{ thoughts on a world of chance from David G. Schwartz }

Vegas Week

January 10th, 2005 by Dave

It’s Vegas Week on the Travel Channel, which means that they’re going to be having lots of shows giving you the inside scoop on Vegas. Kind of like they do the other 51 weeks of the year.

Since I live in Vegas, I don’t think I’ll be watching much, but if you like this kind of thing, recommend you check out Vegas Whales Tales. It airs on Thursday, January 13 at 8 and 11 PM (ET) and Saturday January 15 at 11 AM.

Why do I suggest you watch this little piece of Las Vegas? Because I think I’m in it. I haven’t seen the final show, but to the best of my understanding it’s a series of vignettes about strange high rollers. I narrated a few of them, though I don’t know how many actually made it into the show.

When you watch this, keep in mind that I had no idea whatsoever of what the vignettes actually looked like. I was working off a script with just my imagination to provide the visuals.

Also, I got the feeling that the show was going to be something like that Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction show that Jonathan Frakes does. I don’t know if it looks anything at all like that, but that’s what I was shooting for. I just wish they gave me an alien autopsy to narrate.

No matter how it turns out, I had a ball doing this, and I welcome the chance to do similar TV work in the future. Email me if you need a host/narrator for your next project…I work cheap and clean up after myself.

Posted in life in vegas

One Response

  1. Ezekiel Zechariah

    That has to be one of the strangest entries I have seen on this site. Perhaps I am losing my ability to comprehend English… slowly.

    ♥ EZ

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