I have a request for the nightclubs that advertise in your excellent magazine.
A few weeks ago you had a great cover with an incredibly sexy woman in a "naughty nurse" outfit promoting the local nightclubs. I read the article trying to find something fun to do over the Labor Day weekend. I found the full-color ad for Club Rubber and the Pimp N' Ho Ball. I do enjoy the fetish events, so I decided to break out my old leather/vinyl/spike/horn devil's costume. I worked on some modifications for a more club-friendly look (I replaced my 12-inch steer horns and spiked body harness for some leather wings across my shoulders).
I then proceeded to Club Rubber at the Palms Casino, arrived in the parking garage, put on my wings, horns, mask, leather gloves and my suede flogger. I got into the elevator to some peculiar looks from fellow passengers, and hit the main casino floor. I was greeted by a security guard, who shook my hand and said, "Awesome costume, dude."
But when I looked at the line that stretched around the casino, I was the only one dressed in costume. I took a stroll around the place and, sure enough, there was only one other person dressed somewhat kinky, a stunning blond woman in a open-front jumpsuit. Having finished my lap around the casino, I went back to the elevator and bid a hasty retreat to my truck and then home.
So, in the future, could you ask the nightclubs to state in their ads if they want their patrons to dress in costumes or standard club wear? I don't need their help to look like an idiot.
P.S. Any idea if anyone plans to dress in costume for the upcoming Black & White Ball at the Palms?
Editor's note: We haven't decided if we're going to attend the ball as Republican operatives or the R-J editorial board; either way, can we borrow the devil suit?
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America (separation of church and state) is in every respect a mile-high pile of horseshit. Every president that this country has ever had has been a religious man (not that it did us any good). President George W. Bush makes his decisions based on what he perceives his god wants him to do (Time article, 2003); and everything that he stands for is what the church stands for, too. He's against abortion (so is the church); he's against gay marriages (so is the church); he's against the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes (so is the church). So, if you're voting to re-elect the president, you might as well nominate the pope in the next election. Kerry, on the other hand, is a bit more realistic and full of surprises.
Myself, I'm a disillusioned ex-Christian and a disgruntled 55-year-old Vietnam veteran who's never voted for anyone or anything in this country, and never will until an atheist runs for office; that's my idea of separation of church and state.
Was I the only one who felt the airing of The Perfect Storm Sunday by NBC was crass, tacky and just in really bad taste?
I mean, here's Cuba getting ready to be wiped off the map by the third hurricane of the season. Said hurricane fixing to make a beeline up the Gulf of Mexico and decimate the rest of Florida.
Millions evacuated, billions in damage and rising!
I guess NBC figures it's OK to have George Clooney and Marky Mark going through the water park from hell (they both die) and still think they convey some sense of empathy.
Are we really that diminished and morbid?
Damn. That's messed up.
Editor's note: Yes, John we are that diminished. Sorry to be the one to confirm it for you.
Josh Bell's negative review of Seducing Dr. Lewis, a French-Candian production, got this Internet reader going:
"It's predictable, cloying and sickly sweet, and it'll do nothing but put you into a sugar coma."
As for your culture, it is very limited ... it has to be Made in the USA (United States Assholes).
Yes, I am French-Canadian and from Québec, and I am sure I know more about your country than you will ever know about mine.
I can enjoy and understand the culture of French from France, Belgium and Québec, English from Britain, Australia, the US and the rest of Canada.
Editor's note: "I am sure I know more about your country than you will ever know about mine."
Yes. Whew.
When Josh Bell isn't outraging French-Canadia, or whatever that country is up there, he's busy earning the apparent scorn of people like this:
Your witty line in the Cellular review, "90 of your anytime minutes that you'll never get back" ... I mean, oh, my gosh, you should get PAID to be a screenwriter! I bet you could have really turned the Cellular script around. With lines like that, I can already envision what YOUR script would be like ...
Beer Farts in a Downtown Park, or Redevelopment Stinks!
Have you been to the City Park, lately? I walked through the other day and all I could hear was snoring, burping and beer farts. I was only there for a few minutes and was asked four times for cigarettes, loose change and some of my french fries. The people from the courthouse and the surrounding businesses used to go there for lunch when it first opened, but not anymore, since the riffraff took over. We working-class citizens have already lost the Las Vegas Library to the freeloaders, now the City Park. What's next?
Editor's note: The arboretums, Pamela. The arboretums.
Kate Silver's piece last week about the meaning of vacant building in Las Vegas drew this response:
Though the piece WAS good, I have to believe Kate, and for that matter far too many other people in this city, have failed to see the true core of the problem ... the major casinos themselves!
I own a small business in Vegas, and I too am suffering from the same fate that killed many of the places Kate mentioned in her story. The problem is not always poor location, market changes, etc., as mentioned. It's competition. Not "healthy" business competition, more along the lines of intimidation and unfair business practices. I see too many businesses in Vegas failing, and sadly, I too may be one of them. It didn't take me long to figure out that the problem IS the casinos.
Where visitors once used to ask a bellman where to get a good Italian dinner and he might have suggested the Venician on Sahara, he now simply tells them to get on the elevator to floor X. The hungry tourist need not leave the casino property to satisfy their appetite for linguine and Alfredo sauce. So the local restaurateur can no longer pay his servers or his rent—all because the casinos can't simply be what they were really supposed to be in the days of yore. CASINOS! Not shopping centers, movie theaters and restaurants! No, the mega-moguls gotta have it ALL!!
I'm going to make a prediction. Let the casinos build and the developers build homes for all the people they truly hope will move here. But, once all the local businesses have failed from the casinos muscling in on THEIR turf, there will BE no local businesses, no jobs outside of casinos, and no reason for anyone to live here at all. Lets see how the casinos weather THAT storm!