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Guest Column: Nick the Ex-Cabbie – “Downtown Detective Story”

Adult Entertainment, Guest Columnists, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Entertainment, Nick the Cabbie, Nightlife, Sin City, Stories, Vices
Posted February 18th, 2010 by Nick the Cabbie - 5 comments

I can hear John Waters on the television in the next room and it seems like a really interesting show…something I’d really like to watch. Unfortunately, right now I’m crouched on the floor of the restroom with my new porcelain friend. How did I end up in this situation? Perhaps I should reexamine my evening and use my detective skills to figure it out.

We start out with a drink at the Griffin. The bartendress pours me an entire shot when I ask to sample “just a tiny bit” of the unusual vodka that I’ve never seen before. This becomes my second drink and we have one more round before leaving. I don’t know if the shot ended up on the tab, but I know it puts me one drink ahead of everyone else in the group. Extra shot, ftw!

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7/7/7 – It’s Your Lucky Day! – Thousands Marry in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada, Outdoors and Other Interests, Sin City, Special Events, Stories
Posted July 8th, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

Las Vegas wedding 7/7/7 #1Okay, it’s true: I don’t believe in luck. Big time superstitions – even small, insidious ones – can be the undoing of any gambler, but mostly, I have always been big on mathematics and science and not so much on defying the inevitable. The law of large numbers is on your side, so long as you’re gambling with an edge. I’ve seen that principle in practice so many times, if I have a “belief,” it’s in the math.

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Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie, Las Vegas’ Coolest Cab Pilot

Guest Columnists, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nick the Cabbie, Sin City, Stories, Taxicab Confessions
Posted June 29th, 2007 by Christopher - 1 comment

That’s right. Pilot. He thinks “driving a cab” just doesn’t sound quite right so he looks at it as being a pilot. I kinda like that. Not only is he probably the best driver I know (and a great personal friend,) he’s available for his drunken, debauched friends when in need of a lift from Rehab or various other clubs around Las Vegas! That’s right…. Our personal, Las Vegas driver, VIP style. Okay, well as VIP as you can be in a taxicab :P

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Whoops! There Goes My Skirt!

Adult Entertainment, Conventions, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nightlife, Sin City, Weather
Posted April 18th, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

Every Spring, just like every other town, Las Vegas gets some changing weather patterns. Sometimes in March, usually in April, things shift and it warms up slightly, and it just gets really nice. Somewhere in that whole process the wind changes direction and starts blowing. It doesn’t get breezy, it gets nuts.

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