Inspired Christmas baubles for a surveillance business-model Xmas

Remember when Internet Person JWZ began to append sarcastic messages to the "This building monitored by CCTV" sign that appeared without warning in his lobby ("FEAR THE UNKNOWN – MONSTERS ARE REAL" "DON'T SUSPECT YOUR NEIGHBOR: REPORT HIM!" "DRONE STRIKES AUTHORIZED 7PM – 5AM")? Eventually he got bored of it, but he's brought it back this Xmas, in Christmas Bauble form.

After someone erected a proud Festive Shrub in the lobby, JWZ braved Target, bought an XL bag of baubles, and decorated them with appropriately themed notes and messages (Update: less than 24h later, someone threw them all away):

Also I was sad that even though I got emails saying "Keep it up!" from a few other tenants of my building, when I was out of town for a week, nobody was willing to step up and continue the stickering in my absence. Throw me a bone here, people.

Anyway, this year someone put a Christmas tree in our lobby. It had lights but no ornaments, and last night, when I was having some of my "thinkin' juice" and got that question about the stickers, I said to myself I said, "You know what I oughtta do..!"

EXERCISE VAGUE JOY [JWZ]

EXERCISE VAGUE JOY [JWZ]



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