There should be a law that states that if you are over 18, you cannot wear a halter top, public bone hugging pants and platform heels while walking down a public thoroughfare. Haven’t we made this world ugly enough already?
Steven Colbert personifies spirit of true American.
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.
Adopt a nun?
As I kept saying to my friend Grace during the wedding, “This sure isn’t St. Michael’s”. St. Michael’s is the parish church where we were raised. Caesar’s Wedding Chapel by the Pool is where her daughter was getting married. The distance from here to the outer limits of the known universe could not be greater.
Living as a transplanted Easterner in Alaska, I’m used to events such as weddings, births, birthdays and divorces that happen far from family. So the fact that only thirty people were at the wedding was not the problem. The problem was that there was no
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?