New Jersey: The Promised Land--MALLS
Whoa. Two days in a row? This is crazy, but I'm just in a Jersey mood, folks, so here we go!
New Jersey has a lot of malls. Within half an hour of my home, I can think of the Bergen Mall (or whatever it's called now), Garden State Plaza, Jersey Gardens, Willowbrook, Wayne Towne Center, Paramus Park, Livingston Mall, Rockaway, not to mention multiple strip malls and big stores on the highways. Now, you might think this is silly. You might even say, "But Dave, how is this a good thing? It's a mall."
Well I will ask you back, what is America built on? Capitalism. Commerce. Buying stuff. Stuff you need, and stuff you don't need. Also, malls create JOBS, and in this economy... you need a job.
Why?
So you can buy stuff.
And where can you get that stuff? New Jersey. That's right. You need it, we got it. Sitting right here, just minutes from you door. You can go out and buy a dress, get a cinnabon, leave that mall go to another one, have some Long John Silver's fish, buy a book (at an Indie, some malls have 'em, oh yeah in Jersey---Styertowne Shopping Center is one that does!!!), leave again, hit a TGIFriday's and then check out LIDs. I'm excited and broke just thinking about it.
We have Macy's, Sterns, Lord and Taylor's--ALL IN ONE PLACE! We have kiosks, cell phones, people asking you to fill out surveys and take your time away. It's all very, very important. And very, very America.
And how does that compare to Kansas (#16)? A quick Yahoo search shows that there are only TEN malls in Kansas. Now that information may be false, but it only has ten malls that rate a Yahoo search? I just named eight malls within a half hour from my house?
So I ask you, what is Kansas doing to promote capitalism? Nothing, they're just a bunch of kids shooting basketballs outside their homes dreaming of hitting that game winning shot. They're fixing their trucks. They're watching football.
The American Dream. Feh. Dreaming never works if you're not doing something about it!
They're not helping out the economy.
That's where NJ comes in. We help out. We dream and we do.
Plus this song by John Gorka, which contains one of my favorite lines: "I'm from New Jersey, I don't expect too much. I'm from New Jersey, if the world ended today, I would adjust."
New Jersey has a lot of malls. Within half an hour of my home, I can think of the Bergen Mall (or whatever it's called now), Garden State Plaza, Jersey Gardens, Willowbrook, Wayne Towne Center, Paramus Park, Livingston Mall, Rockaway, not to mention multiple strip malls and big stores on the highways. Now, you might think this is silly. You might even say, "But Dave, how is this a good thing? It's a mall."
Well I will ask you back, what is America built on? Capitalism. Commerce. Buying stuff. Stuff you need, and stuff you don't need. Also, malls create JOBS, and in this economy... you need a job.
Why?
So you can buy stuff.
And where can you get that stuff? New Jersey. That's right. You need it, we got it. Sitting right here, just minutes from you door. You can go out and buy a dress, get a cinnabon, leave that mall go to another one, have some Long John Silver's fish, buy a book (at an Indie, some malls have 'em, oh yeah in Jersey---Styertowne Shopping Center is one that does!!!), leave again, hit a TGIFriday's and then check out LIDs. I'm excited and broke just thinking about it.
We have Macy's, Sterns, Lord and Taylor's--ALL IN ONE PLACE! We have kiosks, cell phones, people asking you to fill out surveys and take your time away. It's all very, very important. And very, very America.
And how does that compare to Kansas (#16)? A quick Yahoo search shows that there are only TEN malls in Kansas. Now that information may be false, but it only has ten malls that rate a Yahoo search? I just named eight malls within a half hour from my house?
So I ask you, what is Kansas doing to promote capitalism? Nothing, they're just a bunch of kids shooting basketballs outside their homes dreaming of hitting that game winning shot. They're fixing their trucks. They're watching football.
The American Dream. Feh. Dreaming never works if you're not doing something about it!
They're not helping out the economy.
That's where NJ comes in. We help out. We dream and we do.
Plus this song by John Gorka, which contains one of my favorite lines: "I'm from New Jersey, I don't expect too much. I'm from New Jersey, if the world ended today, I would adjust."
Labels: Malls, New Jersey: The Promised Land
posted by Dave White at 3:38 PM
8 Comments:
"I would adjust." that's funny.
"I'm excited & broke just thinking about it." also funny.
this post though - do you not watch the news? Bragging about malls & strip malls of stuff you don't need is really passe' these days...
Of course I watch the news. My point is, WE'RE HELPING THE ECONOMY by fostering commerce.
Where is the "Styretowne Shoppoing Center?"
Whoops. Both errors are fixed. If you really don't know where it is...it's in Clifton. It's more a strip mall than a huge mall, but they're trying.
If you love the malls so much, how come I have to drag you there & you are poorly behaved the whole time?
Hey Mall boy - Stern's no longer exists. You always hated going to the mall and needed some sort of bribe!
this is an exceptionally weak argument. then again, i expect nothing less.
also - without malls there would have been no Dawn of the Dead, which is a wonderful critique of how we got to this current ecnomic state, albeit 20 years after the release.
Really trustworthy blog thanks.
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