"PART OF THE BEE IS LUCK, AND LUCK FAVORS A READY MIND": A week from right now, five-timer Nicholas Rushlow will be among the 278 spellers ranging in age from 6 (?!) to 15 competing in the preliminary written round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Among the other spellers will be Richelle Zampella, an extraordinary Okie from Muskogee who is legally blind; Texas' Ruth Ansawi, who's there to win and not to see the sights; Jennifer Mong, who now holds the title of Canada's Greatest Speller and is one of three Spellers of the North this year; and Arvind Mahankali, the NYC champ who just schooled Anderson Cooper and is back for a possible third straight primetime appearance.
[I also hear Shonda in the background asking about this year's Jamaican entrant: it's Gifton Wright.]
Commence ceasing to swear!
ReplyDeleteYep. Our no-gratuitous-swearing-in-posts rule begins now.
ReplyDeleteOh, for food's sake.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteExcellent New Yorker spelling bee cartoon:
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Now that I'm living sans TV, does anyone know where I can watch the Bee online?
ReplyDeleteI'm so bummed that I will be in London next week for work and will likely on be able to follow through twitter and your posts. (I'm not really that bummed I will be in London...)
ReplyDeleteThe Cosmos will be cheering on Alexis Tang.
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