Waiting for Guitar Hero World Tour, small line, big Vegas. Standing in line for the release of GHIV:WT at the lone Best Buy in town, that is participating in the midnight release.

Bite of Las Vegas

Las Vegas is known as a party town, they feature a lot events as one might expect from a major city.

However, some of the execution is less than optimal. Events can be a let down compared to many of the San Francisco Bay Area events that I have attended in the past.

Of course, our memories are hard to surpass, so we will get with the present.

BOLV 08, the music, food festival of Las Vegas featured many local restaurants and some fine bands, headliners incluced Puddle of Mudd and Lifehouse.

We arrived to POM playing and they were good, definetly going for crowd participation. Our long wait in the beer line was accompanied by their "tribute" to AC/DC, doing a cover of TNT. That was cool, especially on the cusp of the Black Ice release.

They were followed by Lifehouse, whom seem to frequent LV and the events of the sponsoring radio station. This is the third time I have had the chance to see them play life in LV and they are certainly a guilty pleasure band of mine. Their set started with a number of lesser know, but excellent songs. They were excellent as always, becoming a consistent band that flys under the radar for the most part.

Food wise, it was unimpressive, the problem with the LV bite event, is that too many fast food / chain restaraunts participate. Pizza Hut, really? Really? Panda Express, Fuddruckers, and a number of other places that, I am not thinking oooh, I need to sample their food. We kept our sampling light as we arrived late in the day and went more for the music then the food.

We did have some greasy but awesome lumpia's from a local place, oh but they were good. Other than that, I did not sample any food, nothing caught my eye and even late in the evening the lines were long.

We settled on hitting our local brewpub for a late night snack after we left the event. There I had some lovely beer cheese soup and we snacked on an assortment of brats and the most delicious saurerkraut ever. Washed down with a lovely Big Dogs IPA, excellent meal but for our overly obnoxious waiter who so busy trying to upsell us everything under the sun, that he did not see to our needs. Oh well it was his tip.

LV Renfair

Otherwise known as The Age of Chivalry blah blah blah, some other crap, whatever. We attended renfair last Friday afternoon and I failed to post my blog from there, may have been the whole being in costume thing. It really doesn't allow for easy phone usage, or eating or drinking or movement of much kind, such is costuming.

Although we missed last years event, we have been going fairly regularly for the past 5 years. As the fair grows, it turns more into a cross between renfair and San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair. It is more BDSM and less SCA, oh and almost as many damn Captain Jack Sparrows as there are at SDCC.

At any rate, we had a fun few hours, the weather was good for being in costume, not so much if you were in normal Vegas gear, shorts and a tee. It was windy, a bit chilly and dusty, could have done without the dust.

We had some fine Rogue Ale and Stout, purchased a new hat and very tasty Scottish meat pie. Ran into a few friends and aquaintances, and quickly headed it out before dark. Not much more to say about it, just another weekend in Vegas.

NOT @ Blizzcon

In a perfect world, I would be typing this out from Blizzcon. This however is far from a perfect world we live in and dreams do not always come true. Unable to secure tickets to Blizzcon, I am sitting at home, at my computer typing this while I listen to, try to listen to the opening ceremonies on a choppy audio stream. My phone is a chippering away with endless Twitts from the WOW podcasting & blogging community. A community I continue to build towards becoming part of, yet fail miserably doing so, since they are all in Anaheim and I am in finally pleasant (temperature wise) Las Vegas.

I will get to do an awesome live blog from the fabulous Las Vegas Renfair this evening. Until then I will continue to QQ in my blogs and Twitts and try to follow the action online.