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Outside Kelli's lower east side apartment, waiting for my car — car number 80 — in the cool, early morning.

It's cool, but I know it should be so much colder. It should be freezing. It's January 7th, and yesterday's temperature climbed above 70. People enjoy sudden outdoor seating at friendly neighborhood restaurants while squirrels wonder why they've been storing all these nuts. Something's wrong. I should be in bed.

About ten cabs try to pick me up. Groups of drunk young men and women come banging…

everyone that you want to be here has been

Thiel CS3.7 $9900
Ayre MX-R monoblocks $16,500/pr
the appropriate toe-tap and head-bang inducing rhythm and pace

even got a suit to shake it

more revealing of the music's flaws than the Hegel system, chorus provoked someone behind me to lower the volume, but that's understandable; i was…

While, for members of the press, getting from one show location to the next has been an exercise in patience and planning — one that involves tracking down mysterious shuttle buses, squeezing onto crowded elevators, and long, long walks through smoking, blinking, buzzing casinos — for exhibitors, things have been good.

"We've got a great location," said Brent. "We're up here on the 35th floor, but no one's had a hard time finding us. Plus, there…

An impossible view of magnificent mountains corrupted by casinos that will not last.

I wish I felt more optimistic than he does, but despite a few minor quibbles, I think he's on the money.

Ace of Spades HQ has a few more contenders. Insert yours in the comments.

We're now mixed in with the Power Boating and Yachting (oh raallly dahhhling) crew. Course they have an autographed photo of Burt Reynolds up on a wall, in black shorts and knobby knees, so hey, things ain’t all bad.

I of course, rushed in, hooked up my office system and began blasting Eddie Van Halen's guitar orgasm, "Eruption" (from the first VH album) at near maximum volume. Many a stunned boating group face drifted by my doorway with an "Oh…