Books! Actual books!


"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"
-- The Wall Street Journal

"Pulls you in like a good sports story"
-- The New York Times Book Review

"Endearingly frank... jubilant... lighthearted and fast-paced"
-- New York Newsday

"A surprisingly touching memoir"
-- Entertainment Weekly

"Snappy and informative"
-- Associated Press

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."
-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't seen Jeopardy! since I was a kid, and yet I was charmed and amused by Bob Harris's fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful book. Through sheer force of personality, he takes this brainy TV show and makes it funny and easy to relate to."
-- Ira Glass, creator and host, This American Life

"A surprisingly intimate, entertaining book."
-- Orson Scott Card, 4-time Hugo Award winner, author of Ender's Game

"Funny, enlightening -- and just might help you win a million bucks on Jeopardy!"
-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All

"A masterful job of describing the feel of Jeopardy! in the heat of battle... I knew Bob was a great guy and a fantastic Jeopardy! player. Now I've found that he's also a wonderful writer. I think I'm starting to hate him."
-- Brad Rutter, top money-winner in Jeopardy! history

Books I'm Getting





“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”
Boston Globe

"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."
New York Observer

"Only Bob could make a user’s guide to our increasingly hostile world this absorbing, this breezy, and—ultimately—this hopeful.”
Ken Jennings, author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING. A gimlet-eyed look at the world we endure that’s also suitable for enjoying with a gimlet.”
John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart


"All three [presidential] candidates should read all three of these [recommended] books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom“... a lighthearted overview of the insurrections and civil wars in the world today."
Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, in the New York Times Book Review
.
Main
Or maybe they're just afraid people will see the emperor's new clothes... Print E-mail
Tag it now -
Delicious
Furl it!
Spurl
NewsVine
Reddit
YahooMyWeb
Technorati
Stumble
Spurl
RawSugar
Profile Heaven
Digg
blogmarks
Blinkbits
TailRank
Shadows
Friday, 14 January 2005

According to Scripps-Howard, security for the Bush coronation includes this bizarre, weirdly disconcerting instruction (which, unbelievably, I am not making up):

Other instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.

WTF?  Are they afraid some Wisconsin marching band member is gonna be blinded by confronting pure evil?  (Hell, no.  Those people once elected Tommy Thompson, remember.  They're perfectly fine with pure evil.)

Or maybe they're worried some well-endowed drum majorette (whose metal baton won't have made it through the screening, remember) is gonna try to cap the First Wanker with a well-timed swing of her ample bosom?

Come to think of it, that might be the answer.  Bush was a Deke, after all.  Maybe the Secret Service just thinks it would be undignified to begin a second term with a suddenly-aroused-by-eye-contact incumbent shouting "Whip 'em out!" before his hand even hits the Bible.

So the performers -- which include (I quote):

"... color guards, pompon dancers, hand bell-ringers, drill teams on horseback, and Civil War re-enactors..."

are advised not to make any sudden movements.

Right. 

How, pray tell, do you re-enact the Civil War without making any sudden movements?

Seriously.  I want to know.

Do these people ever make any sense whatsoever?  I mean, ever?

 
< Prev   Next >

Search Bob

YouTube Clips


Who Hates Whom




Prisoner of Trebekistan


Panic



Aftermath



Reading

RSS-Stream

A CoffeeCrew and BobHarris



Production