There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

Relax - This won't hurt.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.