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Yeah, I’m Still Alive

Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010

It occurs to me that I haven’t posted anything since, uh, 2009. That’s effed up. So let me briefly recap the last six weeks. I: turned 41 got engaged set my wedding date put a bid on a house Other than those life-altering events it’s been pretty slow. Picked up some additional writing work and so I’ve been clattering away at a [...]

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Halfway Home

Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2009

Twelve hours remain of 2009–let’s see if I finish this post before the ball drops. Argentina was a good time, hanging with Pauly and Change and Otis and Joe Giron and Jonathan Boncek. While perhaps my proudest moment of the year came in Argentina–successfully getting from Pittsburgh to Mar del Plata all by myself–one of [...]

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The Beginning of the End

Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2009

It’s been New Year’s Eve for ten minutes now and if I’m gonna write a year-in-review post I’d better get cracking, as the year (and the decade) are tick-tick-ticking away. I’d like to do one of those tidy recaps where I post links to all the stuff I wrote the last twelve months, but to [...]

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Triumph of the Will

Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2009

Today’s the sixth anniversary of this here blog. The one I don’t write in as much as I should–working on it. Seems a lot longer than six years, to be honest. I remember clattering away during my lunch breaks three jobs ago, writing about my low-limit poker play and troubles with haircuts (might get one [...]

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Caveman Scribbles, At Best

Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009

When I was in grade school we didn’t receive grades for penmanship. We learned how to write, sure, and I remember those heady days when we were first allowed to try our hand at cursive. All those loops, those swirls! The letters linking arms to form each individual word. I want to say it was [...]

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A Penny Saved Is a Penny Urned

Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009

Yesterday my Mom and I went to a Veterans Day breakfast held by the Friends of Danang, the humanitarian group I went to Vietnam with. The breakfast was held at the Marriott downtown and so we parked at the arena and walked to the hotel while enjoying a crisp November morn. Brilliant blue skies, a [...]

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Chapter One

Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009

Those of you who write or blog or whatever involving the stringing of words know that November is National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) and this year I’m giving it a shot and who knows? Maybe I’ll actually crank out the required 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Anyway, here’s Chapter One: It’s a cliché but it [...]

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One-Outer

Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009

I was in a good mood. My Nittany Lions had just dragged a squirming and squealing Wolverine squad behind the woodshed for a long-overdue stick beating and now I was at the bar with my girlfriend and her gang to watch the Penguins. I was sipping yet another beer and enjoying the evening when Dave [...]

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Tech Wreck

Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2009

When it comes to discussing events that I cover I have two rules: I never, ever complain about covering a Hold-Em-only event, not after my nightmarish time working the $50K H.O.R.S.E event in 2008. I never, ever complain about covering a tournament where English is spoken at the table, not after I couldn’t understand a [...]

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A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009

The other day I sat down and wrote out the reasons why I haven’t been posting here. The list grew to six items, which I’m not going to bother you with. Suffice to say I’m gonna try to do better, write more, eat more fiber, etc etc. Anyway, last weekend I went to Penn State to [...]

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You Don’t Know Dick

Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009

I was Twittering while watching last night’s episode of Mad Men and asked a question that was misinterpreted by a few. Understandable as media criticism is difficult at 140 characters a pop, but what I was wondering about was this–how did Dick Whitman become Don Draper? Not, as a few people quite reasonably thought, how [...]

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Uh, I Like What You’ve Done With the Place

Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2009

As I stepped off the elevator and onto the floor of Pittsburgh’s new Rivers Casino, this is the first thought that went through my head: “Man, this is pretty (deleted) weird”. Because the Rivers Casino is a…casino. Looks like a casino, sounds like a casino. Got the flashing lights and the slot machine toodle-oodling and the Munchian [...]

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Bump in the Night

Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2009

I have an active imagination. Not an over-active imagination, mind you. People who describe themselves as having overactive imaginations tend to be either weird (and not often in a fascinating-weird kinda way, more a queasy-weird way) or really, really scary. Or they’re these pretentious “I’m so interesting, let’s sit down for an hour and talk [...]

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Took Me Out to the Ballgame

Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2009

Look, I have nothing against kids. Really. I don’t even mind when they act like…kids. Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, to bastardize the Kinks. That said, yesterday I went to an afternoon ballgame and spent nearly the entire time hunched in my seat with a sour look on my face. All [...]

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