I somehow ended up in Las Vegas this past weekend for the first time in ten years, and aside from the numerous new options awaiting me now that I’m over the age of 21 (though people still constantly handed me neon fliers with asses on them back when I was 15), Vegas itself has grown at a spastic rate in the past 10 years, from ‘ostentatious and douchey but fun tourist trap’ to ‘really ostentatious and really douchey but really fun tourist trap.’
Here are five major differences I noticed this year compared to Vegas ’98:
1. Every Property Has Quintupled In Size
Caesar’s Palace, 1998:
Caesar’s Palace, 2008:
2. Every Washed-Up Person In Showbiz Was Voted
“Entertainer Of The Year” By An Unnamed Source
3. Everything Is Somehow Cirque du Soleil
1998:
2008:
4. Music Emanates From Every Structure
Hotel Toilet, 1998:
Hotel Toilet, 2008:
(Music doesn’t even come out of speakers, it just plays constantly out of every building, billboard, and constructed object on the Strip. If you brought two wooden boards and nailed them together, they would start playing “Beatiful Girls” by Van Halen)
5. Donny Osmond Aged Negative One Year
Donny ’98:
Donny ’08:
