe everyone's just happy that our server seems back on the job (more or less -- sorry for the confusion, contest entrants), but we're glad to see all the lively conversations going on in the comments this week. Whether you're following the Tour de France, heckling or supporting Chris Daly, discussing art, keeping your culinary cool, or demonstrating your West Coast stickball pride, we're enjoying reading all of it.

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network!

We've clocked more hours in Maiden Lane's pocket-sized social club, Otis than our liver cares to think about, but the only famous people we've ever seen there were our guests. Ah, the nights we've spent scanning the crowd in vain, wondering "Is that Chandler, again?"

For the past couple of months, Wednesday evenings have been a difficult night to get through. There's just too damn much TV we want to watch! So it is with much relief that after tonight, our Wednesday TV burdens will be lifted slightly as several shows are hitting the finale stage.

Let us put this bluntly: The last season of "The Amazing Race" sucky, suck, sucked. They never left the continent, the tasks were as exciting as watching paint dry (and we believe that was, indeed, one of the tasks), and the whole "family edition" idea just blew. The show is at its best when the race involves flying from one part of the world to another, not when bickering families have to drive from Utah to Colorado. We like the dangerous tasks, the fighting couples who are deciding whether they'll even BE a couple by the end of the race, and we don't want to see any more heartbroken children crying after being eliminated (unless its adults acting like children, in which case, awesome).

This is a pretty boring week for TV. The only thing we're even halfway excited about is something Rita mentioned last week: There are some new episodes of "Animal Cops San Francisco" airing this week on Animal Planet. You can catch two episodes tomorrow at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.

We admit that when it comes to TV, we may know more than we probably should about the shows that we watch, but we know precious little about how those shows actually make it to our TVs. All we know is, if we pay our bill each month we can turn on our TVs, and our TiVos, and choose from a wide variety of tantalizing entertainment choices. And we're happy about that. That is until we realized that our choices aren't filled with what we actually want.

While SFist would like to say that the continuing decline in the quality of some of our favorite reality programming has caused us to drop these shows and get on with our lives, we have to admit that just isn't the case. Sure, we were heartbroken by the ending of last week's "Amazing Race," where the most intolerant, bitchy, and all-around unworthy team beat out probably the two nicest people to ever compete on the show. And the last seasons of "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" just plain sucked. But still, but still, we watch. And you know what? This season of "The Apprentice" is actually pretty good, and it has almost made us forget the last season even happened. So can you blame us if we're just a wee bit hopeful for the Thursday premiere of "Survivor: Palau"?

The final selection of official Fall TV Season Premieres have finally found their way to the boob toob this week, and one of them is actually worth the wait.