Dad’s Pants

Dad’s pants? I haven’t posted in a month after being banned the Chinese government and the title of this one is Dad’s Pants? It was the Olympics, not the tailor shop (which, I incidentally visited multiple times). But, anyway, while I toil away on getting you all up to speed, enjoy these photos of the new China Central Television tower, lovingly referred to by some Beijingers as Dad’s Pants. Along with the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube, the building is one of the city’s favorite new architectural gems, and I nearly broke my neck staring at it each time I passed it in a taxi. Since its construction isn’t quite complete and it isn’t yet lit up like a Christmas tree (or Chinese lantern), the building is barely distinguishable from the dark, smoggy sky around it in the evenings. It therefore looms in the night sky, and illogically made me think that it was about to fire a laser or tractor beam at any minute, that is how modern, unusual, and huge it is. Or, that is just how weird my thought process is. It’s up to you.