Ken Jennings is [still] my hero

The summer and fall of 2004 will always be memorable to me for two things: The Gestation of Elliot, and The Ken Jennings Show. I watched Jeopardy! religiously back then, and was a die hard Ken fan. Needless to say, I was crushed when Zerg beat him.

I actually wrote up a "Where is he now?" post about him a while back, but for some reason gave up on it. Now is apparently the time to resurrect the idea, however, as he is officially back in the news.

You may have recently heard that Ken was "biting the hand that feeds" him by mocking both Trebek and the great game show on his blog. Unfortunately, the purveyors of such slanderous misinformation have apparently never heard of satire. I always supposed that you had to have at least a vague familiarity with literary devices before you could become a journalist. Shows what I know.

Read his original post here. It's quite clever.

What am I saying? Of course it's clever - it's fucking Ken Jennings.

Ken Jennings is God.