A few weeks back friend Virginia mentioned that Raymond Cusick, the designer of the daleks from Doctor Who, had died at the age of 84. We exchanged emails with simultaneous suggestions that we should raise a toast to his memory by making a dalek cake. Since the debut of the new season of Doctor Who …
Category Archive: Family Life
Mar
16
Jeopardy! Epilogue
Jon got something in the mail a few weeks back (forgot to post it here): Jon and Johnny Since one of my five prepared stories for Jeopardy! included one about how much Jon loves the show and Johnny Gilbert’s voice, the show staff got Gilbert to autograph a picture for him. What a lovely thing …
Jan
18
Cutting the cord
After all the game show posts we’ve had lately you’d think that we were big TV watchers. But we aren’t, really; not as much as our cable bills would warrant. So over the last year we started seriously considering quitting cable and switching to antenna. Over the air (OTA) TV isn’t quite like the old …
Jan
04
So What’s Alex Trebek like, anyway?
Your guess is as good as mine. I wasn’t planning to post anything more about Jeopardy!, but this wasn’t a bad picture. I just received it via email today—I’m guessing I didn’t get it earlier because of the New Year’s holiday. Me and Trebek: BFF.
Jan
02
The Game
At about 9:30 am a dozen orange-faced people were herded from the green room into the Jeopardy! studio, where we were instructed by the floor director where to look and how to use the electric pens. (With extra advice as needed from the contestant wranglers. Robert: “Don’t trip on the stripey step!” *trip* “Suzuki!!!”) We individually recorded …
Dec
31
Culver City, Here We Go
September By the time I flew to Los Angeles the day before taping I was heartily sick of skim-studying, and I figured at this point nothing new was going to soak into my brain. So even though I brought along my study flashcards, once I left the house for Pearson International I never looked at …
Dec
29
Support Staff
As far as I was concerned, my job during all of this excitement was to assist Laura in packing her brain with information it didn’t already have. Not quite a coach, nor a pit crew or a secretary… but more or less an amalgam of all of them. I was involved as possible in Laura’s …