Mr. Playboy

[Literature, Biography, Reading, and some bunnies]I just finished reading Mr. Playboy, the biography of Hugh Hefner. I can't quite explain my recent interest in Hefner and the Playboy enterprise. Regular readers know I really like the Girls Next Door...

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WSOP: World Swine of Poker

[Poker, Swine Flu, World Series of Poker]World Series of Pigs? World Swine of Poker? If you have never been to the World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas, here is a fact you might want to consider this year. People get sick. Long hours of playing...

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Life Gets In the Way

[Content Disclosure: Illness, Life Interruptus, Stamina]It wasn't a swarm of hornets, the swine flu or a drunk driver but merely a morsel or two of food but that was enough to remind me again how fragile a little creature we can be. I awoke in the middle...

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Reality or Something Like It

[Content Disclosure: Reality Television, Guilty Pleasures]Yes, I admit it I like reality television. However, I have both discrimination and taste; neither of which is to be found in the shows I like. The truth is I distain and have never seen most of...

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Rhythms of Life

[Content Disclosure: Life, Lifestyles, In-Between Times]Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything. -- Peter Blake, House M.D.Had a chance to do some catching up with some old friends yesterday. Satisfying to see and heard where everyone...

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Sonoma Cats II

[Content Disclosure: Cats, Felines, Kittens, Pussys]Hard to believe I have been here in Sonoma for over two months, but that also means I am less than a month away from somewhere else. As promised the follow-up post to Sonoma Cats. That is the previously...

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Writin' or not

[Content Disclosure: a bit of poker, a hunk of life, a twitter of a notion, a ponder of a potential, adrift in an ocean of verbs ]A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. -- Thomas MannThere was a time when...

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Someday This Will Be Over . . .

[100% that damn book; 12% whining; 34% more whining]My wonderful co-author Amy Calistri has said most of what follows better than I could; perhaps, that is because men don't get to use an "afterbirth" metaphor quite as easily as do the ladies. As I write...

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Where's Waldo?

[Content Disclosure: Travels, Mt. Shasta and Some Poker]I should be drifting back down to Sonoma in the next couple of days after a week in Weed. Actually I am getting close to my homeless date, my friend will be back to reclaim her cottage in Sebastopol...

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Who Wrote That Song and Why?

[Content Disclosure: No Poker, Some Music, Serendipity]I was digging around in my bag o'discs and found an old one from David. While I drove around Mt. Shasta today, I heard Jerry Jeff Walker make a reference in a live concert track to "being inspired...

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