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Brooklyn Bridge, Vegas, Prince, da Police! — Brooklynian

Brooklyn Bridge, Vegas, Prince, da Police!

daver
daver
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
The Vegas Brooklyn Bridge sucks, but their Statue of Liberty is OK.
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  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    daver wrote: The Vegas Brooklyn Bridge sucks, but their Statue of Liberty is OK.
    the gambling, debauchery and drinking on the street are the best bits vegas has to offer, really. I think their statue of liberty is a little frumpy.
  • daver
    daver
    alafairnadia wrote: the gambling, debauchery and drinking on the street are the best bits vegas has to offer, really. I think their statue of liberty is a little frumpy.
    Well, I certainly wouldn't go there to see it, but it beats their Brooklyn Bridge hands down.

    I saw some good shows last time I was there. There was a cheap one with all rescue animals that were trained. It was amazing. Penn and Teller. What can one say about that? Jubilee is pretty classic. No implants or tattoos either, which is refreshing. Umm... The free pirates thing thing has gotten pretty racy, still busy as all hell.

    I was Not Drinking the last time I was there, but I still had a surprisingly good time. With a group of heavy drinkers to entertain me.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote: happy birthday, bridge. I'll be celebrating with your totally not-as-awesome faux-counterpart in Vegas on Thursday night.

    xoxoxo
    hehe. I just came back from there. As Anthony Bourdain said, they should have a sign warning actual New Yorkers that it may be slightly frightening.

    Oh, and I'm very angry I didn't know Prince is playing in town. Grrrrr. Alafairnadia, you should go!
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    caaahyoko wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]happy birthday, bridge. I'll be celebrating with your totally not-as-awesome faux-counterpart in Vegas on Thursday night.

    xoxoxo
    hehe. I just came back from there. As Anthony Bourdain said, they should have a sign warning actual New Yorkers that it may be slightly frightening.

    Oh, and I'm very angry I didn't know Prince is playing in town. Grrrrr. Alafairnadia, you should go!

    wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    alafairnadia wrote: wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sounds awesome! As long as it doesn't interfere with bacon martinis and ass juice. :wink:
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    caaahyoko wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]happy birthday, bridge. I'll be celebrating with your totally not-as-awesome faux-counterpart in Vegas on Thursday night.

    xoxoxo
    hehe. I just came back from there. As Anthony Bourdain said, they should have a sign warning actual New Yorkers that it may be slightly frightening.

    Oh, and I'm very angry I didn't know Prince is playing in town. Grrrrr. Alafairnadia, you should go!

    oh and ... nyny is a hilarious hotel. it's so bad. last time I was there, however, it appeared they'd corrected some of the more obnoxious stereotypical signage in their faux-manhattan/food court area. several years ago I recall the bail bondsman office being a hispanic name, the lawyers being jews, and the laundry being chinese. (yes, they're all fake storefronts to invoke a newyorkesque feel)
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sounds awesome! As long as it doesn't interfere with bacon martinis and ass juice. :wink:

    doubledown is open 24 hours. prince is limited time only.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote:
    wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sweet. I'm glad some people will get to see him. Take pictures if you can!
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote:
    several years ago I recall the bail bondsman office being a hispanic name, the lawyers being jews, and the laundry being chinese.
    Really? Yikes.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    caaahyoko wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]
    wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sweet. I'm glad some people will get to see him. Take pictures if you can!

    wait. it appears that prince is not yet happening. you're talking about fri/sat at 3121 in the rio? I'm seeing vague announcements but nothing concrete on the rio's website. am I dumb?
  • stacey
    stacey
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sounds awesome! As long as it doesn't interfere with bacon martinis and ass juice. :wink:

    And on that note - may I suggest something to have with your bacon martini

    http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/04/chocobacon.jpg
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=caaahyoko][quote=alafairnadia]
    wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sweet. I'm glad some people will get to see him. Take pictures if you can!

    wait. it appears that prince is not yet happening. you're talking about fri/sat at 3121 in the rio? I'm seeing vague announcements but nothing concrete on the rio's website. am I dumb?

