Archive for May, 2011
On Four
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Dear son: Welcome to the fourth year of your life. Actually, that won’t be for a couple of days yet, but I expect we’re going to be very busy until then. Right now I’m sitting in the eye of the pre-modest-birthday-party hurricane; much of the house has been cleaned, food and beverage materials have been [...]
The Secret Decoder Ring
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Between May 8 and May 18, this blog (well, probably more accurately, this Twitter feed) will be veering sharply back into technical poker territory. Not Bill Chen technical, but I’ll be throwing around a lot of shorthand and jargon and more than a few inside jokes. You should feel free to ignore all of it. [...]
Heads On Pikes
Thursday, May 5th, 2011You see them – and, on a day when the stench of the city’s offal is mild and the wind is right, smell them – on your way through the city gate. They rest on a tall shaft of wood, a mockery of the body that carried them in life. Their stare is empty and [...]
Who’s Laughing Now
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Osama Bin Laden cost me my first job in Hollywood. It wasn’t a particularly good job, and it wasn’t, from a career perspective, likely to have been all that far from my last. Still, there it is. I usually don’t bring this up unless I’ve been drinking. First of all, because so many people lost [...]