Is this a step up or down from when they were making kids go to stores in malls instead of houses? Both make me sad 😔🦇
Took a nap and had dreams about breaking into closed malls, people going missing in big empty rooms, dosed tea, piles of clothing, staying in strange houses, and girls fighting over Joel Robinson
especially if you set forth to emulate malls from a certain time period it’s a lot of fun, pulling from the places we’ve both grown up with alongside places we’ve just been passing through in the past to build something emblematic of the era was just a ton of fun
Mark my words, the future for the dead & dying malls will be as retirement homes for Gen Xers
there should be old town shopping streets and souks, not suburban american-style shopping malls with security checkpoints. every time i was there i could see how the landscape could be restored, if only all those ugly cities across gush dan and the sharon plain were torn down.
How is it that every single time I need to go to a US Post Office to send something there is essentially a line going out the door? I thought the Postal Service was going the way of shopping malls. Apparently not.
Here, then, is the simplest solution of all to the paradox: people just despise inflation.’ If you enjoy people watching in malls this is a piece you might like by @robarmstrong.bsky.socialon.ft.com/4h5HqlT
A trip to America’s number 3 shopping mall offers answers to what’s really going on
I remember 15ish years ago adults in a JournalFen community complaining about teens in malls and how they should get kicked out during certain hours, I wonder if those thread participants are now complaining about how young people not leaving the house much these days.
It struck me, on my bike ride this morning, that I will never be famous There are no malls left, so I will never be discovered at one Alas, I have officially entered adulthood—