Off to DC

[learnteach]

Where it will be much worse than it was in Vegas. Taking my brother Rex with my mother to see relatives, the Smithsonian and as much other culture as my leg can stand--but not taking the laptop so I won't be online much. No worries.

Vegas Strip is a good place to get a hotel room, lounge by the pool, catch some major shows, eat a nice meal with friends, stroll the architecture, and leave. If you go with that flow it's perfectly nice. But blending with drunk crowds, in noisy places, trying to impress fools, seeing dead lumps sitting in front of life sucking machines? Reminds me that not taking my laptop is not such a bad idea. But seeing old friends, dressed up, meeting new people, and witnessing Laina and Cathyn proving they can Mac, Kenna I think of a better time?

I want to dress up, see a show, hit dinner, perhaps drink a pimm's cup and sing with Andrew. Either one. And have other friends along too...

The best thing is to not take too much responsibility for others, and focus on the mantra: "Icecoldwateronedollar". I'm sure it will be a great mantra for DC as well.

Comments

[valgards.livejournal.com]

I hate Vegas. Well, I love it for about a day and a half. If I'm there for more than three days I am incredibly depressed. So don't stay too long on the strip.

Hunter Thompson said that Vegas was the frightening heart of the American Dream (or maybe it was terrifying, not sure), and he was right. A bunch of dead souls grasping at a something for nothing payoff while glitz and glamor swirl all around them. To me it shows exposes everything about capitalism (and I am spekaing as a capitalist here). The wealth of capitalism is built upon consumption, and when there are winners there have to be losers. Couple that to the fact that we Americans, particularly those who don't look beyond their television sets, believe that bigger and louder is better, and you get Las Vegas, where the night itself seems to be on steroids, where you can re-create a movie set of anything and put a casino in it, and where we will gladly be blinded by the flashing lights as we put out kids' college fund into a machine that does nothing but spin little wheels around.

Hey, I'm not saying I don't play myself here.....

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

I've never been outside the airport in Las Vegas, but that's enough for me.

Next time you come East, see if you can arrange a side trip to visit us!