January 8, 2010 by his blackness
This was a display in a Dubai mall that looks like a normalish American mall display except this was two days after New Years, and the anamatronic polar bear was sitting and gently waving up and down in the center where Santa normally sits. There was also a lack of children taking pictures with the [...]
Posted in The Parlor
January 7, 2010 by his blackness
In the one Christmas display at a grocery store, there were all of the decorations, ornaments, lights, candy canes, wrapping paper, and naughty Mrs. Clause gear. It kills me that this was just in the normal Christmas stuff, like this is apart of everyone’s Christmas; a short skirted Mrs. Claus get-up. What would you even [...]
Posted in The Parlor
January 6, 2010 by his blackness
We were in a grocery store and ran across this: This is a chocolate Santa who is looking like an evil gnome or something. There are so many reasons, I don’t think this would fly in the US. I’m not sure who thought this was going to be a great idea, but I guess one [...]
Posted in The Parlor
January 5, 2010 by his blackness
We had a few opportunities to go into Dubai during the Christmas season, and usually enjoyed the various Christmas displays. In Dubai, the malls got it much closer to right, however this time I was truly shocked. In a bookstore, there were all sorts of glittering festive figurines and Christmasy things. Very normal. Here is [...]
Posted in The Parlor
January 4, 2010 by his blackness
So much of Christmas here is encapsulated in the “nice try, but wrong” category. A good example is the available Christmas trees. After much looking, we finally found a store that would sell Christmas trees ,but while walking up to the display I noticed that Middle Eastern Christmas trees can be a bit different than [...]
Posted in The Parlor
January 3, 2010 by his blackness
I thought I would give you guys a glimpse of what Christmas was like out here. The people and stores out here know that westerners love Christmas so they try to accommodate, and most of the time they get it way wrong. I’ll put some of the examples we came across up this week. This [...]
Posted in The Parlor
