{"id":9282,"date":"2012-06-28T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:28:22","slug":"the-face-of-lva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-face-of-lva\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of LVA; Local man curses electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports of return (by me) have been greatly exaggerated. After knocking off two travel guides, a feature story and a book review over the last week, I’m practically having to prop my eyes open with toothpicks. And then there are a half-dozen “Question of the Day” queries to answer and a couple of Desert Companion<\/em> profiles to file. Uff da!<\/em> In the meantime, allow me to introduce you to …\"\"<\/p>\n

… Mojo<\/strong>, our resident iguana. She’s somewhat of a celebrity amongst LVA<\/em> subscribers and has even been the subject of at least one “Question of the Day” herself. I took this portrait of her on my office balcony, where she suns herself from time to time — and occasionally crawls down the front of the building, creating havoc. However, \u00a0unlike our foster kitten, Goliath<\/strong>, Mojo doesn’t have much interest in my office per se<\/em>. She’s wont to get bored with tanning and go storming off, either disrupting Anthony Curtis<\/strong>‘ office or rampaging down the stairwell and into the lobby, which has caused an awkward situation or two. Mostly she dwells in a large, two-story (by lizard dimensions) condo in a back office, subsisting on freshly prepared vegetable dishes … sort of like Steve Wynn<\/strong>, when you think about it.<\/p>\n

Today’s Not-Top Story<\/strong>
\nAs every intelligent person now knows, CNN<\/strong> totally fell on its face (followed by National Public Radio<\/strong>, then Fox News<\/strong>) when breaking today’s big Supreme Court<\/strong> ruling. However, over at the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>, dethroned publisher \"\"and resident technophobe Sherman Frederick<\/strong> went into one of his patented Luddite<\/strong> spiels, blaming the whole thing on Twitter <\/strong>and touting the reliability of established media. “Even in this fast-paced world of electronic information, journalism still comes down to reliable, measured assessments<\/em>,” preferably rendered in hand-set type, I presume.\u00a0(He wrote this on his blog, further deepening the irony.) Three postscripts later, he finally heard that CNN dunnit. I guess cable television must seem awful newfangled to the man who once allegedly told staffers, “I don’t know about this Internet<\/strong> thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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