    Hmmm. I think you're right. My friend just told me this today, and I guess he was totally wrong. Now he owes me a beer for getting me all worked up.
    :x

    Well you could always go to the Prince Tribute. haha.
    http://www.lasvegassun.com/events/ongoing/112/
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    oh shit! better than prince (in my book) - the POLICE are playing the MGM on the 23rd! do I go??
  • daver
    daver
    alafairnadia wrote: oh shit! better than prince (in my book) - the POLICE are playing the MGM on the 23rd! do I go??
    I can't believe you phrased that statement in the form of a question.

    OF COURSE YOU FUCKING DO!
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    daver wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]oh shit! better than prince (in my book) - the POLICE are playing the MGM on the 23rd! do I go??
    I can't believe you phrased that statement in the form of a question.

    OF COURSE YOU FUCKING DO!

    this trip is going to both bankrupt me and kill me. I love vegas!
  • queencallipygos
    queencallipygos
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=caaahyoko][quote=alafairnadia]happy birthday, bridge. I'll be celebrating with your totally not-as-awesome faux-counterpart in Vegas on Thursday night.

    xoxoxo
    hehe. I just came back from there. As Anthony Bourdain said, they should have a sign warning actual New Yorkers that it may be slightly frightening.

    Oh, and I'm very angry I didn't know Prince is playing in town. Grrrrr. Alafairnadia, you should go!

    oh and ... nyny is a hilarious hotel. it's so bad. last time I was there, however, it appeared they'd corrected some of the more obnoxious stereotypical signage in their faux-manhattan/food court area. several years ago I recall the bail bondsman office being a hispanic name, the lawyers being jews, and the laundry being chinese. (yes, they're all fake storefronts to invoke a newyorkesque feel)

    the thing that scared me when I went, though, was -- they also had fake apartment fronts mixed in with the storefronts; doors that led nowhere, they were just set pieces.

    But attached to one of the fake doors on the fake apartment-fronts was a hand-made "No Menus" sign that had been made with magic marker scrawled on an ACTUAL, GENUINE EMPIRE SZECHUAN GREENWICH takeout menu.

    Maybe only 1% of the visitors would have gotten that reference, but there it was. Someone REALLY, REALLY tried to do their homework.
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    alafairnadia wrote: oh shit! better than prince (in my book) - the POLICE are playing the MGM on the 23rd! do I go??
    Absolutely, if they're not sold out.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote:

    this trip is going to both bankrupt me and kill me. I love vegas!
    You could always try to win back your ticket money. :lol:
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    caaahyoko wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]

    this trip is going to both bankrupt me and kill me. I love vegas!
    You could always try to win back your ticket money. :lol:

    heh. I'm planning to play a lot of poker. if all goes well, I'll have a decent bankroll. but, given my last several tournaments and the lack of cards to back up my outrageous bluffing skillz, I'm not sure what's going to happen. I'm more just resigned to blowing a grand, minimum, in a few days and loving the entire experience. I love vegas.

    (yes, I think I'm going to end every post, sentence, phrase, transaction, whatever with a declaration of "I love vegas")
  • lydiabrunch
    lydiabrunch
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=Carnivore][quote=alafairnadia]wait, prince is playing in vegas? carnivore is going, too, as are some other board folk. this might be excitinger than I thought.
    Sounds awesome! As long as it doesn't interfere with bacon martinis and ass juice. :wink:

    doubledown is open 24 hours. prince is limited time only.

    You guys know there is a Double Down in NYC, right? Complete with ass juice and bacon martinis...

    http://www.doubledownsaloon.com/newyork/index.html
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    LydiaBrunch wrote: You guys know there is a Double Down in NYC, right? Complete with ass juice and bacon martinis...

    http://www.doubledownsaloon.com/newyork/index.html
    Yeah, but it's not the same.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=LydiaBrunch]You guys know there is a Double Down in NYC, right? Complete with ass juice and bacon martinis...

    http://www.doubledownsaloon.com/newyork/index.html
    Yeah, but it's not the same.

    and a pretty creepy guy I know likes to hang out there. everything is better in vegas except, of course, their rendition of NY.
  • daver
    daver
    alafairnadia wrote: everything is better in vegas except, of course, their rendition of NY.
    Oh my Gawd! Everything is _SO_ not better in Vegas!

    It is differently abled.

