When the Boss said ‘go to the Rio and cover the opening of Lucky Strike’ all I could think about was the old slogan for Lucky Strike Cigarettes.  As it turns out, Lucky Strike is a new nightclub and you can’t smoke anywhere in the place.

The management bills the place as “High-energy nightclub feel, but much more approachable."  I don’t understand what that means. This nightclub cost millions to build and seems like someone threw a bunch of stuff at the wall, just to see what sticks.  How about sitting in at the meeting where this concept was first pitched, ‘high-end nightclub, serving eclectic food, with bowling alleys’.  Is it Black Light Campy, more Vegas Schlock, or Synergy???? There were distracting lights blinking across the alleys, big screen TV’s with a basketball game over the alleys, and

		the pins were in the dark.  I watched people bowl, no one knew anything about bowling, in fact, one young lady explained that the game lasted until you filled up the 10 little boxes on the automated score card.  She had no idea the 10 little boxes were called Frames.  I think she liked the colored balls!

I’m a child of the ‘70’s Disco Days, it was never the nightclub, it was always the people.  In my day, you go to a nightclub to pick up chicks, you go bowling at a smelly place with your buddies, and you could smoke at both joints.

But I have goofy ideas; everyone has goofy ideas, why can’t our goofy ideas come true?  We need unlimited amounts of money; we need a big sub-prime loan.