When they couldn't locate his seven cities of gold, they settled for trashing the halls of Montezuma and cutting up the Aztecs instead. Perhaps the Eldo fire was simply the gambling-industrial complex serving similar notice of claim jumping. The annual Burning Man Festival, Nevada's Labor Day weekend tribute to pluralistic pagan nihilism, has proven a big draw. But it needs to be moved much closer to slot machines. The Eldorado fire was thus a fortuitous marketing opportunity to turn those naked revelers into gamblers.
Nobody steals our act.
We'll show 'em topless. Looking for a witnesses, I awakened a wino dozing under a bush. Carano's wine causes bad dreams and makes me hear fire engines. I didn't get his name, but I knew I was onto something. Thank God the fire didn't reach Carano's trophy room where all his stuffed politicians are mounted.