So, I went to the premiere of Stomp Out Loud at the newly renovated Planet Hollywood, (formerly known as The Aladdin), the other night, and Damn! What a noizefest! Clang Clang Clang!!! what a bunch of crap! Who thought of this stupid shit anyway? What, ..couldn't they think of ANYTHING to say.... the WHOLE performance? And what the heck was with the leftover set from RENT? ....So, the janitors come out and sweep down the place to get ready for the performance. That's fine, but it turns out .....THEY'RE THE SHOW!!! sweep sweep....shuffle shuffle.....tap tap.... wow, great.
OK, so I'm kidding. Truth be told I had a great time, I really dug it. It looks like a revival of the original "Stomp" from Broadway, very cool! Everything was top shelf: the show, the company, the after party with free food and free booze ....Free BOOZE?! How can you argue with that? I'm not talking about well drinks either, it was totally top shelf all the way!
Bruce Willis was even rumored to be there, but I didn't see him. In fact, my contention is that Bruce is actually dead and Ashton Kutcher is posing in his place. I may be wrong about him being actually dead, but if he's making Die Hard part FOUR, which he is, he must be close to dead, right?! I guess he gots to get paid, eh?! Planet Hollywood must not be paying off like he thought. When you hitch a ride to Sly Stallone's little red wagon, that's what you get. Bruce, if you're out there, forget about the 80's, ....that's history! This smacks soooo much of Beverly Hills Cop 3, you might as well make it a buddy picture while you're at it. How about "Disney's-The Kid 2"! ......Sadness. (Props for "Grindhouse" though).
I did, however, see Robin Leach at "Stomp Out Loud". He was roaming around by himself, presumably trying to pick up what was left of his shattered caviar dreams or something. Not much of an entourage there, didn't even have a date. I'm kind of speculating the reason why Mr. Champagne-Wishes was at the Stomp premier was that he was spying for the Venetian! As some people may know, he does the voice overs for the Blueman Group commercials, which is one of the shows at the Venetian. Blueman group, if you don't know, is a similar predominantly percussive style of show. In fact, I think I may have seen Bruce Willis-Kutcher roughly escourting Robin out of there, and he might have dotted his eye a few times on the way out, but I may be mistaken. It looked like he was getting rough with him from behind, but who knows. Sounds like something Willis would do!  I also noticed that Weeman from MTV's Jackass made a short appearance too. I saw him at the after party peeking over the lobster and shrimp table. (That was cheap shot, but I don't care! the guy kicks himself in the head for a living!)
Sorry for the Roast, Mr. Willis, Mr. Leach, and Mr. Wee, Vegas made me do it!
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I went kayaking down by Laughlin on the Colorado river today and on my way back to Vegas I stopped in Searchlight. If you've never gone through Searchlight, it's basically a hiccup in the middle of the two lane highway going to Laughlin. It's a tiny little burg with maybe two cop cars total. They've got strict speed limits that drop your 65+ highway driving to a 25 mph crawl. I'm assuming they want you to actually see the town and potentially buy some shit while your going through so friggin slowly. Anyway, to make sure you drive the speed limit they've got a cop car on either side of the city limits to keep you from driving too fast through this podunk town. That's right, the whole force.....2! The first time I went through I thought for sure I was going to get a ticket 'cause I drive way too fast when I'm in the middle of nowhere. I thought I lucked out the first time, but on the next crawl through I looked a little closer at the "cops", and noticed that they were actually crash test dummies! Yes, it's true...in Searchlight the MAN is a mannequin! When I finally realized what they were, I absolutely lost it. I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen! I know there's an earlier post of a cop car with a sticker, but come on! This was a sitting duck, I couldn't resist...
Here's a closer look......
Tagged that car right on the friggin' logo like it was a bullseye!
BTW, notice the bad ass shirt I'm wearing.....
Who's the April Fool now Searchlight?, Sorry.... Vegas made me do it!!!!!!!
