I’m in Vail for this business thing and I’m in the hotel hanging out.

It occurred to me that I’m actually terrified of this town. I think I’d feel more comfortable walking around outside the MCI Center in DC at 2AM than I feel strolling the streets here.

Vail is like some horrible experiment. It’s so isolated from the outside world and so up its own ass that it’s almost astonishing. People here don’t have a clue about anything besides themselves and skiing. It’s like there was a high school that somehow got showered in cosmic radioactivity and grew at an exponential rate into this huge mutated monstrosity. No one here acts like they’re older than 17 and the clique mentality is in full swing, even for the aging Baby Boomers who reside here. It’s like some horrible beach community in Orange County, only scaled back a bit in terms of wealth and plastic surgery. The people are still on the attractive side, all thin and tan and very Laguna Beach, I will give them that. But who would ever want to really have a conversation with these brain-dead sheep? I doubt half of them could even tell you who the president is.

Basically, like all little resort towns, it’s just not a good idea to live here and try to raise a family here. The parents are vapid alcoholics and Vail kids are like teen movie stereotypes. They’re rich, they’re pretty and they probably make anyone who doesn’t fit in feel like crap. Seriously, it’s like mindless, spoiled, Children of the Corn out here. If it takes a village to raise a child, this is not the village you want.

Anyway, enough hating on Vail for now.