LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I take umbrage with your grouchy commentary on Vegas (see May 18th post). I can understand being annoyed with the "play hard" mantra and I can also understand being a little worried at anyone who takes Vegas too seriously (or literally). But Vegas has its time and place and understanding when and where that is is essential. I suppose you could call Vegas "the playground of the uncreative" but only because it demands so little of you when you're there. That in fact, is the beauty of Vegas. If I recall Swingers with any accuracy, none of the characters are exactly "hard working." They're all drifting actors (dare I say boho's?, no, not quite) and in one of the more memorable scenes we see two friends head out to Vegas such that the one can forget his girlfriend all the more. In my opinion, Vegas is all about forgetting. It's about giving in to the sensory overload and manipulating environments of the mega casinos and forgetting about what time it is, when you last ate or slept, what you typically do back home, and whether or not anything you're doing is a good idea or very good for you. I can only take it for a few days, but it's all I've ever needed to get some good bonding time in and then get back to my business. It's the vacation equivalent of shock treatment. Check in, get zapped, reset your senses, face the world again. For the price of a two-hour flight, a two-night hotel, and whatever guilty pleasures you choose to indulge in, that's not bad. Would I ever choose Paris over Vegas? No, of course not, but Paris isn't two states away. Besides, no one's mistaking Vegas for high culture.


Mike Behn
Editor-in-Chief
TrueSports.com