Leo's face in that picture is like the platonic ideal of every unappealing facial expression he's ever had captured on freeze frame.

I found that Alex and/or Johnny Gilbert needing to rerecord names they had hopelessly butchered overall took up way more time than judge decisions, though.

I also briefly thought kraken, and went, "holy shit, did I forget about a kraken in Moby Dick?"

There was about ten minutes of judge deliberation during the taping while they decided whether or not it was acceptable without the "on" and the whole game came to a screeching halt. Those Jeopardy editors are smooth!

Also, not everybody has the hair texture for it. My curly Hermione Granger hair has a meltdown if I cut it any shorter than my shoulders.

One of the most perfect movies ever made, and the first Audrey Hepburn movie I ever saw. Even though loving Audrey Hepburn is so common as to be seen as kind of uncool now, you can really see where her cultural dominance came from. Just the most effortless charm.

I know quite literally nothing about college sports so anything with the NCAA doesn't register to me. Part of the issue is self selection of who tries out for the college tournament, I think. The people who make it to an in person audition are entirely randomly selected from the eligible scores, but basically…

Well…if you look at the colleges for this year's tournament (https://www.jeopardy.com/to…, you've got:

You're not allowed to. You can't read a book or use your phone or talk to anybody except for the people who work at Jeopardy and the other contestants. The movies are all preselected to be things that won't pertain to any of the clues in any of the games to make sure that nobody has an advantage. It would be kind of…

Not everyone can run a marathon as quickly as Paul Ryan.

There was a choice of eight. We watched Shaun of the Dead and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I can't remember all of the choices, but there was: The Last Crusade, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sixteen Candles, Happy Gilmore (lol), and two others that I can't remember.

Hey, it's the college week! I was the alternate for this tournament…which means I didn't compete, but I did go to the taping and meet Alex Trebek and all that! I was just barely not good enough to be on Jeopardy, which in some ways stings more than being part of the great unwashed, but I had fun.

Coincidentally, I just started rewatching Frasier this evening (for the first time as an adult) and I just finished episode five. For once, I'll actually be watching a show at the same pace as the person writing these!

I'm a senior so I don't get to come back—and the deal is that I get to bypass the online test for the regular game and go straight to the in person audition, no guarantee of being on the show. But it's still a pretty sweet deal. I didn't really feel bad about being the alternate until all of the very nice people who…

I have a weird love for Chris Pine even though I know he's a hot bland dude. I think it's the simmering rage he has beneath the surface during most of his interviews. I feel like he could go full Britney '07 on us one day.

If it makes you feel better, I got all the way through the in person audition for the college championship to be designated as the alternate in case one of the competitors got sick/hurt/whatever, which meant that I went to the taping, stood on the Jeopardy set, did the whole shebang…and didn't get to compete.…

God bless Time Cube.

Whoops! I knew something was wrong there. But Hamilton absolutely could have become president if he hadn't fucked up his political capital so badly:

Hamilton was a naturalized natural born citizen—anyone who was a resident of the colonies at the time of the adoption of the constitution gained that right. The clause was more so America didn't turn into a 17th century Poland sort of situation, where a bunch of rich foreigners would come in and become leader and fuck…

Seems like a good place to link to critical perspectives on Waluigi: https://theemptypage.wordpr…