Eek of the Week: Uh-Oh, Christmas Tree

November 25, 2008 @ 9:31 am • Filed under The view from here

Yours for only $499.99, and maybe it's just as well I can't figure out how to make it bigger.

Never would have known the thing exists if yesterday hadn’t been such a slow mail day I actually looked through a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog before putting it on the recycle pile.

And there was our festive Eek of the Week. It’s 7.5 feet tall, made of powder coated steel, lit with 1150 little red lights that “create a scarlet luminescence.”

Shooting fish in a barrel, I know, but still…