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Let's be honest: We wouldn't be friends in real life.

Checking in for 2025. I owe it to anyone who is still following

“You once told me that the human eye is god’s loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn’t even know there’s another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

Vintage Primm, 1995

Interstate 15, looking from CA to State Line NV, now known as Primm. Photo by Jim Marshall, taken from the Nipton Rd overpass

Ernest Primm opened Whiskey Pete’s Casino at State Line in ‘77, named after bootlegger “Whiskey Pete” McIntire who once ran a gas station here and was buried on the property. Son Gary Primm opened Primadonna Casino (aka Primm Valley) and Buffalo Bill’s in the early 90s. State Line became Primm on 10/10/96.

Is it time to post regularly again? Not much going on in my life. More negatives than positives.

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