Blog: Thrill Pier

Ian's thought for the night.

Mar 11, 2009, 7:45pm

It's 11:45 PM and I'm just back from the poker (early, had more than doubled my stack in about 10 hands then lost it not quite as quickly when I ran into a house of 4's over 10's against my trip 10's and a straight when short stacked, so it goes) and I'm watching MTV 2 while I wait for an episode of Law And Order: Child Rape Cavalcade to come on the hallmark channel at midnight. They're doing a countdown of greatest albums ever and right now the video for "Monkey Gone To Heaven" is playing. [...]

Tags: Music

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