Comments on: Living Las Vegas http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/ where the world thinks out loud Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Abu Sinan http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Abu Sinan Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:43:26 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-31 Interesting. When I was a teenager we had a lot of friends from Vegas. For US Vegas was about partying, but ducking behind concrete walls when cars came from a certain direction. Cars from that direction always did drive bys. Vegas was having chicken wire over your windows so someone couldnt walk up and thrown molotov cocktails through them. Vegas was about the Metro (police) giving you a hard time and maybe kicking your ass every once in a while just to remind you who was boss. Interesting. When I was a teenager we had a lot of friends from Vegas.

For US Vegas was about partying, but ducking behind concrete walls when cars came from a certain direction. Cars from that direction always did drive bys.

Vegas was having chicken wire over your windows so someone couldnt walk up and thrown molotov cocktails through them.

Vegas was about the Metro (police) giving you a hard time and maybe kicking your ass every once in a while just to remind you who was boss.

]]> By: RandallJones http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-29 RandallJones Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:31:03 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-29 ALi Eteraz wrote "Las Vegas is the three people that know what Darfur is and meet in a grocery store to discuss how to organize a rally in order to create awareness." Before these people can spread awareness, they first have to educate themselves about what is going on in Darfur. I would suggest they start learning about it here http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=447&Itemid=1 ALi Eteraz wrote “Las Vegas is the three people that know what Darfur is and meet in a grocery store to discuss how to organize a rally in order to create awareness.”

Before these people can spread awareness, they first have to educate themselves about what is going on in Darfur. I would suggest they start learning about it here
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=447&Itemid=1

]]> By: Open Thread « Ali Eteraz http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Open Thread « Ali Eteraz Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:34:48 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-26 [...] Jewcy’s The Cabal. I really love me when I write like this. Be sure to check out my piece on Living Las Vegas if you haven’t [...] [...] Jewcy’s The Cabal. I really love me when I write like this. Be sure to check out my piece on Living Las Vegas if you haven’t [...]

]]> By: Good Reads « Natalia Antonova http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Good Reads « Natalia Antonova Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:10:03 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-25 [...] Good Reads Jump to Comments Alie Eteraz has been a bad boy (or good boy? You never can tell) in Las Vegas. [...] [...] Good Reads Jump to Comments Alie Eteraz has been a bad boy (or good boy? You never can tell) in Las Vegas. [...]

]]> By: Irving http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Irving Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:27:09 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-24 And I thought Hunter Thompson was dead :) Great writing! And I thought Hunter Thompson was dead :)

Great writing!

]]> By: Buzz Kill http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Buzz Kill Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:53:25 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-23 May we all aspire to our highest pussy cat dolls and dudes potential. May we all aspire to our highest pussy cat dolls and dudes potential.

]]> By: Buzz Kill http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Buzz Kill Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:41:36 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-22 Seedy and poetic. What a crazy place and how totally representative of the United States's current *bathos.* No pretention of class or sophistication beyond a base and sleasy LCD. The Bellagio is an ostentatious show of crap. A Shock and Awe assault on the trailer set. The fancy restaurants and the tuxedos and the french canadian circus. In a silly way, Las Vegas is taking itself way too seriously. Entertainment in general has become a kind of cancer. Seedy and poetic. What a crazy place and how totally representative of the United States’s current *bathos.*

No pretention of class or sophistication beyond a base and sleasy LCD. The Bellagio is an ostentatious show of crap. A Shock and Awe assault on the trailer set.

The fancy restaurants and the tuxedos and the french canadian circus. In a silly way, Las Vegas is taking itself way too seriously.

Entertainment in general has become a kind of cancer.

]]> By: SudaneseDrima http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-21 SudaneseDrima Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:19:50 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-21 Muse is right. Brilliant! Muse is right. Brilliant!

]]> By: Life in Las Vegas « Ali Eteraz http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Life in Las Vegas « Ali Eteraz Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:59:55 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-20 [...] essay, Living Las Vegas, is now up at Global Comment where I have become a regular columnist. When I first arrived in [...] [...] essay, Living Las Vegas, is now up at Global Comment where I have become a regular columnist. When I first arrived in [...]

]]> By: reader http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-10 reader Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:57:49 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/2007/living-las-vegas/#comment-10 love it. love it.

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