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Zab Rowsdower

About Me

I'm a goofy, skinny cinephile (that means movies you numbskulls) living in Florida. Craft/microbrew beer and fine wine get my attention much of the time as does a good book or twelve (I USED TO help manage a book store). If there's a hockey game on somewhere I'm probably watching it. If not, I'm watching or playing poker. There's usually music playing loudly when any of this is going on. Someday, all of this will take a temporary backseat to writing a novel or somesuch... I hope. Aside from that, I'm a notorious cynic with a dark sense of humor who doesn't believe in horrorscopes and is generally distrustful of most things technology-related. Cheers.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Poker pros Daniel Negreanu, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Jon Juanda, Phil Gordon. It'd be swell to meet Ed Norton or Bobby Orr. How about picking the brain of Howard Zinn or Richard Zacks... Chuck Palahniuk. If time travel were possible, I'd ask Capone where he really hid it all. I probably shouldn't want to meet anyone famous as I usually end up heckling them. I can't help it; it's a knee-jerk reaction. Oh, and despite my use of a semi-colon, I'd have to meet Kurt Vonnegut (so it goes...). border:0;padding:3px;}p, span, div, tr{background:transparent;}table table {border: 0px;}table table table {border:2px solid; border-color: 000;}table table table table {border: 0px;}.contactTable A{background:transparent !important;}.contactTable td{padding:0px;}.bodyContent{background-color:332bac;backgro und-image:url(http://a73.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/4 1/l_9e59b2f0913d14fdd139ff85ba66ef38.jpg);background-positio n:0% 0%;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;backgro und-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-co lor:332bac;border-width:12px;border-style:solid;border-color :9b1627;}.profileInfo{background-color:aca8e9;background-col or:aca8e9;}.contactTable{background-color:aca8e9;background- color:aca8e9;}.intrestsAndDetails{background-color:aca8e9;ba ckground-color:aca8e9;}.extendedNetwork{background-color:aca 8e9;background-color:aca8e9;}.latestBlogEntry{background-col or:aca8e9;background-color:aca8e9;}.friendSpace{background-c olor:aca8e9;background-color:aca8e9;}.blurbs{background-colo r:aca8e9;background-color:aca8e9;}.friendsComments{backgroun d-color:aca8e9;background-color:aca8e9;}.navigationBar{backg round-color:aca8e9;background-color:aca8e9;}.nametext{font-s tyle:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .lightbluetext8{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-fa mily:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .whitetext12{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-famil y:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .orangetext15{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-fami ly:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .btext{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:Comi c Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .redbtext{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:C omic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .blacktext10{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-famil y:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .blacktext12{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-famil y:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .redtext{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:Co mic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .text{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} TD{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .friendsComments A IMG{}.friendSpace A IMG{}.profileInfo A IMG{}.friendsComments A:hover IMG{}.friendSpace A:hover IMG{}.profileInfo A:hover IMG{}.contactTable .whitetext12{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-famil y:Comic Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .blurbs .orangetext15{}.intrestsAndDetails .whitetext12{}.latestBlogEntry .btext{}.friendSpace .btext{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:Comi c Sans MS;font-size:14px;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;} .friendSpace .orangetext15{}.friendsComments .orangetext15{}TD A{}.profileInfo A{}.latestBlogEntry A{}.blurbs A{}.friendSpace A{}.intrestsAndDetails A{}.navigationBar A.navbar{}ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserFriends1_Tr1 A.redlink{}A:hover{}.profileInfo A:hover{}.latestBlogEntry A:hover{}.blurbs A:hover{}.friendSpace A:hover{}.intrestsAndDetails A:hover{}.navigationBar A.navbar:hover{}.friendsComments A:hover{}.friendsComments A{}ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserFriends1_Tr1 A.redlink:hover{}ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserBasicInformation1_ctrl ViewMorePics{}ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserBasicInformation1_ctrlVie wMorePics:hover{}.contactTable A IMG{}

My Blog

Tom Waits and Mobile, Al stole my stony heart

Wednesday arrived after a month of baited anticipation.  This is the night Tom Waits is gonna play at the Saenger Theater in Mobile, Al.  Jason Lyvers and I rode out from P'cola with a coupl...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:18:00 GMT

George "TrollDad" Hardy!

Real quick: Had a nice weekend being a geek.  Now, I know that, for most of you, you're saying to yourselves, "How is that any different from the average day in your sad, empty little world?"&nbs...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:50:00 GMT

Dubya da Bard

The following is a poem comprised of actual quotations from George W. Bush. These have beenarranged, only for aesthetic purposes, by WashingtonPost writer, Richard Thompson. A wonderful Haikupoem like...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:53:00 GMT

This Crazy Ear Hair...

The title of this is how all this began: originally sitting on my couch watching tournament poker when my fingertips absent-mindedly wander towards the outer edges of my ears.  I'm 33 now, going ...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:49:00 GMT

KYEO

I'm just gonna throw this one out here: ask yourself this... what makes the average person so disconnected to the world that their head is so far up their ass they can see their lunch?  I'm certa...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 18:27:00 GMT