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Day-Of Jeopardy! Taping Thoughts & Reactions

The Morning Of: Holy crap, this day was just surreal.  Ended up spending last night with Larry trying to figure out what my 3 outfits would be, as you are instructed to bring that many outfits in case you end up winning.  That proved to be surprisingly more of a task than I had expected.  […]

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So About That 50/50 Opportunity?

Well Jeopardy! fans, today’s taping in which I was going to be an alternate on the 5th show being taped today?  Everything changed this morning due to some other poor person’s unfortunate luck, as suddenly it was no longer a 50/50 chance:  I, along with the other alternate, were IN.  We were going to be […]

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Let’s See If I Can Avoid Going Completely Stupid in the Next 24 Hours

Tomorrow is finally the first opportunity I have to actually be a contestant on Jeopardy! So, Yeah, This Will Be Happening So It’s Actually Going to Happen! I’m set to be an alternate for the last show of the taping day, with 50/50 odds I’ll actually make it on.  That uncertainty is almost more nerve-wracking […]

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Two Pauls Enter, One Remains

BB18 Episodes 26-29: August 17,18,19 & 21, 2016 <– Previously, Paulie Gets a Surprise You’d be smokin some Whitney-level crack if you think I’m going to do much in the way of recapping FOUR episodes, one of which was just a reason to insert the season recap clip show much earlier in the season than […]

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A Bummer of a Farewell to Gawker.com

One of my favorite websites is going dark today, after having been sued into oblivion and put out to pasture.  Many think that Gawker is getting what has long been coming to them, but the actual machinations of what occurred seems to be complete bullshit and cast quite a bit of doubt on this being […]