{"id":4465,"date":"2010-08-27T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2010-08-27T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:05:33","slug":"eastside-cannery-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/eastside-cannery-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastside Cannery, muse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The neon-bathed casino on the Boulder Strip<\/strong> seems to have quite an inspirational effect on artists, as seen in the music video above. “ECan” has also impelled a poem from the pen of local playwright and author Ernie Curcio<\/strong>, who immortalized ECan predecessor Nevada Palace<\/strong> in his play Rambis<\/em> (soon to be produced in Los Angeles<\/strong>). If you’ve ever been around<\/a> Royal Manor<\/strong>, you’ll know that there’s a certain tongue-in-cheek element to these verses …<\/p>\n

“Cannery Casino<\/strong>“<\/em><\/p>\n

Forever brighten frail wanderers with your soft psychotic laughter
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Solo, off the Strip, floating piece of Las Vegas jigsaw,<\/em><\/p>\n

with jelly fish lighting ability, rainbow flashing<\/em><\/p>\n

manically switching pigments like sun on oil,<\/em><\/p>\n

the only beacon along deserted lanes before dawn<\/em><\/p>\n

on\u00a0our empty Boulder Highway<\/em><\/p>\n

Our\u00a0pulsing electric\u00a0flower that pollinates the East Side with delusional bonuses and wild deuces,<\/em><\/p>\n

glowing Lotus\u00a0rooted in the muck of crystal meth and prostitution,<\/em><\/p>\n

bubble gum monolith erected from the ashes of Nevada Palace,<\/em><\/p>\n

flash flood\u00a0fresh tears in our dry eyes,<\/em><\/p>\n

grant us dignity in our dinginess,<\/em><\/p>\n

let us dream of being regal as\u00a0Royal Manor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The neon-bathed casino on the Boulder Strip seems to have quite an inspirational effect on artists, as seen in the music video above. “ECan” has also impelled a poem from the pen of local playwright and author Ernie Curcio, who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,88,73,4,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}