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semi-charmed kind of life 1 Jan 2010 | 05:37 am
Singing along with third eye blind just now, ivy says "I want something else.." then stops and sternly admonishes herself: "I don't think that's how you ask." I'm hanging it up. This is the final blo...
revisiting the wasteland 7 Nov 2009 | 05:55 am
I'm heading back to vegas for the first time since god knows when. Having both jeff shulman and phil ivey at the final table was too good to pass up. Look for me in the crowd holding up a banner: "I N...
there's one in every crowd 27 Jun 2009 | 04:49 pm
How's the kool aid.. ...civil liberties groups generally oppose long-term detention, arguing that detainees should be prosecuted or released. Sure, SOME. "Generally" speaking (and I am making air qu...
life's little mysteries 22 Jun 2009 | 03:47 am
(As opposed to life's big mysteries, which were all solved a couple thousand years ago.) If you swore to someone that you just moments ago had witnessed several impossible things, culminating in oh s...
a brain gain again 23 Apr 2009 | 02:15 pm
Here's something to read: The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs. ...but ten pages taxes my attention span. Perhaps someone could summarize. Edit: or you can listen on NPR. I still haven't...
more from ms. mcchainerson 8 Apr 2009 | 01:54 am
Yesterday after ivy finished reading me the entirety of "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!" and then made her own fancy paper chain to count down the days remaining to her fourth birthday, I told kathleen...
greatest kid comment ever? 7 Apr 2009 | 08:11 am
We have a giant bucket of little plastic animals (doesn't everyone?) A recent visitor asked ivy about one of them. "That's an alligator," she said, adding: "alligator is the past tense of crocodile."
poker? I don't even know her - no, really 1 Apr 2009 | 02:49 am
I set out to write a response to naturalborn's comment and quickly realized that I might as well be trying to write a novel in swahili. I cannot express how distant, foreign and irrelevant poker now s...
how far hellmuth taunting has come 14 Mar 2009 | 08:26 am
Hellmuth vs. hoss_tbf
why does it sound so familiar? 6 Mar 2009 | 01:42 am
Lying With Style: Classic style is focused and assured. Its virtues are clarity and simplicity; in a sense, so are its vices. It declines to acknowledge ambiguities, unessential qualifications, doubt...
