interesting shit

ginormous chinese malls

giant malls invade china! so not only have the chinese picked up the bad american habit of um…becoming fat-asses, but now theyve also embraced the righteous suburban mall culture. the new malls of china are bigger! crazier! a billion stories tall! they figure, hey, we’ve got plenty of land and alot of child labor….why not go ahead and make the biggestest mall imaginable? i say more power to them. having been raised in new jersey, we did nothing but thrive on the mall culture. you would relate with other new jerseyans not by what town you were from, but what highways you were near and which mall you frequented. i was part of the rt 46 willowbrook clan. we would fight prolonged skirmishes with the evil rt 80 rockaway contingency and their armored divisions.

> the mall culture of china (via ny times)