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A Mother’s Day Worth Remembering

Posted by on May 11, 2014 in Blog, Personal | 0 comments

 

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With my Mother about ten years ago

 

You’ve probably never heard of Anna Jarvis.

She created the holiday we celebrate today, known as Mother’s Day.  This occasion was first recognized in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson signed a federal proclamation making the holiday official.  Today marks the 100th anniversary of the very first Mother’s Day.

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Why Do Restaurants Jerk Around with Good Old-Fashioned Cornbread?

Posted by on May 9, 2014 in Blog, Rants and Raves, Restaurant Reviews | 1 comment

 

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Furious!

 

How difficult is it to make cornbread?

Here’s the basic recipe.  Take cornmeal mix.  Add in a few eggs.  Pour in some milk.  Mix and then fold into a buttered pan.  Bake for about half an hour.  And serve.

Done!

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Updating the Dewey Tomko Controversy — What (Apparently) Happened

Posted by on May 7, 2014 in Blog, General Poker | 2 comments

 

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Here’s the latest on the Dewey Tomko controversy.

Following multiple telephone conversations and e-mail exchanges I had with several key people on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, I have come closer to a viable explanation as to what really took place regarding Mr. Tomko’s (alleged) involvement with the controversial editorial which appeared in The Press of Atlantic City (newspaper and website), which was subsequently re-reported by other media.

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The Story Behind ESPN’s Documentary of “One of a Kind” (Stu Ungar’s Biography)

Posted by on May 6, 2014 in Blog, General Poker | 5 comments

 

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“One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘the Kid’ Ungar” was released nine years ago this week, in May of 2005.

As a first-time author, finishing that book provided relief more than any sense of personal accomplishment.  To this day, I’d like to go back and re-do the entire process all over again.  I’d be especially eager to repeat my one-on-one interviews with Stuey, if that were possible.  I just think they could have been done better.

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Network: The Movie that Predicted Our Future

Posted by on May 2, 2014 in Blog, Politics | 1 comment

 

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From corporations captained by fatcats beholden solely to profiteers peddling their pornographic propaganda, to the perversion of reality television, to the demise of original thought, to shock TV, to theater of the absurd and even more absurd — the make believe fantasy of Network of the mid-seventies has become American television reality.

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