Obligatory Voting Post

Seriously, if you’re not planning to vote, what’s wrong with you?

You Make the Call

A picture of my dad when he was a teenager, or the original cover of Huckleberry Finn?

Farewell to a beautiful romance

Over the past 18 months, I developed a very meaningful relationship in Las Vegas. Her name, was Penny. Hot Hot Penny to be more specific. The Hot Hot Penny line of slot machines to be exact.

During our time together, Penny always managed to give more than she asked for. All she ever wanted was a little bit of my time and attention, and to hit right buttons now and again. But this trip it seems Penny is all about Penny. I give and give and give and get nothing in return.

Maybe I took Penny for granted, or maybe Penny found someone new that knows where her new buttons need to pushed. Regardless of any reason, it’s time to break this relationship now before it gets any worse.

Sorry Penny, it’s over. I have new relationship developing. His name is Vader. Vader gave me 10 bucks just for picking him in a lightsaber duel on the Star Wars slot machine the other night.

The same 10 dollars you took from me so coldly.

Best Night Ever

There’s a really good story behind this… but youll have to listen to the next podcast to hear it.

Thanks again Malachi!

Star Trek: Behind the Black Curtain

One of my last blog posts involved my report that “Star Trek: The Experience” was closing.

As a brief follow up, here’s a first hand report on the progress of the closing on the attraction.

I’m currently in Las Vegas, as I write this, and will be here for the next 10 days. One of the first things I did was hop on the monorail and head to the Hilton to check out the progress of the dismantling of “Star Trek: The Experience”.

Here’s an itemized list of the work done so far:

1.    A Black curtain has been erected in front of the Quarks and the Ride entrance.

End of report.

Seriously, that’s it. There’s a cheap-o Black mesh curtain on aluminum rods covering the entrance to the bar, the attraction, and promenade. That’s it. You can clearly see the Enterprise and Voyager on the ceiling. The curtain is so low; it’s about 3 feet short of even beginning to cover the banners for “The Klingon Encounter” and “The Borg Invasion”. The curtains are so misplaced that I’d wager that Hilton employees are asked an average of 10 times a day when “Star Trek” is going to open because the curtains look so temporary.

Ah well, this is obviously written with a bit of bad blood – I only recently got to enjoy Star Trek the Experience for the first time 18 months ago and am sad to see it’s gone.

I have some video of the venue to show off the curtain in all it’s glory, but I don’t have a firewire cable to download, so you’ll just have to patiently wait until I get back to Orlando – assumingly I don’t drunkly tape over it in the meantime.

This Week in Quakertown – Cheesesteaks and Coke

Thanks to Dave Fox for alerting us to this breaking news: Beloved (or, at least long-standing) Quakertown institution Lee’s Hoagie House was the site of a drug operation. That’s right, you could order your hoagies with “extra olives”, if you know what I mean. (Actually, I don’t even know what that means, so nevermind.)

Philadelphia resident Irving Fleming, 69, “was allegedly selling drugs out of Quakertown’s Route 309 Lee’s Hoagie House while he worked as an employee there.”

Wow. Just … wow. The entire cast and crew of Fan Film ate lunch there during filming. I thought the fries tasted a little crack-y.

Album Cover of the Week

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: The Faith Tones.

Aside from the fact that all three of them have got to be men in drag, the album title just seems … creepy.