Celebrating the 10 Best Years of my Life - and the Best Is Yet to Come

Written By Will Viharo
With "Reverend Dino" (Robert Ensler) & Los Falcones
We even had our own logo!
The most beautiful bride ever


Tuesday, May 31 is the 10th anniversary of my wedding to my true love and best friend, Monica Cortes Viharo, known to most of you as "the Tiki Goddess," at the Cal-Neva Resort in North Lake Tahoe, famously owned by Frank Sinatra in the early '60s, with frequent famous guests like Marilyn Monroe, JFK and mobster Sam Giancana, to name a few. I spent my final night as a bachelor in Frank's personal cabin, #5. Our Rat Pack/mariachi themed ceremony, with our friend and Dean Martin impersonator Robert Ensler presiding, followed by the epic reception in the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Showroom,  remains the best day of my life (not that it's been downhill from there!), surrounded by friends and family from throughout my 38 years, as well as Monica's many friends and relatives, all enjoying the open martini bar (with specially designated drinks named for our favorite performers, just like the tables), the DJ lounge/soul music (from my own playlist), live mariachi music (Los Falcones of Oakland), silent scenes on a big screen from Ocean's 11 and Blue Hawaii (where we spent our honeymoon), and generally just meeting and mingling amid the stylishly retro setting with its beautiful natural backdrop. We had booked this location for our wedding before we were even officially engaged! We like to plan ahead. In fact, we had always planned to be in Paris for our 10th anniversary, but circumstances conspired against it, so instead we're settling for Plan B: dinner at the world famous French Laundry. It's way beyond our means, but so was our wedding, and it was worth every penny. Life with my wife is priceless, anyway. She deserves the very best and I plan to give it to her, even if it's on credit. I'd be nothing, and there would be no Thrillville, without her.

If interested, much more from the wedding album can be viewed online here. Cheers.
Lucky guy.




The martini bar menu (A)
The martini bar menu (B)
Will Viharo

WILL "THE THRILL" VIHARO is a freelance writer and the author of several "gonzo pulp" novels including "A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge," "Freaks That Carry Your Luggage up to the Room," "Chumpy Walnut," "Lavender Blonde," "Down a Dark Alley," and the “Vic Valentine, Private Eye” series, the first of which, "Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me," has been optioned for a film by Christian Slater, reissued in 2013 by Gutter Books, which also published the new Vic Valentine novel "Hard-boiled Heart" in December, 2015.

Two science fiction novels, "It Came from Hangar 18" and "The Space Needler's Intergalactic Bar Guide," were written in collaboration with Scott Fulks, who added real science to Will's pulp.

Will's own imprint, Thrillville Press, has issued a three volume anthology series featuring all of his standalone novels called "The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection," along with another omnibus called "The Vic Valentine Classic Case Files," which include four novels from the 1990s, "Fate Is My Pimp," "Romance Takes a Rain Check," "I Lost My Heart in Hollywood," and "Diary of a Dick," plus a recent short story, "Brain Mistrust."

More recently published books include the Vic Valentine "Mental Case Files" trilogy comprised of "Vic Valentine: International Man of Misery," "Vic Valentine: Lounge Lizard For Hire," and "Vic Valentine: Space Cadet"; the original story collection "Vic Valentine, Private Eye: 14 Vignettes"; the erotic horror noir novella "Things I Do When I'm Awake"; and a collection of erotic horror noir stories, "VIHORROR! Cocktales of Sex and Death."

Additionally Will has had stories included in a variety of anthologies including "Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir"; "Mixed Up!"; "Long Distance Drunks: A Tribute to Charles Bukowski"; "Deadlines: A Tribute to William Wallace"; "Dark Yonder: Tales and Tabs"; "Knucklehead Noir" and "Weird Winter Wonderland" (both Coffin Hop Press); and "Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror."

Viharo's unique brand of "gonzo pulp fiction" combines elements of eroticism, noir, fantasy, and horror. For many years he has also been a professional film programmer/impresario and live music booker. He now lives in Seattle, WA with his wife and cats

https://www.thrillville.net
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