Fake Plastic Trees

At Birdsong Brewery in Charlotte North Caroilina there are (popular!) beers that are flavored with sage, and another with jalapeño. I'm an open-minded eater and drinker, but these beers taste like Thanksgiving stuffing and the floor of a Mexican restaurant, respectively. I asked the tap room attendant (maybe only 21 years old) why one of the beers is called "Fake Plastic Trees" and she proceeded to tell me it's a song by Radiohead. Thanks young lady, I bet that beer tastes like a house on fire smells.

That's a story that only weakly segues into my blog entry about incognito palm trees in Dubai, which I'm sure are concrete.

See anything interesting in this picture? Not the tallest building in the world...

To the left is a really tall Palm tree, standing alone in a sandy patch of desert. In North Caroilna we have really tall fake pine trees for cell phone towers, here in Dubai, they are palm tree cell phone towers.

Another cool fake palm tree in Dubai, which I haven't seen yet, is a wifi hot spot/ mobile phone quick charge station, which are at many of the beaches and also Zabeel park. They sound really interesting, are free for everyone to use, and are something I will take pictures of and blog about when it becomes cooler than 47 C/ 117 F.