One of my best buds is from South Beach. Between that and his parents both being Italian, he grew up to be the best-dressed straight guy on earth. His college nickname was "Versace." :D

It's a unique place... you'll have a ball! And it being March, you won't fry like a raisin in a microwave.

I'm going to South Beach!

I'm sorry.

I spent two years in Dade County. My memories of it are not good. I stuck out like a cockroach on a wedding cake.

hello me looking fabulous in a bikini

That I'm sorry I'll miss. You can always go to Haulover Beach, where the bikini is optional.

*ducks*

Perhaps I will wear my bikini to the next NYC meetup, to encourage attendance (and to encourage me to keep workin' it at the gym!)

But but... I want to fry like a raisin in a microwave. That's what a vacation is for!

jonmc in Dade. I'm not going to be able to shake that horror soon.

But but... I want to fry like a raisin in a microwave. That's what a vacation is for!

*casually relays anecdote about having first melanoma biopsy at 29 after years of wanton tanning*

Imagine someone walking down a nude beach in black Chucks with a Camel dangling from his lips, dude.

(bet he's breaking out a nightlight to sleep by about now, huh)

All I remember of South Beach is hot young women hanging off the arms of old, fat, balding rich guys.

*mental note: get rich soon*

Those 'hot women' are mostly ecstasy-adlled glitter trash constructed from silicone and diet soda.

I remember this one ad for a plastic surgery clinic that used to run constantly. It had a fucking jingle: Flor-i-da center for cosmetic surge-ree..just one look is worth a thousand words," playing behind a buncha busty cavorting nubiles. Then they showed this oily looking doctor who intoned "we're verrry good." I can just picture him sitting at his desk idly juggling implants. The whole city makes me want to sit unbathed on a corner popping zits, picking my nose and wiping the results of both on my pants, then intoning "Where Do You Live?" at passersby.

But as long as you're going hit Fox's and Shorty's in my old Miami proper stomping grounds.

Around here all the plastic surgery clinics are in a price war. The ads keep taking about lowest price for lipo, breast augmentation, peals etc. If I did want plastic surgery would I really want to go too the Discount Boob Shack?

would I really want to go too the Discount Boob Shack?

that's a plastic surgery clinic? I thought it was a strip club. No wonder the receptionist got mad when I stuffed a buck in her panties!

jon, 20 more bucks and you could have had c-cups of your own!

jon, you'll be pleased to know those commericals are still going strong, and have been since I moved here in 2000...although you have to watch a lot of daytime tv to see them. Is someone a closet General Hospital fan?

No, someone was unemployed for six months during his stay in the land of Sunshine and Serial Killers. and arse_hat, I wouldn't settle for anything less than DD.

*slides a sawbuck into jon's g-string*

So, what y'all are saying is that South Beach is, essentially, L.A. with humidity. Is that about right?

Make that 2 places I'm never going to go to.

careful with that arse_hat. I have paper cuts from all the crisp benjamins already.