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Scored some tickets for the PRIDE UFC fights at the
Thomas and Mack center-UNLV Saturday night, so 4 of us sat through 9 bloody brawls! I found out that Harrison Ford, Chuck Norris, and Nick Cage were there ring side too. I swear one of the K/O's was caused by just a look from the "Chuck"! That's the thing with Chuck, he's punching with his mind without even knowing. Even though the great Chuck Norris presence was felt by everyone, I think the girls were really more impressed with Nicholas Cage being there, at least the ones with us. They were shaking in their seats when they showed him on camera. It was a great time with really awesome seats. Speaking of seats, just to add a little Sex into the Violence, here's a shot of the ring with a friend sporting a VMMDI sticker.
Hope it didn't ruin the jeans....
Sorry Calvin Klein, Vegas made me do it.
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Check this out! This guy hit a cabbie's ride with a sticker, AND hit his ARM with some sweet lookin ink! Props to this guy for his nice ass Vegas tat! Man, that musta friggin hurt like hell! Your inner arm is SOOOO damn sensitive, and that's not just a little bit of ink either. That must've taken quite a bit of time to finish. My hat's off to ya for showing the love. I've got one guess what made him do that...... Oh, you figure it out.
Submitted by Anonymous-"Through one of these bad boys up on a cab window on the way to bunkhouse recently." >Name with held to protect the guilty...
Sorry Desert Cab Co, Vegas Made Me Do It!
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Last weekend, some friends and I were down on the strip dancing on the tables and pretty much making asses of ourselves at Margaritaville. It's not my favorite place on the strip, but dammit, when you're down on the strip with your blood boiling at .08 or higher, you pretty much don't care where you are.
Post many margarita, we decided to slow the evening down at the Peppermill. Now, for those of you who arn't familiar with the Peppermill, it's a sweet little secret that even a lot of locals don't know about. They've got a great ultra lounge in the back of this little dinner located across from the Stardust, with a fine looking wait staff that will serve you generously mixed drinks by their sunken fireplace. .....A fireplace that burns in the middle of a pool of water! ....AMAZING?! not really, but it's pretty cool. It's very intimate, and not attached to any casino. I try to get down there any chance I get.
So, once we had officially wound down by around 4am, I went to fetch the car and pulled up next to two black and whites. These officer's had left their vehicles unattended, for coffee and donuts in the dinner I presume, and I had two stickers with MY excuse on it! So, I put two and two together on two of our fair cities finest.
Here's a pic........
I disguised the plate, so you can't see which cruiser it is, but they know who they are 
Sorry LVPD, Vegas Made Me Do It!
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It's
the Sunday after Thanksgiving and the tryptophan has finally wore off,
so my brother and I decided to take a trip out to the infamous Area
51....
After driving for friggin' ever, (two and a half hours from
Vegas), we made it to the "Little A'le'inn", which is just about all
that's out there anymore. You can't go to the "Freedom Ridge" viewpoint
of Area 51, so there's not much left to see. We got lost on the
way, so I stopped and asked directions to Area 51 at a gas station, and
the cashier leaned in, looked me right in the eye and said, in a
totally serious, almost whispered voice, "you can't go there....", like
we were in some horror movie, and the place was haunted or something. I
felt like she was warning me that if we went up there, we wouldn't be
coming back. I swear, you can't make that stuff up. It was totally
hilarious!
Anyway, while we were driving around lost, I noticed that
the "Alien jerky stand" was also closed and deserted. I can only assume
it's because all the workers were abducted, or maybe died from eating
the jerky, who knows?! Maybe green jerky isn't really the best business
plan... Maybe that's what drove them outta business?! There was fresh
"brown" jerky at the gas station, and they're still in business. Hmmmm,
I wonder....
There were plenty of cows open range grazing all over
the desert, so if some alien wanted to use them for making jerky, or
abduct them, maybe do some milking experiments, or whatever, they were VERY available. For the most part they're just roaming around eatin' and shittin' everywhere, (in the middle of the road even).
So
while I was out there in the middle of the "extraterrestrial highway",
I thought I'd leave a little something for our fly-by green tinted
spielbergian friends. Here's a shot of the sign in all it's dust
covered desolate drive-by glory...
Yes folks, it's the Extraterrestrial highway sign tagged for the viewing pleasure of all interstellar travelers. Hell,
it may as well be in outer space, it's in the middle of friggin'
NOWHERE! I know it's buried with a bunch of other suck-ass stickers, but Damn it! it's there! Here's a closer look.....
Notice that the state of Nevada actually paid for this sign!
