The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace. .........and do pronounce by me:
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
You and your ways.
Ariel - The Tempest by William Shakespeare
There was quite a tempest in our little blogosphere this day. One among us took the rest of us to task for having an affinity for the playing of the hammer. Oh, fie. Oh hast thou nary a sense of humor? Dost thou lack wit? Methinks thou dost.
Oh, screw that. That annoying little gnat has been squished and flicked to the winds. And we will move on! There's so much that's great happening in our little world and it makes me just proud as punch to be part of it.
Otis has returned from his Paradise adventure, and I just can't say it enough, he did an outstandingly fantastic job with his reporting. Bravo, Bravo! Need someone to carry your laptop next time? Sign me up...
Hank is joining the Full Tilt team and will combine his developer skills with his poker acumen in, what one has to believe, is an Hdouble dream job. Need an assistant? I know HTML.....
Pauly's is Blog of the Week at The Card Club on Lord Admiral Radio - I suspect there have been other's of our community with this distinction as they have been podcasting for 8 weeks now, it seems. Check it out. (I sent them an e-mail correcting their pronunciation, though. It's "Dow" of Poker [sometime's "D'oh!" of Poker....sorry couldn't resist...])
The Poker Prof dispersed some kudos to our kinship - congrats to Bronze Winner The Cards Speak, hiegh-ho Silver winner Tao of Poker, and the Golden boys at Up for Poker
The first LVV Hall of Fame inductees are Guinness and Poker and Table Tango.
And then there are:
The Geekiest Blog: Winner: Chicks Dig Poker Geeks with Runner-Up: BadBlood Plays Poker
The Funniest Blog: Winner: Bill Rini with Runner-Up (tie): Al Can't Hang and Boy Genius
Biggest Community Contribution: Winner: Yours Truly, Aw shucks, t'warnt nuthin'. Runner-Up (tie): Tao of Poker and Guinness and Poker
Most Insightful Blog: Winner: The Cards Speak and Runner Up – Tao of Poker.
Most under-rated blog: Winner: Double A's and Runner-Up: Helixx
Do you see any recuring themes there? But, you know, that just scratches the surface of the depth of great poker blogging which is going on out there. Get your mouse over there to my blogroll (which requires you to get out of Bloglines and pay me a visit, dammit) and start cruising.
Now, in other news Felicia has posted a list of tourneys happening at the Plaza from April 21 thru May 16 and what's so great about this is a) the room rate is a low, low, low $35. Thirty-five Dollars! and b) the juice for these tourneys is a bargain-at-any-price-we-want-the-players 5 (that's five) percent! Now I've been considering a post Tempest (more on that in a sec), pre next WPBT visit to Vegas, and my birthday is at the end of April...........
Now on a sad, boo-hoo, all feel sorry for me note — I can't play in the
next online WPBT event (can I hear a collective "Nooooooo!"
from everybody, please?). The reason being is that I have been cast
in a play which will be in final dress rehearsal that evening. However,
I will be thinking of you all as I trip and fall tread the
boards that eve. I hope you will keep me in mind the next eve when we open.
Now I'm off to find some shenanigans at a blogger table where I hope to see the hammer played at least once a round!
