What can I say about the Double Down Saloon that has not yet been said? How 'bout ... "Double Down has been described as interplanetary abstract. Urban decay. The Anti-Vegas. A clubhouse for the lunatic fringe. In reality, Double Down is an upscale dive bar where you can drink good liquor, smoke, gamble and screw your head on backwards any hour of the day or night." That quote comes straight from their website - which proves without a doubt that EVERYONE has a website in the Y2K. Yeah, also important to point out that on said web site, the Double Down has chosen "comic sans" as their font. They're bringing it back, yo.

I prefer to think of the Double Down as the punk rock capital of ass juice and tweaked out meth freaks with knives. Ok, I don't know that they had knives for sure, but I didn't try to find out either.
I had to pull this picture off of some "welcome to vegas" kind of web site. I don't usually yank pictures without linking to the site, but it was lame and I had a point to make. This is it. "Ass Juice" is three dollars a glass at the Double Down. But you can get three Ass Juices (I'm not sure that should be made plural, but whatever) for eleven dollars. I'll say it again, Ass Juice is THREE dollars a glass, but they will charge you ELEVEN for three. That means they will penalize you two dollars for buying three. Classic. Someone also mentioned something about some kind of "puke insurance" they were selling, but I neglected to look into purchasing a policy.

And here is Jim. Jim is downing him a glass of ass juice outside the Double Down. Jim was sick for the remainder of the weekend. I'm not saying it was the juice, I'm just saying it happened.

Ass Juice. Word Up.

The other very fun thing we did was attend a performance of Blue Man Group. I highly recommend this to anyone visiting New York, Boston, Chicago or Vegas... Tracy and Larry were seated in the first five rows, or whatever the last row is where you could potentially get hit by some sort of flying food or whatnot. Tracy is wearing a glamorous plastic robe-type thing and has tied creppe paper into her hair. Fascinating. The rest of us were in the row behind them where we were not given any special plastic clothing.

Lisa and Jenny work for Blue Man Group and scored us the boss seats. Yay Blue Man!

I brought two cameras with me on this trip. A manual 35mm and a Canon Elph Advantix camera. By the time I reached Vegas I was sick of using the 35mm because it was so big and unwieldy and Iwas acting so irresponsibly. Anyhoo, the Elph usually takes good pictures, but not this time. Every single picture it took was in soft focus (it's an auto focus camera for gods sake!) and the colors were all washed out or completely unreal. No more Advantix for me.

 

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