Well I finally made it to Las Vegas. I hadn't planned to go, but when I arrived in LA it was pissing down with rain, and it didn't look far on the map.......It took 6 hours to get there. Driving in LA is a nerve rattling experience...to me anyway. There are just so many cars, and they seem to come at you from every angle.
Anyway, I made it.
I never had any real desire to see Vegas. Gambling bores me, and I figured that there wasn't much more to the place. There is and there isn't.
It's a bizarre combination of the midwest letting its hair down, mega money, surreal casinos, and hookers with the biggest breasts on the planet.
I stayed at the Artisan hotel, http://www.theartisanhotel.com/, which was nice enough and fairly unigue in that it DIDN'T have a casino.
Thankfully, the "world famous murder mystery evening" wasn't on when I was there last Friday.
Like LA, Vegas is a driving city and as such, you need to take a cab if you're going to drink. Plenty of people don't bother.
The night I was there the police had a DWI campaign, and predicted that they would arrest 20% of the people they stopped!
Surreal is a word often used to decribe this place. I'll let you decide what you think.
In one night, I visited, Paris, AND NYC:
There is a Venice as well, but I'm sure you get the idea.....
I had some antiquated image of Vegas as a place of cheap booze and food, all designed to get you in the door to and play the tables. Want to see what a $25 Kobe burger (or rather Kobe finger food) looks like?
The $8 beers (+ tip) curbed my thirst as well.....Happily there was plenty to look at, and looking is still free. I watched a guy while chatting to his friends, lose $2500 in about 30 seconds. He was completely unfazed and carried on playing, half turned away from the table, smirking to his hangers on, $500 chips piled up in front of him.................
Do people still get married in Vegas? Are there really drive through chapels? Do famous people do such silly things? Are the weddings in a nice part of town?
Yes, Yes, Yes, and No.
That's it for today.
Hope all is well with all of you
T
4 comments:
Don't get mad, get punctuation marks :-)
Punctuation
. Comma
. Semicolon
. Colon
. Apostrophe
. Quotation marks
. End punctuation
And one that you overuse, very, very incorrectly: ellipsis mark.
I am going to type just a few of the punctuation mark rules as I do not have time to go over every single one. I am sorry if this bothers you, but man, I feel you need a little reminder of how to use them.
Major uses of comma
Before a coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
After an introductory clause or phrase
"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
- George Orwell
Between all items in a series
"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."
- Alexander Woollcott
Between coordinate adjectives
"There is a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good."
- Burton Hillis
To set off nonrestrictive elements
"Silence, which will save me from shame, will also deprive me of fame."
-Igor Stravinsky
The ellipsis mark
This consists of THREE spaced periods. Use an ellipsis mark to indicate that you have deleted words from an otherwise word-for-word quotation.
The ellipsis mark may also be used to indicate a hesitation or interruption in speech or to suggest unfinished thoughts.
Coordinating conjunctions are: and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet.
Semicolon
Use a semicolon between closely related independent clauses not joined with a coordinating conjunction.
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."
- H. L. Mencken
"When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it."
- Clarence Darrow
A semicolon must be used whenever a coordinating conjunction has been omitted between independent clauses. To use merely a comma creates a kind of run-on sentence known as a coma splice.
In 1800, a traveler needed six weeks to get from New York City to Chicago; in 1860, the trip by railroad took only two days.
Apostrophe
An apostrophe is no longer recommended on plural numbers, letters, abbreviations, and words mentioned as words.
Peggy skated nearly perfect figure 8s.
The 1920s are known as the Jazz age.
The apostrophe is also used to mark the omissions of the first two digits of a year (the class of '95) or years (the '60s generation).
Hmmmmm
Are you always this anal? (Correct use of question mark?) I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties.
What is your name Mr/Ms Grammer?
I guess you have plenty of time on your hands.
When you post at 4:22 am, thought processes tend to be full of pauses....and commas.......
Congratulations Terry! It appears you had a grammer lesson without having to pay tuition. But most importantly, "lighten up "NA"" - - we loyal fans of Terry read his blogs not for a chance to preview the next great work of literature, but the hear of his travels and some of his great observations about people, places & things. We enjoy his wit (& occasional sarcasm) and can appreciate that many times he is posting while on the run for a very demanding job. Sorry if I sound like I'm his biggest "champion" but I do admire & appreciate the man.
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