Yeah I went to Vegas, and yeah I have some stories to tell, but they are long and hard to tell. For the moment, feast on these bit of the following awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvOCrRVDPpI

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUi9teTRCgk

Oh, and the Hold Steady's latest is out...  There were a couple pretty crass propositions. There were some bugs in the bars. There was a kid camped out by the coat check. She said the theme of this party is the industrial age. You came in dressed like a train wreck.

And the inside jokes are still there:

'Cause I was thinking we could pull another weekender.
If you've still got a little bit of clairvoyance....
.....God only knows it's not always a positive thing.
To see a few seconds into the future

and my favorite, which along with train wreck lyric pretty much made my week

That one girl got me cornered in the kitchen
I said I'll do anything but clean.