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\"021409\"<\/a>I work in this office, in my home. It’s a nice office, in a very nice home, but when you’re in a building 24\/7, you develop a deep need to get the hell out<\/i> before your urge to claw your hair out turns too real.<\/p>\n

Cabin fever and a three-day weekend conspired to send us to Las Vegas for a couple of nights.<\/p>\n

On the way out, I took the kids on Desperado<\/a>, a rattling, nasty, brutish roller-coaster at Buffalo Bill’s<\/a>. Poised at Primm<\/a>, NV, the huge casino complex is perfectly situated to suck in road-weary Angelenos looking for a respite and an early taste of the thrills in store in Las Vegas proper.<\/p>\n

The kids screamed their heads off. My spine reminded me of my age. And yet the chill blast of air, the wicked first plunge at 85mph and something like a 60-degree angle into a tunnel in the ground<\/i> was just the thing to blow all remaining shreds of stir-crazy from my head … Next morning, I lay on my back on the floor of our Las Vegas hotel room realigning my spine and marveling at two things: <\/p>\n

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  1. as I Twittered earlier<\/a>, Las Vegas is an interesting place to spend Valentine’s day:
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    Imagining the mystic vortex of passion,depression,vulgarity,love & kink that was going on in this town last night.Vegas=such a human swamp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    and …<\/li>\n

  2. The performance of Ka<\/a>, the Cirque du Soleil’s<\/a> orgiastic blast of stagecraft, the single biggest, lushest, most ravishing thing I have ever seen on stage.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I won’t begin to describe it, except to say that I wore a stupid grin throughout most of the 100-minute show, and left the massive, purpose-built, state-of-the-art, 1000-seat theater at the MGM Grand<\/a> feeling well and thoroughly entertained.<\/p>\n

    You won’t find<\/a> video or many stills of the show, but you have plenty of time to save up if it seems like your kind of fun: The show is four years into its 10-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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