Tag: Vegas

• Visiting LAs Art District and My Past – Thoughts from April 20, 2024

  

  Appropriately for today, I will point out the times recently when I have smelled marijuana around me. This, of course, is 420, man. I’ve never smoked … well, anything, but no one I know has ever even smoked marijuana around me. I only know what it smells like because it smells like skunk. This has…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 4, 2025

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  2024, 420, apartment, arcades in the 80s, art district, artsy furniture, classic arcade and pinball bar, decorating aesthetic, deli, expensive cars, fancy amenities, food experiences, freeway, Frogger, gourmet grocery store, hip clientele, humor, items that make a statement, Jesus Christ Superstar album, lack of a TV, local restaurant, Los Angeles, LP collection, macaroni salad, marijuana smell, Mexican food, minimalism, nephew, Patti, people who don’t have a TV, Philippe’s, pinball machines, purple egg, sawdust on the ground, smelling dead skunks on the freeway, smells like skunk, smoking marijuana, sweet potato tacos, Tapper, taxes, thoughts, Tron, unique Asian items, vegan status, Vegas, video games, well-paid creatives, western religions traveling east

• Vegas from Fremont Street – Thoughts from April 14, 2024

  

  Patti and I went to Vegas for five days and I didn’t write one word while I was there. Many things happened, but I was too busy eating, drinking, and gambling. Now, I’ll try to think back on the days and write about them. The first thing was leaving the cats knowing we wouldn’t be…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 28, 2025

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  2024, buffet, carpool raffle, cats, comedians, daily routine with cats, demanding a wheelchair, drag show, driving to Vegas, eating drinking and gambling, falling asleep, forgetting drivers license, Fremont Street, going to puke, half-naked people, Handsome podcast, Las Vegas, lesbians, liberal views, licking my hair, Long Island iced teas, loudspeakers, older server, oldest hotel in Vegas, Patti, people screaming, players club card, pure alcohol, several drinks past the limit, slurring words, smell of marjuana, stretching, themed slot machine, thoughts, Tig Notaro, truly big money, vacations, Vegas, Vegas at night, winning big money, writing, young women dancing on the bar

• Going Home, Laundry Day, and Cat Scratches – Thoughts from March 1 and 9, 2024

  

  March 1, 2024 I woke up about 9:00 am and all four of the cats were in bed with me. This was as good a time to get up as any. I looked at my phone and hadn’t heard from Patti. I texted her and told her I was up and to call me when…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 31, 2024

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  2024, AJ and the Queen, Aldi, Audible, autobiography, Beatrix, bleeding profusely, cat scratch, cats, cats in bed, creature of habit, daylight savings day, distractions, Drage Race, games with medications, going home, good story, grocery list, grocery shopping, hospital, laundry day, listening to audiobooks, Luna, making five meals for my work week, morning routine, operation smoke no more, Patti, Patti’s friend, Patti’s Sunday rules, personal lives, picture of cat scratch, prescribed asprin, prescriptions, produce, quiting smoking, quitting day, quitting smoking, retirement, rountine, RuPaul, Sam's Club, Scout, smoke free, Sunday is laundry day, the great American smoke out, thoughts, time math, Vegas, waiting to hear from the doctor, Walmarket, Walmart Market, whatever Patti says day, Willow

• Money-Making Schemes and Metaphors – Thoughts from January 29 and 31, 2023

  

  January 29, 2023 I just want to start this Thoughts paper by telling you, the reader, how much I appreciate what you do. I don’t know what you do beyond reading these words, but I appreciate what you’re doing right now. There are many words you could be looking at and you chose mine. It…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 28, 2024

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  2023, 8 millimeter films, a quarter for grocery cart, Aldi, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Brian, Brian’s space movies, digitizing VHS home videos, Disney World, donuts, drinking in Vegas, exaggerating for comic effect, gas station, getting along with my sister, grocery shopping, I don’t lie, I don’t like poetry, I look like a Brian, metaphors, money-making scheme, my sister, my weirdness, news is useless, news on the screen at the pump, not a unique name, nothing is exactly like something else, one version of my name, parking lot, Patti, perfection doesn’t exist, reading, recent death on the news, Star Wars figures, stop motion films, the reader, thoughts, Thoughts paper, vacations, vacations are not good for my health, Vegas, video commentary, words, writing

• Chinese Fast Food – Thoughts from September 19 to October 1, 2022

  

  September 19, 2022 We’re in Vegas for Patti’s birthday. The suite we’re in doesn’t have a remote to open the curtains this time. We were both very disappointed. How quickly we have become accustomed to the finer things. I’ve taken some good ground creature pictures. Hey Brian, what the hell are “ground creature” pictures? They…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 4, 2024

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  2022, art, auto-complete, automatic flush, automatic toilets, breakfast, BrianCreates.com, caring about others, chicken, Chinese food, comedy routine, context, eating animals, entertainment, fast food, flushing, food touching, ground creature pictures, happy and healthy, headache, healthy and delicious, humor, intends offending, motivating myself, my goals, not famous, Patti, pets, restroom, suite, thoughts, tired, ugly hugging, urinal, Vegas, writing, younger me

• Vegas Hotel – Thoughts from September 14 and 15, 2022

  

  September 14, 2022 Patti is in the middle of trying to watch TV with no power. It’s 10:40 pm, and the power has been out since about 9:00 pm. This is a planned outage, so it hopefully won’t be out until the estimated 5:00 AM time. I showed Patti how to tether her phone with…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 2, 2024

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  2022, bad texting, birthday, cat sitter, cats, cats freaking out, drinking buddies, genuine relationships, groups of friends, hot spot, hotel suite, just sitting on the toilet, lack of cats on vacation, lack of people at home, last cat meal, my pooping is quick, nerd, Patti, people in Vegas, phone flashlight, phone tethering, planned outage, poop, pooping, power outage, sexist, sups, tablet, text, thoughts, Thoughts papers, toilet seats are not for sitting, toxically male, vacations, vegan diet, Vegas, violent, watching TV, wiping my butt, worse behavior, writing, young men

• Morning Routines – Thoughts from July 14 and 16, 2022

  

  July 14, 2022 Patti was having me put in for time off for her birthday in September and she had me going back to work the day after we drive back from Vegas. She does this often. She tells me what days to take off, but doesn’t add a day at the end for me…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 7, 2023

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  2022, aches and pains, addicted, avoiding change, birthday, bloody medical procedures, bodily functions, brushing teeth, bugs crawling, changes, crazy, declining health, eating breakfast, emergency routine, encouraging unhealthy behavior, experimentation, fearing change, grammar checker, handicap, harmful habits, health problems, I must write things down, irregular happenings, itchy, large people, Las Vegas, last minute change, morning routine, obese, Off the Rails of the Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne, Patti, people ignoring their health, popping a pimple, realities, relaxation, routine, she told me, shortest morning routine, showering, squeamish, stretching, sugar, surgeries, taking problems seriously, thoughts, unhealthy behaviors, vacation days, vegan meals, Vegas, weight problems, wiping, words, work, zits