The Hard Rock is not on the Strip. Maybe you were at Planet Hollywood? That's on the Strip.

Did you play blackjack while soaking in the pool (the LV Hard Rock's main gimmick)?

I've been to the one in Vegas a couple times (never stayed there). That's the one where John Entwistle died.
It's off-strip, and not worth the cab ride…mainly because, as you say, the crowd there is wall-to-wall douchenozzles, drunk, loud and super-obnoxious even by Vegas standards. The last time we went there was a…

I loved it, and I have never forgiven The Siffy Channel for choosing that stupid Stargate series over the massively superior Farscape.

I kind of want Mike Vago's job.

I walked through a Titanic exhibit some years ago in Vegas. One wall was covered in frozen water. It was pretty tacky overall, but I couldn't pass up the chance to gawk at actual artifacts from the Titanic (it was loot from the French expedition which was so heavily criticized).

"A dream date, in knee pads, with Paul Williams!"

Cameron has a lot of little touches like that in his film, which makes it very interesting to watch (unlike its plot).

What a beautiful thing this piece is—beautifully written, about a precious relationship. I envy you your grandfather, and I envy him your love. Reading this has made me very happy.

I came of sexual age "back then."
There were neither more nor fewer rapists, date-rapists, abusers, stalkers, etc. than there are now.
What's better about now over "back then" is that now, a minuscule fraction of the bad people are exposed, occasionally shamed, sometimes even legally prosecuted, in rare cases even…

5ive Guys fries are the best *IF* you gobble them at the counter the instant they are handed to you.
The longer you wait the worse they get. If you wait 45 seconds they are death-cold lumps of salted paste.

Young Barron has not yet grown into that chinless, overmany/overlarge-toothed, tiny-eyed hideousness of his older brothers. Give him time, and I'm sure he'll repulse us all just as much as the rest of his family does now.

You think I'm not stealing "101st Chairborne" and "Gravy Seals" at the VERY FIRST opportunity (and not giving you credit), you're nuts.

I was not impressed with Legion, although apparently everyone else in the world thought it was television greatness.
I'll grant that the visuals and effects were terrific, and that most of the cast (with the exception of the lead) were great, but where was the story?

Apparently "incompetent/obstructionist police chief" is required every season, like "huge empty fields of snow every twenty minutes" and "at least one psychopath villain."

Well, prepare yourself for another step down if you watch S3. It's been a real drag, frankly. Worth watching for the cast—maybe—but the story has moved at a snail's pace. I may not return for a fourth season even if there is one.

Upvoted, but this would be funnier if there were more than, like, two daytime soap operas still on the air.

I am now, I think, four episodes behind on this series.
I was hoping that reading this recap would give me the impetus to get caught up.
Sadly, it has had the opposite effect.

The type of person who'd want to stay at such a place is, as a group, sinking further into poverty as we speak and can't afford to travel.
The very demographic that the Trumps want to appeal to with this is the one that they are systematically impoverishing and—literally—killing off with their policies.
That level of…

Whatever the rock-bottom opposite of "delicious" is, that's Papa John's pizza. The dough is discount cardboard and the sauce has SUGAR in it. Avoid.