Steven Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondent’s dinner should have put every reporter in that room to shame. He spoke the truth and dared to treat the president as a person and not some king we all have to be scared of because he will take our heads off if we mock him. Our forefathers dared to defy a real king when the possibility of losing their heads was real. Steven was following their courageous example of telling the emperor when he has no clothes on. Now that’s an American!
Alaskans love Vegas
For normal people, all of Las Vegas often seems slightly off kilter. Luckily, no one has ever accused Alaskans of being normal. And so we head to Las Vegas in droves looking for heat and sun, none of which is found in the casinos where we spend our hard earned Permanent Fund Dividends trying to make the killing that will allow us to retire in Mexico.
Keith Richards
Keith Richards fell out of a palm tree. I don’t think anything can be added to that statement to make it any weirder or more complete.
No, really, who is surprised by this?
So they have captured the real mafia don in Sicily after 43 years on the run because he had his wife doing his laundry and sending it to him. Hmm… is there an Italian woman out there who is surprised by this?
Thank god it stays in Vegas
In one of those moments when you are sure the world is spinning slightly out of orbit, I saw a woman walking down the Vegas Strip dressed in running shoes, workout tights and a sports bra with a lit cigarette dangling from her fingers. Seriously, you can either be athletic or a smoker but you really shouldn’t try to combine the two.
A bird person
The real question is whether I will ever stop envying birds their ability to fly. Just once…just once…I want to spread my arms, kick off with my feet and fly above this earth. Just once.
It’s an age thing I guess
My wonderful godchild Emily finished a triathalon recently. I finished my morning coffee today. Draw your own conclusions.
Elvis? Is that you?
Why do all the Elvis imitators in Vegas go for the fat Elvis look? Does no one want to remember him as thin and beautiful and sweaty from sexual energy as opposed to drugs and fat?
Active but adorable
I left the lovely Flamingo Hotel and Casino a few days ago and moved to my cousin’s house…which is actually classier. And oh my, her dogs Nino and Zia give new meaning to the word adorable. Active, but adorable.
Immoral? Immortal?
It’s a miracle. I’m in Vegas with no computer and yet my thoughts still appear here. I’m finally immortal…or is that immoral? In Vegas it’s hard to tell.