http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com Little Old Lady Speaks Her Mind Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:02:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Integrity is.... honoring your written and oral contracts and keeping your word...or buying really expensive glue? Just asking......... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/03/17/integrity.html Van Patten, Vince and Robert J. Randisi. The Picasso Flop: A Texas Hold'em Mystery. NY: Mysterious Press, 2007. Vince Van Patten of the show-biz family is the co-host of the WPT (World Poker Tour) tv show, and his role in writing this mystery (for which he gets top billing ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/03/06/another-poker-mystery.html Well, Poker Maven is at it again. Some weeks ago Poker World was rocked by the Saga of Brandi Rose, a young and sort of semi-hot (well, semi-hot by the standards of the sex-starved poker dudes) poker dudette wannabe, who, for reasons best known to herself, apparently gave ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/02/24/brandi-vs-saura.html It's the first time since 1981 that I am having a zero-grade carnival. Admittedly I didn't do much about carnival when I lived in New Orleans--I lived in a non-carnival-impacted neighborhood, I only went to a parade or two per year at most, and I never went to the ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/02/20/its-carnival-time.html Yesterday, after two different contracts with two different potential buyers and five different dates for act of sale, my ruined house was finally sold--to a gentleman from California who apparently wants to repair it with Road Home money (good luck actually getting that). He insisted on having the official ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/02/07/mixed-feelings.html In 1967 my husband-to-be and future father of my son went to Washington and marched on the Pentagon in protest of a bungled fiasco of a war which was initiated based on lies and false premises. In 2007 my son and (I hope) future father of my grandson or ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/01/29/history-repeats-itself-or-deja-vu-all-over-again.html  Why does this person still have a driver's license?  (For background on what happened eleven years ago, see http://www.jlsmithlaw.com/News015.htm and http://www.jlsmithlaw.com/News017.htm .)  Gimelstob's Brother Charged In High Speed Chase  By Tennis Week 09/27/2006  Joshua Gimelstob, older brother of Justin Gimelstob, was charged with reckless driving, leaving ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/01/26/some-people-just-never-learn.html After Katrina I had lost track of my Bohemian friend who travels the globe from Africa to the Central Asian steppes and back again. A couple of days ago I heard from him again with very detailed accounts of his pleasant memories of times we spent together. He ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/01/23/my-bohemian-friend.html Chance, Jackie. Death on the Flop. NY: Berkley, 2007. This book, occasionally sub-titled "swimming with card sharks," claims to be the "first poker mystery."* If so, I can say with confidence that the great American poker mystery has yet to be written. I sha'n't worry about spoilers since ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/01/23/short-book-note-what-happens-in-vegas-stays-in-vegasespecially-murder.html El Diablo Says:  Hi LoL. I hope you chime in on this thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=8865423&page=0&vc=#Post8865423  Hi El D-- I am going to reply to you in a new post since I was just about to comment on this situation anyway.  Actually I was going to comment on the companion thread ... http://lolspeaks.ooshee.com/2007/01/22/reply-to-el-d.html