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for illustration friday ... {invention}

What an awful, awful thing: invented truth for a quarter.

the dictator is dead

Death of a dictator: let the veiled grieving begin.

bedbugs: what's not to love?

This one's for you, Adrienne.

poker is about getting paid

A lot of people (read: wienies) couldn't make it for Leo's home game last Friday, just four around the table but it was good fun anyway. Mostly for me. I won a couple of hands. Maybe two or three. Or fifty or sixty. Hey, who has time to count when you're so busy stacking chips? So I cleaned everybody out; that's what Christmas is all about. Don't worry, I took enough abuse about it. Anyway, thanks for hosting, Leo!

reminds me of evil clowns ...

I entered this painting of Jon's in Penelope's Halloween contest ... great artwork, should have won, but the judges went for cutesy instead. So it goes.

I dream of Jeannie ... or winning at poker.

Since I already have this week's Illustration Friday topic covered ( smoke ), I thought I'd write a few words on last Thursday's poker game. It was fun. Improbably, I won. Poor Leo: he must have had a dozen times the stack I did, yet our heads-up confrontation saw him gutted in no time flat (it probably didn't help to have an I-want-to-go-home-now Adam jeering at him in the background). Of course I had to get lucky, but the main thing was that he wouldn't let me see any cards for cheap, so my decisions were extremely simplified (all-in or fold). Martini was (surprisingly) cautious, Alex was characteristically unpredictable (that Q-9 all-in will always be a personal favourite of mine) and Flo was not only suffering from incompetent dentistry but extremely uneven luck (isn't that how it always goes for the host?). Okay, while I'm tempted to wrap up with some jokes about cheating here, I'm told that's not very funny, so I'll just thank Flo for orga