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Eddie Money is playing at our shopping mall tonight..

Your chance to hear "Two Tickets to Paradise" in the Bloomingdale's Courtyard at Fashion Island. Other things you can do tonight include stabbing yourself in the face and head, drinking a glass of warm vinegar, and looking at photos of skin diseases.

It's Wednesday night in Orange County. What are you all waiting for? THE NIGHT IS CALLING YOU
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The "johari window" mostly has complimentary or at least non-pejorative adjectives in it. This is good because people are more likely to be honest if they don't have to avoid bad adjectives (capricious, drunk, totaly retarted) and partly because it's less likely to cause fist fights.

Unsurprisingly the person with the least complimentary set of adjectives chose a pseudonym.

At the Ralphs tonight someone had brought an entire binder of coupons. It went on and on and on. There was only one checker. Coupons Galore was a large round young woman with a blonde ponytail, accompanied by a short round young woman and a large goofy guy with hair all over the place. They looked like they were on their way to an Insane Clown Posse show or just to get arrested. But she was a coupon nut. The poor checker was starting to lose his cool, and the line was stacking up. The guy behind me cracked "Coupons are illegal after midnight". It went on and on. A few minutes later the dark-haired woman shot me an angry look and mumbled at me. "Eh?" I said. "It's just COUPONS. What's funny?" I said "I have no problem with coupons." "Well what's so FUNNY?" The guy behind me said "Coupons are funny." She made him repeat it twice and then said "WELL WE COME IN HERE AFTER MIDNIGHT BECAUSE WE FIGURE NO ONE'S HERE." She was looking at me for some reason, and I recalled now that she was glaring at me in the aisles earlier too. And now she was getting all street, yo, and throwing some Angry Mexican Girl vibe. "If you don't give me any attitude I won't give you any, how's that?" I asked cheerfully.

Then another checker arrived and we all went to him. The end.

In the horrible mall down by where Bave and Dethya live, the one that looks like the Sherman Oaks Gallery turned into a half-solved Lament Configuration, there is an "italian" restaurant called, no joke, VER-SA-CHEE.

I love sitting at the bar at D's chatting with Michelle. She's so great.
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In 1997 I had a very close call. I was living in Kansas City at the time. I went to the mall to get something you get at malls like underwear or light bulbs, and when I came out of a store I noticed lots of security guys and roadies, and something being set up that looked like a big stage. I asked what was going on and they said that current teen sensation "Hanson" was playing. I fled, and noticed as I peeled out of the parking lot that there was a mass of > 1000 teenagers being held in a sort of feeding pen in one corner of the parking lot about to be loosed into the mall. It would have been as bad as this disaster, I bet. I would have been turned into Chick Fil-A in moments.

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