From: LouKrieger@aol.com Subject: Re: [ESCARGOT] ESCARGOT Noir (a trip report of sorts) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:13:40 EST This hard-boiled trip report has it all: Gun molls, and grifters, cardplayers, gamblers, dealers, cocktail waitresses, and guys in strange hats, along with a sodden PI in a rain soaked trenchcoat undercover in one of Lotus Land's dens of iniquity. Toss in a Chinese New Year's dragon, a couple of bottles of cheap hooch, a bunch of poker playing yeggs from all over the country, enough skewered dreams and bad beats to last a year and not just a weekend, and you have a trip report Mickey Spillane would have been proud to write. That's it for my review. It's time to grab my trenchcoat, pull a fedora over my eyes, wander out to the rainsoaked streets in search of a fresh bottle of scotch. I slipped my .38 police special into a holster on my hip, just in case that Mickdog character was still in town. I shot him down once over the weekend, but he got up and kept coming. Now I might have to do it again.... Lou Krieger