Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Smiling?

Welcome to Vegasmic. Now Get the Hell Out!

Welcome to the Vegasmic blog. If you landed here without being invited or otherwise directed, you have too much time on your hands, have little or no taste, were trolling Blogger for new blogs (see previous reference on having too much time on one’s hands), clicked through on one of those Blogger "recently updated" lists (again, too much time on your hands), or god forbid ran a search for some term that shows up here (idle hands are the Devil’s playground, man!).

To indulge those not in-the-know, 2006 will be the 10th consecutive year a huge group of influential, internationally renowned folks will descend on Las Vegas for a few days of fun and sun. OK, that's not exactly true. The group isn't that big... and, I guess the group isn't really internationally renowned, they're more like a bunch of Western Canadians who after generally freezing their collective asses off for all or most of the Winter, seek sun and fun in the Entertainment Capitol of the World.

That's Vegas, right? Or is is Hollywood the entertainment capitol of the world? That's not on a map somewhere, is it? Oh hell, I can't remember if Vegas or Hollywood is the damned entertainment capitol of the world, but these guys are DEFINITELY going to Vegas. As far as I know. Yeah, that's right, they're going to Vegas because this will be the 10th consecutive year they've GONE TO VEGAS (sorry, I wrote about that above. I'm kind of losing my train of thought).

OK, I looked it up online and Vegas is certainly at least one of the entertainment capitols of the world. It looks like Hollywood, LA, Orlando and New York also think they are THE entertainment capitol of the world, at least according to http://www.referencecom/. Its on the web, so it has to be true, right?

Hey, I said at the beginning you'd be sorry you landed here, so quit your bitching.

Back to Las Vegas. Its in Nevada, which is in the Western US. You know, below Western Canada. Which is pretty handy for the pilots who’ll fly most of these folks, except for a couple of guys who live in the US. Its more of a west to east trip and back for those guys (I'm one of them - oh, but I'm not Canadian. That’s a long story). Anyway, the pilots must know how to get there and back, because I know other people who've gone from Florida and New York to Vegas and back, so I'm not too worried about getting lost on the way. And if we did get lost, it would be ALMOST like Vegas if they had a bunch of those little bottles of liquor, and gave them out. Of course in Vegas, the liquor bottles are much larger than on the plane, generally speaking.

So, if you're going on this trip to Vegas, or have been on one of the other nine annual trips, read on. If not, I'd suggest you get the hell out while you still can - its all going downhill from here.



Veteran of the infamous “Mexican in a Cowboy Hat” tour, 2001