Boulevard

When I was in Vegas a couple of years I went to where I thought Tupac Shakur was shot and took a picture of the area with my camera phone. I had planned to send the picture to a friend, but I couldn’t think of anything witty to put as a caption. It was a good thing I didn’t. There’s really nothing really witty you can say except maybe “the ****** in red shot me dead”. A prophetic song lyric indeed but hardly apppropriate for the occasion.

Later that day I did get an amazing picture of The Hoover Dam and sent the picture with the following message to my friend, "Megatron was here". That night when I was in Hooters Casino, on my way to see Bobby Slayton perform, I took a picture of a King Kong slot machine. A cropped up picture of CGI Kong himself with the following caption: "Your mom".

When I returned to Florida, I was glad I didn’t send the picture of where I thought Tupac was shot, It turned out that my picture was of the wrong street, the wrong location altogether. The incident actually happened on Koval Lane not on The Strip. I took my picture near Riveria, not far from the recently imploded remains of Stardust were. My picture was a misnomer. A picture of a nice but random street in Vegas. "Maybe next time", my caption could say.