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Phillyist co-editor Star C. Foster, passed away early in the week. Her wit, intelligence, and good nature shone through the site, making Phillyist an immensely fun read. She was loved by many and will be missed by all.

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).

You might have noticed a new city up top in our -ist nav bar: Miamist is in the house!

This just in! Bunim/Murray will be in Berkeley tomorrow casting for the 18th season of "The Real World." According to the press release, they'll be looking for "characters from real life; people with strong personalities who are unafraid to speak their minds." Also wanted: people who can't hold their liquor, people who have never been around "homosexuals," and homosexuals who can't hold their liquor.

It's been a depressing week for TV, so this time around, we're going to take a slightly different approach. We're going to tell you what not to watch...

We don't know what to do with ourselves. The TV season has come to an end, the finales are all over, and TV is beginning to look like a vast wasteland of reality shows. (Seriously, people. "Dancing with the Stars"?!) We're not sure what to do with ourselves. Go OUTSIDE? But doesn't that give you cancer? We could read, but if we're going to be sitting at home anyway, why not just turn on the television? There must be SOMETHING on.

We're so excited to hear that Alex Clemens, the dude who had the genius idea to buy up the ad space on the back of Frank Chu's sign, will be appearing on the next Real World [PDF] along with the rest of the Barbary Coast Consulting crew. From the press release:

SFist has made it very clear in the past that we love us some TiVo. Our love for TiVo is so deep, we DO want to marry it thank you very much! One of the things we love about TiVo is how it allows us to watch TV like an unemployed person, even when we are, indeed, gainfully employed. We can record those daytime soaps and talk shows, come home, open a box of bon bons, plop on the couch, and pretend we're stereotypical housewives enjoying an afternoon of easy TV viewing. One such show we love is "Starting Over", a "reality soap" that's on locally at noon on NBC. "Starting Over" was created by Bunim and Murray, the team responsible for "The Real World," and in a sense it's "The Real World" for screwed up, middle aged women. Six gals live in the same house and attempt to "start over" with the help of two life coaches (!) and one actual therapist. Once they've made it past all their steps, and have "started over," they are allowed to graduate and a new crazy--erm, woman, moves in. Some of the issues these women have to face can be pretty lame, like the chick who wanted to become a country singer, despite the fact that she had an awful voice and wrote crappy songs. But others do come into the house with legitimate obstacles, like the girl dealing with amnesia (we told you it was a soap opera!) or the woman trying to find the son she gave up for adoption. What makes these women's oh-so-dramatic lives all the more tragic is that they're in the hands of some seriously wacky "life coaches," one of whom we are sure is batshit crazy. So imagine our excitement when we learned that this Saturday, March 5th, we can meet Crazy Rhonda and Doctor Stan in person!

We here at SFist were totally going to blog this debate because blogging is, from what we hear, the new black, but since we were also playing the officially sanctioned Wonkette Vice-Presidential Debate Drinking Game we were too hammered by the fourth Halliburton reference to finish up. Plus, Jon Bon Jovi was on last night's episode of The Real World and who cares about politics when John Bon Jovi is all set to stop being polite and start getting real? So instead, we bring you this wrap-up.