Where peace is not a pie ...Rick's Cafe Americain

My friend Jim Hanas is giving away the new Neil Gaiman novel to the first person to send 27 people to his site.

Truth be told I’m more interested in winning than I am in the book. Click through anyway. If not for the book than for the Gawker Talker.

I don’t write about poker as much as I used to, but I still show up in Pauly’s home game reports - hell, I’m the blogger that hooked him up for both the Blue Parrot and the Towne House. That has to be enough to make me eligible for this tournament.

And I guarantee that I’m going to win it.

Love,
Patrick Ewing

I watched you revel in the Schadenfreude of Kate Moss’s cancelled contracts with H&M and others in the wake of her being caught on camera snorting coke at a party. “There was no way anyone could have known she was on cocaine,” you snarked. “Obviously it was all diet and exercise.”

Seriously, though? I could tell from just looking at you and your pals that you had all spent many a night blowing rails off of a brushed metal bar and - just between the two of us - you could really stand to lose a few pounds.

The Washington Nationals have fired the team chaplain, probably killing any chance at the wild card.

According to an article published Sunday in The Washington Post, Nationals outfielder Ryan Church said he asked Moeller if Jews are “doomed” because they do not believe in Jesus. Church said Moeller nodded, the Post reported.

I presume that Moeller nodded “yes,” though the article doesn’t say for sure. But isn’t the entire point of the Christian faith that salvation only comes through Christ? And that one of the big no-no’s in Judaism is that same Christ guy? Doesn’t it then follow that, according to Christian doctrine, Jews are therefore doomed?

If Moeller really got fired for telling the truth about Christian dogma, the solution isn’t to fire him. It is to get rid of the position of team chaplain.

‘cause Zinester and I are engaged.

It is hard to delete comments about poker tournaments being played for Hurricane Katrina Relief without feeling like a jerk, but that’s what I did.

One comment that says “Hey there is a tournament at yetanotherpokersite.com for Katrina Relief, would you mind mentioning it?” would have been fine. I don’t after all, post regularly anymore. I might have even mentioned the tournament. A second comment - from the same IP address and using the same email server - that says “Hey, I’ve heard about that tournament! Here are more cool details...” is spam. The IP address has been banned.

If you want to play in a charity poker tournament, Pauly has the goods on tournaments going on at Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker. (Whoops; the last Full Tilt tourney was on Sunday.)