So, at the Wheel we have this area in our offices that’s an anti-Shrine to everyone’s favorite Chinese communist, Chairman Mao! It started off as a single item and as a place to vent anger and direct it at Mao (instead of at each other), but it’s grown into a rather interesting collection of items. To outsiders, it could – quite fairly – seem odd.

We have, for example, a bust of Mao’s head, a propaganda poster, a Mao alarm clock, some Chinese currency, and a little red book. We also have a t-shirt – my contribution, thank you very much – from threadless, haha, that’s called the Communist Party. Get it? It’s a party and they’re all — okay, fine, whatever.


Basically, what we do with our anti-Shrine is that we write Notes to Mao (as you can see from the many post-it notes). I’ve photographed a sampling of these here.



Anyhow, I only mention this because we had a Mao/guerrilla warfare/Dave’s 21st birthday party last night and it was fun. I’m trying to refrain from posting pictures of people on here (I don’t suppose people would like finding out there’s photos of them splashed across my blog) so instead you get pictures of our Mao anti-shrine. For the party, we all dressed up as communist guerrilla soldiers, red armbands and all.

I worked especially hard on my outfit because I knew I couldn’t let a bunch of newsroom dorks out-Chinese me. Meg was our gracious host and we decorated her place with Chinese and Soviet flags and red balloons. Dave’s shirt read: “It’s MAO Birthday.” Yeah, I know that’s pretty terrible, haha. It’s too bad none of us are going to be able to find employment after the pictures from the party surface, but I suppose you can’t win them all.

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