Crossword Scramble!

I'm not certain, but it looks like the episode of Merv Griffin's Crosswords in which I appear will be pre-empted by Southern California fire coverage.

HOWEVER!

I just received word that it did just air in New York!

If there's anyone who DVRed the show and can e-mail it to me (or put it up at a secret location for a while), I'd love to grab a back-up copy that I can burn to VCD just in case it doesn't show in Los Angeles. That way, I can still have something to show at the party.

The Plan.

The plan was to stay up all night, writing up my Merv Griffin's Crosswords experience, now that the show has aired and my silence is over.

But then I spent all day awake and worrying for no reason. So I have to sleep.

But here's the bottom line: ( Hidden on the off chance that some people don't want to be spoiled before they can see it on their own )

(Despite that spoiler cut, feel free to post spoilers in the comments.)

Special thanks to jeffurrynpl, nplloquacious, and toonhead_npl for working so hard to get me a version of the show to have for the party. Ultimately, it was Jeffurry who was able to make it work first, but Toonhead! is the one responsible for the screenshot from which this icon comes. I'm going to leave it as default for a little while, then go back to the crazy animation, which was also from Toonhead!