Well, at least I can say I was in the middle of nowhere....
I think the brown jerky saved my life.
Sorry ET, "Vegas Made Me Do It"!
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Monday the 20th, I made my way to the Foundation room in Mandalay Bay. This is supposed to be one of the most exclusive clubs on the strip. It's part of the House of Blues and is available to members only.They are, however, gracious enough to let the public in on Monday Nights after 11pm.... For $30! Luckily I'm local, so that drops significantly. If you've never been to this club, I highly recommend it. The décor is really spectacular with their authentic Persian rug floors, and real artifacts that are peppered through out the club. I actually had someone give me a tour last year of the entire place and it's really amazing! The guy who gave us the tour described it by saying that everything is pretty much fake in Las Vegas.... Except here! All the entry-ways are from Tibetan temples, the artworks are all original, not reproductions, etc... But the real incredible thing here is the view. It's got to be the BEST on the strip. If it's not, I'd say it's definitely in the top 5. So I sort of finagled my way into one of the private rooms with the reserved tables. Of course the bottles you buy to reserve the table are outrageously priced, (from $300 to $5000)! Some friends and I just hung out there until they kicked our cheap asses out, but in the mean time, while I was kicked back enjoying my over priced beverage, I managed to hit the table with a sticker! Check it out.....
I used my phone so it's a little blurry but you can still make out the foundation rooms logo on the menu.
Sorry HOB, Vegas made me do it!!!
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Submitted by: Smoke A Bowl Joel!
I confess.....on our 10th wedding anniversary we took a trip to Vegas from the SF Bay Area. We got married pretty young, she was 19 and I was 21. We were just settling into our jobs and the Bay Area after moving here when we got out of Grad school in MI.
We had never really spent time in Vegas before and thought it would be fun to explore in celebration of our ten year commitment together.
The night before we left, a couple friend of ours gave us a gift for the trip. They had gotten us a tainted truffel from one of the Medical Marijuana clinics in town and a fat thumber joint of purple passion to boot.
In the morning as we were leaving I stuffed the plastic wrapped joint down my pants and tucked it snug up under my left nut. We weren't really sure how to bring the tainted chocolate truffels with us on the Jet liner, so enroute to the Oakland Airport we decided we'd just eat'em. They were pretty damn good if truth be told, and I guess that's what I'm doing here is telling the truth.
By the time we got through checking our bags and we were at the front of the security check point we were high as hell. Which of course brought with it some serious damn paranoid shit. We kept looking around all shifty like wispering in each others ears as we clutched onto one another moving slowly to the TSA check point. Holy! I kept hearing Black Sabbath playing in the back of my head. the only problem we had was the joint kept feeling like it was about to come out from under my nuts but it stayed nice and snug all the way through and we got on the jet just fine.
we checked into the hotel and showered and started to get ready for a night on the town. We decided to smoke the joint while we were getting ready. As we finished getting ready we decided that we felt a little tired fromthe trip and from the herb kicking in. That shit was some creeper shit because we were comatosed for hours. We could NOT get up from bed. We weren't sleeping and we kept saying to each other that we should get up and go out exploring and have some fun but we seriously could not move from being so damn high.
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I confess..... apparently 3 girls isn't too much to handle. I love Vegas.
(Boy, I don't know about this entry, seems it's got very few details so I'm thinkin' BS! anyone else? - staySINvegas)
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| Let's see, this isn't really a confession...but, I'll
throw it at ya anyways...I was in VEGAS last summer (July 2005)
visiting some "old" but, GREAT FRIENDS...Anyways, my girlfriend and I
decided we were going to do some shopping. So, here we are about 10:30
a.m. on the Strip. By noon we were both pretty "Shitfaced", to the
point where we had to leave my friends car in a parking garage...either
that or I was gonna have to drive, so we decided to leave the car...get
a taxi and make it by 4:30 p.m. so my drunk girlfriend could make her
hair-appointment. Anyways, I had a blast...I'm sure she did too!!?
And I'm very sure her Husband got quite the laugh out of it!! To top
it off, it was 119 degrees out, that didn't make things any
easier...but, hey what can ya say! You Both Rock! I love and Miss ya
LOTS!!! By the way...I want a sticker!! Love Ya!! |
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