INT. LIMOUSINE – LAS VEGAS – NIGHT

Five friends have piled into a limousine outside the Mirage to share a ride downtown to hit Fremont and Binion’s. The topic of conversation for the past half hour has been the crossing of paths with Slash last night. Having not been there, Naylor, Charlie, and B-Load are getting filled in on the details.

CHARLIE: Slash, yeah. He’s a great guitar player. Was he cool?

MATT: A legend. Totally cool.

NAYLOR: So what was he wearing?

JACE: His hat.

MATT: Had to be the hat. Five in the morning, too.

VIC: Good thing it was the hat. If I saw that cat at five a.m. leaving the Mirage in sweats, I’d feel robbed.

The limo pulls onto the freeway, heading north to downtown. B-Load’s been gazing out the window, all business, deep in thought. He speaks up.

B-LOAD: So how much do you think that guy’s worth?

There are so many set-ups and punchlines for this one that I’m not even gonna bother. Hilarious: [click to continue…]

Okay, here we go. Naylor and I put our cell phones together and grabbed what we have, which are primarily Velvet Revolver shots with some random ones from the Revolution Lounge pre-show. [click to continue…]

Sitting in the “U” at the Abbey Road Bar just outside The Beatles Revolution Lounge at the Mirage in Las Vegas this weekend. The word “REVOLUTION” stands in large brightly lit three dimensional letters while doubling as seating. Note that the “E” and “L” are backwards. (Revolved. Get it?) After a few cocktails it dawned on us that, from the inside, the backwards “E”, the “V”, the “O”, and the backwards “L” spell “LOVE”. Missed that one for a while. Pretty cool.

A semi-intentional effort was made this weekend to resist the urge to become preoccupied with snapping photographs the whole time. (It’d interfere with the Twitter/txt habit.) There were a couple shots here and there we took with our phones, and this is one of them. But that’s pretty much it. Naylor did get a batch of some great shots of the Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver gig on Friday night though. Those’ll be on the way soon.

I must say that there was one particular moment this weekend that I wish I had my camera ready for: Three of us were coming back to the Mirage at 5am and walking through the glass doors. Exiting the other direction, literally holding the door open for us, was Slash. Wearing his signature hat at five in the morning. How cool is that? But it gets better: We shook hands, and I accidentally called him Flash. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was a little awkward, kinda disrespectful, and completely hilarious all at the same time. But Slash was totally cool with the error, as sloshed as we were or not. The whole situation was good for a round of laughs. And a legitimate reason throw out a tweet.

I can’t believe I didn’t have a camera ready to go for that classic moment. Ouch. What a cringer. Dropped the ball on that one big time. Had I gotten that far, with camera in hand, I would’ve talked Slash into letting me wear the hat before the snap. I promise you that.

Ve·gas, ba·by! (vē’gəs, bey-bee!)
n., v., adj. A phrase emerging from modern pop culture, loosely meaning that the year’s been a long one full of pain and growth, but I’m finally over it, and now it’s high time to go knock a few loads off with loved ones and begin the next exciting season of Life, coming back like a rod of steel to attack the Universe the way I would a blank canvas. Let’s leave it at that. Cheers.

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the first recorded use of the smiley. It was born on the Bboard thread on the morning of September 19, 1982. It is believed that the father is a dude named Scott E Fahlman. =original thread=

…and have a happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr!

Taken from upper White Point last night. Avast ye, Summer! Betwixt two seasons thar be, for Fall sails by a wind before an hour’s out…

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
–Mark Twain

Farther refers to actual distance; further refers to figurative distance and means “to a greater degree” or “to a greater extent”.

• The drive from the airport was farther (in actual distance) than we expected.
• Let’s plan to discuss the tournament proposal further (to a greater extent).
• You can hike farther than I because you are in better shape.
• We shall go no further with this argument.

Via: ProofreadNOW.com

One of the best illusions I’ve ever seen! This photograph was taken in Neuchatel, Switzerland. You’d initially think someone has taken a red pencil and drawn a few lines on the picture print, or painted over it digitally on a computer. In reality, the orange lines are painted on the buildings. The illusion works from only one specific viewpoint in three-dimensional space, which is where the camera is.

More photos taken from different angles below. Click ’em for a closer look.

Created by: Felice Varini, 2002