Love the categories you’ve established for Senior Jeopardy. Jeff and I are faithful Jeopardy fans. It would be a kick to watch you as a contestant, especially to see your three outfits and to see how you would be introduced. I vote for “Gentleman farmer”.
You traveled into the dream state - a recurring nightmare for so many is a common universal transparent reveal into one's darkest fears and needs. This well-constructed prose began in the dream state and, according to my friend a dream expert of academia, dreams are not always what they seem. Metaphor, symbolic impact and the mind's ability to use allusion seem a part of deeper dream analysis according to my psychologist friend.
Your mention of hubris made me think of my dear mother, a fan and daily cognoscente of Trebek in his heyday! I was often interrogated by Dixie about my knowledge of the facts and learned culture found in Jeopardy and I always knew that the newspaper left out, folded open and left out was a big part of her daily cross word puzzle engagement where the pencil and fat eraser left on top of the paper meant she planned to return. She had no doubt left in agonized frustration and would get up in quick haste to change laundry, move a hose to continue the deep soaking of some roses or attempt some dusting of wood furniture in hopes that the movement would assuage her need to find cross word completion victory. The daily discipline of managing her challenge found in the New York Times' version reposted in the local Auburn Journal or Sacramento Bee was a morning activity to get the day going while Jeopardy would give her a "book end" close to her educational adventures of each lunar cycle. But she was a "night-owl" and found reading big tomes to be a lifelong habit where she would lose herself until wee hours of the early morning most days of her life.
I often felt some humiliation in moments when interrogated by my mother which maintained a steel trap version of her mind until her final dying days. By contrast, I've watched friends and family recently consumed by the challenges of senile dementia and the madness of such lunacy brought reduced to human rubble which sometimes would last for years.
Good findings and a great share found here. Thank you.
Interesting perspective with great idea of Jeopardy for geezers because now its mostly geezers like me that still watch TV.
I have similar responses when watching Jeopardy but confess, I have mostly tuned out the last 5 years due to TV cynicism. TV programs have been fine tuned and honed down to the bone of ad profitability. Reality shows like Survivor are totally fake entertainment. I was helicoptered to the first survivor island just after it finished taping and was told by the pilot, "It's rigged, the queer wins it". With this little inside info a son won money on internet betting. A T-shirt with ""Survivor Island Staff" got the attention of a lot of local girls. Budweiser beer was plastered all over Kota Kinabalu, Sabah as well as on the island where all the luxuries of civilization from a bar to electricity and running water were separated from the "jungle" simply by a rope designating contestants jungle territory and staff bright lights habitat.
TV game shows like the old 64 thousand, have been exposed for rigging to capture audience which means ad revenue.
Home improvement programs are half real and half rigged. Even cooking channels are twisted to get more ad revenue. A local near our farm gathers truffles and sells them to a wholesaler and they ended up in NY and a TV food program exec there traced it back to make a program out of him gathering the truffles. First thing they did was make him carry a machete to ward off imaginary mountain lions. They directed his every move to enhance the story to get more ad revenue.
I'm not accusing Jeopardy of being rigged but suspect much of the program is "crafted" to enhance ad revenue with those writers constantly exhorted to "make it entertaining". Your suggestion for a geezer round will be welcomed but first they will contact Proctor and Gamble to check out if they will fund it with a lot of Depends ads.
Love the categories you’ve established for Senior Jeopardy. Jeff and I are faithful Jeopardy fans. It would be a kick to watch you as a contestant, especially to see your three outfits and to see how you would be introduced. I vote for “Gentleman farmer”.
Loved this, Rick. And last night a category was..."The 60's, man!" Felt so good to run the category.
I'm ready for Senior Jeopardy.
By their commercials ye shall know them.
You traveled into the dream state - a recurring nightmare for so many is a common universal transparent reveal into one's darkest fears and needs. This well-constructed prose began in the dream state and, according to my friend a dream expert of academia, dreams are not always what they seem. Metaphor, symbolic impact and the mind's ability to use allusion seem a part of deeper dream analysis according to my psychologist friend.
Your mention of hubris made me think of my dear mother, a fan and daily cognoscente of Trebek in his heyday! I was often interrogated by Dixie about my knowledge of the facts and learned culture found in Jeopardy and I always knew that the newspaper left out, folded open and left out was a big part of her daily cross word puzzle engagement where the pencil and fat eraser left on top of the paper meant she planned to return. She had no doubt left in agonized frustration and would get up in quick haste to change laundry, move a hose to continue the deep soaking of some roses or attempt some dusting of wood furniture in hopes that the movement would assuage her need to find cross word completion victory. The daily discipline of managing her challenge found in the New York Times' version reposted in the local Auburn Journal or Sacramento Bee was a morning activity to get the day going while Jeopardy would give her a "book end" close to her educational adventures of each lunar cycle. But she was a "night-owl" and found reading big tomes to be a lifelong habit where she would lose herself until wee hours of the early morning most days of her life.
I often felt some humiliation in moments when interrogated by my mother which maintained a steel trap version of her mind until her final dying days. By contrast, I've watched friends and family recently consumed by the challenges of senile dementia and the madness of such lunacy brought reduced to human rubble which sometimes would last for years.
Good findings and a great share found here. Thank you.
Interesting perspective with great idea of Jeopardy for geezers because now its mostly geezers like me that still watch TV.
I have similar responses when watching Jeopardy but confess, I have mostly tuned out the last 5 years due to TV cynicism. TV programs have been fine tuned and honed down to the bone of ad profitability. Reality shows like Survivor are totally fake entertainment. I was helicoptered to the first survivor island just after it finished taping and was told by the pilot, "It's rigged, the queer wins it". With this little inside info a son won money on internet betting. A T-shirt with ""Survivor Island Staff" got the attention of a lot of local girls. Budweiser beer was plastered all over Kota Kinabalu, Sabah as well as on the island where all the luxuries of civilization from a bar to electricity and running water were separated from the "jungle" simply by a rope designating contestants jungle territory and staff bright lights habitat.
TV game shows like the old 64 thousand, have been exposed for rigging to capture audience which means ad revenue.
Home improvement programs are half real and half rigged. Even cooking channels are twisted to get more ad revenue. A local near our farm gathers truffles and sells them to a wholesaler and they ended up in NY and a TV food program exec there traced it back to make a program out of him gathering the truffles. First thing they did was make him carry a machete to ward off imaginary mountain lions. They directed his every move to enhance the story to get more ad revenue.
I'm not accusing Jeopardy of being rigged but suspect much of the program is "crafted" to enhance ad revenue with those writers constantly exhorted to "make it entertaining". Your suggestion for a geezer round will be welcomed but first they will contact Proctor and Gamble to check out if they will fund it with a lot of Depends ads.