    And I find Vegas tourists to be (GASP!) _worse_ than the NYC ones. Especially when it comes to getting in my way. Damn people, it is a sideWALK, goddamn it! Among other things.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    daver wrote:
    Oh my Gawd! Everything is _SO_ not better in Vegas!

    It is differently abled.

    And I find Vegas tourists to be (GASP!) _worse_ than the NYC ones. Especially when it comes to getting in my way. Damn people, it is a sideWALK, goddamn it! Among other things.
    In front of the Paris casino, a bunch of tourists gasped when I crossed an intersection during the "no walk" light. Like I was twirling a baton of fire or something. I even heard one hawaiian shirt-clad old guy mutter "That was stupid." hehehe.
  • daver
    daver
    caaahyoko wrote: In front of the Paris casino, a bunch of tourists gasped when I crossed an intersection during the "no walk" light. Like I was twirling a baton of fire or something. I even heard one hawaiian shirt-clad old guy mutter "That was stupid." hehehe.
    You and I should meet. Last time I was there a stupid casino had a pair of guys standing on either side of the walkway handing coupons for drinks or slot money or some damn thing to folks walking past. Many tourist folk were pushed to the middle, out of their reach, unwilling to have the coupons thrust at them. As a veteran of having unwanted shit thrust at me daily walking through Times Square, I of course took advantage of the empty passing lane between the herd and the hawkers, pushing through an outstretched arm hopefully thrusting a coupon at me in the process.

    Chaos ensues. Hawker dude got _pissed_. Which of course I wouldn't have even noticed, since I was tuned out, nay, I never tuned into him. But my compatriots tapped me and mentioned that the dude was still yelling at me like 15-20 feet down the sidewalk. I turned around and he was livid pissed hollering about me pushing him and shit. All the tourists mouths made big/little O's, like that tag line now missing beneath someone's avatar.

    WTF? "Well, _that_ was pretty rude!" Well fucking A, had he not been STANDING in the fucking WALKWAY, then I wouldn't have been WALKING through him, now would I have been? Hmm? And this is somehow my fault? Like I am supposed to get in the cattle line to squeeze through the middle between the hawkers? Fuck that.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    daver wrote:
    WTF? "Well, _that_ was pretty rude!" Well fucking A, had he not been STANDING in the fucking WALKWAY, then I wouldn't have been WALKING through him, now would I have been? Hmm? And this is somehow my fault? Like I am supposed to get in the cattle line to squeeze through the middle between the hawkers? Fuck that.
    :twisted: Good for you! I wanted to strangle those guys.

    There is definitely something weird about that place--but its definitely amplified by the people visiting. The way people move around combined with the whole escalators/walkways instead of crosswalks, and with the assbackwards ways of getting from point A to point B was very disorientating for me. I'm too used to walking in straight lines and crossing on the street instead of above it.

    I guess I should have gone there with more of a purpose of drinking or gambling to center myself in the atmosphere. (I was just in town visiting my dad while he works there for a few more weeks)
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    the cabbies in vegas are 100x more awesome than the cabbies in nyc. first of all, they talk a bunch of shit. second, they'll break a million traffic laws to get you where you want to go. third, they are all fetishistic, horny freaks and apparently like ethiopian food.

    god. I miss vegas already.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote: the cabbies in vegas are 100x more awesome than the cabbies in nyc. first of all, they talk a bunch of shit. second, they'll break a million traffic laws to get you where you want to go. third, they are all fetishistic, horny freaks and apparently like ethiopian food.

    god. I miss vegas already.
    So you had fun? Did you do well at poker?
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    caaahyoko wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]the cabbies in vegas are 100x more awesome than the cabbies in nyc. first of all, they talk a bunch of shit. second, they'll break a million traffic laws to get you where you want to go. third, they are all fetishistic, horny freaks and apparently like ethiopian food.

    god. I miss vegas already.
    So you had fun? Did you do well at poker?

    yes and yes! I won money in 3 tournaments, which was awesome! I love that town. I'm pathetic.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    alafairnadia wrote:

    yes and yes! I won money in 3 tournaments, which was awesome! I love that town. I'm pathetic.
    Awesome, indeed. :D Nothing wrong with doin' what you're good at.
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