I’m watching the boston fireworks on TV
(Shipping Up to Boston makes me feel very nostalgic for the city even though it was recorded years after I left the town.)
That’s my celebration of the 4th, I guess.
I’m back in San Diego, this time I’m here to attend a friend’s wedding.
A main problem of traveling on holidays is that nothing is open. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade circa 1988. Couldn’t find a place open to use the bathroom for what seemed like hours.
This evening, I went to find dinner. The place I intended to go was closed, of course, so I went across the strip mall to look for something else. This is perhaps the longest strip mall ever made. I walked across perhaps half a mile of parking lot. This place was big enough to have a TGI Fridays, a Boston Market, a Marshall’s, a Mervins, a Shoe Pavillion, a Payless Shoes, a Barnes and Nobles, an In N Out, and probably 50 more establishments….I got brisket at Joey’s BBQ.
Then I saw Wall E. It was really good. Pretty interesting concept for a film–and impressive that they made a compelling film about robots virtually without dialog.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I’m pretty sure San Diego itself is the longest strip mall ever made :-)