a little sin in my city
I shall be absent from bloggie land until Monday because I’m off to VEGAS.
I’m not sure why I feel the need to write VEGAS in all caps, but… I do.
So yes, VEGAS.
ME IN VEGAS.
Woot!
Since I’m, well, me, I will obviously be buying some ridiculously inappropriate souvenirs in VEGAS. But what will I do with all of the ridiculous things I buy? Why send them to a lucky blogger of course!
So if you are someone who likes inappropriate gifts, or inappropriate gifts from a stranger, or (even better) inappropriate VEGAS-related gifts from a stranger, feel free to answer the following and get yourself in the running for this lil blog contest:
If you were gambling in VEGAS and won a million dollars, but only had 24 hours to spend it all, what would you do with it??
I would call and buy a house over the phone back here in San Diego. If I had to spend it in Vegas, I would be a condo there, buy a new car and spend the rest at the very expensive clothing stores they have there. Or I might buy stuff that I could sell later, so I could get some money back and buy whatever I want later.
Ohh, I totally know this one! I would spend it at some crazy-ass restaurant– definitely some badass chef’s tasting menu, complete with more wine than a person should possibly have. Then over to shopping, probably at the Forum at Caesar’s, and then I would put the rest into dollar bills, so that I could have something to throw onstage during my repeated viewings of The Thunder From Down Under.
Put it all on black.
Buy a historic home in Boston. And all the photographic equipment I can only dream of. And then give the rest away.
I’d give it all away. To reputable institutions. Probably the wounded warrior deal or some military injury assosiation or something, give it to people that would keep my kids and grandkids (hell no I ain’t that friggin old but surely my kids will breed someday) safe and free.
THat would only be after I hired 11 hookers, bought 22 pounds of whip cream and rentd the Mirage for 24 hrs, the whole hotel, all of it, every roomn!
Hope your trip is awesome
First I would have a shot in celebration then I would pay off my parents house and with the rest of money put it as a down payment for a new house. oh and a 3 month trip around the world
buy a house somewhere by the beach along the pacific coast.
Though… if it had to be spent in VEGAS I would fly some friends down ASAP. Check us all into luxury suites, rent a helicopter and fly around VEGAS with a banner hanging out from the back reading: I am an idiot!
Go into a ravishing bar and buy the whole house drinks for the night. Buy some cool cars for my friends and have a driver wearing a turban matching the color of the car, just like that guy from Annie. Go to a fancy stripper bar and tip the shit out of the ladies and have them come in the car with me. Women can do that to. Buy a really exepnsive wedding dress from Vera Wang or Versace, find some guy and get married at the little white wedding chapel, then have it annulled 12 hours later. Go to a auction house and auction and bid on a very stupid piece of memoribilia from Elvis, I always wanted to do the dramatic auction thing. Give shit loads to homeless people and donate to some charity under a anonymous name. Then I would want front row tickets for the new CHER show in VEGAS. Of course wearing some loud screaming designer couture outfit. You of course are welcome to join me on this wild night.
i’d shop. immediately. for tons of couture that is 2 sizes too small. then i’d pay my contractor in advance to remodel my home. and then i’d hire a personal trainer and a personal chef and pay them for a year to live with me and make me into the hard-body i’d always known i could be.
or, i’d go to target. i figure i could probably spend $1 mil at target. seriously.
either way, that’d be rad.
Dammit! Who said put it all on black?!?!
Actually since you asked, I would use the million dollars to buy myself a stable of monkey butlers which would wait on me hand and foot, if not carry me around the Caesars Forum Shops. With my left over money I would hire a scietist to figure out the proper frequency on a Time Machine and build it, where I would then go back to 8th grade and ask Kelly Smith to the 8th grade dance like I should of.
With the rest of my money I would get 2 items from the Dollar Menu at Mcdonalds.
Take you to Bora Bora. In one of the Water villas. Then Invest. Compound interest blows my mind. I could take care of us forever.
I’d figure out how much I needed to pay for school (gotta be practical!). Then, buy my way into Vegas’s hottest club and drink Kristal and Goose with my peeps. Get the biggest suite in the hotel and invite random ass people from the club back for an after party. Then the next day, shop for fancy ass stuff that I could never in a million years afford. Maybe buy my guy friends some hookers or something else hilarious. Then…give the rest to you!
Well, the first thing that came to mind is pay off my mortgage, then my parents’ mortgage, then give my brother a bunch to buy a place without having to get a mortgage! (He lives in San Francisco, so it takes a lot.)
Then I would buy about a ton of really good chocolate. I think that would take care of all of it. Whew, that didn’t take long!
I’m torn between the practical and the fun–I’d be sooo tempted to go on a quick round the world trip, staying in only the most ridiculous five-star resorts. But I’d also want to buy a house. Maybe a bit of each? Is that a cop-out?
Also, lucky you in Vegas! A lot more exciting than my weekend destination, for sure.
how many male prostitues could i get with that?
haha.
Man that’s hard! 24 hours and only in Vegas?! Fo’ sho’ I’d buy a luxury penthouse suite complete with hot tub and all the other extras. Then I’d have an instant get-a-way for whenever I needed it!
