Building the Luxor has got to be the one of the biggest fuck-ups ever made by someone who thought they had a good idea. I mean, it's a cool idea and everything. But, like communism (i kid, Drew), it just doesn't do a good job translating from the paper to the real world.
Upon arriving at the Luxor you will be hit by a bucketful of cold refreshing awe. The thing is absolutely ginourmous! And it looks so cool! But wait, what is all of that crap doing smeared all over the side of the building? It looks like a billion pidgeons took a billion liberties all up and down the godforsaken thing. But there isn't a pidgeon who would be dumb enought to live within 5 thousand miles of Las Vegas anyway, so the question reamins: what is dripping down the sides of our favorite large, black, glass, pyramid?
When night hits, Las Vegas is light up like a Dutch brothel (as some high ranking members of the NSA might say). And the Luxor does it's fair share to contributing to the scene. It emphasizes it's looming form with blinking lights up up and down it's four edges and puntuactes itself at the top with a large coulmn of light. Well, while the column of light probably sounded like a good idea to the designers of the building, I bet they felt pretty dumb when they lit that sucker up the first time. Your average porch light is like 75 watts and the Luxor light is like a bajillion times that. So, if your average porch light attracts "x" number of moths, in order to find the number of moths that come to the Luxor every single night you must multiply the number "x" by a bajillion.
Now that is a lot of fucking moths. And they are all there. In fact, it looks as if every single moth in the Southwestern United States is up there participating in one big moth orgy that goes 2 miles into the sky. And every single one of them is shitting and dying and laying little moth eggs all over the Luxor. Every night. Ev-er-y single fucking night. Just kinda puts the whole Las Vegas place into perspective. |
