Welcome!  Make yourself at home.

Reviews and blurbs are in the left column, extras from the book are listed in the Trebekistan.com menu at right, and if you’d like to watch a reading and hear a sample of the book, be sure to click over to the videos.

If you’d like a copy for yourself or as a gift (and everyone knows somebody who watches Jeopardy! a lot), just click here or on the book cover at upper left.

Thanks!

(If you haven’t seen the AP story yet, it’s here.)

Welcome!  Make yourself at home.

Reviews and blurbs are in the left column, extras from the book are listed in the Trebekistan.com menu at right, and if you’d like to watch a reading and hear a sample of the book, be sure to click over to the videos.

If you’d like a copy for yourself or as a gift (and everyone knows somebody who watches Jeopardy! a lot), just click here or on the book cover at upper left.

Thanks!

(If you haven’t seen the AP story yet, it’s here.)

Actually, just visiting for the first time, but mentioning it here again as a reminder:

I’ll be reading, signing, and possibly gargling with pages from Prisoner of Trebekistan at the Yale bookstore at 3 pm today (Wednesday).  This will be followed at 4 pm by something called a Master’s Tea, which I believe is either a chat for and with the students or a bizarre underground initiation ceremony involving skulls, crumpets, and oaths of fealty to Cthulu.

I think it’s just tea, though.

The Yale Record guys, especially Mike Gerber, set this up pretty much out of the blue.  My thanks!

Update, Thursday: the whole thing was a fabulous experience.  Yale seemed like the last place on earth a working-class lefty like me might feel comfortable, but the folks there couldn’t have been more down-to-earth or fun to hang out with.  Might even have some video to share if I get a minute.  My thanks to all involved.

Hail Cthulu!

Another neat surprise for the book.

Turns out that Orson Scott Card, who only has four Hugo awards (ranking
as the 3rd-most-Hugoriffic sci-fi writer so far on this entire timeline, two notches ahead of
Robert Heinlein), is now doing the small-college-prof thing and
scribbling on the side for a small weekly.  And so he wrote about Prisoner of Trebekistan not long ago here (scroll down).  Neat!

In the review, he adds that I’ve "ended any thought" for him of going on Jeopardy! himself.

Yeah, well, I’d positively suck in Battle School.  So we’ll call it even.

This is just weird: Congressional-page-toucher-cover-upper House Speaker Dennis Hastert spent some quality time today with a Texas evangelist who brags about his previous contacts with Saddam Hussein, Charles Taylor, and Al-Qaeda’s own Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.

Nice company to hang with.  While calling press conferences in cemeteries.

Is it just me, or has Fellini hijacked the news completely?

While we’re on it, Hastert’s minister dude reportedly used to brag about running a leper colony.  Which wasn’t actually his:

Sweet.  All the benefit of having your own personal lepers, but none of the fuss.

Not entirely unlike declaring "Mission Accomplished" before, y’know, fighting the actual war.