Blue Vegas

Channel 13 recently interviewed first-time author and proprietor of the local Double Down Saloon, P Moss, about his book Blue Vegas, featuring stories based on the author’s own experiences and encounters in Sin City.
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By AMANDA LLEWELLYN

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There may be no one more qualified to write about life in Las Vegas, fictionalized or otherwise, than iconic Double Down Saloon and Frankie’s Tiki Room owner P Moss.

Moss, a downtown-area resident for nearly 20 years, has made a career of learning about people: how they think, what gets them going and the trials of human experience.

“Anybody who has an ability to watch other human beings and learn how they tick, well, that’s how you learn to run a successful business,” he said. “It’s also great for writing.”

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First-time author Moss recently sat down with dailyfiasco.com writer Jason Scavone to talk about the writing process, the trappings of  daily life, Old Vegas vs. the new, and being drawn to the ’seedier’ side of things …

2/26/10
Discontent. Discontent with change. Discontent with station and circumstance. Discontent with New Vegas. Seventeen times P Moss crawls into the venal, unlit corners of Vegas, and 17 times we come away with sordid, nasty stories of people trapped in their own lives, trapped by their own faults or trapped by forces well out of their control, desperate to break out.

“I think that’s how most people in life are. Whether you’re stuck in some kind of trouble or whether you’re just some schmuck who has to fight traffic every day to go to work. I think most people are trapped in their shit. A lot of them are aware of it. A lot of them are not aware of it. A lot of them are just resigned to the fact that that’s how it is. Whether you’re talking about murder or fucking chickens or whatever you’re doing, it’s really no different from the poor sap who has to fight traffic every morning just because if he doesn’t he’s going to lose his house and his wife and his dog,” Moss said.

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Richard Abowitz
Los Angeles Times ~ 2/28/10

“Despite getting frequent mentions in tourist guides and routinely topping out locals’ best-of polls, the Double Down Saloon is the Vegas institution that most appears to belong in another, cooler city than Las Vegas. With a scruffy pool table and a tiny stage, its character (and jukebox) is closer to New York’s late CBGB than an ultra lounge.

The décor reflects the owner, and few who know him will be surprised that P Moss has written a collection of short stories in his free time. With “Blue Vegas” in a new imprint from alternative weekly City Life, Moss is making his fiction debut at age 58…”

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