Pro and con of gay clubbing in Philly

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Pro: The bar that somehow 7 straights and 1 gay wound up going to on Saturday night had Hoegaarden on draft. ON DRAFT, PEOPLE! Con: I have had this damn Madonna/Abba song playing over and over again, and yet I still can't get it out of my head. Damn you, 15-minute club remix!

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No excuses

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This whole "blogging" thing seems to have taken off lately. My "best friend":http://providencelife.blogspot.com/, "my sister":http://commiescorner.blogspot.com/, and "her very good friend":http://luggnut.blogspot.com/ (and also a friend of mine growing up) have all popped up with their very own in the last few weeks. If my mom starts a blog I will officially eat a hat. It's great to see these blogs; Ryan's especially. He just made a dramatic move from Philly to Providence (well, maybe it wasn't dramatic, but people in his life made it that way. I

Coachella

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This weekend I'm going to be heading off, along with Kim and two friends, to the "Coachella Valley Music Festival":http://www.coachella.com/ thingy dealie. It's sort of Lollapalooza on steroids, or Burning Man but less dusty, or even Bumbershoot without all the rain. I'm currently "bidding on":http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6526713282 camping tickets for all of us, which will probably be a lot better than trying to negotiate the clusterfuck in and out both days. Granted, it's still going to be a clusterfuck with "all those bands":http://www.coachella.com/artists/, but hopefully a slightly more managable one. Plus, if we camp we actually get to "bring in food and water":http://www.coachella.com/camping/?onsite, instead of paying $8 for a bottle of water or whatever it was that caused the Woodstock riot a few years back. It's a lot of bands, and there's quite a few that I would like to see, but it sounds like it's going to be a really, REALLY big crowd, which always makes me a little nervous. I wish there was going to be WiFi there, but there ain't... so all my "pictures":http://flickr.com/photos/tags/coachella will have to wait until I get home to get uploaded.

*Update:* Well, I didn't win the auction for the tickets, but only because some fucking asshole bid me out of them, thinking they were tickets to the _event_! Um, $100 to get 4 tickets that cost $175 each? "If it seems to good to be true..." Fucker. Now the original seller is trying to sell them to me for a Buy It Now of $100. No way, not when individual camping passes are going for less than $20 each.

Misc bits

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My "sister":http://www.livejournal.com/users/fuzzyfruit/ (who came out to visit a week ago) has started to write up her trip report. "Part I":http://www.livejournal.com/users/fuzzyfruit/358161.html "Part II":http://www.livejournal.com/users/fuzzyfruit/358917.html

Hopefully in Part III she'll talk about her totally hot kings full of aces that she crushed everyone with at the casino, as well as my Dropping The Hammer By Raising Pre-flop With "7-2 Offsuit":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001289/ (and winning!!!)!

Also, Kim has quit "smorking":http://store1.yimg.com/I/engrish-store_1823_814622 (today she gets her one-week chip), so as a show of solidarity, I'm giving up drinking my "beloved diet soda":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/000410/. It's probably for the best, as it causes all sorts of nasty "throat cancer":http://www.mercola.com/2004/jun/2/soda_cancer.htm anyway, plus it'll force me to drink more water.

Congratulations to "Robn":http://firepile.com/robn/ for posting this site's "1000th":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001333/#comments comment! It just wouldn't be any fun without y'all.

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This is what happens when you go with friends to the asian food store to buy a bunch of disgusting stuff. I am going to admit up front that I wussed out of pretty much everything (that's my grape snapple sitting in front of me) and didn't partake in the gross drinks with the chunks in it, the stale marshmallows with some sort of green tea in them, or the purple candle-looking layer cake thing. I did, however, try the red bag of chips in front of me, and they're flavored with anchovies! Ewwww! I think Eric's face pretty much says it all.

Finally, the next field trip to Vegas is planned! There's some sort of competition going on at Heuco in a few weekends, so a bad time to just go normally, so the roomies, Kim, Eric and I are headed to sin city.

Jason has a blog

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My buddy Jason just unveiled "his blog":http://thisamericanstrife.blogspot.com/ to me in a comment. You might have to know him to appreciate it, but I was just telling him the other day that he's one of the funniest/quirkiest guys I know. Example: "David":http://bigbrit.blogspot.com/ just moved into a house recently, and has a workshop basement where he can putter around and make furniture and stuff. So what does Jason bring him as a gift the other night? A "muscle car" calendar from 1994, complete with big-hair chicks and awful scenery. I asked him if he specifically bought that, or if he had it lying around. He had just picked it up in NY state, and was waiting for the opportunity to use it. He also put a "2 drinks and I'm gay" magnetic bumper sticker on my car a few weeks ago. I'm still biding my time as to passing it on.

Also, he was the architect of the "cowboy party":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/000790/, as well as the "awesome photoshops":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/?folder=20040109_cowboy after.

Go "read it":http://thisamericanstrife.blogspot.com/; I'm looking forward to getting more updates from him.

Shuffle up and deal!

