The Vegas posts are coming fast and furious now. Here, let me add yet another. The anticipation running throughout the household is now palatable. Here is about the only serious question I have regarding the upcoming degenerate extravaganza.
When meeting a fellow blogger for the first time, what is the proper way to introduce oneself?
Really it’s a nonsensical question, but it keeps popping into my head because I have an inordinate fear of fucking it all up.
As we get closer to the inevitable, I find it increasingly amusing to watch the reactions that various people have when we tell them about heading out to Vegas?
O Wow! Going to see some shows, do a bit of gambling, and relax for your bitrthday?
This usually prompts a ‘look’ betwixt the wife and I…
No, we’re going for three days of drinking, gambling, and little sleep with a bunch of other poker bloggers.
Huh? What’s that?
Here’s where I think about explaining, but then just say fuck it.
We’re gonna go get drunk and play poker with a bunch of other degenerates from the Internet that we’ve never actually met in person before.
Cue quizzical look. They have no idea anymore whether or not to think this is a cool thing.
Umm, great. Trips to Vegas are always fun, have a good time...[trails off]
Cue my own smug feeling that I’m about to meet a great group of folks with the higher concentration of smarts and cool than one is likely to find anywhere else. This morning I thought of what I imagine to be the best description of this auspicious occasion:
WPBT II: The drunkenness of Mardi Gras minus the pageantry but plus the hookers and other strange shit.
One last thing I wanted to throw out there. I am continually shocked to find that the WPBT does not have some sort of alcohol sponsor. Hell, it truly boggles the mind as to why they’re not lined up outside the building throwing money at all of us, but I digress. I was thinking that as a contingent, we should make it an official goal to have an official alcohol sponsor no later than WPBT IV: The Search for Clean Pants. What alcohol, though? Beer or Liquor? Guinness and SoCo? Maybe we should just get a casino to sponsor the contingent and then they could flex their casino muscles to bring in the other sponsors…
Bloggers, so hot right now. Bloggers.
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