http://norman.walsh.name/2004/12/10/vegas 7 207 2004-12-10T22:20:26-05:00 $Date$ Norman Walsh 2004 Norman Walsh Las Vegas in signage. Money, flesh, and booze. That's the Three Card Monty of Las Vegas. It is played by consummate hustlers and charlatans, legitimate purveyors of finely crafted vice, and characters of every sort of dubious distinction. You can see it in the signs. Eventually, neon and tungsten give out, even here. The Vegas take on the traditional billboard is a set of four enormous panels that slide back and forth on a long arc. Sometimes connected, sometimes disjoint, they are never silent. Nothing is ever silent in Vegas. At least some things are done in moderation. If you can call a faux Venetian canal and acres of fountains in the desert “moderation,” which really, you can't.