I am having a busy morning. So, I apologize that this blog item will be brief.
I am working on the Los Angeles Times print column on the Miss America pageant currently moving about Vegas from a Planet Hollywood base. The event takes place Saturday night. I went to the welcome ceremony at Planet Hollywood on Thursday and then met the contestants for diner on Saturday night.
I have also over the weekend finished the first chapter of my Vegas memoir. I do not like the word memoir but it is neither a “tell-all” gossip book or really an autobiography. So memoir is the closest word. The writing is going shockingly well considering I have no experience with book authorship. But I have outlined the entire book in such detail that I have more a Cliffs Notes to a finished book than a speculative outline. Unusually for me, I have even fully written the ending paragraphs out.
To my amazement I seem to have been at the right places in Vegas over the years as well as in my life had certain experiences living here that are blending well enough for me to really contribute something, I hope, in the form of a book that will be like no other ever written about Vegas. That may not be a good thing. But this is the book I need to write now. I hope when it is published that it will be seen as being as much about the peculiar zeitgeist in Vegas over the past 10 years from the explosion of growth throughout much of the decade to the colossal crash at the end as being about me. I am still looking for a title so feel free to send on suggestions. I like “The Vegas Decade” with a subtitle that makes explicit my connection. But I am open to better ideas.
On the subject of my writing let me give a huge thanks to the editors of Vegas Tripping who selected my previous blog, Movable Buffet, for a Trippy honor on Satuday night.
Here are couple outstanding local stories to read if you have time this morning:
Doug Elfman on the Plams studio.
Also, check out Joe Brown’s Sun story using the issues of Steve Wyrick’s theater closing to examine the quagmire Las Vegas entertainment finds itself in at this time. (photo Sarah Gerke)
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How about “Abowitzing Through the Years”? Just came to me. I probably need more coffee.
Richard,
Congratulations again on the Trippie and great news on the book, do you have any kind of time frame for when it might be published?
As for a title how about something ‘Dylanesc such as “beyond here lies nothing” or Ian Hunters Skeletons(in your closet)
I love the blog, look forward to the book. Since it’s about the boom and bust cycle of the last decade and your coverage of it, how about
“What happened in Vegas”
No wonder the studio is so secret – it’s at the PLAMS?
Good luck on the book.
Title? How about “Slot Players and Porn Slappers.”
I have already seen it somethere…
Ilias
Funny–I thought of “What Happened in Vegas”, too–then saw that someome beat me to it.
Maybe with a subtitle:
“What Happened in Vegas: A Decade Dyanmic”
“What Happened in Vegas: A View to the Thrills”
“What Happened in Vegas: The Hyperbolic Decade”
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