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Seeing as it’s Sunday and I’m finally in the right time zone to play every tournament I’ve decided to play all day today. The casino is pretty quiet on a Sunday and everyone seems a bit busy, so it’s fitting that I just zone out in front of the computer for 10 hours.
Ten hours of grinding later I’ve busted out of every tournament without a single cash, a phenomenal performance if I may say so. When I’ve finished Su drives Celina and I over to a local Indian restaurant because Indian food is obviously the greatest accomplishment in the history of man. After that it’s more karaoke in the bar, but Kyle decides to call it an early night this time.
The next morning we set off to see the sequoia trees with our friends Rick and Erin driving the van. They’re about an hour outside of town, far up in the mountains of California. The trees truly are massive, and even though I’m not really the outdoors type it’s hard not to marvel at what is clearly one of nature’s wonders. When we get back to Fresno I describe the experience to Kyle as “Those are some big fucking trees man.”
As for tonight, Kyle and Su have arranged my only direct request of the trip, to see the new Batman movie. Even though we’ve already gotten tickets there’s a long line out the IMAX theatre, and we wind up waiting about 20 minutes to get in. Oh man is it worth the wait, that movie is so awesome. I know many people are saying that this performance truly exemplifies why it’s a shame that Heath Ledger died, but to be honest you never even see Ledger in the whole movie. Not only is he caked in make up as the joker for the whole film, but the transformation into the character is so complete, so thorough, that it never occurs to you that you’re watching a fresh faced Australian guy playing a role. In this film you’re watching Ledger transform into a psychopath.
When we come back from the movie the downtown area is experiencing a blackout. Even though the casino has a back-up generator that prevents it from going dark the kitchen apparently doesn’t have enough juice to have everything at full operation so we decide to find somewhere else to eat.
The end result is ending up on the weird side of town at a restaurant with its blinds drawn and ‘open’ sign off in an effort to appear closed despite the blasting sound of singing coming from the inside. As we walk around to the back entrance Sam the tournament director introduces us to the place with “Hey be chill, people have gotten stabbed back here.”
How weird is the weird side of town? Well it’s 2:30am and I’m in a Laotian restaurant while the guy who played James Dean in ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Death Becomes Her’ bellows songs in surprisingly good Thai in a place that’s pretending to be closed with music so loud you can hear it from the highway and the bottles of beer need to be poured into plastic cups “Just in case of a raid.” Yea, this is just my kind of joint.
I order a stir fry and after downing it start blasting the microphone with my Elvis impression. After that we change over to ‘Angel’ by Shaggy and the whole restaurant is on their feet dancing to my fake Jamaican accent. The man was right, life really is one big party while you’re still young, but who’s gonna have my back when it’s all done? With Timex getting out of the staking business I have no idea. Lord have mercy!
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