The Deconstructionist with Gordon Weir: Pleasure Island in the Desert

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Las Vegas part Duex

 

One of the most surprising things about Las Vegas is that people actually live there.

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The Deconstructionist: Having Left Las Vegas

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Someone get me a freakin’ Segway! 

I just got back from Las Vegas and boy are my arms tired.

That’s not true, really. I go back more than two weeks ago and when I did, it wasn’t just my arms, but all of me that was exhausted. Seriously, a week in Vegas is so disorientating and physically punishing that it’s like spending a week in a sack while being hit with another sack filled with oranges, with brief intermediate flashes of joy so bright and brilliant it brings you to tears. If Los Angeles will Chew You Up and Spit You Out, as Concrete Blonde sang back in ’91, then Las Vegas will gum you to death while taking all of your money. Then spit you out.

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