Practice :: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"

Have you seen a famous Las Vegas Landmark sign at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, and consider the following:

1) Is this architrave surprisingly ahead of its time, a premonition and tell-tale sign of the future of the Music Industry?
a) Yes
b) No

2) Do you see this giant neon and metal guitar as a) sinking, or as b) rising?

3) As shown, in your opinion, should this Guitar really be taller than the Palm trees surrounding it; or should the palms be taller?
a) Yes, trees should be taller
b) No, guitar whould be taller
c) Undecided

4) Compare the top photo with this second photo. Is the angle of the guitar a necessary design consideration for attracting public, thereby bringing in more business to the Hotel, Casino and Cafe of Hard Rock? [Hint -- Top Photo is guitar at an acute angle, the Bottom Photo is at a right angle]
a) Yes Top Photo is accurate and more effective
b) No Top Photo is unnecessarily angled that way, and Bottom Photo is more appealing
c) Undecided, because I'm a wimp and really don't want to try to figure out what the hell you are on about...

5) Do you think of miscreants, bums, freeloaders, bad boys, and transients when you take a moment and consider the title "Hard Rock" -- for instance: do you think "Chain Gang" as you see these signs?

a) Yes

b) No

c) Undecided

6) In this last Photo of the angled guitar, could this be a left hand guitar and a right hand guitar simultaneously; and is that not a heavy concept that you could actually write a Rock 'n Roll song about?

a) Yes
b) No
c) Undecided

7) What do people do in the Las Vegas Hotels and Casinos?
a) I don't know
b) I know someone who forgets
c) What people do in Las Vegas, you know, stays in Las Vegas

8) [ ...finish this sentence]: "I am a avid fan of CSI and want like heck to go to a stage show in Las Vegas, but (my) ______________ won't let me."

9) What song are you most likely to hear while strolling the strip, tasting buffets, and meandering through pop culture museums in Las Vegas?
a) "Danke Shoen"
b) "Muscat Hill Blues" 
c) "Jadda; Jadda; Jadda, Jing-Jing-Jing"
d) "The Lark Ascending," 
e) No Music -- just News: 
f) "Who Are You" 
g) Andre Bocelli singing "Muffin Man", and "Cosmik Debris" 
h) Psalm 23

i) Pribek buskin' "Two Trains" with his top-hat tipped for coin

TIGER More, TIGER More More... OUCH !! Hmmmmm. more more?

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Location; location; location

Olympic-like Re-locating Sites for The Federal Government: Hey!! Why not?

Uncle Sam Going Mobile

by Pat Darnell, Correspondent

20 Mar 08

I think the US Government would have a better chance of surviving the ensuing divisive nature of global politics. Open letter to the Comm-in-chief:

March 20, 2008

Dear Dubya:
"Please unplug DC on your way out. Please sell it to Disney. Then please have our great cities in different states sponsor the Federal Government in increments of eight years."

"It breaks my heart to see my Federal Capital looking so unfriendly. That style of centralized, fortified government locale has lost all its meaning and appeal. Besides, castle balustrade structure was all about ancient day rivaling feudal warlords who provided protection for local folk. We are the land of the free and home of the brave, still aren't we?"

"I strongly suggest the beauty that is our heritage Capitol in Washington DC would be preserved as an amusement and entertainment capital. It looks like a ghetto now. Maybe it could start earning afew bucks instead of sucking dollars into its gaping pie hole!"

Thank you for listening
Sincerely,
[add your name]

Or something like that.

Could we have a change of locale every eight years or so: like the Olympics. Salt Lake City for eight years, then to Fort Lauderdale for eight years, and so on? Why not? Hey even Las Vegas could house the gambling, horny legislators for a term or two. A mobile government is much less a target for terrorist style cheap shot tactics.

It would propel the various state economies into prosperity. Also, natural selection and various tribal-like rivalries, like football rivalries could crop up. We all know how prosperous our national sports programs are. This would naturally extinguish much of the waste of federal governmental bureaucracy. It would create natural attrition, just like Uncle Sam needs in this hour of seven-hundred battlefront lines world wide.

Hey, and also why not limit lame duck re-elected Presidents to only two more years, for a total of six years, in office. We wouldn't have to watch a president going around for the last two years in office looking for things to do. And the additional benefit is off-year Presidential elections. Isn't that exciting??

Faithful Reader -- Please add your two cents, or scents, to this one... [sense, pence, tuppence, coin, bank roll]
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