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The Root of All Evil
January 31, 2010
It's been an intolerable poker week for yours truly. For some inexplicable reason, the ladies of the city have been making my life miserable. A couple of days ago, the bane of my existence was "boob girl", and today it was "spectator girl". Those of you who play poker in Vegas on a semi-regular basis have almost certainly encountered this creature. This is the woman who stands behind her boyfriend or husband, or pulls up a chair to sit and watch from behind. The spectating girlfriend takes on many forms. Sometimes she stands quietly behind her meal ticket and doesn't say a word. Sometimes she nags him that she's hungry. Sometimes she is friendly with the other players. Sometimes she's loud and obnoxious. When a guy's female companion walks up behind him and begins to camp out, you just never know what you are going to get. Frankly, I'm not always a huge fan of spectator ... Read the full blog post...
Hash House a No Go
January 30, 2010
The Hash House a Go Go is an off-strip joint that has had somewhat of a cult following for many years, and late last year they finally opened a restaurant inside of the Imperial Palace. The far-flung location of this eatery (Rainbow and Sahara) has always prevented me from becoming a routine patron of the establishment, but its new location mid-Strip allowed me to finally get around to giving it a fair shot. This morning, I happened to be out and about by myself when hunger struck, and I've always felt that eating solo was highly underrated. I never really caught on to the eating-as-a-social event thing. Why do people get together to talk at the precise moment they plan on having food in their mouths? It's kind of like going to the proctologist after downing a full bar of Ex-Lax. When I eat, I don't like to talk, I like to ... Read the full blog post...
Are We Ready For Some Football?
The only time I watch football on Television is when the Washington Foreskins are in the playoffs, and apparently, they just barely missed making it this year. Had they won a mere 7 more regular season games, they would have earned the ability to choke in the first round. They were this close. RFK stadium remains the only place on the planet at which I have seen a live NFL game, and now that I live in Las Vegas, it looks like this streak will stay intact. Forever. This is a shame. I kind of liked the game as a kid. I met Joe Theismann, John Riggins, Art Monk, Mark Moseley, and I even played football for a period of time. Unfortunately, I had a pathological inability to gain weight. Until age 25, I was 6'4 1/2" tall (I have shrunk about an inch since then), and I could not break 175lbs no matter ... Read the full blog post...
iRex
January 28, 2010
"Rex, isn't this supposed to be a Las Vegas Blog?" My blogs are not traditional Vegas blogs. I don't try to be the Review Journal, nor do I try to report all the Vegas news that's fit to print. You already have 500 places to go for that (I recommend typing "Las Vegas" into Google News for all the mainstream news you can handle). Someone once called my blog "The VegasRex Show" and while it sounds narcissistic, it's probably closer to accurate than calling it "The Great Magical I Love Everything About Las Vegas Click Here To Book Great Room Rates" Blog. This is not so much a Las Vegas Blog as it is a blog written by a guy who lives in Las Vegas. I write about the things I see, hear, and read that interest me. Since I live smack between The Bellagio and Fremont Street, my observations usually involve Las Vegas, ... Read the full blog post...
Boys Will Be Boys
January 27, 2010
Years ago I was riding in the passenger seat of an automobile while a young female was behind the wheel. We were on our way from Washington to New York, and like most people, we took I-95 north. As we were coming off the downward span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge (which links Delaware with New Jersey), apparently we picked up too much speed. We had not been in New Jersey for more than 2 minutes when police lights lit up the rear view mirror. When the officer came to the window, my female friend immediately developed tears in her eyes and explained to the officer that she had a fear of bridges, and was just trying to get off of it as quickly as possible. She kept apologizing, lamenting what was going to happen to her driving record and car insurance, and before I knew it, the officer let her off with ... Read the full blog post...
I’d Like To Thank The Academy
January 25, 2010
After more than a few emails, pm's, and what have you, I've finally gotten around to reading the results of the 2009 Trippies Awards. It appears that I have won one of the blog categories, and I have an official response. First, I would like to say that it was an honor just to be nominated, and I would like to acknowledge my worthy opponents by saying ... LOSERS! How's my dick taste? I kid. Maybe. I have no idea who I was up against, so if any of them are assholes, then I meant it. Contrary to popular expectations, I'm not going to do the cliche'd Ed Vedder Grammy "I don't know what this means, I don't think it means anything" routine. It obviously means something. It means that people, most of whom I do not know, took 2 minutes (or however long it took) out of their day to pencil my name into a ballot, weigh ... Read the full blog post...
Away From It All
It rained more in Vegas last week alone than in all of 2009, and even though the "storms" here are laughable by East Coast standards (our heaviest day of flooding was caused by .89 inches of rain), the precipitation still left a nice coating of snow on the mountains. Since Sunday is the day of the week with the least amount of traffic in the Vegas Valley, we took advantage of the relatively empty roads and cool temperatures to spend a day in Red Rock and the adjacent canyon. The trip is actually a pretty easy drive from The Arts District. You simply head west on Charleston Boulevard and 25 minutes later ... there you are. Believe it or not, Charleston is the precise road that takes you from Sunrise Manor, to Rexville, to Red Rock Canyon. If you can catch favorable light timings (which I never do), the trip can actually ... Read the full blog post...
Dealertaining
January 24, 2010
The Imperial Palace. Possibly the most polarizing property on the Las Vegas Strip. "But Rex, doesn't that title belong to Circus Circus?" Maybe not. You see, with the exception of yours truly, nobody admits to liking Circus Circus. Thus, it cannot be polarizing because nobody takes the opposite side. The IP, however, has both a loyal following and a loyal loathing. Some people love the Harrah's comps, the Dealertainers, the reasonably low limits, and the cheap rooms. Other people consider staying in the IP to be two steps below sleeping in their car, and one step below sleeping on the Deuce bus. Personally, I take an in-between approach. I used to really like the IP. I stayed there on one of my first trips to Vegas and I gambled, watched Legends in Concert, ate at a Hawaiian Luau, and generally had a good time. This was back in the waning days when the customer was still ... Read the full blog post...
No Vegas For Old Men
January 22, 2010
It appears that the Fontainebleau has a new buyer, and that new buyer is Carl Icahn. Carl's "Icahn Nevada Gaming Acquisition LLC" made the only acceptable bid on the property, which meant that the auction was called off. Auctions are pretty lame with only one participant. So, what was the winning bid? "Icahn's November offer of $156.5 million, including financing during the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, set the minimum for others to beat. The 63-story Fontainebleau, about 70 percent complete at a cost of $2 billion when it filed for bankruptcy in June, sits on about 27 acres at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip. It will cost about $1.5 billion to finish, former bidder Penn National Gaming Inc. has estimated. A source close to Soffer said Wednesday that the Vegas project only has a license on the Fontainebleau brand for another year. The Fontainebleau name ``will never be on the property ... Read the full blog post...
Venom In Vegas
January 21, 2010
There is a particular disorder called SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and it is well-documented in psychiatric literature. The gist of this particular "illness" is that people become more depressed and lethargic in the winter due to a lack of sunlight. I have the complete opposite of this. I don't want to leave the house when the sun is shining, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I would be fully content if it rained every day and the temperature never exceeded 65 degrees. I would consider this to be the ideal climate. I have searched high and low for a diagnosis of this "anti-SAD" condition, and I cannot find it described anywhere. Apparently, I am the only person on the planet who suffers from it. I feel significantly more discontent in the Spring and Summer, and slightly less suicidal in the Fall and Winter. Given that it has rained for ... Read the full blog post...
