Feb 24th, 2010
Preface: Yes, I am blithering a tremendous amount about Vegas. Yes, I will stop soon. I just need to get it out of my system and then we’ll be fine. I’m detoxing in 3 new inches of Chicago snow and you will forgive me my mental vacations back to the desert, won’t you? Thank you. [...]
Now that we’ve gotten the longest title in the world out of the way, let’s recap. We have to this point discussed the Chicagoan’s Guide to Vegassery, covered sex and capitalism, and now we get to the part where I just troll my brain for other stuff we haven’t covered to this point.
The chances of [...]
Feb 18th, 2010
While the title implies some sort of graduate level thesis or in-depth study, 5 days of hazy observation of the Vegas landscape leaves me more than qualified to drop about a thousands words worth of science about capitalistic theory, gambling and sex, its effects on its surroundings and other things that sound terribly, terribly smart. [...]
Feb 16th, 2010
Before we begin today, how about a round of applause to Las Vegas for ditching that whole “embracing the family-friendly approach to tourism” thing and just completely embracing the fact that we all just need a place to go cut loose and get a little naughty or crazy or debaucherous. The world never needed another [...]
Jan 14th, 2010
So, we’re going to Vegas.
It is a decent indication of my current mindset that I didn’t immediately set out to recreate any portion of the Hunter Thompson “Vegas book,” as he called it. I will not be getting locked into a serious drug collection, nor will I be deferring to the tendency is to push [...]
Before we begin, do I have to explain the whole full-body screening thing to anyone? Yes? Over there, in the back, with your hand raised? You haven’t heard? Fine. We’ll give you a cliffs notes. A couple weeks ago some guy did something bad on an airplane and almost blew it up and now we [...]