Comments on: Las Vegas

By: Elio M. García, Jr.

Elio M. García, Jr. — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:08:42 +0000

I’ve been to Las Vegas twice, both times to visit my parents (they’ve just now moved back to Florida). The second time was with Linda, and though she expected to hate it, once she grokked that it was basically a kitchsy amusement park for adults, she had a fine time of it (except for the heat). The second time we stayed at the Orleans, which is a bit off strip and a little on the old side, but was really quite pleasant. Among other things, we went to the South Point Casino’s equestrian arena, where there was an exhibition of Andalusians going on that was quite nice to see.

Las Vegas has lately been the primary host of the FEI World Cup in Jumping, using UNLV’s arena (I think), although the next final will be in Gothenburg, Sweden (where I am). Might be that 2009 will see Vegas hosting the event again. It’s great fun.

By: Steve Stirling

Steve Stirling — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:04:05 +0000

Well, to be absolutely frank I just don’t like modernist architecture of any type or sort, even the good examples, and feel the world would be better off without it. The last real style was Art Deco, and my favorite American towns are Nantucket and Santa Barbara.

However, that’s just my opinion.

That being said, how can you hurt Las Vegas?

And I’m sure Carl will do an excellent job.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:00:15 +0000

I didn’t either until I got to know Carl, and he showed me some of this amazing work. I went from a very traditional Southwest style home in Bernalillo to this very modern house I live in now, and I just love this house.

Maybe it’s a function of age. When I was in my twenties I loved all that eighteenth century ornamentation, but now I like clean sweeping lines, and limited amounts of “stuff” sitting around.

My office is actually beginning to drive me crazy. It has all these carousel horses, and a number of collectables from my Heroic Age of Sail craze, and some glass blown marbles, and some Hopi fetishes (God, I hope Gardner Dozois doesn’t read this blog), etc. etc. Individually I love them all, but less is more for me right now.