Enjoy your weekend
MMM. I’d buy myself the hottest man I could find for the night like in Indecent Proposal and make him do all the things we women dream about, but never get. He will have to wear a condom though-Safety first. Its VEGAS after all, and what happens in VEGAS stays in VEGAS.
I’d buy a house, though that usually takes a long time in “normal” places. I wonder if it’s any faster in Vegas? If not, you better believe I’d be going to all the designer store out there.
oh, oh, maybe a place at the Playboy Hotel? Fun fun
Get a penthouse suite - the one at the Hard Rock with the bowling alley and a private table - and get all my friends on the next flights out to Vegas and just party all night there. BEST. PARTY. EVER. Oh, and I’d get a sweet over-a-thousand-dollars dress for the ocassion, too. Yesssssssssssssss!
Also, last December, Jesse went to Vegas with his friends in Fall Out Boy, who had the suite (obvs) and then he went downstairs and won $10,000 on Black Jack. So, these things DO happen.
Hmmmmm I’d buy the entire MAC makeup collection (which would probably cost like $300K) but then I’d buy all of the MAC Holders and shelves for the makeup so that I’d set up a MAC Boutique in my office. Then I would donate the rest to animal shelters. Oh- and make that 2 entire MAC collections, cos I’d obvi be sending my friend Nicole one as well…. Have fun in VEGAS!
Dude this is what I’m talking about! I’d set up a fantastic European vacation and then a Central and South America vacation. I would hire a personal trainer to kick my ass for the next few years. I would walk down the strip with Tim Gunn (so he can tell me to make it work) to all the amazing shops and have to buy a new wardrobe since I’ll have a bangin’ body soon enough and could afford it. Then I would have to pay Jets to Brazil to do a reunion show just for me since I have never seen them live. I’d buy my daddy a house because my mother is a hateful wench too, haha. Buy a big gigantic plot of land and set up a puppy farm for all the homeless puppies to live and be happy.
Me, my dad, music, puppies. I think that covers it.
Have fun! Go see Fourty Duece at Mandalay Bay and tell me how awesome the show was!
have a fabulous time in vegas! win lots of money!!!
Is it sad that I’d spend most of it on food?? And well, clothes. LOTS OF CLOTHES. Hey, I may even buy a house, can u do that in 24 hours? Real estate is where it’s at. DAMN I WISH IW AS OGING OT VEGAS WITH YOU DAMNIT. HAVE FUN!!!!
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Plus, they are nice and portable.
Well, obviously I would pay off my yet-to-be-accrued student loans.
Then, I would buy a house, a Prius, and, um, make AS buy me a ring.
Have fun!
A friend of mine offered this answer to the lottery question just the other day and I quite liked it, “I would take my money and invest it. I wouldn’t just invest it in all the ordinary ways like the stock market or a high interest earning account. I would take a good portion of that money and use it to buy a piece of property downtown. I would sign leases for space for all of my friends and invest in them. I’d give my friends the opportunity to do what they wanted to do, and help them to succeed.”
Oh have a great time in Vegas, such a crazzzzy town.
And if I won a million dollars in Vegas, I think I’d hop on a plane back home buy a house for myself and my parents, maybe invest some, pass it around to homeless people, donate some to the I Have a Dream Foundation, man I don’t even know. Buy a new hybrid car
So many options.
I would purchase my own TV network, and produce my own talk show.
how is the winner being chosen?
ok, 24 hours and i win a million? plane tickets, more trips, and restaurants, no question, would be first in order.
i’d probably book a flight to italy or tokyo that minute then call up the funnest people i know (AH-HEM, you included) and say, listen bitch, i’ve got a ticket to TOKYO with your name on it, let’s go play.
and i’d maybe, um, call up whoever is in charge of student loans and ask them if i can make a lump sum payment of what i owe and just get that taken CARE OF. i’m not kidding. student loans is seriously killing my soul and will to live.
and then i’d probably call my parents and wire them a bunch of it. my sisters too. and tell them to go PLAY.
and then i’d SHOP because honestly? i don’t think i’ve gone shopping in two years. i’d buy some crazy ass heels at the fendi store in the bellagio and a marc jacobs bag in the caesar forums and an IPHONE and be completely materialistic for an hour or two. i’d buy a million presents for my friends and boyfiend and family too because i’m one of those people who love spending too much money on others and showering them with presents (presents!).
and i’d buy me an air mac. because i could.
um. gosh. have i covered a million yet?
(i took this question literally. spending the million in 24 hours. no saving. no squirreling away in accounts. no investments. just pure 1 million dollar spending. i won’t lie, i think some part of me would have a serious problem with spending all of it, but because i’m a gemini, the other half would have no problem finding *ways* to spend a million that fast.)
whatever was left over i’d … probably buy a bmw bike or a collection of first collection hardcovers by tolstoy. and a kitchen aid mixer.
