Dartoid

Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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Fax from Dartoid in Rwanda!

Hi.  Kelly Ragland again.  Just received this message from Dartoid:

Rags!

I’ve messed up bad!  I’m in jail, man.

They released my friend, Jak.  His dad’s with NBC so he has some pull, I guess.  He’s going to try to get this faxed to …

Monday, March 31, 2014
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Dartoid Arrested!

This is Kelly Ragland.  I maintain Paul Seigel’s website – Dartoid’s World.  I received a call from Paul’s wife, Marylou.  Paul and a friend have been arrested in Africa – Rwanda.

They were caught trying to board a plane with a suitcase full endangered wood and some …

Saturday, March 1, 2014
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Taylor, Panuncialman, and Eccles: three controversies, three opinions.

The controversies…

Sixteen times world champion, Phil Taylor, has dumped his nearly two decades-long sponsor, Unicorn, for a five-year, £3 million (almost $5 million) deal with Target.  “It’s not all about money…” said Taylor, after comparing the switch to changing mobile …

Saturday, February 1, 2014
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Valentines are Fucked (an inappropriate guest column by Jerry Masterson, age 8, that has nothing to do with darts)

Valentines are fucked!  And while this sentence may be similar in theme to my previous column, “Kissing Girls is Fucked!” – they are both non-debatable points.

I will now relate …

Wednesday, January 1, 2014
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The ‘Toid is in a Slump!

Another year has ended.  Another New Year has begun…

…and the ‘Toid is in a slump…

With all the excitement of the world steel and soft-tip championships, recent visits to darts bars in Manila, Santa Barbara, Cape Cod, Bethesda, Dallas-Ft. Worth and St. …

Monday, December 2, 2013
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Happy Holidays from the Family ‘Toid

Dear Friends of Dartoid’s World:

It is that time of year again to share with you our adventures in this journey we call life. 2013 has been another year of magic and wonder for the Family ‘Toid…

Lori, who we adopted from Argentina …

The first thing you’ll notice when you pick up one of Anne “Sleepy” Kramer’s new books is its weight. It’s heavy.

At ten ounces it registers just three ounces shy of a can of Budweiser or about one four-thousandth the estimated weight of the dart player featured on page 227. Yep, this is one …

As one of my blues harp classmates, Richard Verrochi, put it, “I came to Clarksdale to do a deal with the Devil and found out the Devil was Jon Gindick – and he wasn’t dealin’.”

Gindick, as most of you dart people will not know, is one of the premier blues harmonica instructors in the …

Sunday, September 1, 2013
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Darts in the Mississippi Delta

In three weeks I’m headin’ south, to the Deep South. I’m headin’ to the Crossroads – the junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 near Clarksdale, Mississippi. It’s a famous place. It’s so famous that the journey must be chronicled with TWO Dartoid’s World …

Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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Cara has her eye on you!

Today’s “column” isn’t about darts. Its about a dog named Cara whose life began in Romania just like one of my dogs, Romy. In 2010, I adopted Romy from one of my clients’ sanctuaries in Galati. At the time she was just a …