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OK, rather than writing a 5000+ word blog?I?ve broken this year?s AVN into who-knows-how-many blogs?this will be the first:
I really was thinking that this years going to suck 50 pound bags of dick and call it a light lunch. The planning couldn?t have been worse ? they had Internext, AVN, and Comdex all running simultaneously. You have to understand that each, by itself, is a clusterfuck?the day before I left, I could already picture the taxi lines stretching out to the Hoover Dam, flu germs amassing from near and far (The Porn Flu), and the price of a Vegas Strip hotel passing the $50 per minute mark.
This could really suck. I doubted I?d stay past Saturday?
Tuesday ? As I am packing my bags the suckyness has already hit. I wasn?t even done packing my bags when I realized it that someone had been stealing our traffic over at Yahoo. (remember this for the next blog)
Wednesday ? Start the compulsory bi-weekly four hour drive out to Vegas, so we can spend the night at my business partner JC?s house (pictured below), who has a dog that makes Cujo look like one of Paris Hiltons toy terriers. We headed down to the Venitian to meet my boy Meeaatch from AEBN, who took us to the 2nd classiest dinner next to the epic OCCash dinner (pictures to come) of two slices of plain pizza. Who says those North Carolina boys don?t have class?
I noticed the influx of hookers and pimps that usually doesn?t start to around 4am already in full effect be 8:30PM ? with a conversion of webmasters, porn perverts, and computer geeks in town ? they were about to get as busier than R Kelly at a Girl Scout meeting. They circled like vultures.
Later, I hooked up with one-of-the-only webmasters I would hang out with: Q?on from Onprobation.com. The internet is such a faceless business?we?ve talked online for years, it was good to finally meet him for the first time?hell, nobody told me this guy was black!
You do need to be careful who you meet online!
I joke, I kid.
By that point the Jaugermiester was flowing pretty fast, so I don?t remember much else from that night. I had to speak on a AVN Traffic Panel the next day. I couldn?t get into too bad shape.
But, I did anyway.
I will continue with highlights from the next day (it was a big one) when those neurons fire back up again.
Don?t hold your breath?
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