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Originally Posted by fidstar-poker
No update in weeks
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Originally Posted by FWWM
RIP suited
Sorry for the lack of updates! Nevada's been getting worse and worse with the COVID and I've been sort of mentally following pace by growing more and more insular and agoraphobic.
I seem to be snapping out of it lately, just in time for tomorrow, when Red Rock is going to reopen their poker room with refurbished 7-max, plastic-partitioned tables. Here's a pic, though it's a bit hard to see the partitions.
I think the 7-max format is a good compromise: there's still some room for everyone to distance, and we won't be stuck in the blinds half the time, although Gambelina pointed out that the cup holders don't line up.
That shouldn't be a problem, as I'm not going to be drinking much while I'm there, alcoholic or non; I'm going to keep the mask on as much as possible, going with the current scientific findings that the disease is spread primarily through air droplets and hardly at all through surface contact.
The latter bit of information has freed me from what was an increasingly obsessive-compulsive decontamination routine upon arriving home from somewhere. Recently I was able to take a few steps out of that long and complicated process, and that makes it easier to contemplate venturing out on a more regular basis. As long as I keep the mask on, I should be all right.
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Originally Posted by Da_Nit
Hey SJ how you been? Been reading a good amount over the Summer. Almost exclusively Larry McMurty books. His genre may not be for everyone but one has to recognize his writing talent and his appreciation of novels.
I’m rereading your story from Oh No, Not Again, for the third time. In between library hold books for the day. Do you know what happened to Maynard?
Any recommendations? I’m considering The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test or similar but am obviously clueless.
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Originally Posted by WorldzMine
That's a ****ing weird book; I read it in college.
I enjoyed
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test back in the day. Tom Wolfe has plenty of other good stuff.
Bonfire of the Vanities comes to mind; I liked that quite a bit. The movie was reportedly so bad that it ruined the reputation of the book for some people, but not for me.
Speaking of the Acid Tests, I just finished Ken Kesey's
Sometimes a Great Notion, though I don't know if I would recommend it. It's a good book, but it's very much a piece from the late 50's/early 60's and it hasn't aged well.
Kesey was a very good writer and he has better books out--and you know what, I've never read his
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; I've only seen the rather excellent movie. My college buddy and I killed a fifth of Smirnoff while watching it one afternoon many years ago. We were both Psychology students at the time and were so mesmerized by the movie that we tossed the vodka down like popcorn, and the booze didn't slam down on us until after the credits rolled.
I might pick that book for my next half-read review.
Currently I'm reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72--just for a little nostalgia for when we had normal elections.
Last edited by suitedjustice; 08-02-2020 at 08:01 AM.