Earlier in the day, I was home and happened to hook up the HDTV box when I was cooking dinner. I found this show about querying marble – for marble top counter tops. How garish was my reaction. Sheet marble is great for making beautiful public buildings, but it’s just tacky for counter tops. I guess you want some durable and long lasting – and easier to clean then concrete. But I don’t know. I’m fine with laminate over plywood.

Later on I went to the maul. I had to buy a few things for work. Then I went for a walk in the maul. Talk about everything being tacky. Everything is “buy, buy, buy”, “sale, sale, sale”. They’ve tried to make this faux homey look to the mall, but everything at the maul still looks cheap and tacky. No marble but lots of thin stone flower tiles in places.

Honestly, I don’t get the appeal of a life with so much thin panels marble and granite plastered over plywood and stucco these days.