Some Records sent me the lyric book for the Walking Concert cd “Run to be Born”. Walter Schreifels continues to impress with his musical progression. I’ve probably listened to this album a million times now, but having the book makes it a hell of a lot easier to decipher some of the lyrics. I guess they had some sort of manufacturing problem that caused my cd to be shipped without the insert. It’s pretty cool that they actually sent it out to me. Nice people over there.

I also saw “Team America” over the weekend. Even though I was a little too drunk to fully enjoy the movie, it was definitely worth it. I’m constantly amazed that Trey Parker and Matt Stone can still be funny, but they continue to pull it off. I guess there’s a lot of material out there these days with the current state of politics in this country. And while on the subject of politics, the other thing to see is John Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire. Now that’s comedic gold.

My next trip to Las Vegas is coming very soon. I’m overly excited because this time we’re staying at the Mirage, which has one of the finest poker rooms I’ve ever played in. In my effort to learn how to play every game in the casino I started looking into learning how to play the tile version of pai gow, which is one of the more complicated games I’ve seen (leave it to the Chinese). Before I forget, I should mention that wizardofodds.com is one of the best websites I’ve found for basic information on a number of casino games. I’ve been using it for years and it has done a good job explaining to me how I’m going to lose my money faster when I play Carribean Stud than when I play blackjack. Either way though, I’m probably going to start playing Carribean Stud when I get drunk and antsy enough.

Which ties back to another story I was going to mention. My mother once told me that I shouldn’t gamble because I’m part Chinese. What does being of Chinese decent have to do with gambling, you might ask? “Chinese people are addicted gamblers. That’s why I love gambling too, but I have to stay away from casinos altogether.” That’s right, I am an addicted gambler because I’m part Chinese (according to my mother). Oh yeah, and you probably can’t tell that I’m Chinese from the pictures in a previous post because I’m somewhere around 1/16th Chinese. Apparrently that’s enough though. Maybe there is some truth to it though. Chinese people have the most complicated gambling games out there. I absolutely love Mah-jongg and if I could ever learn how to really play the game well, you’d find me in the back of an Asian grocery store smoking a pack of lucky strikes playing mah-jongg with three dudes who smelled worse than the raw fish yelling “Mah-jongg motherfucker!” at a crowd of people that have never even heard of Ice Cube.