Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 25, 2013 in Blog, Personal |
When I started this blog some 15 months ago, it wasn’t about achieving attention or gaining recognition. Plenty of other ways exist to do that, most of them less time-consuming.
For me, blogging became an entirely selfish pursuit, the most convenient means of expression. In other words, a way to vent. Rather than screaming profanities at the television or spewing at a computer screen, my blog unintentionally became a sort of safety valve capping a pressure cooker of inner angst.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 24, 2013 in Blog, Travel |
Three things I love about France — their cooking, their wine, and their cars. Well, maybe four things, but I don’t want to get into trouble.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 23, 2013 in Blog, Politics |
Las Vegas’ village idiot is at it again.
Normally, the rantings of a crazy buffoon wouldn’t be newsworthy. But in this case, the village idiot happens to be a rich man worth billions. He also runs a vast gambling empire. So, that gives him special perks and privileges. People listen to his rants and even write down what he has to say, no matter how illogical or inflammatory.
In case you missed the latest, Sheldon Adelson wants the United States to attack Iran. Wait, it gets worse. With a nuclear weapon!
He’s not joking.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 23, 2013 in Blog, Politics |
Button for sale at a recent conservative convention
Continuing for the previous post: READ HERE
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 23, 2013 in Blog, Politics |
Shut the government down, they all say. And then when it does shut down, they bitch and protest.
Sometimes life really is stranger than fiction.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 20, 2013 in Blog |
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 19, 2013 in Blog, Personal |
Nothing worked. When I tried to starve myself, I’d start having food fantasies. Most men dream amorous thoughts. I dreamed hot fudge sundaes, bags of potato chips, and half gallons of ice cream.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 18, 2013 in Blog |
Last night I joined a select group of Las Vegas poker players who were invited to preview a rough cut of the explosive film documentary called Ultimatebeat: Too Much to Lose.
The film gets its title from some wordplay on the Ultimatebet scandal, which rocked the industry at the tail end of the poker boom. According to investigators, the unsuspecting high-stakes poker-playing victims were defrauded out of tens of millions of dollars.
So, where did all that money go and who got away with the crimes?
That’s what Ultimatebeat: Too Much to Lose seeks to answer, in painstaking detail.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 17, 2013 in Blog, Facing the Firing Squad |
MEET RACHEL KRANZ
(Update: Kranz passed away in 2018)
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 16, 2013 in Blog |
Imagine a movie nearly 50 years in the making.
Next, imagine an unscripted story where no one knows what’s going to happen, or what the actors are going to do or say.
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