Above: Xmas time, Hotel Fantod style (Part 2). The trees in front of our building have been elaborately adorned with winter-blue Xmas lights, but whoever did the job chose not to follow the traditional method of stringing the lights throughout the tops of the trees, opting rather to densely coil the lights around a section of the trees’ middles, i.e. the trunks and thickest limbs, starting twelve feet off the ground and stopping partway up each branch. At night, the overall effect is that the building is guarded by a line of floating luminous icy clawed tentacle-hands of death.
