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Mall living - 8/16/2008 11:36:46 AM   
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this is great! well, except for the no private bathroom part.. oh, and the getting arrested part...

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 11:41:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Back in the old college days, I worked in a mall. I'd work all day long sometimes... They sort of ran together.

*That* sort of "living in the mall" totally sucked.

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Malls became antidotes to the typically isolated and alienating spaces of suburbia: lonely stretches of highway and echoey McMansions. There we congregate and the worries of the world disappear into the thrum of Muzak and met expectations -- they are their own gated communities.

"We're living on a planet that's going to hell in a handbag," said architect and architectural critic Michael Sorkin. "At the mall, you enter a condition of perfect climate control, where it's clean and orderly and you are not forced in any way to confront reality."


Yeah, it was a lot like that.

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 11:46:54 AM   
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Maybe it's me but it didn't link to an article, just to Salon's front page.

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 11:49:24 AM   
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I got the link originally from Yahoo's main page.. see if that works, I guess *sigh*

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 12:06:19 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 12:15:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am 44 and thankfully this was BEFORE malls everywhere suburbia.

I did not make my first purchases at a mall.  The local drug store and grocer is where. The neighborhood had a brush and bottle figurine shop.  [you buy a plaster peice and paint it how you want] [man was that fun!!]

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 12:23:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK I was able to read it now.  Mall living - yuck.  I hate malls.  I hate everything about them.  Yuck yuck yuck.  Living in one would be life in hell!

When I was in Seattle a few months ago I went to the bathroom at Pike's Market - WOW that was an experience.  About 4 homeless women had overtaken the handicap stall as their own little bungalow.  The place reeked of food, garbage, waste, alcohol and pot.  Somehow I think that's a little different than "mall living," though.  No thanks to either. 

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 12:41:28 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 12:54:11 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 2:37:24 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 4:38:11 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 4:49:24 PM   
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Some of my friends were joking about the possibility of living in a 24 hour Wal-Mart if it had a grocery section  inside.  You could loose someone in electronics and find them sleeping between clothing racks or in sporting goods.   If they swiped some of the employee vests and old name tags they could go unnoticed for days, maybe even weeks!

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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 5:47:30 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 5:50:41 PM   
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RE: Mall living - 8/16/2008 6:38:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Vendaval.. all the super walmarts around here HAVE groceries ;)

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