woah

http://www.dubailand.ae/

SPONSORED BY SHREK, A PANDA AND A BEE!

I basically refuse to go anywhere unless I am guaranteed that there will be talking bees there.

PACK YR BAGS!

WHERE WILL THE ISLAMIC NUCLEAR WARHEADS BE AIMED???

I love Dubai. It's a creation that could not exist in any other time and place. But I'd probably want to chill over in Oman.

UNDERWATER HOTEL

TIGER WOODS HAS A GOLF COURSE THERE

srsly when are we going

dubai imports its sand from abu dhabi

Can we go next week?

I'm not golfing, though. I have my limits.

I don't think they've finished building it yet.

I used to sing with one of the architects who worked on that awesome sail-shaped hotel with the tennis court on top of it. ^_^

sort of like the housing boom, I always feel a pang of doubt when blanket-bashing huge speculative expenditures, because my global pessimism leads me to consistently predict bubble bursts about a year or two earlier than they happen. however, after seeing that Trump Himself is putting his name on one of dubai's future megaplexes, I feel rather confident in saying that dubai will become an abandoned and nigh-uninhabitable wasteland approximately five minutes after that building is completed.

I unreservedly desire to see the UAE turned into a solid glass parking lot.

An uninhabitable wasteland is the perfect place to celebrate graduating from nursing school. I'll meet you all there in early 2010.

I unreservedly desire to see the UAE turned into a solid glass GOLD! parking lot.

http://www.truckstoppreachers.com/myspace/solidgolddancers1.jpg

lol, I didn't even know I missed the SOLID GOLD dancers until you put that up.

NEVER FORGET

http://www.sgdanceconnection.com/groups/images/85_group3.jpg

I swear to god that must be where I got my grade school notion that I needed silver or gold high heeled shoes instead of the boring loafers my mother cruelly insisted on buying for me.

yeah so they are also building a real-life Jurassic Park: http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/18/cool-stuff-dubai-building-1-billion-jurassic-park/

also you can't knock the UAE for being smart about economics and realizing that supporting your entire economy on a limited natural resource isn't really the best idea so HEY LET'S BUILD LUXURY HOTELS ON MAN-MADE ISLANDS.

I want to go to Dubai so fucking badly.

More Solid Gold talk.

Conversation between myself and my three years younger sister, seeing Culture Club on Solid Gold and as a result seeing them for the first time ever, in early 1983:

ME: "He's a boy!"

HER: "That's a girl!"

ME: "His name is *BOY GEORGE*"

This went on for a bit.

HEY LET'S BUILD LUXURY HOTELS ON MAN-MADE ISLANDS.

It's beautiful!

The realization that you *can* get anywhere in the world in under a day still kinda trips me out.

It is amazing, Ned. I'm just remembering my trip to Japan and how looooong that 24 hours of travel was, though...

Also, who is going with me to the dinosaur-themed park? I bet not even A. would dare to do it. (When we saw Jurassic Park in the theater, I got so freaked out that I bit his hand!!!)

The sky tennis photos made me feel a bit queasy.

It all goes a bit against my irish laboring classes type upbringing, waste-not-want-not, make do & mend etc. I tend to have this automatic dismissal of profligate blingery. Unless it's missy elliot doing it, then it's great, of course.

I tend to dismiss it unless someone else is paying, in which case BRING IT ON CRISTAL FOR EVERYONE

Well, yes, there is that.

One of us must marry an insanely wealthy and generous person. Get to work, single ITR members.

I'll propose to Donald Trump on the shores of Cape Cod.

If you catch him between wives, I think you have a shot.

Donald Trump would never go for a man wih Ned's hair. We're going to have to sacrifice FB.

Are you going to tell him, or am I?

Who needs to tell him? Just deliver him to the Donald wrapped up in cellophane.

I definitely thing that should be John's job.

John will wrap it.

"it" = FB in this case

Dan is the DJ, I'm the wrapper

Suddenly everything is so clear.

oh ouch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13IQMMqGcDY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82bPlLjC5Wc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTF7_Z_G3d0

my favorite bit about that last vid is the sci-fi/horror synth music

Except Mount Everest is 8 times this... So taking the stairs won't be as bad as climbing MountEverest. (WARNING: OMC DONT TAKE THE STAIRS)
OMC= Oh My Crap