Before you click on this link, be warned: A loud video plays automatically on the page, which is over at a site called Celebrity Week. There are a number of items on the page but I wanted to call your attention to two of them…
The first one explains that the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas is now offering on its room service and coffee shop menus, a hamburger that sells for $6,000. That's right: Six grand. So you may be wondering how this burger is different from, say, the six dollar burger at Carl's Jr? Answer: It isn't different at all. It's a Carl's Jr six dollar burger with a big markup. If you order one — and I know you…you're probably booking your flight to Sin City this very moment, drooling at the chance to pay $6000 for a six dollar burger — they send someone to a nearby Carl's Jr to pick one up and then they serve it to you with a complimentary bottle of 24 year-old French Bordeaux.
Are they nuts? Nope. It's just for publicity for them and for Carl's Jr. And to be fair, it also comes with fries.
The other item worth a peek is the story of what Steve Wynn did the other day. He accidentally poked a hole in a painting by Pablo Picasso painting that was worth — and we know this because he was about to sell it for this amount — $139 million. Let's all say the following in unison: "Boy, I'm glad I didn't do that."