Las Vegas — ‘Vegas is a totally normal place to live,” the cabbie says as we take in the view of the giant black pyramid with the klieg light shooting out of the top and the miniature Manhattan skyline and the beardy guy who makes his living by dressing up like Zach Galifianakis’s character from The Hangover — complete with strap-on baby carrier and fake baby. The traffic in front of us is a bit snarled up because a couple of trucks are towing mobile billboards down the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard with almost completely naked blondes posing next to the slogan Hot Babes Direct to You 702-696-9696. The driver, inured to it all, gives the impression of comprehensive earnestness. “It’s just like anywhere else.”
Totally normal — about that I am skeptical.
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