No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.
What if we're all like that? Like ghosts. . . in someone's mind. . . gradually fading. . . fading. . . until finally. . . one day. . . we just disappear. . . drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?
There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things. . . certain activities. . . would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.
In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well.
We've been told there's a certain way to live. . . that this is living. . . and we. . . we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
It's not about 'NBC is evil. ' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.
The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. . . . we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.