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    Mike "Timex" McDonald reveals Anthony Bourdain's suicide prevented his own

    Surprising line of tweets yesterday from Mike "Timex" McDonald -- a successful poker player on and off the felt. Don't really know him well, but I had always pictured that he had his life pretty well together. However, apparently he suffers from depression and claims he was close to taking his own life in 2018, with Bourdain's suicide changing the way he saw things.








    Interesting.

    I also wonder which former friend tried to blackmail him into outing him as a sexual predator, and what the accusations were going to be. In fact, his tweet doesn't even make it clear whether or not the friend was making up the accusations -- or if he really has something he's hiding. Weird. It could be something stupid like having slept with a 16-year-old when he was in his early 20s, but I'm really curious to know now what that was about. And was this "friend" also a known poker player? So many questions...

    Anyway, depression sucks, and finding inspiration in someone else's suicide is not common, but if that's what caused McDonald to start getting better, then good for him.

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    Bourdain saved countless lives

    Prior to his book people recklessly ordered fish any day of the week.

    I also gave up using those jars of decaying garlic packed in olive oil in my kitchen

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    One of the greatest reads of my life.

    Guy was an animal. Embraced people and life with passion. Willing to live on the edge



    In the end love killed him. That should scare you straight.

    Be careful out there.

     
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