Easy. First I would spend about $400,000 dollars on a Ferrari. Then I would-
go to the Mall at Ceasars…go to Gucci and buy 3-4 Tom Ford suits. http://www.forbes.com/2004/11/03/cx_ns_1103feat.html ($10,000)
I would buy the Grand Suite at the Palms for 3 nights. ($15,000)
I would get front row seats to whatever event was going on that night- hopefully a boxing match. And of course I wouldnt be alone. $15,000
I would go to Pure and buy the whole bar out for the night. $125,000.
I would gamble. Insanely. $200,000
I would charter a jet home.
I would give the rest to the boys and girls club in Vegas.
ooh nicole, i like this.
first, i’d be boring and pay off my college loans, my car, my sister’s college loans, finish payments on my parent’s house and pay off any other debt they have, etc.
then i’d go online and buy plane tickets for my family and all my friends to come here to san francisco in june to visit me.
then i’d buy 15 computers and a solid reading intervention program and nice comfy chairs and nice school supplies and better lighting for my classroom. and i’d get the carpet ripped off the floor and replaced with linoleum. and the asbestos out of the ceiling.
and THEN i would go shopping and buy really expensive jeans and a bunch of beautiful dresses for the weddings i have in chicago this summer…
and i’d buy a juicer
and some really awesome original art
and then take the rest and put it into starting an oakland community center with husein which will hopefully convince him to not move back to chicago after next year.
I would buy my father’s house.
Even hypothetically I need to be sensible: I’d buy a house
Shoes. Bracelets. CHOCOLATE!
I’d buy you a ridiculous inappropriate VEGAS-related gift
Buy a suite/penthouse somewhere and let all my friends borrow it–timeshare style.
I would buy a house, and a beach house (my parents could live there), pay off my loans from grad school, go shopping for crazy expensive purses and Jimmy Choos, buy some plane tickets (Greece! Australia!), donate to a few charities and lend some money to the boy so he can buy me a pretty ring and give it to me later!
Hope you are having a great time in Vegas!
I was born in VEGAS and also put it in all caps! Im so happy for you, hope you enjoy it all! If I had a mill and 24hrs I would be buying everyone in the casino drinks, and throwing some sweetsixteen topper shitza. Oh and buy a retirement home afar, and a fluffy white dog… that’s all I need
bitch you better believe you’re sending me inappropriate vegas presents. pshhhh. but seriously, i’d set my family up as best i could and then i would walk around and just hand random people $100 bills. how fun would that be!?
I am really enjoying your vegas twitters! I’m lame, I’d buy a house (300K) two cars (Prius & Audi A4 Wagon), and camera gear. I know exactly which house.. and which cars.. I even have the furniture picked out if I have enough time.
Pay my parents back for my college tuition, living expenses, and new car. Donate some money to the middle school I teach at and some more money to UW-Madison. Then I would buy plane tickets to London so that when I graduate I can live there for a few months (and make sure I put enough in the bank so that I have money to live on)… and then I suppose I would hit up the Fashion Show Mall in Vegas to buy a wardrobe I would never be able to afford otherwise… find someone (a guy) to have dinner with, hit up the best restaurant/buffet in Vegas, and then find a hot club with good music and drink and dance the night away with my boy.
your “VEGAS” is my my “the vegas”, i must always put THE in front of vegas for some reason.
ok 24 hour milllion dollars?? i would quickly pay off all of mine and my immediate families credit card debt and mortgages. donates to my church, and alma mater’s and write a nice check to all my my best friends.
oh and i’d buy A LOT of shoes and purses. cha-ching.
i’d buy out terry benedict’s casinos…hahaha.
i’d stay in the most expensive suite vegas has to offer, order room service, and then fly home first class. ERGO knocking off THREE life list items. booooyaaa!
I’d buy both my brothers the nicest houses I could because they’re kinda struggling and dammit they deserve better because they’re both good fucking people.
I should win because that’s the first serious comment I’ve ever posted on your blog.
I hope you had a good trip! I can only imagine what you bought- I bought a few memorable gifts there last month, oh Vegas- how I miss you so.
So, if I won a million dollars…. I’ll say whatever everyone else is saying and go with ‘buy a house’. And then get these ridiculously expensive C.L shoes.
Oh… and I would fly to L.A and stalk Bradley Whitford until I met him or there was a restraining order against me. Whatever happened first.
I hope you have a great time. I’m so jealous.
Hope you had fun this weekend in Vegas! Can’t wait to hear all about it this week!
Hope you had a BLAST. Can’t wait to hear the crazy stories. I’ve never been to Vegas, so I’ll probs just be living vicariously through you!
I’d buy a place in Salerno, Italy. I spent a summer there a few years ago and never got all of my heart back. I want nothing more in life but to go back!
well, I would buy a beautiful and rough brick house, in the very country style, you know…those bricks very badly cut and exposed. So I would fill this rough home with ridiculous and cult objects, like avant garden lights and bulbs, pictures, frames and old furniture mixed with very modern ones. Thats what I would do straight away. will u send me your gifts to south Brazil? I doubt it….
ops, this last commnet was by Saif C, refer to enriclopedia.blogspot.com
Maibe ME in VEGAS…haha, just kidding, why not VEGAS?