Just read your Vegas piece and wanted to commend you on a really beautiful piece of writing. Weaving those three stories to give us an understanding of an area and it’s racial and political history was simply brilliant. Thanks a lot. I feel a little smarter today because of reading it!

Excellent work. Many kudos.

WHAT!

it kind like Fear and Loathing mixed with Basket ball

And I congratulate you on me liking it!

For realz, this was really cool. My brother just moved from Vegas and we often discussed how blatantly racist the city is— like, for reals no kiddin’ racist, not subtle institutionalized racism.

It is a very strange city. My brother hated his time there, and once he graduated from UNLV he high tailed it out.

You captured a time and a feeling of a place and I always love that.

Mortimer

extremely proud of you.

I couldn’t stop reading. You have a true talent with your way of words. I really enjoyed that.

Way to represent!

As a small piece of constructive criticism, where was the Honor Terry Porter throw in? Kiddin’.

No one should ever, under any circumstances, write a footnoted 3,800-word essay unless they’re getting paid.
- Dan Steinberg, Washington Post

In this case it’s more like 2,800 and just three linked sources, but still a lot of work for a guest post ;-)

I liked this a lot — oodles, heaps and gobs. It reminded me of things I’ve read in one of those “Best Sportswriting” anthologies. Looking forward to more.

I like your style, especially without the (necessary) constraints of BE.

I read an article last week that all that water evaporates up through the limestone cliffs and into the atmosphere (not a very efficient water retention/distribution basin, eh?)

Then I heard a radio interview that the weather service has projects where aircraft com-trails “seed” the clouds so it dumps snow in the rockies that feed the Colorado river watershed…so SoCal gets the water instead of midwest farmland

I found myself visualizing every scene that you wrote about, I was unable to quit reading until I was finished, and I was left wanting more.

Bravo! Encore! Give that man a Pulitzer Prize!

Hey Ben, have you ever written a book?