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Posted by on May 26, 2013 in Blog, Travel | 4 comments

New Orleans Short Stories (5): Junk Science

 

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For unknown reasons, this flight is absolutely packed with children and infants.  A couple of dozen.  You’d think a flight between New Orleans and Las Vegas – the two most hedonistic cities in America – wouldn’t have many kids.  But this one does.

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Posted by on May 17, 2013 in Blog, General Poker, Rants and Raves | 3 comments

Any Poker Player Who Buys a Lottery Ticket is an Idiot!

 

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In response to all the hype about tomorrow’s $500 million jackpot, I have a comment.

Any poker player who buys a lottery ticket is an idiot.

Ooops.  Allow me to revise that.

Anyone who buys a lottery ticket is an idiot.  However, poker players deserve to be singled out as a special class.  They should know better.

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Posted by on May 17, 2013 in Blog, Rants and Raves, Travel | 4 comments

Nolan Dalla Rant: Maid to Drive Me Crazy

 

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Maid’s carts outside my hotel room door at the New Orleans Sheraton

 

I sympathize.  I really do.

Working as a hotel maid must be a brutal job.  It doesn’t pay shit.  You’re forced to clean up other people’s filth.  I can’t even begin to imagine the nasty things you see every day.

That said, I do have one simple request.

QUIT WAKING ME UP EVERY FUCKING MORNING AT 7:20 AM!

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Posted by on May 10, 2013 in Blog, Restaurant Reviews, Travel | 1 comment

Mother’s (New Orleans)

 

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Isn’t there an old saying that you shouldn’t eat at a place called “Mother’s?”  Or maybe the saying goes, “Never play poker with a man named ‘Doc,” and don’t eat at a place called “Mom’s.”

Whatever.

Whoever wrote that has never eaten at famous Mother’s Restaurant, on Poydras Street in New Orleans. 

Here’s my review.

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