Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: malls

  • Things change, pocket change

    Day off today – I took a four-day weekend, no reason – so I headed to the mall in Pleasanton to buy a pair of pants. I have a wedding next month, and every pair of dress pants I own is comically large at this point. I got to the mall at about 10:37, and…

  • Every mall I’ve ever visited (list)

    Here is a list of every mall I have ever visited, that I can remember. A few disclaimers: I only listed enclosed malls (or ones that were enclosed at the time) Some of the names have changed. I’m not going to go through every mall bought by Westfield and change stuff like Fox Hills to…

  • Life and Death of the Pierre Moran Mall

    I watched the Jasper Mall documentary a few weeks ago. It was interesting, but there was something bugging me about it, and I couldn’t put my finger on it. A few days later, I figured it out: Jasper reminds me a lot of Pierre Moran Mall in Elkhart, Indiana where I grew up, but in…

  • Baby powder air freshener time machine

    I went to New Jersey yesterday, in an effort to see something other than my job and my apartment for once. It was okay. I’ve been trying to sleep without Tylenol PM lately, and went through the whole week without taking any. By Friday night at about 11:00, I was pretty much dead, and fell…