I've written a bit before about the slightly odd interior decoration in Chinese hotels. Here's a Lovecraftian table lamp that sits on the check-in desk, inspiring cosmic dread, at the Relax hotel in Hangzhou.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
It's rare for me to be gone so much in such a short period of time. Two meetings in two weeks, one in San Diego and one in Washington, DC, and I'm bushed. One thing that continually irks me on the two or three occasions each year when I go to meetings is how blatantly hotels rip customers off for…
Having gone to two meetings in less than two weeks, I've noticed something different about how I approach meetings. Surgical meetings often reflect the truly bizarre nature of surgeon personalities. For example, the meeting in San Diego that I went to had one session that started at--I kid you not…
Apparently either Jo-anne or I share a name with, or similar to, someone on the U.S. government's secret terrorist watch list. I can't say which of us it is; no one at the airport is authorized to tell us that. All I know is we were prevented from checking in at the Tucson airport on Thursday…
When Republican delegates check-in to their hotel rooms in St. Paul this week, they will receive a "thank you" message on their televisions. An ad called "Thanks For The Memories," produced by Campaign for America's Future, will broadcast unforgettable moments from the last eight years that…
It looks a lot like an Ediacaran organism, growing by segments, and keeping the ratio of surface to volume constant.
Alternatively you could see it as the larval form of something that gets much bigger, more complex and more hungry.
Philip K. Dick idea: "Are you sure it is a lamp mimicking an organism and not the other way around?"
AAAIIIIIEEEeeeeeeeeeee! Kill it with fire!!!!!!!!
Surely it's just one those rare fossils that are so common China.
Eek! The eldritch horror of it all.