Dubailand

Sorry I've been so inactive. Not that any of you all care. And by 'you all', I mean, the people that are non-existent. Because I'm not famous yet.

WELL! The good news is that I've accumulated a fair amount of information to relay to you via the blogosphere. First order of business?

Dubailand.

Well, not so much Dubailand as Dubai itself...I just read a fascinating article about the place, and it has given me a fucking ass-load of inspiration for my writing. And that's not just gay innuendo.

Apparently the place is growing and developing at a skyrocketing pace. Like, so fast that there's a permanent dust cloud above the area because of all the construction. It's got some sort of international economic cause that's too confusing for me to delve into right now, but from what I understand it has to do almost entirely with the price of oil and Saudi oil moguls.

It seems to me (And to US News, apparently) that Dubai (and a few other states around the Persian Gulf) is turning into a supermodern land of business opportunity, colossal architectural achievement, and biggest things in the world.

I smell a fictional capital of the world in the making. My latest story is dealing with a post-apocalyptic world, and I need to be creating a planet earth of the near future, so that I can effectively demonstrate its destruction. It'd be incredible to have that kind of historical detail in a sci-fi epic. And I'm gonna work on it.

I'm mostly writing this down so I don't forget to write about this. I have serious ADD with my story plots.