Winner, December 12th bee

Our last set of tickets to the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was won by Tom Landers!

Next bee: Monday, January 9th.

The Good Morning America piece should air on some Sunday, any Sunday, in January.

The next bee: Monday, December 12th

Featuring: Round One Holiday Words!

Yes, round one will be chock full of tricky words from Christianity, Judaism, Kwanzaa (well, really just the word "kwanzaa"), Wicca, and Hallmark.

December 12th
Sign up at 7, compete at 7:30
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg
No cover, open to all.

Winner gets tickets to Bingo: The Musical! Second and third place win bar tab.

anecdote

So, on Wednesday, I did a comedy show at which the host, a comic named Theron, introduced me as, "Co-host of the Williamsburg Spelling Pee."

Everyone laughed. Flustered, he followed up with:

"Uh, yes, the Williamsburg Spelling Pee ... it comes right after the Math Poo."

Good Morning America

From my contact at GMA: "Looks like we got bumped a couple of weekends in a row. Now we're looking ahead to January. That's what happens with an evergreen feature story sometimes."

I'll let you know when it's going to finally air (if they tell me)!

by Rebecca Sealfon (e-u-o-n-y-m)

Here is an article about the spelling bee in the Brooklynite.

November 28th recap

First prize winner Dilip Babu won tickets to the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!

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