Rachael and I went to the market today, and I bought a Mao Zedong alarm clock- as you do- for the princely sum of $10. I'm absolutely in love with it. It's essentially a tin can with a very basic movement in it, so the ticking is more of a clunking, and the bells don't work unless you turn the key yourself. So it won't be much use for waking the workers of the republic. It just has tons of historical flavour- I'm sure the radium on the hands has done terrible things to a few factory workers in its time.
The green hand, clutching a little red book, waves emphatically as the hands move- I have yet to see if it's glow in the dark, I really do hope so. I can't imagine anything I'd like more than a glowing green arm, eerily denouncing my bourgeois lifestyle, bobbing about in the night.
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That is indeed an awesome clock.
I own a Mao pocket watch. It has a picture of him engraved on the front, and on the back it says 'Mao Ze Dong 100th year birthday anniversary'. Wouldn't we be a pair with our communist time-telling devices?
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