Am I the only person who wakes up on Mondays and cooks bacon without a shirt on? This is probably my most painful past time. Every time I start the cooking its, "here we go again". I guess dodging hot grease bullets really wakes you up.
I get a lot of creative writing ideas from leaving my house or watching movie/HBO series. Given last night was Sunday, "Boardwalk Empire" was a great escape from grinding a 12 hour day. First off let me say this makes 2 successful Sundays in a row. My cashes yesterday…
3rd in the early $162
5th in the early $109
1st in the $55 rebuys
30-40th in the Merge $109 major (don't want to give away my screen name)
Ok back to my original thoughts. There were some disturbing scenes in Boardwalk last night. Rosetti the Italian gangster, likes to be choked while he gets rocks off, via David Carradine. There is a scene where he is getting choked with a leather belt, and a hitman comes into his house and shoots everyone up. Regardless of who dies and what happens, they show him naked in the hallway covered in blood with a leather belt wrapped around his neck, with an Italian death stare.
To get to a scene like this there has to be surmountable build up. Otherwise what would the scene be worth. But moments like this make you think, "what the hell just happened". They make you analyze the steps that it took to get there. It is a bit like private Pile in "Full Metal Jacket" just before he shoots the sergeant. For Stanley Kubrick to develop that scene it took him almost an hour of beating private Pile and the audience into submission.
I find this happens to me in all aspects of life. In poker I get into a hand where I say, "Oh I'll just see a flop", and then I dust off my stack and try to rationalize it. In life I'll get into arguments with people about one very basic concept, and then it somehow branches off into whether or not a horse is an athlete(which its not). Alcohol is obviously a great catalyst for this argumentative equation, but I don't believe it is the cause for being off topic. Some sense of pride or being stubborn leads to people trying to win minor victories within the battle. It's like, instead of conceding the original argument, winning as many unrelated topics will create an equilibrium for both parties.
It seems to me that is just how politics work, instead of both parties working towards a mutual beneficial conclusion, they try to win as many points as possible to look superior. To give some sort of value to this post, a bit of direction might help. Realizing the purpose of an argument before you engage it in it is the only real way to benefit from it. When both parties assume they can come to a much stronger conclusion by a joint debate, the argument serves purpose. When both parties are trying to "win" then it inherently will end in bloodshed(if there is booze involved).
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