Whilst performing god-fatherly duties in Atlanta, (Thomas, Diane, on the occasion of the christening of your beautiful daughters, tell me. Who do you need whacked?) we're staying at a local Holiday Inn Express. Their latest marketing promotion is "Stay Smart", where they decided to label everything with friendly, lowercase, bold Ariel font with things like "rinse", "cleanse", "soft"/"firm", "dry" and other adjectives which makes me wonder what the heck some folks are thinking. "Clem! C'mere. Look, this here tube says tame! This will be great if'n we're attacked by bears!"
The other thing i really can't get over is the fact that they have a price sheet for used linens. In some respects, these are pretty good deals. Granted, if you're ok with having the protein remains of a vast portion of the population festering in your bedroom, $10 for a pillow is a heck of a lot cheaper than swinging by Bed, Bath and Beyond. Ok, that's probably not the best thing to think about, particularly since folks in the hotel industry tend to bring their own sheets and pillows, but that's not what we're talking about right now.
Maybe pouring a vile or two of that "freshen" stuff might help…
and then setting them on fire.
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Good eye, it does look like Arial (not the mermaid, Ariel) not Helvetica.
An odd choice. There's a lot of subconscious goodness in using the classic "H". Maybe the intern did the design.
The Larkspur Landing(*) hotel I was in Thursday night pretty much tried to sell me the whole room. Who the hell shops at the hotel? After seeing a bag of peanuts in the mini-bar will cost you $5, does anything there seem like a good deal?
(*) By the way, these people know how to treat business travelers. I guess I should qualify that. They know how to treat business travelers well.