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Quickies!

• Hmm, maybe we won't be riding Top Thrill Dragster next year.
  
• Alien in 30 seconds (and reenacted by bunnies)
  
• More Jeopardy news: Ken Jennings is The Man! $920,960 so far, and still going… (As a former contestant, I just want to state for the record how happy I am that I didn't have to go up against Ken. I can't imagine what the Tournament of Champions is going to be like. On the plus side, if Alex ever decides to retire, I think Sony's got a replacement who's a natural.)
  
• Alert Reader Rock put us on to the upcoming Monty Python musical, Spamalot. David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry, and Hank Azaria— I'm so there. Alas, not in New York City until February 2005. Ni!
  
• Clafouti, clafouti, clafouti. I just like saying clafouti. I don't know what recipe Chris uses, but this one sounds pretty good.
  
• The New York Times Magazine has a fantastic piece on graphic novels/ comix/ sequential art. Or, as Alan Moore puts it, "big expensive comic book[s]". (Registration required: use rv333/ rv333 for member ID/ password.)