I was watching CNN last night
The reason being that my not-quite-a-hotel room has a television in it, but it doesn’t have a working remote control and I figure it’s better to have a channel that’s constantly of slight interest, than it is to have to keep getting off my arse to change the channel when something good ends and Sexo y La Cuidad comes on in its place. As it seems to quite a bit [*].
On CNN there was a piece about the new Formula 1 track in Abu Dhabi. If, like me, you didn’t know, there’s a new Formula 1 track and it is in Abu Dhabi.
Anyway, some arab dude was giving a tour of its features and among them is a long straight section, the longest straight of any formula one track in the world, and over they’ve built, wait for it, a hotel. So you can stay in the hotel and watch the F1 cars go by underneath. For a couple of hours per year when the Grand Prix is on. The rest of the time, I guess it’s a bit like staying in an air-conditioned motorway overpass.
So in summary we have an opportunity to waste a fuckload of oil, the somethingest something in the world (that nobody gives a fuck about), and a great big eyesore of a hotel.
I’m thinking the sooner these utterly imagination and culture-deprived cunts run out of oil and they have to go back to sucking camels’ dicks in the desert, the better.
[*] I did end up watching part of an episode where Carrie finds out that “Mr. Big” has a new girlfriend who is younger and prettier and generally better in every way than her. Ha ha ha. I do like the parts where really embarrassing stuff happens to Carrie. They should produce a compilation of just those.
