Jess and I were in Vegas for a few nights with some great friends.  The excuse reason for going was to see Collective Soul at the Hard Rock on Friday night, but mathematically that covered a bit less than 3% of the time we were there.  We had to find other things to fill our time.

Permission slips were collected from the following for this field trip:

• myself
• Jessica
• Richie Arpino: hairdresser / photographer / man-about-town
• Mitchell Anderson: actor / chef / keeper of man-about-town
• George McKerrow: poker champion and bison wrangler
• Cari Jelinek: tweeter
• Joe Sagona: who almost missed the trip, due to his career and other grown-up things
• Ben Deignan: rocker / humper of things
• Bowe O’Brien: manager of rocker-humpers

We arrived at different times, we stayed at different places, we went non-stop.  I vote for making it an annual event.

Rest of the pics are here, if you are so inclined.  I really do love Vegas and all that it stands for.

This will be one of my favorite pictures of 2009, I think.

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Ah, the joys of childhood baseball.  Outdoors, best friends, soft-serve ice cream after the game, and Daddy grabbing a bat to get all Goodfellas on the opposing team’s manager.

America’s past-time, indeed.  Proudly.

This video might change your thinking that ‘I can send that quick text from the car.  No worries!’  Warning: It’s graphic!

This guy inspires me to be more comfortable when I’m on any sort of stage … both professionally and personally.

Haven’t decided yet if this is for real or not.  But it’s fun to watch.

If these stats are accurate, this is pretty unreal …

This guy Supa performed his song Twitter Love at the Usher event last month.

Last Friday, I had the honor of emceeing the closing ceremonies for Usher’s Camp New Look 2009.  A great event for a great group of kids.  (The AJC ran a cool piece on the camp last friday.  Linked here.)

I’ll add more commentary when I get some pics (and hopefully video) in the next few days.  Until then, you can click below for some of my on-air comments about the event from today’s show.

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