Worst Trend of '08 (Thus Far): McMansion Turrets

A funny aside that hits, for us, on two levels: 1) who doesn’t love reading about absurdly tacky trends and 2) for this writer, who lived in Phoenix for more than twenty years, it’s sometimes good to have that groan of “Oh god, it’s so awful, but it’s so true!” What we’re talking about here is an amazingly fun piece by Jaimee Rose in The Arizona Republic, “Our Turret Syndrome.” It’s about the growing movement in new tracts of housing in the Phoenix-area that include adding turrets to the tops of McMansions.