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My parents' town is suburban. To be more specific, it is this town. Aside from the complex described in this article, the town also has a very big shopping mall that my folks tell me may someday be converted to a similar live-work-play space. If this does not happen soon then the mall is going the way of all malls, evocative of Shelley's "Ozymandias," except instead of sand it has a lot of parking. I spent a lot of time at this mall when I was a rad teen. I also worked a seasonal job at Lush at a different mall when I was in community college. America's lack of public health infrastructure means I will never drift breezily past that scent fortress in any mall ever again. This is a hauntological experience. Here in the US, the spatial dimensions of 1990s consumer culture have been gradually reduced by time and the slow collapse of brick and mortar. YouTube is full of urban explorers picking through these former consumer havens, now scenes of desolation. The pandemic will most likely bring the mall concept to its final reckoning. It will probably not be missed. Whew sorry, I gathered a bag of colorful rocks from the Rainforest Cafe and accidentally opened my third eye. I'm fine now. If you're good maybe we'll go on the indoor carousel. But only if you don't touch anything!!!
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Jul 27, 2020 16:32
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*immediately goes to Hot Topic*
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Jul 27, 2020 16:39
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Let's get some quarters and go to the arcade.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:41
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This sucks, dude! Let's go to the empty parking lot.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:44
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*skips class to hang out with a cutie at the mall's coffeeshop and food court and people watch* *fails out of college*
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Jul 27, 2020 16:44
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*Turns baseball cap for team I don't watch backwards*
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Jul 27, 2020 16:44
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Hits up the Natural Wonders store. Buys some benwa balls and a little clay flute.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:44
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Be careful, OP. Last time I was at the mall this guy from Fashionable Male tried to beat a raincheck into my stomach and screw my girlfriend somewhere very uncomfortable once. 
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Jul 27, 2020 16:45
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I wasn't even supposed to be here! It's my day off
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Jul 27, 2020 16:50
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Dude they have Animaniacs shirts over at the Warner Bros Studio Store. I'm going to ask if they have any Freakazoid ones, too.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:50
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gonna buy a green day album at the wall
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Jul 27, 2020 16:50
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Have you heard about marylin manson dude I heard he removed his ribs so he can suck his own dick!
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Jul 27, 2020 16:51
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I'm gonna play DDR with my friends for hours at the movie theatre better wear my dancin shoes. 
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Jul 27, 2020 16:52
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Movie theater just jacked up the fuckin' prices, man. 6 bucks to get in? The Mask was really funny, though. Ssssssssssssssmokin'! He says that in the movie.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:54
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I'm going to buy stuff at Sears
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Jul 27, 2020 16:56
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Orange Julius first, and then we're hitting It's Your Move to see if they have the newest Dragon Magazine in yet.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:56
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I'm gonna pick up Red Alert at Software Etc
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Jul 27, 2020 16:58
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getting a kid's meal at Taco Bell
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Jul 27, 2020 17:01
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Hey, KB Toys set up a little table outside the front door with a little robotic dog that does a flip. It's pretty sweet, I guess. Last week there was a guy there with a light up hacky sack, though, that was really loving cool. I couldn't afford one but maybe with my birthday money I'll get one.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:04
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Think anybody ever peed in these fountains?
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Jul 27, 2020 17:04
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Nah, I don't want to go to Game Stop. Lets go to Funco Land or Electronics Boutique instead.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:06
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Big Beef City posted:Be careful, OP. What, like the back of a Volkswagen?
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Jul 27, 2020 17:07
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There's a Pogs competition this weekend
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Jul 27, 2020 17:08
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Mom! I need quarters for the arcade. Mooooooom! No, I don't want to try on new khaki pants at JC Penney, just let me go to the arcade.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:12
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Doc Fission posted:I was a rad teen
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Jul 27, 2020 17:16
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Universe Master posted:Mom! I need quarters for the arcade. Mooooooom! No, I don't want to try on new khaki pants at JC Penney, just let me go to the arcade. "how do they feel in the crotch? too tight? too loose? the crotch, dear, the length is fine CHECK THE CROTCH" MOOOOOOOOOOMMM!
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Jul 27, 2020 17:18
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Terminator 2 The Arcade Game was bitchin'. Let's go get an orange julius and gently caress around with all the cool stuff at natural wonders.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:25
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Pahilla the Hun posted:"how do they feel in the crotch? too tight? too loose? the crotch, dear, the length is fine CHECK THE CROTCH" *whispers* no mom...i don't need husky pants.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:25
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I'm not going to the Disney Store it's FOR BABIES!!!!! I'm going to the Discovery Channel store to buy some astronaut ice cream and one of those birds you balance on your finger. I'm gonna take it to school and show off so girls are bound to like me.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:31
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*stares at the half wall of incense in Hot Topic* ...man that's a lot of different incense.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:32
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Daikloktos posted:You do seem like you were probably pretty cool, to be so cool now Thank you. For that I'm ordering you an extra slice at the Sbarro
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Jul 27, 2020 17:32
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My mom says I'm not allowed to go into the back part of Spencer's Boutique but I went back there and before the saleswoman asked me to leave I saw a fuckin' rubber dick!!!! A big rubber dick!!!! What kind of store is that place?
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Jul 27, 2020 17:43
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I could go for an Auntie Anne's pretzel.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:50
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Time to hit up the Wizards of the Coast store and buy some random RPG stuff and stare at the orgg statue again
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Jul 27, 2020 17:53
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Hello. I am a giant building made of concrete and rebar. I possess no sentience, so it is amazing I am communicating this to you. e: ah, gently caress, in a mall
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Jul 27, 2020 17:55
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I could go for an Auntie Anne's pretzel. poo poo, me too. I got a dollar, that should be enough.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:57
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*looks at girls but doesn't talk to girls*
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Jul 27, 2020 18:02
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Helpful hint - New monthly editions of your favorite magazines are available on the second Tuesday of the month at Waldenbooks.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:04
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What the gently caress are "pogs"?
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*starts humming "Mmmbop" and doesn't realize how loud he's getting with it* What? No, I was uh.... I was singing that song because of how STUPID it is. Hanson sucks, I hate those guys and I definitely hate that music video where they do skateboard tricks and stuff. It's so lame. *continues humming Mmmbop, but quieter this time*
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