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Thursday, December 16, 2010

On the reservation (mostly)

The Foxwoods casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut now lets me stay at their hotel for free, two nights a week. (The privileges of playing poker.)

View of the MGM Grand from my hotel room in the Hotel Grand Pequot Tower.

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This is the only hotel I’ve ever stayed in that I haven’t hated. It was quite fancy, clean, quiet, and everything worked.

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Two plump virgin toilet paper rolls – how often do you see that?

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In case you need to make a phone call while indulging in all the toilet paper they give you.

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That’s brass, baby!

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View from hotel room.

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Another view.

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Ceramic coffee mugs!

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Real glass cups! Was I in hotel heaven or what?

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Isn’t it cool how they stack ‘em?

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You can buy "The X-Files" on demand for $20.00. I love the "X-Files" ... but wait a minute, that's not Agent Mulder -- and if you look really closely, that's not Agent Scully -- and that's not really the "X-Files" - it's "The Sex Files." What a gyp....

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It really makes me nervous that people have watched pornography in the same bed that I'm sleeping in....

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Pequot Museum, near the casino; still on the reservation. I loved the crap out of this place!

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I spent three hours here and ran out of time; I didn't get to see a lot of the museum. I really, really loved the crap out of this place.

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View of casino from the museum tower.

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Shadow of museum tower.

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Another view from the museum tower.

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View from museum tower.

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This is one of the few places in the museum where they let me take photos.

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Shot off the reservation, coming home; I'm pretty sure that this guy didn't vote for Obama.

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