BobHarris.com - Two more Koufax mentions

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

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Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up —
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“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

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Two more Koufax mentions

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Friday, 03 March 2006

(UPDATE: Voting is open. To vote, just visit any of the four links, scroll down, and leave a comment at the bottom as your vote for whomever you like. To vote in other categories, go here.)

A quick thanks to the kind folks at Wampum for mentioning puduland here to two more categories in their preliminary voting for the Koufax Awards. The voting hasn't started yet, but this site will be up for (sanely or not) four awards:

Best Writing
Most Humorous Blog
Best Series (for the polls), and
Best Blog (overall, non-professional category).

Flattering as heck, and frankly not terribly accurate. I think there are more deserving sites in each category. There are people who only do funny, and they post a lot more, and they deserve the Most Humorous. And there are people doing real hardball investigative stuff every day, and they surely deserve the Best Series and Best Blog stuff. Best Writing? Even if I was freakin' Shakespeare (who rarely used the word freakin' incidentally, much less kiester, gigondous, or waterpudu) I'd assume that should go to someone who at least blogs more frequently than I do.

Still, it's nice to be mentioned.

So go over to Wampum, thank them for the work they put into this, poke around the other named sites (there are over 100 good ones to choose from, between all the categories), and maybe even throw a dime or two in their tip jar for pulling together so much good stuff in one click-friendly place.

And when the voting starts, yeah, I'll probably mention it, but really. There are more deserving blogs.

It's not like the categories are: