gbs_0004 birdmad going north from gbs_0002 or gbs_0003, our first potential stop is another small cluster of shops, including a struggling Japanese fast-food restaurant, which has been adversely impacted by the effects of the rail construction project, and a liquor store (surprisingly, the thing you will find me buying most often from this place is the occasional bag of Cheetos and a lot of Diet Pepsi, though i will sometimes procure the occasional bottle of something stiff and blurry) follow the sidewalk north for a few hundred yards/metres and witness the shopping mall that exemplifies the Chris Rock joke about how there are two kinds of shopping malls, "Malls white people go to, and malls white people USED TO go to" when i was a high school kid, it was one, now it is the other, it's a fair bit more downscale than it used to be, i buy my cat food at the pet supply shop, get my video games from the appropriate shop and alternately buy some more of my groceries either at the Great Satan (wal mart) when necessity dictates, or the new Target, being far removed from my teenage years, the mall no longer holds the appeal it once did, though when i do have the time and money, the movie theater on the east side of the complex is always worthwhile further north, just beyond the distance i like to walk when carrying more than a backpack full of new purchases, perishable or otherwise is an organic grocer and a used bookstore, though they both happen to be on next week's to-do list home: gbs_0003 hub: gbs_0002 southward: gbs_0005 080114 what's it to you? who go blather from