Viva Las Vegas
I have been unable to document my daily discontent because I have been assigned to monitoring civilization from Las Vegas, NV. I will continue to describe my travel over the next few days. There is much to report on.
Essentially, Vegas is where all American Evils coalesce into a small, artificial smudge in a barren corner of nature. Greed and exorbitance meet poverty and debt head on in a festival of facade and conspicuous consumption. Banana Republicans, Kens and Barbies, Pinks and Twits abound, and an Uberman like me can only observe and partake of the excessive free cocktails.
I'm here for a good reason, to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday. That is cool. The rest of this is a freaking shitshow and I will present it in photodocumentary form once returning home. Stay tuned, for I will roll the ugliness!
posted by Schmootzie @ 1:44 PM
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I visited LV a year ago for the first time. It was the best fake place I'd ever been to. And I visited Disneyland 20 years ago, and thought that was a very cool fake land with large-eyed animatrons and white people. All the "lands" were immaculately contrived and devoid of anything approaching life. It really freaked me, I wondered why anyone would want to go to a fake "Adventureland" when there's a REAL adventureland everywhere!
Same experience with LV. I visited the French fake place, [can't remember the name of the hotel] and The Fake Venetian place. Well, I've been all over the real France and the real Italy [including Venice], and when I saw this incredible fake stuff, I was really impressed. Well done fake stuff. Wow. And all I could think of was that Mr. & Mrs. Average America would visit these fake places and say "Looky here. Venice. And we don't have to spend the money to fly there! It's just like the real thing!"
No. No. No. No. and No. There IS NO Venice without the smell, the sloshing canals and the damp dank Calle!
LV is truly a world wonder of monumental Fakiness. We really are an impressively FAKE people. Yes. We'll take the prettily packaged phony, FAKE any day in place of the real, sweaty, flesh and blood, smelly, flawed authentic. Yes.
It explains why Bush is still preznit.
Ah yes, estute as always Ms. Di Pesto. I look at it as a sick experiment, the ultimate "if you build it, they will come" endeavor. As you say, everything if fake from the politeness to the Eifel Tower to the Canals to the generally puffed up chest glands.
However, this provides a nice contrast when you find something genuine. We found good healthy food and some of the features (like the blown glass/artwork at Belagio) are unbelievable.
More to come as the week moves along...
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