Posts Tagged ‘poker’

Grateful Thursday

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I am totally having a Grateful Dead day today, and I feel motivated to share with you all.

Annotated Lyrics: Scarlet Begonias, Ripple, Uncle John’s Band, and Tennessee Jed. The other track, Me & My Uncle, is a cover.

Even More Things I Did Not Know

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Science has brought us a permanent, but easily-removable, tattooing ink. Does this change the metatext of tattooing? I mean, the pain is still there, but if the permanence isn’t part of the subtext anymore, what does that mean for the story? Is it to obvious to predict the rise of a serial-tattooing culture, or a [...]

I Am Not Making This Up

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

When I first checked into the hotel on Sunday, I noticed that across the hall from my suite was a door marked “Maintenance Office”. I had an offhand thought about it being odd to find that on the 3rd floor–you’d think it would be on the first floor, or possibly in the basement–and thought no [...]