Among some of the smaller-paper reviews coming in, there’s this from The Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly:
Interesting. I’m not sure why people simply enjoying my book would be cause for invoking help from the infinite.
But hey, if that’s what it takes. Heaven knows, reading the newspapers lately, we could sure use it.
The fun videos are here. Should be another one up later today.
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Now that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has made Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony and Survival a surprise best-seller, here’s a sampling of what Chavez had to say about other recent books in various speeches before the United Nations.
On Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck:
On James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia:
On John Grogan’s Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog:
Next week: speaking at the Organization of American States, Hugo Chavez reviews the season premieres of Grey’s Anatomy and The Office.
Consider the following in tandem:
Lie by Lie, Mother Jones’s flash-interactive chronicle of deception in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and
No One Dares to Help, a harrowing first-person account published by the L.A. Times of what life has become in Baghdad, where merely helping a dying stranger can now mean your own death sentence.
Hello, sudden flood of StumbleUpon visitors! Wow. Lots of you.
Where you are: Prisoner of Trebekistan is my new humor book about not winning on Jeopardy! a total of five times. (Yes, you read that right. So far, in fact, I have played for and not won a total of over $3.1 million. Which is something not many people can say. Or probably would.) This page is a blog about Trebekistan and related events, with a lot of free stuff to enjoy.
If you’re smiling at the idea of somebody losing on Jeopardy!
not just once, but over and over, or you’d like to learn how people actually study the vast range of
material, or you’ve always been curious about what Alex and the game and its best
players are really like to be around — all while laughing at my
expense — you might enjoy clicking around here, and you’ll probably love the book. At left are early blurbs from the Wall Street Journal, Ira Glass, Entertainment Weekly, and even Joss Whedon, the guy who created Buffy. (Neat!)
Whether you want to pick up your own copy of Trebekistan right now, fans of Jeopardy! will find a lot to play with here on this site anyway. For starters, this video
explains how a guy with little real knowledge of classic books
(me) can pull British Literature out of the
netherest of regions:
And this video reveals an unexpected result after your first nine games — more Some Contestants Also Receive! crap than I’d have ever believed:
If you’re smiling, you’ll probably have fun with the book and this site.
Poke around the Trebekistan Menu to the upper right, and you’ll find chats with many of Jeopardy!’s
greats, a bunch of travel stuff (the show led me to get more
excited about seeing a lot of the world, a feeling I hope
you’ll ultimately share) including some cool pics further down this
page, and a trove of extra material I’ll be adding to
regularly, all designed to be
fun for fans of both Jeopardy! and Prisoner of Trebekistan.
Thanks for stopping by! Amazon is always open if you decide you want to get a copy for yourself or as a gift. Either way, come back soon for new videos and more.