Dallas- Gaylord Hotel

Well, I thought that the MGM Grand was the pinnacle of wretched excess but I forgot we were going to the Gaylord Texas-a testament to the notion that America thinks spending untold millions of dollars on a pretentious, kitschy, indoor artifical recreation of the canyonlands is really what America needs. And sure enough, rubes and suits alike flock here in droves to experience this crudely gauche, ersatz natural wonderland (under a dome!) spawned from the boardrooms of cynical corporations hell-bent on separating Americans from their cash no matter how low the barrel of bad taste must be scraped. Loathsome. 

 -GB (footage courtesy of JZ.)