Comments on: https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/09/01/2144/ tough guy poetry and manly stories of loneliness Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Rolston https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/09/01/2144/comment-page-1/#comment-11130 Rolston Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:46:23 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2144#comment-11130 Real depressing. Never made it to Reno. Been before, to all three of those places. Nowadays there are indian casinos and card rooms all over California, so Reno is really feeling the pinch. I read it has become a hub for the midwest trucking industry, so it won't fade away, but I don't know how Vegas will diversify it's portfolio. Will video conferencing some day destroy Vegas? Real depressing. Never made it to Reno. Been before, to all three of those places. Nowadays there are indian casinos and card rooms all over California, so Reno is really feeling the pinch. I read it has become a hub for the midwest trucking industry, so it won’t fade away, but I don’t know how Vegas will diversify it’s portfolio. Will video conferencing some day destroy Vegas?

]]> By: Mitch https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/09/01/2144/comment-page-1/#comment-11120 Mitch Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:23:23 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2144#comment-11120 The thing is, those old casinos don't feel like the suburbs. They don't have the same air of desperation as the newer ones. It's still there, don't get me wrong - Vegas is a city built on desperation - but there the people are desperate about car payments and trailer rent and being in debt to the meth dealer, instead of brokerage fees and the cost of putting an all marble bathroom in the McMansion and Cuban cigar expenses. No dancing fountains! No cloud-painted ceilings! No plaster Venices! No celebrities. Just good, honest gambling the hard-earned paycheck away till desperation is your last and only friend. That's livin', Vegas-style. Looking over your shoulder one day at a time. Did you go to Tahoe or Carson City or Reno, Jon? It gets more and more real as you head north. The thing is, those old casinos don’t feel like the suburbs. They don’t have the same air of desperation as the newer ones. It’s still there, don’t get me wrong – Vegas is a city built on desperation – but there the people are desperate about car payments and trailer rent and being in debt to the meth dealer, instead of brokerage fees and the cost of putting an all marble bathroom in the McMansion and Cuban cigar expenses. No dancing fountains! No cloud-painted ceilings! No plaster Venices! No celebrities. Just good, honest gambling the hard-earned paycheck away till desperation is your last and only friend. That’s livin’, Vegas-style. Looking over your shoulder one day at a time.

Did you go to Tahoe or Carson City or Reno, Jon? It gets more and more real as you head north.

]]> By: Rolston https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/09/01/2144/comment-page-1/#comment-11077 Rolston Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:08:39 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2144#comment-11077 This sense of realness and soul is really on my mind after this trip. As Alina said, "It's so easy to fool our emotions. We humans are so cheap!" This sense of realness and soul is really on my mind after this trip. As Alina said, “It’s so easy to fool our emotions. We humans are so cheap!”

]]> By: christina https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/09/01/2144/comment-page-1/#comment-11063 christina Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:53:55 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2144#comment-11063 they do have some sort of odd, old soul though, no? the Artisan has a nice dark bar and it's off the strip. not sure how old it is but there's something comfortable there you don't feel anywhere on the strip. they do have some sort of odd, old soul though, no? the Artisan has a nice dark bar and it’s off the strip. not sure how old it is but there’s something comfortable there you don’t feel anywhere on the strip.

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