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The near-constant flood of "poker shows":http://travel.discovery.com/fansites/worldpoker/tour.html on The Travel Channel has finally broken me down, and I started lobbying this weekend for a friendly weekly game with the "climbing":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/climbing/ peeps. Lots of emails flying around today about which day of the week would be best (so far Monday and Wednesday are the main candidates), as well as some side discussions about what the format should be. On one hand, there's something to be said for a low threshold "limit raise":http://www.bestjackpots.com/info/poker_rules.jsp game. More people will play in each pot, since a quarter or $.50 to see a flop is no big deal. You'll also lose money more slowly, so it would be hard to whittle away more than $20 over the course of 3 hours or so. On the other hand, nothing compares to the strategy and gut-wrenching feeling of playing "no-limit":http://www.ultimatebet.com/rules-strategy/nolimit.html hold'em. You can't really bully the short stack with a $.50 call, but if you push $20 into the pot unless he's sitting on "American Airlines":http://www.thepokerforum.com/handnames.htm he'll probably back out pretty quick. The flip side of that is everyone going all-in right away to try and double up, which makes for not a very fun night. So, coming out of the side discussion that Joshua and I were having, I have a few ideas for poker nights:

* Two different games. Maybe we all get together around 8, and play $.50/$1 limit raise games for a few hours, until maybe 10. That way everyone's had their fill, and gotten to play a bunch of hands for good or ill. Then at 10, anyone who's got the stomach for no-limit can get dealt in on no-limit or pot-limit games. This could get ugly quickly, which leads me to my next option. * Tournament play. Everyone has a set buy-in, maybe $20, and then gets a supply of "fake money" "chips":http://store.yahoo.com/jdrazor/set5300dic11.html... maybe totalling $1000 or something. Everyone just plays until they are eliminated, and then based on what place you come in, you take home a certain percentage. Depending on the amount of players we could probably just use "this WSOP(World Series Of Poker) table":http://www.pokerpages.com/pokerinfo/wsop/2004payoutstructure.htm. That's how most tournaments are run anyway. The downside to this is that maybe 1/3 of the players are guaranteed to go home with nothing, whereas with the limit raise games I've played so far, even if you're doing poorly you tend to have at least $5 left at the end of 2-3 hours. * Saw an interesting article about "spread limit":http://www.pokersearch.com/Articles/EDHill/advantag.shtm games, which gives you some flexibility on your bets each round, but still capping the totals to the pots don't get too out of hand. That way you can make calling a little more uncomfortable for people if you either a) have a good hand, or b) are trying to "buy the pot":http://www.winneronline.com/poker/glossary.htm.

In any case, I don't know if it can all get organized this week, but I'm guessing by next week we'll have our first game, and I'm pretty excited about it. Should be lots of fun.

Day off

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I have Good Friday off today, and so does "David":http://bigbrit.blogspot.com/, so we're going to pretend we're cute little old Jewish men and meet in Squirrel Hill and have breakfast and play Scrabble. Should be a lovely day for that sort of tomfoolery. *Update*: It was a tie game, which I've never had happen before, but according to the "in case of a tie" rules, I won by two points. I smell a rematch! Also, while out running errands today I passed "Dave Chappelle":http://www.collegeslackers.com/soundboards/rick_james_soundboard.html's tour bus. Apparently he's in town this weekend to do some shows.

Funny emails

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"David":http://bigbrit.blogspot.com/ and I have been swapping some funny emails yesterday and today. As a little bit of background, he's been really hot to set up some sort of web collection to buy "this hot dog suit":http://www.allamericanhotdog.com/hotdoginflatable.htm. As a further bit of background, today is his last day at his current job. bq.. From: David To: Matt

it was only 2k....

think of all those site that people set up to ask people to dontate money to help pay off debt/whatever...

could be interesting experiment.

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From: Matt To: David

ok, but i think you have to offer users something.

for example: "http://www.giveboobs.com/":http://www.giveboobs.com/

now.. if you would swear to go out and do goofy things in public wearing the hot dog, and i would either videotape it or take pictures, that would be something.

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From: David To: Matt

but i don't want implants...

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From: Matt To: David

are you kidding?

you can get that hot dog suit surgically grafted to your body!

now _that_ would be hot!!!!

i wonder if that girl is the same as the "http://www.readmyboobs.com/":http://www.readmyboobs.com/ one (Not Safe For Work link)

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From: David To: Matt

no safe for work?

it's my last day, i'm looking at porn right now

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Cowboy up!

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Friday night my friends Jason and "Heidi":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/02.jpg hosted a "cowboy party", which involved dressing up in all the cowboy gear you could muster, and walking into a room with "The Magnificent Seven":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/ on the TV, and Johnny Cash on the stereo. Some people really pulled off the cowboy thing well, especially "David":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/01.jpg (who made his own "hat":http://feralboy.textamerica.com/?r=295336 and belt buckle out of card stock and aluminum foil) and "Will":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/25.jpg (whose family has a ranch in Texas, natch). I, on the other hand, looked like some sort of psychedelic 70s cowboy acid nightmare. I didn't have an actual cowboy shirt, so I went with this "paisley polyester thing":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/19.jpg I had, which when combined with "my hot new":http://store.yahoo.com/freestyleshop/sistspbebu.html "spinner belt buckle":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/18.jpg and "borrowed hat":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/11.jpg made me look like a demented rodeo clown. However, I did do well in the spitting competition and was able to get a cherry pit into a spitoon from about 10 feet away. Several times, in fact.

The "hot":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/04.jpg "photoshop":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/06.jpg "jobs":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/08.jpg "in":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/20040109_cowboy/09.jpg "the gallery":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/photos/?folder=20040109_cowboy were all Jason's... very nice work!