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The only thing worse than having pocket kings busted twice (by AQo, then AKo) in three hands, moving me to the other side of the rail and out of the money, was my goddamn iBook crashing so hard it wouldn't even boot, leaving me with no way to blog about the last few days. Five times in two years (across two ( Read more... )

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Hooray for computer issues. My iBook is acting up, (details, including lots of NSFW language in the audioblog) but I took a chance on making it go this morning . . . so far, so good. I'm using Safari, so I wonder if the problem is with an older version of Firefox, because Thunderbird does the same thing. Maybe ( Read more... )

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Eating antacids like they're Skittles. Taste the rainbow of anxiety.

Spent about an hour with Lee Jones yesterday afternoon, got some excellent coaching on NLHE strategy. I like Lee. He's a good guy and knows poker. Nerves settled a little bit, traded antacids for a Zantac.

Had dinner with Greg Raymer last night ( Read more... )

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After breakfast, I came back upstairs to work on Games of our Lives.

I got into the elevator, and held the door open for about a half-dozen people. When they were all in, I was closest to the buttons.

"Where y'all going?" I said. Normally, I don't say "y'all," (and in this case, the proper conjugation would have ( Read more... )

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Late last week, my manager called me.

"Do you want to play poker next week?" He said.

"Chris, I always want to play poker. Where's the game?"

"It's in Vegas -" he began.

"I can't afford to go to Vegas right now," I said.

He patiently told me to wait, and listen to all the details.

"Sorry, Chris. My brain is ( Read more... )

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I've got the familiar blend of nerves and excitement, because in just six hours, the last few months of writing, rehearsing and workshopping all pay off.

As I wrote the other day:
In this show, we've got a fairly complicated stunt to work out, as well: we're doing this thing where the whole show takes place in one ( Read more... )

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So there are these Star Wars fans Übernerds who are lining up in front of Grauman's for the premiere of "Revenge of the Sith" in a couple of months.

The only problem is, "Return of the Sith" isn't going to screen at Graumans. For reasons that are best left to the shadowy corners of The Film Distribution World, it ( Read more... )

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I'm trying out a new MT plugin called SpamLookup, which should help out an awful lot with the trackback spam. It' still beta, so if anyone notices anything weird, let me know and I'll pass it along to the developer.

Unless it completely doesn't work, Trackbacks should be working again.

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Found out yesterday afternoon that I won't get a chance to be The Actor. "They liked you very much, but it's not going any further," is what my manager told me. The feedback wasn't any more specific than that, so I have to go with my instinct, which tells me that I did an okay job, but I probably should have been ( Read more... )