The Calm Before the Porno-Tech Storm

It has been seriously slow the last several days. Scary slow. Uncomfortably quiet. This is the Las Vegas equivalent of the birds and other fauna fleeing ahead of an earthquake, the water receding far into the ocean before a tsunami hits. The events on the calendar for the next week make it clear: there’s about to be a lot of noise ’round here. It’s Consumer Electronics Show / Adult Video News’ Adult Video Awards and Adult Entertainment Expo (aka the “porn convention”) week.

As I’ve driven around town, I’ve noticed the preparations underway for CES for some time now. I’m not sure what day they started loading in at the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES but I arrived back in town on December 30th and they were already underway, as best I could tell. This thing is huge. They say 150,000 strong or more. The reality is that whenever there are 150,000 people taking up hotel rooms, there is a whole other crowd that follows – they come where the money is. Extra “seasonal workers” (read: strippers, escorts, and professional gamblers) drive, fly, or hitchhike if need be to get to where the action is. Personally, I can’t wait. The poker tables shall be juicy this next week, indeed. Barring some highly unlikely twist of fate, I should make enough money in the next week to pay the bills for the next six months. God I love this town.

The parties are going to be awesome this week, too. As soon as CES starts winding down, the porn convention will be in full swing and the parties just always rock – no two ways about it. To me, CES/AVN week in Las Vegas is what Las Vegas is all about. I really can’t wait!

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