The fiercest hearts are in love with a wild perfection.
—Stanley Kunitz
Las Vegas Poker Journal, Part One
Las Vegas for five days. Forty-one hours of poker. Free food. Freeway
driving at two in the morning. Watching Cloutier play in the $5,000
buy-in no-limit at the World Series of Poker and win it all. What did
he win? $600,000. The whole experience was great, and the homies and I
are going back in about three weeks.
Re-Screw Los Angeles
I knew that I couldn't go through
with driving to Los Angeles and having to deal with the traffic and the
smog and the wastelandy vibe that it gives off, or at least that it
gives off to me. Bad vibes, man, bad vibes.
Let's Do This Thing, the Thing Being Las Vegas
I made some pretty funny jokes, but most of them were pretty off-color,
and I felt cheap and dirty (but not in a good way) afterward. I seem to
recall something about my being willing to poke an old lady in the eye
for a pair of aces.
Unscrew Los Angeles
A joke: What's the best part of Los Angeles? The freeways out of it. Snap! I just made that up; feel free to work it into conversation.
A Bitch of a Week, Pokerwise/Seriously, I Never Learn
What happened, transpired, went down? There’s no gentle way to say
this: my big bro beat the fuck out of me, almost as if we were little
kids again and I had pissed him off.
I Give Up
So
now, on top of walking around with a general feeling of failure, I also have
to walk around with a specific feeling of failure because I can't even manage running my own website. Great.
Okay, I Lied
Damn it, I can't get the mail thing to work correctly. Sorry if you've been trying.
Contact Us, If You So Desire
Originally,
only registered users were going to be able to leave comments on the
various blogs or contact us via e-mail, you know, to keep the hoods
and/or thugs from leaving lame stuff here or in my e-mail.
Sebastiao Salgado
History is above all a succession of challenges, of repetitions, of preseverances. It's an endless cycle of oppressions, humiliations, and disasters, but also a testament to man's ability to survive.