Seamus has good hair

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That is all.

Man I Hate That Song

But American Idol contestants love them some Whitney Houston.

Here are videos of AI folk singing "I Have Nothing." The last one is Christina Aguilera singing it on the New Mickey Mouse Club in her early teens.

Nah...I Wasn't Feeling it, Dawg...

I've succumbed to American Idol.

In the past I've watched the early weeks (aka The Parade of the Delusional), and then gracefully bowed out when it became about singing. This year, I'm in for the stretch.

Key factors to my buy-in:

the 2+2 American Idol Wagering forum

The Antonella Barba white-trash-a-thon (For this I post no links. Find it yourself)

The Feldman American Idol betting pool (Being far away, i'm more motivated to be involved)

dialidol.com : A really cool way to predict who's getting how many votes based on rates of busy signals

Melinda Doolittle (Here doing "My Funny Valentine"): Who is awesome and may win despite looking 50 and wearing really retarded pants-suits every week.

Wiki articles about old contestants, with lists of every song they ever performed on the show, plus youtube, where you can see them all = staying up very late a few times.

Some other reasons that I won't fess up to unless you hit me with a knotted rope a ala "Casino Royale"

So I'm in, and therefore 10% closer to actually being a teenage girl.

I Love Barry Greenstein: Part 2

In which Barry Greenstein uses internet nerd chat terminology in a $300/$600 no limit ring game.

Background information:
LOL = laugh out loud
Donkey = bad poker player
Tournament poker = a place where donkeys often succeed despite their horrible play, due to the large amount of short-term variance inherent in the structure.
mashup the above to get: lol donkaments
Confused? Read on...

The 2+2 forums are the most popular poker forums online. Over the past few years they've really sprawled, to the point that there's so much content there one could never read it all. Along with such a big community comes inside jokes. One of the most popular currently is lol donkaments, which is shorthand for saying, essentially, that tournaments are dumb. It's a way to laugh off bad beats and put down successful tournament players.

Key information: the essence of lol donkaments is that in tourny play super-aggressive, semi-suicidal play is the norm. Perhaps pushing with top pair second kicker after your opponent showed aggression on the flop?

Finally, there's this. Barry is an occasional poster on 2+2. At a recent WPT event, a 2+2'er offered him $10,000 to utter the magic words on television. In the following clip, you will see Greenstein make a tourny donk move, and then say it. It's clearly the greatest moment in 2+2, and possibly in poker nerd, history.

Will Smith is Not Going: Circa 1994

like omg!

What do you mean you want to cut his hair?

Just look at the kid!




If you agree with me, please comment here and plead with her to save Seamus' luscious locks. If you disagree, do so privately. I'm not tryin' to hear that, yo.

Happy aniversary, Sid and Nene!

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

I'm a retard and don't know exactly when the anniversary is...but it's just about now.

So happy one year, dudes.

Barry Greenstein is Incredible

Really a sick hand. Also of note, two plus two poster Brian Townsend shushing WSOPME winner Jamie Gold when Gold talks during the key moment of the hand.

The Uncertain Nature of Obama's Blackness

Discussed here on Colbert:



and here on SNL:

Dude. Is There Anyplace Near By That's Just Like a Mini-Mall?

Jen and Elliot Come to Visit

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

Now tell me you don't want to see the rest of these pictures. I dare you.

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Terrified Whitey!

Poor poor Joe Biden! He took the fall for all of us whities that are afraid to talk to black folk for fear we'll be attacked for our well-meaning compliments. No wonder that one white guy doesn't have black friends. No wonder...

Chappelle...Comic Genius

Watched this episode last night, and this piece slayed us. You'll have to watch the whole thing to get it, but the real slaying took place at about 2:20.

Twin Falls: Again

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

Today the family took a trip to Twin Falls State Park. Last time it was just me and the kid. This time, we took mumsy and the dogs. The weather was cool, and the trail was technically "closed," because it was, technically, "washed out" in spots. Yeah, we went ahead and ignored that.

Check the rest of the set here.

Chillin' at the Hot Tub West Coast Style, Baby.

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

The hot tub is about 100 feet from our door. Sea-boy and Katie go a few times a week. Tonight I came along for the photo-op. Enjoy. link to the rest of the pics

Aw, Pickles!

In the car up to the summit last week, Seamus and the cousins created their new favorite exclamation. Guess what it is?

In the video, Seamus gives a primer on its proper usage.


Aaaaawwww Pickles! on Vimeo

Tubing photos are in!

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

And they are beauts. I take no credit, Kathy Buchanan took all these. Enjoy.

link to the set

Holiday Fallout

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

Here's a pic from the new set I put up, of the kiddo playing with his new blocks. You can see the rest here: link

The last two days we went up to Snoqualmie pass to go tubing with the little ones. It's fun, and the adults get to do all the work! The wee ones just stay in the tubes while we drag them up and down the hill.

Yesterday Elizabeth learned to snowboard with her pops, and it looked awesome. I'm taking lessons tomorrow, and have my eye on getting Seamus on a board this winter sometime.

Happy new year (almost).

Another Festivus Miracle!

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Originally uploaded by mwfeldman.

Here's a one of many pics of the little man painting at Titi's yesterday. Click here to see the rest of the pics.

Get in that x-mas spirit, yo