I spent my first week in Vegas as a resident searching for bartenders with "good personalities" for America's Hottest Bartenders. Tough job, I know.

Some of the most beautiful people in the world (like the gorgeous Nicole from Seamless Afterhours pictured above) call Vegas home so I was sure, willing to wager even, that the national winner would be coming from Vegas. With each photo shoot that week, the girls and boys got sexier and my, uh, confidence kept growing.

There ain't no party like a Vegas party and these highly-attractive professionals do their part to make sure the 800,000 weekly Vegas visitors have something to write home about, or if more appropriate, not write home about.

America Voted
The week was a blur of photo shoots, release forms and valet parking. Once finished, I shipped the pics off to AOL headquarters where the folks at corporate chose the photos and published the feature. It was then that, to use a popular catch-phrase, "America voted."



Lynette (pictured here) from Tabu won the Vegas title for the ladies, but sadly there is no justice in the world and she lost to someone in Chicago. Could it be another conspiracy of Chicago politics? I'm not suggesting it's on the same level as Daley bulldozing Meigs, but how else to explain Lynette losing? I'll have to re-read "American Pharoah" for clues.

With the gentlemen tenders, Tom from VooDoo was the sexiest bartender in Vegas with those piercing, dreamy, edible eyes, but again, lost out ...

... in the national competition to someone in Dallas, my hometown. When I left Dallas, I'm pretty sure all the sexy left, but apparently sexy is alive and well in Big D. Or is it?

Like Chicago, Dallas is home to some pretty big conspiracy theories: Who killed JFK? Who shot JR? Who dosed T.O.? How could Tom not win hottest bartender? Cue the C+C Music Factory.

Johnny Can't Vote
I should know by now there's no conspiracy. From watching recent TV shows where America gets to vote, America is just getting it wrong:
- Taylor Hicks winning "American Idol"
- Lukas Rossi winning "Rock Star"
- Natalie not winning "So You Think You Can Dance 2"
- George Bush winning "American President"

We'll have to see how America voted tonight in mid-term elections, oh and also "Dancing with the Stars."

It's clear democracy should be left to a select few who have a clue and not to the masses. Oh wait, it already is that way.

Before this thread digresses into a bad, drunken party conversation about Jesus, abortion or the cultural justification of Fall Out Boy (video warning: rock moves),

I'll leave you with some of the cutting room photos from Vegas' Hottest Bartenders and ask you, was Vegas robbed?

Nicole from Seamless Afterhours


Josh fom Jet

Sheena from Tabu

Lynette from Tabu



Joe from Tabu


Josephine from Hooters


Tom from VooDoo Lounge