6 a.m.

This is the scene outside my bedroom window. At 6:00 a.m. A full hour before my alarm goes off.



I hate Vegas.

JDM

I don't know about these...

Lucky Cat

Yup, that's exactly who you think it is! It's a good thing she's a cat. She'd be impossible now that she's famous. LOL Click on the article to read. Or visit www.luckydogmag.com and download the .PDF version. Thanks to editor-in-chief Michelle Danks-Costello for the opportunity!

So true, so true...

You know you live in Las Vegas when....

1. You have no idea what a scarf does, but think it looks good
2. You know how to get to any casino on the strip without taking Las Vegas Blvd
3. You know where the natural history museum, art museum and zoo are.
4. You can now predict where the construction signs will be misleadingly placed.
5. Stop signs and red lights mean very little.
6. The last time you went to the strip, your cousins were in town last summer.
7. You become nocturnal between the months of April to October.
8. You know the seasons: Really hot, 2 weeks of nice, not so hot, 2 weeks of nice.
9. Your favorite chocolate is Ethel M.
10. When you go to different cities, you're amazed things aren't open after 9 pm
11. You've never seen a closed gas station
12. You can get hard liquor any day of the week, any time of the day.
13. When arriving home from vacation the slot machines in McCarran are comforting
14. You laugh at people playing the slots at 7-11
15. You have no idea how a lottery works
16. What the hell is "last call?"
17. Your most prized possession as a Nevadan is your blue and white licence plate
18. You know the spaghetti bowl has nothing to do with food.
19. You know never to merge right when driving north on I-15, it'll end anyway.
20. You think a pile of rocks is a nice lawn. (and don't forget the astroturf!)
21. The term Lake Las Vegas doesn't seem redundant in the slightest. (I know this all too well)
22. You remember the ugly lion.
23. You give directions to your house based on location of closest casino. (That would be GVR!)
24. You need to walk through a casino to see a movie.
25. You go in circles through McCarran on purpose. (Every single time.)
26. You can spot a tourist from 3 miles away.
27. Limos are an everyday sighting.
28. You laugh at people taking pictures in front of the "welcome" sign.
29. You don't own an umbrella.
30. Sixty degrees is cold enough to wear a jacket.
31. You can wear pants in the summer and shorts in the winter.
32. You've never HAD to pay for parking.
33. You are outraged to pay more than $9.99 for prime rib and a lobster tail.
34. Imploding a casino is no big deal.
35. You remember when the 215 was a secret. (Sigh, those were the days.)
36. When at least one of the people in your neighborhood is a stripper.
37. You hate people that think you live in a hotel.
38. You get mad at drivers that don't know how to drive in construction traffic.
39. A desirable parking space is not the closest, but the one with some shade.
40. When nearly every single weekend involves someone's backyard, pool
and bbq.

The End of an Era

This saddens me greatly.

It's a boy... and a girl!

So many people have had babies in the last month -- Tiger Woods, Julia Roberts, Keri Russell, Kevin James, Eva Herzigova, Jaime Pressly, etc... but this post focuses on two very special babies:

First, as I posted a few weeks ago, The Mirage has welcomed a new baby dolphin. And now they have a name for him...

Please meet...

Sgt. Pepper!

The next baby has two of the most gorgeous parents in the world -- Jeff Gordon and Ingrid Vandebosch. Here are the first pictures of little miss Ella Sofia Gordon.

She is freakin' adorable! Congrats to Jeff and Ingrid!

JDM

Happy 4th of July!/Bullring Night of Fire

Shoe-Fleur

These are too much fun! -JDM

Michel Tcherevkoff:
“Shoe-Fleur: A Footwear Fantasy”

By Bija Gutoff

“Taking pictures of something that just exists was never interesting to me,” says Michel Tcherevkoff. “I’ve always gravitated to photography that’s more illustrative in nature, where I can create my own reality — with a twist.”

Obeying that inclination has served the Paris-born photographer well.

One day in his New York studio, having just shot a series of cosmetic ads for Prescriptives (Tcherevkoff is internationally recognized for his skill at creating visual metaphors for clients including Canon, L’Oreal, Maybelline and Valentino), he happened to glance at a photo of a leaf he’d used in the shoot.

“The print was lying upside down on a table,” he recounts, “and I said — although no one was listening to me — ‘Hey, that looks like a shoe!’”

Read the rest of the article here.