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I had the CREEPIEST experience yesterday. It really jolted me.
It's been a long time since I've gone into a Federal office building anywhere except DC, and in DC I'm always assuming that everything there is Weird Central, anyway, so nothing can creep me out. But yesterday I had to go into a Federal office building here in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe is a sleepy little town except when/where the lege is in session and/or the tourists are swarming. They're swarming now, but 70s-era blocky boring public office buildings are not exactly part of the Santa Fe Tourist Experience, so you could have dropped half a ton of confetti in that atrium without hitting anyone but a bored-looking security guy manning the scanner.
For some reason, I took a moment to look around me. Let's face it, Federal office buildings are much of a muchness, that lobby could have been in any city in America. Acres of blank, clean vinyl flooring, brass-framed glass doors and floor-to-ceiling windows, marble-faced walls around the elevator bay and metal-edged wood panels elsewhere. Framed notices about evacuation procedures and security procedures, taped-up notices by the elevator bay about Amway sales and the collection being taken up for someone's kid wounded in Iraq (New Mexico has a LOT of our native sons/daughters deployed over there, way more than most states in proportion to our small population.)
Nothing I didn't expect. Except then I looked over to the big double glass doors that led through the building lobby to the Post Office next door. And over those doors was something else I expected to see in a Federal building -- a portrait of Our Fearless Leader, framed under glass and about 24" by 20" -- and something I did NOT expect to see:
A portrait EXACTLY the same size, in EXACTLY the same frame, of Doctor Evil himself, our smarmy, sneering, embodiment-of-sleaze VEEPER! Hung right next to the Chimperor's portrait, on the same level, like the Demon Twins they are.
OK, now, please... somebody... WHEN did it become practice to put the VEEPER's portrait up in Federal buildings? Right next to the President's? Like Frick and Frack, Abbott & Costello, whatever... I have never seen this before. It chilled me. What is going on?
worriedly, Bright
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