Egoism
Individualism
Sovereignty
Splendor

(These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto)

Wednesday, January 04, 2006
 
BetterVegas: Stardust to ashes

The other shoe has finally dropped. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Boyd Gaming Corp. plans to develop a $4 billion mixed-use resort on the 63-acre site now occupied by the Stardust, company officials said Tuesday.

The resort, to be called Echelon Place, will include 5,300 hotel rooms, 1 million square feet of meeting and convention space, 350,000 square feet of retail stores and a 140,000-square-foot casino.

It is scheduled to open in early 2010.

At $4 billion, Echelon Place is thought to be the second-most expensive single hospitality industry development ever undertaken after MGM Mirage's $6 billion Project CityCenter.
Yet another club-footed name, but we can expect both to change. I was hoping Boyd's plans for the Stardust parcel would be more ambitious, but I expect that much of that incredible piece of land will still be available for expansion. One feature I think is very smart: There will be four separate hotels on the property, each aimed at a different market segment.


Tuesday, January 03, 2006
 
Cathleen

Eight years yesterday. I love her better than anyone.
Something In The Way She Moves

by James Taylor

There's something in the way she moves
Or looks my way, or calls my name
That seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I'm feeling down and blue
Or troubled by some foolish game
She always seems to make me change my mind.

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now
She's around me now
Almost all the time
And if I'm well you can tell that she's been with me now
She's been with me now, quite a long, long time
And I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
And I find myself careening
Into places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me
Yes, and to silently remind me
Of the happiness and good times that I know, know
Well I said I just got to know that--

It isn't what she's got to say
Or how she thinks or where she's been
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound
I like to hear them best that way
It doesn't much matter what they mean
Well she says them mostly just to calm me down

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now
She's around me now
Almost all the time
And if I'm well you can tell that she's been with me now
She's been with me now quite a long, long time
Yes, and I feel fine.





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