Posts Tagged ‘Marriott Wardman Park’
On Reagan National Airport
22Oct07
The taxi dispatcher blew his whistle: “Reagan National?” he asked, referring to the airport just outside of the city. We shuddered visualizing a similar exchange twenty years in the future and the many monuments that would inevitably be erected to honor our current leaders. But as the cab pulled into the circular drive of the […]
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Tags: Airports, Marriott Wardman Park, Ronald Reagan, Spleen, Washington DC
On Die Tote Stadt
20Oct07
The modern hotel is a mammoth, sprawling fortress on a hill; its endless hallways are dim and silent and uniform except for the temporal, scattered remains of room service left outside a door. If we see anyone at all — and this is rare, although we have been told the hotel is fully occupied — […]
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Tags: Keycard, Marriott Wardman Park, Paranoia, The Dead City