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Welcome to the Jumble: Guns ‘n’ Roses in Las Vegas

Monday, September 18th, 2006

1. I Could Sleep in it ‘Til Morning but this Nightmare Never Ends

In the pre-dawn hours of September 14, I had a dream. I consider my sleeping dreams insignificant and I rarely remember them. (In contrast, I think my waking dreams are very meaningful.)

But this one was different.

I dreamed I was talking to Axl Rose, explaining to him why it was in both our interests that my next book be about the 15 years he has spent between Guns ‘n’ Roses studio albums. A psychiatrist would (and, someday, may) chalk it up to deadline anxiety. I’ve been working like a Tijuana whore on crack all year on the Full Tilt book, while Mr. Badass Axl Rose has been closeted for more than a decade in a Malibu mansion trying to create 60 minutes of music.

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Coming Soon: G ‘n’ R’s Paradox City

Monday, September 18th, 2006

I’m back in Vegas, trying to finish the book and watching the Guns ‘n’ Roses show at the Hard Rock for Robin Leach. It was something to be enjoyed … and then endured. They opened the doors to let us in at 8:30. Axl Rose and the (new) gang started playing at 11:15. Much about the show was good, but there are many questions. I have plenty to tell you about my three hours standing six feet from the stage amid an ever more restless and finally angry crowd. It’s a story of three women who befriended me, and one who actually, truly wanted to kill me.

But I have to rest now. I promise to write it all up in my next entry, and there’s also this matter of the last two chapters of the book that’s due in a couple weeks.

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With No Direction Home

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Sorry to be out of touch for a couple days. Pokerworks was doing something or other with its software and they asked me not to post.

OK, in all honesty, that explains away about 6 hours of the 72 since I last posted. While I know you appreciate the unmatched quality of the snippets of my life I share with you, I’ve gotten lots of mail about the QUANTITY of my disclosures. I always imagined that one of my strengths as a journal writer would be that you could keep coming back and finding something new, and I think that’s been the case.

I’ve been crazy-busy and addled by The Little Things.

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Reading and Writing (a/k/a Writing and Reading)

Monday, September 11th, 2006

I’m living the Writer’s Life, abandoning my family for 22 hours out of every day to work at a condo 5 miles from our house. The condo is nice; my Mom and her husband live here during the winter. But it is desperately in need of cleaning.

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Apex and Zenith

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

I think the articles by Amy Calistri and Tim Lavalli on Pokernews.com represent as positive a development as the poker media could hope for. I haven’t seen Harrah’s response yet, though Amy and Tim separately told me they were going to essentially agree with the articles’ explanation about where the 2 million extra chips came from. Simultaneous to that, the September 13 Card Player is now littering poker rooms.

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Where 2 Million Chips Came From

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Finish reading this ASAP and read the trio of articles on Pokernews.com by Amy Calistri and Tim Lavalli solving the mystery of the extra two million chips introduced on 3-table day at the Main Event. (Part I, Part II, Part III)

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The Pina Colada Song

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Jay Greenspan, a friend and author of Hunting Fish, e-mailed me today. We saw each other every day at the Series and haven’t spoken or written since. In addition to covering some routine business - he owes me 1/4 of a steak quesadilla and reminded me, unsolicited, that he intends to pay up - he said, referring to my blog the other day that meantioned The Pina Colada Song, “The Pina Colada song is genius.”

He picked the wrong guy, either to attack or defend.

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Mercy Killing at Card Player

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

I’m sorry if I hurt some peoples’ feelings but I am required to write this. I really like several of the people I know who work at Card Player, but I have to unload. I was talking with Amy Calistri about how I decided, in yesterday’s post, to spare the magazine a full assault on its mediocrity because I couldn’t make it past page 32 of the August 30 issue. Then I saw something that made me hang up the phone and run for my Journal. (I never really take Card Player to task in yesterday’s short entry, but I did quote a couple priceless bits out of the first few pages of the issue before losing my appetite for the task. My favorite: “The bouncer soon became the bounced.”)

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The Angie Dickinson Project

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Can you help put me in touch with Angie Dickinson? A hundred bucks if I meet her.

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The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

There are two kinds of posts I swore I would never including in my Journal: “Best of” posts, and “Odds ‘n’ Ends” posts. With this post, I am now 0-for-2 in Silent Promises Made to People Not Necessarily Listening Anyway.

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