gerisullivan | Nov. 28th, 2007

On the Merritt Parkway, there's a cell tower pretending to be a tree. (scroll down to the 9th picture on the page)

ybmcu has a running joke about the cell tower standing there stridently proclaiming, "I'm a tree! I'm a tree! Really, I'm a tree!" Only nobody's ever going to believe it -- it's plastic disguise isn't anywhere nearly clever enough, especially considering that it's pretty much three times the height of any real tree for several states in every direction.

All of which is to explain why you'll understand my subject line after taking the video tour of the giant moose they're going to build in northern Sweden. Complete with a concert hall and restaurant inside, each seating 350 people. And five conference rooms that you get to by going down a spiral staircase in the moose's front right leg and then into the belly of the moose.

There's even a fake pine tree involved, this one with an elevator inside, taking you up to the entry point in the moose's mouth. Which leads to the bizarre voiceover in the film: "Inside the mouth, between the teeth and the tonsils, you'll find the reception [area] and gift shop."

For more detail, see this article and the moose's website.

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