I've been thinking about this (perhaps a bit too much). The way I see it, being "just a $200 answer" is most impressive. The more well known you are, the easier the question/answer. The less well known, the harder the question/answer. You're so well known from your body of work that you're in the easiest category. (Make sure to tell your friends.)
Which is the American equivalent of being Knighted 🙂. Decades back I used to read poetry at the Cameo Theater in SouthBeach alongside my friend Lionel Goldbart who notoriously began a tribute to The Pledge of Allegiance with ‘I pledge flagellation (or maybe it was ‘flatulence’ to the flag... A few years later ‘this’ happened...
Speaking of Hemingway, a few months ago I was gifted with the most miraculous dedicated writing device. It’s called ‘The Hemingwrite’ from a company called ‘Astrohaus’. It is truly a thing of steampunk/B 50’s Sci-Fi beauty. And then Coyote said, ‘Let there be clacking noises’. And so it was.
Speaking of heaven...a jeopardy game of categories based on all the quirky areas of knowledge one has uselessly (until now) filled our brains with. Oh well, sounds kind of boring after a while.
It's fun to have some fame! You know, until I was more read, I didn't read this book because I thought it was, just by the author's name and the title, some horrid appropriated work. Well, let's just say, thank goodness for Smoke Signals.
I remember when this aired. So did a friend who died in 2016 and I hadn't thought about him until you made me laugh. At Jim's Place on College Ave every evening Jeopardy came on the TV above the bar and for at least four decades Monday through Friday Stan Erickson sat there on a stool and shouted out the answers before the contestants. Wickedly smart. Owned a used record store. Mind like a sponge. Never went to college but he sat there putting the frat boys to shame.
I would think being a $200 answer would be a compliment since they think most people would know you and that amazing book--the first one I read! I remember some author being stoked because he was in the Sunday NY Times crossword puzzle until someone pointed out that that meant hardly anyone would know who is is.
It was in a strip of recommended movies for Native Month. I'll send a photo
Cool.
I've been thinking about this (perhaps a bit too much). The way I see it, being "just a $200 answer" is most impressive. The more well known you are, the easier the question/answer. The less well known, the harder the question/answer. You're so well known from your body of work that you're in the easiest category. (Make sure to tell your friends.)
Hahahaha. They’d still give me shit!
There was a plug for Smoke Signals in "The Week" Magazine this week.
How did they come to recommend it? Native Month?
Haha! No good deed goes left unpunished. :)
Hahahahha
Which is the American equivalent of being Knighted 🙂. Decades back I used to read poetry at the Cameo Theater in SouthBeach alongside my friend Lionel Goldbart who notoriously began a tribute to The Pledge of Allegiance with ‘I pledge flagellation (or maybe it was ‘flatulence’ to the flag... A few years later ‘this’ happened...
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-date-with-destiny-6364198
That's an adventure! I met a Hemingway scholar a few months ago who'd been a contestant but I never got the chance to talk to her about it.
Speaking of Hemingway, a few months ago I was gifted with the most miraculous dedicated writing device. It’s called ‘The Hemingwrite’ from a company called ‘Astrohaus’. It is truly a thing of steampunk/B 50’s Sci-Fi beauty. And then Coyote said, ‘Let there be clacking noises’. And so it was.
I had an early model of that cool machine. But I hunched over too much using it and kept aggravating my bad back.
Oh yes, I guess there is that. I’m hoping to one day transform into a full sumi-circle.
Hahahaha
This is indeed a badge of high honor!!
Thanks, Sara.
Appreciated "funniest friends" remarks via texts. Too funny!
Yep, my friends kill me on a daily basis.
Sherman, you are a cultural icon to have made it to Jeopardy!
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Kate.
I think you were a cultural icon before you ever made it to Jeopardy.
Not sure what a "cultural icon" means, but I do agree that Alexies is a writer to be reckoned with in American Literature.
Thank you.
I can't believe "Short Story Syllabus" is a category! That and "Jazz Saxophonists" and I would be in the money.
Hahaha! Yes! I often think of the categories that I would kill!
Speaking of heaven...a jeopardy game of categories based on all the quirky areas of knowledge one has uselessly (until now) filled our brains with. Oh well, sounds kind of boring after a while.
It's fun to have some fame! You know, until I was more read, I didn't read this book because I thought it was, just by the author's name and the title, some horrid appropriated work. Well, let's just say, thank goodness for Smoke Signals.
I remember when this aired. So did a friend who died in 2016 and I hadn't thought about him until you made me laugh. At Jim's Place on College Ave every evening Jeopardy came on the TV above the bar and for at least four decades Monday through Friday Stan Erickson sat there on a stool and shouted out the answers before the contestants. Wickedly smart. Owned a used record store. Mind like a sponge. Never went to college but he sat there putting the frat boys to shame.
How cool is that?! That had to feel pretty good.
It was great.
Woo Hoo! What an honor. You deserve it!
Thank you, Ruth.
That was when you knew you had 'arrived'! Fame and fortune (or at least fame, not sure about fortune) were yours.
Book fame with enough. discretionary income.
Perfect!
I would think being a $200 answer would be a compliment since they think most people would know you and that amazing book--the first one I read! I remember some author being stoked because he was in the Sunday NY Times crossword puzzle until someone pointed out that that meant hardly anyone would know who is is.
I’m a NY Times Crossword maniac. That would be the ultimate
LOL - only $200
Hahaha