By Slanted Light

Lol - I sort of wonder that about Las Vegas too! But I suppose it's pretty impressive as a thing - it's a massive neon-lit city in the middle of a desert, basically, all focused on just being spectacular rather than anything else at all in the world. I mean, they must have libraries and supermarkets and parks and so on, because thousands of people live there, but it's not the people living there who are the focus of the place. It's entirely focused on visitors coming and spending money, and I guess really a sense of irresponsibility and feeling pampered and luxurious and... escape, maybe? Kind of like a cruise ship in the middle of the desert that doesn't go anywhere!

ETA - oh, did I like it?! I was only there very briefly, for an evening as we drove through on our way delivering a car somewhere - me and another girl who were doing a "driveaway" from Florida to Seattle in 14 days. We were quite tired, and we couldn't really work out how to gamble, and we didn't have much money to do it with, so we definitely weren't the target consumers! It was definitely a spectacle though, with all the lights and so on. I remember it being quite hard to find somewhere for breakfast the next morning (we weren't staying in the very centre, we were much further down "The Strip" (though in walking distance).