(True to my form, I drafted this post months ago [October 2024] but life got hectic and I never posted it!)
I see in the news that the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas was blown up a couple of days ago. (9 October.) I only give a damn about Vegas in the sense that it was the location of the absolute worst holiday I have ever been on (and I almost never use superlatives), and it wasn’t because I got drunk and married some random woman there!
It was because of a hotel that wasn’t put to the torch that week: The Cosmopolitan. If they ever blow up The Cosmopolitan, I’ll be there to watch and cheer and piss on the ruins!