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“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

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING.”

-- John Hodgman,
author, The Areas of My Expertise and correspondent for The Daily Show

"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"

-- The Wall Street Journal

"A surprisingly touching memoir"

-- Entertainment Weekly

"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

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Attacking the Monkey Death Star

Or, how not to see the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa:

This event takes place late in the book, just as I've started to travel and try to see how all the stuff shoved into my head might mean anything.

You may see some mild video weirdness in the first five seconds, btw. I have no idea why, and so I encourage you to discount this as entirely a figment of your imagination.

Newberry's Five-&-Dime: a brief glimpse of where I came from

Here's a the first of several short clips from a reading of Trebekistan I did for the Mensa World Gathering in Orlando in the middle of August.

(I'm not in Mensa, btw. And why were we in central Florida in the hottest days of August? As I've noted before: because Mensa is full of geniuses.)

If you're from the midwest, you've probably shopped at one of these stores in a neighborhood like the one I came from. I hope this brings back a few fun memories.

More on the way.

Final Jeopardy: 30 Seconds of Blind Panic

Reposted: share the spectacle of me struggling to pull an important Final Jeopardy out of my keister with friends, family, and other people with keisters.

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Thanks again to Scott Bateman at Batemania.com.

Some Contestants Also Receive...

Reposted: what happens after you play your first nine games of Jeopardy!, shot in my tiny apartment shortly after the 1998 Tournament of Champions.

I was under the false impression that the lifetime supplies! had stopped. This Google video actually only covers a little more than half of the ultimate haul of lozenges, home games, emollients, and cleansers.

For YouTube loyalists, here's that version:

It took me a while to figure out something good to do with roughly a bathtubful of Mrs. Butterworths.

You'll have to read chapter 16 of the new book to find out what it was.

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