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It’s been a busy week. It looks like I’m a little closer to getting Uneasy Convictions signed. I’m now 28 pages into chapter 2 of Roll The Bones, and hope to have most of the chapter on paper by the end of the weekend.
In other news, I did a TV shoot for Equator HD on Wednesday down at Green Valley Ranch. GVR, of course, is the star of American Casino, which is running a marathon on the Discovery Channel tomorrow. The PR guy who facilitated the shoot there, David DeMontillion, is featured pretty prominently in American Casino–while he was setting up the area, he was actually stopped by a patron who asked, “Are you that guy on TV?” It was a bit surreal, because the person working for the casino to help the camera crew shoot the interview was actually far more famous than the subject of the interview.
A funny moment, which you won’t see on TV (unless I really pissed the producer off) was when I stopped, mid-answer, and did a double take. Off camera, some people were watching me, and this guy went to scratch his nose, but it looked to me for a second like he was giving me the finger. Funny stuff.
I also was part of a panel on casinos and families today on State of Nevada.
The big news for me is the fact that I am now officially a Playboy author. I signed a contract for an article about Howard Hughes in Nevada that will be in the January issue. I’m not going to give away all of the details, but this is a never-before-told firsthand account of Hughes that should raise quite a few eyebrows. I don’t know whether a visit to the Mansion is included in the whole deal (actually, I quite doubt it), but at the very least I can hope. It would, after all, make for a great post here.
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October 1st, 2004 at 5:08 pm
Cool! Now I have a great excuse to say I buy Playboy only to read the articles
fz
October 2nd, 2004 at 10:32 pm
Wow, playboy author huh? I wonder, will you put that in your curriculum vitae? WHOA, I bet that’d attract students to your class! "Class, we’ll be reading one of my articles today…"
Class: YAY! (male class, at least)
Poor poor guy. *predicts* Just like the playmate of the month, this will haunt you…
Curriculum Vitae Ghost: Wooohooo…halloween..BOO-bs?
October 3rd, 2004 at 12:11 pm
Since when do playmates of the month do hauntings too?
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Make sure you get pictures of the carpet in the Playboy Mansion.
EZ
October 4th, 2004 at 5:59 am
I’m leaving for a few days, so I just want to comment on something that I am sure you will write about. It’s about Nevada’s submissions for their state quarter, which were rejected by the feds. State Treasurer Brian Krolicki is a wuss:
"Despite the presence of legal gambling in 48 states, Krolicki said some people strongly oppose gambling and might be offended by a Nevada gambling design [on the Nevada state quarter]." (Stolen from Schwartz’s lightning headlines http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/breaking_news/9820223.htm?1c )
There are no sufficiently angry curse words to express my rage toward "some people" who are offended by gambling! I never thought I would see the day when we allowed "God" on our currency and not dice (well, God does not play dice, duh), cards, or even the skyline of a major metropolis! You know, if you are offended by gambling themes (and maybe you’re offended by that Hard Rock billboard, too), then you cannot watch 4/5 of all television programming (not a bad deal) without breaking a sweat over how your delicate sensibilities have been harmed! And, since almost everyone in the U.S. is within a couple hours’ drive from various gaming destinations, those "some people" must be cave-dwellers.
I will say that mining may be a bit more important to Nevada’s coming-of-statehood, but who has more phone book entries presently, mining companies or casinos? And who has their name engraved in larger letters on the granite wall of financial contibutors to UNR, Newmont Mining or International Game Technology?
I think Nevada should disregard and flout the feds, put a prostitute and dice on the quarter, and then get IGT to design a slot machine SPECIALLY CRAFTED to be played with the Nevada quarters!
"Immorality" is harming someone–not offending them. You know what? If you don’t like the Nevada quarters with the representation of our livelihood, just send all the ones you get to me. I promise they won’t go into a machine, as that might incense you even further.
Have fun at the Expo, Dr. S!
EZ