tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690119989265676870.post2502904019411281332..comments2023-03-25T15:32:51.744+02:00Comments on Mine for the Taking: Countdown: 6 - Attitude with no History (Part III)FreeFoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00096319447345952569noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690119989265676870.post-63742107463266516562010-11-25T20:39:07.862+02:002010-11-25T20:39:07.862+02:00Oddly, I don't even find winning in chess part...Oddly, I don't even find winning in chess particularely satisfying. Winning poker feels bloody great, lol.<br />And no, I only know Alan's blog through Dennis Cooper's blog. But I enjoy looking through it. The different images, quotations, oneliners, and links create a strange, sometimes creepy, but always thrilling effect in my brain.FreeFoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096319447345952569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690119989265676870.post-42868961393463706372010-11-22T04:45:16.657+02:002010-11-22T04:45:16.657+02:00With chess, it's all your fault. :-)
Chess is ...With chess, it's all your fault. :-)<br />Chess is a game of practice and study, I find. So for me, the two things that keep me away from it are time (I don't want to invest that much in it) and responsibility (no chance involved, just your chosen moves).<br /><br />Poker I like because it's a beautiful blend -- just enough math, just enough psychology and just enough controlled chance. The anguish of doing everything exactly right, setting the perfect trap and catching the biggest whale, only to be done in by 1 card of three in the deck that crushes your hand --- such exquisite pain...<br /><br />Interesting choice for the fight -- just giving the results, not the action or blow-by-blow commentary. I think it's a good one, especially since this is a childhood scrap, and the wounds and hospital time say more than the action could. Meh?<br /><br />Btw -- checked out the purest of treats blog in your roll. Now that's an intriguing collection! Know him well at all?Andrewhttp://godwillbegod.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690119989265676870.post-23524931305498504922010-10-11T16:55:19.765+02:002010-10-11T16:55:19.765+02:00At my new home they mostly play backgammon. Took m...At my new home they mostly play backgammon. Took me a while but I'm beginning to appreciate it.<br /><br />I can only do detailed without wordiness... everytime I try to do something more editorial or bloggy (see my sorry "In other news" bathos at the bottom of the sidebar) I feel lost, swimming circles in a sea of words. I never know when I actually said what I wanted to say, and end up needing way too many additional similes and metaphors and stuff to get to the point. I LOVE how you can take one, two sentences and you suggest all that needs to be said, with enough open to keep me thinking, like, forever...<br /><br />I love the English language. No idea how precicely I can wield it, probably like a caveman with a bone, but I love the balance it has between ratio and heart. Romanic languages are too clumsy with the abstract, Germanic too clumsy with emotions. (My Polish and Turkish is way too excclectic to even consider wiedling it as anything other than a club...)<br /><br />If you just like injuries, read on... there'll be more than enough to come... :PFreeFoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096319447345952569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690119989265676870.post-2337577598000280062010-10-10T23:46:40.658+02:002010-10-10T23:46:40.658+02:00kinda the same - people close to me always played ...kinda the same - people close to me always played chess so good & I feel like i'm being suffocated when I try. strategy definitely fucks me over - plus there is too much choice with chess, that panic in too many possibilities... my/our game was dice though, not poker. my dice in a tiny sandalwood box that fit my pocket and the dice scent yr hands heady & overwhelming whenever you play.<br /><br />I like the kind of tone is nostalgic without being sentimental - like the precise crispness of some parts prevents it - 'specially yr catalogue of injuries. also you can do detailed, without slipping into wordiness for the sake of it - me? i would never think to explain why yr fight by the back-door wasn't broken up - but I don't like writing similar to my own.<br /><br />my language is english, but I was raised by people whose first language wasn't - i think it's left me with a fascination for the gaps and holes in language, for meaning and experience that eludes definition.<br /><br />M xChangelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971293660092708835noreply@blogger.com