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Las Vegas

The New House by David Leo Rice

I want to press this book into the hands of every artist, writer, and seeker I know. 

Las Vegas

Seven Years Ago, I Placed a Significant Bet

Seven years ago, C. and I debated how the world would end.

Las Vegas

A Scribble, An Exploded Rocket, and an Oyster Omelet

“Convulsive beauty will be veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial or not at all.”

Las Vegas

Goddammit, I Just Graded a Fucking Robot

A rant in this Terrible Year of 2023 when algorithms are chewing through the scenery.

Las Vegas

What Happens Here Happens Everywhere

Killing time at the Vegas airport.

Las Vegas

Letting Go of the Maps in My Head

The desert silence baffles my Midwestern mind.

Las Vegas

Technology Might Have Peaked With Magnetic Tape

Limbering up to flee an algorithmic hallucination while finding solace in a French future from ’82.

Las Vegas

Suddenly We Found Ourselves Hiking

If starvation was on the table, would you rather eat your own finger or a stranger’s?

Las Vegas

Church Attendance Is Lowest in Nevada

I had no idea there was so much weather in the desert. By now, I thought I’d be begging for a cloud.

Las Vegas

My dithering has reached its vanishing point.

My office has three little whiteboards that tell me what to do, and I rely upon them entirely because I’m a nitwit in the morning.

Las Vegas

And entropy makes itself known to me.

I told myself it was a trick of the light rather than the result of the grey in my beard.

Las Vegas

So Much Civilization Where There Shouldn’t Be

I pondered the idea of a Vegas-themed casino until I gave myself a headache.

Las Vegas

The reassuring cadence of living in the sprawl.

These are days of shooting down unidentifiable objects in the sky.

Las Vegas

Ten years sober today.

Ten years sober today. Proof there’s such a thing as grace.

Las Vegas

And we diligently killed zombies.

I don’t mind feeling older. It brings a liberating sense of honesty.

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