October 2002

Hey cigar fans! I just flew in from Las Vegas, Nevada. I don't know why they call it "Sin City". I never saw so many kids, strollers and baby carriages in my life. I thought I was in Disney World. I mean, what's the rational? "Hey, Honey, let's pack up the kids and hit the Vegas strip. Maybe we can get in a few rounds of Black Jack between breast feedings.", YIKES! What happened to the good old days? Oh yeah, they left when the "wise guys" lost the town to the corporate suits. Speaking of which, how are these jamokes any better? Ken Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Dennis Kozlowski, and Worldcom fall-guy Buford Yates, who was "... instructed by supervisors to misreport expenses, allowing WorldCom to overstate earnings by $5 billion between October 2000 and April 2002." According to the Miami Herald Record. Whew, I'm glad the Mafia has been dismantled. Now at least we can gamble our life savings away in the "legit" arena of the stock market.

Well thank God, Goddess, or whoever you worship(or not if you're an atheist), we still have cigars. I smoked up a few of Fuentes, whiled away the time (and a few bucks) at the Black Jack Tables of the Palace Station Hotel. "Hey, lady, you have lighter somewhere in that diaper bag?" At least you can still smoke in Casinos. A bill is being passed by the legislature of Ulster County, NY to ban smoking in all public places. I wonder if that effects the Cigar shops? I wish they would ban people from bringing their bratty, smart-mouthed, little fart machines out in public. Nothing I like more than to pay $50 for a meal in a restaurant and have some little bastard wailing at the top of it's lungs like a siren the whole time or to have little Timmy running around unsupervised, wreaking havoc. Makes you want to get up and beat Mom and Dad until little Timmy stops. "What's this got to do with cigars?" you might ask. Well it seems that our adult pleasures are dwindling and the "irresponsible parent with undisciplined brats mob" is running unchecked, so you better smoke'em while you can because who knows when the anti-tobacco Nazis are going to gain another foothold.

Nice to get that off my chest.