http://z-to-u.blogspot.com/ is where you find Z.
A. List seven random things about yourself that people may not know.
B. Link the person who sent this to you, and leave a comment on their blog so that their readers
can visit yours.
C. Post the rules on your blog.
D. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, linking their blog.
E. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
HERE GOES:
1) I had spinal menengitis as a 5YO boy real bad but recovered completely
2) Because of 1) I feel like I'm on a lifetime free-roll and don't worry about much
3) I am synesthetic in color and shape so what passes for my "intelligence" is really just a good long-term memory and an above average short-term memory
4) I don't enjoy candles at all; certainly not enough to fall asleep with one burning
5) I've never seen one episode of a "reality-show" start to finish
6) I can bluff it with the best and know what's "good" and what's "not good" because of school, but I have no appreciation for poetry as a genre and am jealous of everyone who can write it and appreciate it at a gut level
7) I've cried real tears over disappointments involving failures of the New York Mets, but I've never shed a single tear for "mankind."
And the "lucky ones" are:
LOVEBABZ
ANITA
NO_SLAPPZ
TORRANCE STEPHENS
DASHIELL
PROGRESSIVE TRADITIONALIST
COMRADE KEVIN
nb: Lovebabz is a late scratch because she just finished playing the same game via a different source. Replacing her at lead-off in the lineup will be...TennesseGuerrillaWoman.
I must go out for the evening now, but expect to find notification of tag forthwith.
A note on "games." I know they irritate Fairlane which is why I don't bother him with them anymore but I believe all games have their greater uses. Boxing has much to teach about brawling, race, class, nationalism and money & markets. Chess has much to teach about the Russian character as well as warfare. And there is no better way to understand the American Jewish Ashkenaz diasporal experiene than to understand, 10-card, Hollywood/Oklahoma Gin-Rummy, known by its less formal name "Gin." Want to know where poor redneck and poor Black have commonality? Learn how to play Spades or Dirty Hearts. Want to know where the Jewish American experience and Black American experience and Communism and Western European capitalism meet? Play Pinochle or Kalabrias or Belotte. They are the same game.
Where are the signs of the way forward for the generation following our middle-aged selves in the USA, look at the Blog Meme Games. But analyze.
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Kelso, I've deleted my blog again (serious, serious mental block issues and i really have to FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS on my work because, well, I don't have no rich man like Eliot Spitzer to pay me 1000's of dollars an hour for ... well, you know ... and thus I haven't any offers from Larry Flynt or Playboy or Maxim or any other men's or boy's magazines to provide a nice financial cushion going forward ... oh, if life where so easy ... I clearly picked the wrong business !!!)
Anyway, I'm off "down the shore" to visit my Alzheimeric (I made up that word!!) Dad. I'll probably be a mess when I get back. BUT, I will take you up on the MEMEMEMEME thing this evening or tomorrow and, obviously, i'll post it here at The Nuts ...
In the words that great American Philosopher...Ralph Cramden: Baby, Your the Greatest!
I love you! I love the whole spin on games and culture and history, You have given me a whole new perspective to think about and I love that about you!
Off to check who is playing the meme from your list of 7.
I'll give you a few more random facts about Kelso
He predicted Eminem would be huge based on an advance copy of his first CD
He used to laugh about gay priests long before the sex scandals began
He almost went into the movie business.
Hello, Kelso.
Ok, I'm in.
Give me a few days.
I can't think of seven things.
well here is another one for ya! it's the book meme. what have you been reading lately?
kelso
my very jewish grandmother (well they are all jewish) taught me every card game known to mankind.
while i have forgotten a few i played many many games of Pinochle on the cruise last month with some old jewish alte kakes. and loved every minute of it. also my father makes me play michigan rummy all the time. i REFUSE to play mah jongg and dont know how
i never heard of Kalabrias
she must have missed that one...
D-CAPny: "Klob" or "Bela" is played with a Pinochle deck. It has elements of bidding, melding and couting card values in tricks taken. There are three possible bids: a trump-suit, no-trump, or all-trump. In the trump suit the order is J-9-A-10-K-Q-8-7 In the off-trump suits the order is: A-10-K-Q-J-9-8-7. It's like Spades or Dirty Hearts in the sense that the penalty for getting "set" outweighs the value of making contract.
I don't play Mah Jongg either and not because it's a game for old Jewish ladies but because I was told that if I learned it I'd be tempted to play for money against Chinese kids and I'd go for a bundle. I'd say Chinese guys play Mah Jongg, 13 card Poker and Dominos for much more money than they play Hold 'Em.
If your Gin game is any good, meet me on Yahoo and we'll play. I'm a cash player not a tournament player, but given whom I've beaten and whom I've lost to, I'd rate myself as a Schoenfeld High C/Low B.
I think what made Stuey the best card-player ever was not the WSOP wins nor the comebacks nor the tragic end but that there was and will never be a better Gin player period.
If you know anything about Gin you know that it's hard for the lesser player to beat the better player in a game, let alone a column or sheet. OK, with a lay-down hand, but any hand played more than 4 deep, the better player's going to win it.
1) Holy crap!
2) It's great that something SO BAD had such a good result. I wish I could say the same about some of my early mishaps.
3) It takes more than a good memory, short or long-term, to write as well as you do. 'Fess up! You're intelligent!
4) I only enjoy candles when I'm burning them at both ends.
5) I knew it! We DO have something in common!
6) I will write you a poem, so you can tell me if it's "good" or "not good." Hm. Maybe just a haiku...
7. Just the opposite for me, I'm afraid.
Yeah I'm kinda immune to poetry.
Canasta or Wist, however...
i suck at rummy. i just like to play (and lose)
D-CAPny:
Well, here's some basic stuff that will improve your game. If you have to throw blind, throw either your lowest card or a card who's value or suit you are looking for.
Think of your opponent's hand as a grid on in the game Battleship and as discards fall and taking note of what you are holding, imagine you're playing Battleship and have narrowed down the grid to the areas where you opponent's "ships" are.
The old-fashioned way to play was never to pick up a discard unless it made a set or run, but I think it's often useful to vary it up by picking up discards with give you 4-out triangles, and let you safely reduce point count. This has the added advantage of jamming your opponent up into holding cards that hit your set-draw or your run-draw and really clogs things up for him or her.
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