Miss Fit Toys.

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library, here in the wilds of Connecticut, this is obscure, the

podcast in which I read Jude the Obscure out loud and comment on it as I go.

I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary mansplainer in chief,

Michael E. in black Black and I did it again in a few episodes again I said

e n

Michael e n black as if they were initials they're not not initials. It's just three letters I A N put all together

E and yet I've fallen into the habit of making my name even more pretentious than it already is. Now, a common question I get is, why do you

have three names professionally? Why did you do that, you pretentious hacked.

The answer is I didn't want to, I didn't want to have my middle name included in my professional

name, but when you join the acting union, there can only be one, just like in

Highlander, there can only be one, and there was already a Michael Black of

course, and so I had to insert my middle name to distinguish myself from the other Michael Black.

So hence Michael Ian Black or as I am now professionally known Michael E. N. Black.

I'm on my way to Las Vegas in the morning. It is currently evening time. I'm heading out to play some poker. I'm a recreational, but I would say serious poker player.

And I'm joining a friend out there for the World Series of Poker.

It is the 50th annual World Series of Poker taking place out there in the high desert of Las Vegas.

I have no idea whether the desert there is high or low, but it sounds cool to say the high desert of Las Vegas and I'll be playing

poker there for several days. Attempting to win enough money so that I don't have to

rely on this podcast for my considerable income.

Because as I'm sure you know, this podcast has provided me with enormous wealth, enormous, just because it's become such a viral sensation.

People love it.

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