Dumb but not down

It wasn't too hard to guess what Game Show Garbage would select as their latest dumb answer of the week. Poor Zach Barron has already gotten 15 zillion minutes of Internet infamy for his massive brain freeze on Wheel of Fortune. Facing MAG_C _AND in the bonus round, he somehow couldn't spit out "magic wand" in those ten excruciating seconds.

But even Game Show Garbage has a heart for poor Zach: "Those who know my writing style well enough know that I usually am one to rip someone 'a new one' for missing the game show equivalent of a slam dunk. But, for once I actually am going to show a little compassion. I actually feel bad for the kid. He played a pretty good game, and simply had what we call in the amateur medical profession a brain fart."

New York magazine got through to Zach on e-mail, and he's taking it pretty well. "In those embarrassing ten seconds getting passed around the web, I abandoned the logic and composure needed to win." Well, yeah. But it's not like he didn't get anything from the show, as the screenshot reminds us.

I usually don't have much patience with ridiculing game show contestants, anyway. If it was clueless moi up there under the lights, I'd goof as bad as any of 'em, probably. Maybe even worse than Zach.