(**I dont know WTF happened here in the Cage, or XPT in general, anymore...so I am just going to do what I do best and what I enjoy at this pointless stage of my life...rant.)
-- If the Dessert represents the vastness and emptiness of space, then Vegas is the quintessential 'Black Hole'. It is an all-consuming vortex that sucks anything and anyone in and allows nothing to leave unchanged. It is so bright it is dark...it is so full it is empty. It's beauty is ugly, and it's excitement redundant and boring.
Vegas has become a nonstop full scale attack on the senses, attempting to appeal to every base instinct, weakness and/or vice people have. The marketing mantra is 'What happens here, stays here..."; the reality is otherwise, the only thing that stays in Vegas is the money and the corpses.
I am fascinated by such a concentration of people seeking something for nothing; of people selling themselves, people so mentally lazy they will allow complete strangers to do things to them for a price, and then turn around and do things to themselves to perpetuate the cycle again and again...; of people, not mentally lazy, but willing to use their brains to lie, cheat, scam, swindle and steal for their own personal gain, only to turn around and feed the fire in which they 'live'. -- Da Burglar 2005
Ms Yoga-PhD and I recently spent several days in the dazzling, festering eyesore that is las vegas. We noticed amongst the blackjack and roulette tables of the Aladdin a large number of young women, some very hot, others average and many in between. On a couple of different visits to the Club Paradise Strip Club, we saw several girls dancing who we recognized from the casino...the atmosphere and environment in the strip club was tense, the girls were full court press the whole time. My amusement at being out with a woman who actually wanted to go to a strip club with me was undermined by these desperate girls trying to make enough money to, most likely, blow at the tables. I'd rather pay for their drugs than give them money to feed corporate obscenity masquerading behind a publicly traded stock symbol.
I guess I prefer strippers, whores and the like to have substance abuse issues and not gambling issues.
I also hate it when, you are too drunk to stand and pee, so you sit down on the toilet...but then you inadvertently poop instead of pee. You ever have that happen? It only seems to happen when I eat buffalo wings when I drink...Oh, and its a bad idea to get drunk, eat buffalo wings and then have sex, or even beat off, immediately after. Male and Female Genitals dont react to well to 'Suicide Wing Sauce' residue on the fingers...Miss Yoga-Phd thought she was allergic to me for a while there...