Haven’t posted in a few days and I’m getting itchy. No long posts until I get these goddam articles done..actually, I may finish the one and put the other on the back burner. I don’t really get writer’s block, but for some reason I don’t want to work on this one thing and it’s keeping…
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An evening spent writing (yes, I party hard) so why not end the night by writing some more? Beautiful day in the ‘Burgh, which I spent part of laboring in the back yard. “Pave suburbia”, that’s the bumper sticker I want. I have goddam mint growing everywhere and this goddam lemongrassy stuff everywhere and it’s…
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I played a 3-table SNG a few days ago, the last poker I’ll be playing for awhile. We were down to 10, one more to go before the final table, and I was low on chips. I was dealt the AQ of spades, raised, and my one caller had about the same size stack as…
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How often do you describe someone as “insane”? No doubt the answer depends in large part on your personal circumstances. If you work retail, or have teenage children, or watch a lot cable news, you’re far more likely to encounter behavior that might be described as “insane”. Of course that’s just a colloquialism for any…
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In the middle of an uberpost Iggy mentioned a brief article on ESPN about a 75-year-old poker player named Allen Hanley, who won one of ESPN’s qualifying tournaments by outlasting a field of 1473 players. That’s a remarkable feat. But there’s an even more stunning fact later on in the piece–Hanley said that, while playing…
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