Once before it goes

Today’s schedule is taken up largely with conducting an autopsy of the Liberace Museum, as well as transcribing an (unrelated) interview with Teller. In the meantime, for those of you who haven’t seen the Museum and can’t make it before its Oct. 17 closing, here’s a video tour, conducted by audience-berating Museum Director Tanya Combs.

Even if interest in Liberace himself is waning, it’s borderline tragic that Vegas stands to lose his collection of historic pianos, the Liberace Foundation‘s support of young musicians and its sponsorship of live performances at the Museum. Talks with Town Square fell through and the Foundation is now supposedly courting the Sahara. However, between owner Sam Nazarian‘s preposterous conceit of repositioning the aged hotel for well-off twentysomethings and operator Navegante Gaming‘s gradual dismantling of the casino’s amenities, the notion of the Liberace Museum at the Sahara conjures up the image of two corpses copulating.