Fumarama

I was in the Venetian all depressed because I just lost all moy money in poker. I had a king high two card flush, which I lost to a fall house. Problem is: I totally did not notice the full house on the table. So I felt extra sad because it was stupid to bet all my money when I should have seen said full house. And I had tried calling my friends, who were off wandering somewhere, like 6 times but they were not picking up their phone, and it was freezing in the casino but it like 100 degrees outside so I didn't want to go there either and I was thinking of giving in to the mind numbing bright lights of a slot machine...when suddenly I look up and walking by are a group of 5 people that include two of my favorite General Hospital characters: Spinelli and Patrick Drake. They look exactly like they do on tv--I understand this has something to do with the way soap operas are shot--except that they are not dressed like their characters. Spinelli is a computer whiz and Patrick is a brain surgeon but both actors (whose names I do not know) were dressed like hungover, rich surfer boys, or maybe this is what we call wealthy Vegas style. And so I stared at them for a while and they clearly realized that I recognized them (I was briefly insulted by this, "do I look like one of the 2 million or so people in America who watch general hospital?" I asked my friends. "but you do watch General Hospital" one of my friends pointed out) and seemed somewhat uncomfortable. But really what I was thinking as I was staring was that while in New York I would pretend not to see John Waters and Alan Rickman on the street in Las Vegas I felt I could openly gawk at Soap Stars in a casino. Man, this was a great town.