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Geno - I admire your pluck. I'm about to turn 68 and feel fortunate I've had only one bout of serious illness. That was two years ago, and everything is fine now. Too bad there is no pool hall within a hundred miles, but that's life, it may change sometime in the next few years, and until it...

Geno - I've followed you and admired you for years. I expect a perfect surgery and easy rehab. My dad had heart surgery in the days when 4-way bypasses were just getting perfected, and he was like a new man after. Here's wishing you the best.

Kudos to McD for their attempts at innovation. I hope it works out for them. However, I doubt there will be too many buyers of VBT cues if they don't design some that are a lot less ugly than their first batch. I'll never understand the ugly gray washes, the new cues that look like they just...

I go to the bar, put up some quarters, and eventually win one game, maybe even my first try. After that I don't really play BCA rules because BCA 8-ball rules specify alternate breaking. I play winner gets all the breaks. Take that, BCA. So as winner I also don't pay my fair share - in real...

People know who is hogging the only table in the house. One of these days you will have the table all to yourself- people will stall and stall and stall, doing whatever it takes to frustrate you as much as you frustrate them. Bar tables are cheap, don't take up much room - buy one and stay at...

A dozen years ago we visited a Flat Earth Society combination ghost town and preserved village, somewhere along the Gulf Coast, can't remember and now can't find it on google. It was a fascinating little tourist diversion. Inside the village meeting hall was a massive wooden curved beam and...

Ask a sky diver, they will know terminal velocity. It is somewhere in the 125mph range near sea level, for a near-round object with no special wind resistance like a diver falling without a parachute. Feathers, lifting bodies, gliders, and parachutes of course can fall slower depending on wind...

Pool rooms were upstairs. Creaky stairs. Fraternal orders had rec rooms with four to eight massive tables from the turn of the century. The rack man got a dime for 9-ball and 15 cents for 8-ball. Yes, he had a coin changer around his waist, and no one but the rack man ever racked a game. Two...

Boston Shorty in his day would negotiate an agreement where he could climb on the table, to lessen the disadvantage of his short stature. Earl would have agreed with 'no jump cues' since he was one of the best jumpers using his regular cue. The advent of 10' tables seems to require extensions...

I posted a public inquiry asking my next door neighbor how much money he had saved for retirement, and if he had spent his adult life foolishly working as a [insert job here]. When my nose heals, and my concussion gets better, and my eyes un-cross, I'll let you know what he replied. If I...

If someone goes without health insurance and has a family, you can bet it is because they are not subsidised, or do not make the $25 - $30 per hour to have a thousand a month extra for health insurance. That list might include: roofers, tree trimmers, the homeless, used car salesmen and...

Hospitals used to offer big discounts, say 50%, for uninsured people who can pay quick. Ten years ago a hospital gave me two or three days to pay $1800, which satisfied the bill for a $3600 MRI in full. Now I think they want their money before they do anything, because all they are legally...

Looks like a McDermott Cue of the Year to me, down to the innerds of the shaft.

...Greedy low life buyers scooped the knockoffs up and resold them as genuine. The exact same is happening with Justis case knockoffs... Thar ain't no justis, no sirree... I have a great ebook called Poorly Made in China - An Insiders Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game, by...

There are free downloads of ZeroX on youtube, and Dr Dave has plenty free stuff also. No need to buy anything at first. I followed Dave's website for years without much improvement. It was informative, like a dictionary or encyclopedia of pool shots, and a site where I found very specific...

Paid $100 for a plain Tad, white linen wrap, stainless joint, two shafts, ivory ferrules, and ivory or something white buttcap, all in an older Brunswick hard leather tube case. That was about '73-'75. Needed some cash for ne'er-do-well purposes ten years later and sold it all for the same...

Hey! That's my Grampa's cue! He wants it back! I mean, he would want it back, if he was still alive, poor soul, he died of heartbreak four years to the day after it bounced out of the back of his pickup coming down the mountain with a load of 'shine. He tole me he couldn't go back for it...

Super Aramith Pro pool ball set, tournament used. $180 with free shipping CONUS. Payment by USPS money order or personal check. Sorry no paypall. I am at Reno, TX, 75462, 90 miles northeast of Plano. Cash pickup OK if you are in the area. I bought this set as a donation to The Billiard...

I watched that edited match between Ronnie Allen and Danny Diliberto. I had a choice between the short or the long version and chose the short one. Even the short version was pretty long, due to the length of the match, so I was very glad I choose it instead of hours and hours of getting...

At about three minutes in [00:03:05 - 00:03:12] Efren makes a ball in the corner when his OB caroms off another ball. The crowd assumed it was a great shot and applauded like it was something great. But you tell me - great shot, or near miss? The after-shot "Cheshire cat" grin on Efren's...