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Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie – “Step on it.”
Instead of getting in my cab, this guy walks around to my window and says, “Can you get me to the airport in ten minutes?”
I quickly consider a multitude of factors like (A) where I am,1 (B) which route I will take,2 (C) how long it normally takes from here,3 (D) what day it is,4 (E) what time it is,5 (F) how much traffic will there be,6 (G) how much I want this ride,7 (H) what I need to say to get it,8 (I) what will happen if I take longer than ten minutes,9 (J) how big my tip will be if I miraculously get him there in time,10 (K) what are the most important details of this story that I may forget to mention,11 and (L) which trenchant author I will need to rip off when I finally write this down.12
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Las Vegas Podcast-a-Palooza
Today at 4pm at The Palms Hotel, Podcast-a-Palooza is going down featuring Five Hundy By Midnight, The Last Vegas Strip Podcast, and The Vegas Gang, as well as a special guest appearance by George Maloof.
I’m planning on going out and saying hello to everyone so hopefully we’ll see you there!
Eddie Izzard in Las Vegas – “Stripped” Tour
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Since it opened, I’ve somehow managed to not go to a show at The Pearl, the live concert venue at The Palms. I’ve heard so much about how there aren’t really any bad seats in the house, as the layout makes the most of its relatively small size. After tonight’s show featuring one of my favorite comedians, Eddie Izzard, I have to say that I can’t imagine that there are any really good seats in the house.
Playboy Bunnies Are Hopping Again at the Playboy Club Las Vegas
My girlfriend is a happy, satisfied subscriber to Playboy Magazine. Like me, she’s a photographer. Also like me, she’s a fan of naked women. She says she reads it for the articles, though… so who knows? Anyhow, on Friday she received her new issue of Playboy Magazine and was pleasantly surprised to see a cute girl in an old school Playboy Bunny outfit on the cover, complete with ears and a bow tie.
Last fall, almost exactly a year ago, in fact, Playboy and The Palms opened the new Fantasy Tower, complete with the first Playboy Club to open in twenty-five years.
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