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What's going on with these big public companies is that they want to, and have been, building up major cash reserves because they've been scared since the bubble burst. They also want those big cash reserves to be attractive to prospective bondholders and, to a lesser degree, prospective equity buyers. If that takes firing people, fine by them.

Ummmm, T'pau's Heart and Soul? That's pretty cool actually. I wonder if she knows "I Can't Wait". Man I want to hear dogs bark the melody of "I Can't Wait" so bad.

If I sell something to someone or get free promotion from them, I definitely don't care if it was done ironcially. I still got your money.

It was 2-3 years ago that I started purging anything ironic from my life. All those t-shirts I bought in college from the thrift store wound up right back there. Once I spent enough time in the full-time work world I realized that the ironic stuff wasn't cool; it was just insulting.

Nobody labels themselves "Hipster".

That BP was one of those crappy ones with the convenience store it the middle of all the pumps. The selection in those kind is usually terrible as compared to the kind with the store in the back.

I don't think the traffic's really all that bad. The traffic lights are just really boring.

Everything's dated somehow.

Choice to them I guess. Hipster neighborhoods aren't for everyone as MTS is pointing out.

Argh, want to see how this team does in postseason but can't.

Nowadays it's called Arena District West, but I don't really know what people called it before. The Dublin Road Stub End? LOL "That part of town that only people who work there know about."

I partied with them one night when they were on tour with Toxic Holocaust and Municipal Waste in 2008. Their roadie/merch guy Cliff lived in Cincinnati at the time so they stayed at his house. I was friends with him and another guy who lived there who opened the show as local support. There's a picture out there of us, them and Joel from Toxic Holocaust chugging liquor in Cliff's kitchen.

Retro late '80s thrash metalhead is actually an officially recognized form of hipster that I've seen on hipster identification charts. Don't get too crazy with your Skeletonwitch shirts, flip caps and giant Reebok high tops, people. And no blasting Heathen out of a Chevette.

And they say "Not!" a lot.

But the stuff was purchased from a really obscure dead mall that you probably haven't heard of.

Oh, that will be nice. Abandoned lumberyards in the middle of a city are never good.

And SUVs full of teens in "safe" exurbs continue to roll over daily.

Gap and Kohl's clothing is really screwing up Johio's hipster cred, though. Those stores are in malls.

If you're running a shop in a busy, fully functioning mall, though, you'll be swimming in money in no time. There is no substitute for the hot mall as far as being able to open up and just sell stuff. No waiting years as your clientele slowly builds. No having to spend a ton of money on marketing and advertising. You don't even have to bother with a website if you don't want to. And one negative review on Google or Yelp won't cripple you. Only you and your staff's inability to run a proper store can screw it up. Or a lack of start up cash.

I've never been to Polaris Mall (that thing is WAY up there), but apparently it's now part-mall, part-lifestyle center like Kenwood. One of the anchors closed and they turned that into the lifestyle center. Polaris was one of the last malls ever built in the U.S. Tuttle will probably conk out faster than Polaris, but it's still going to be a while.

D'oh, just as Bernie said that he would like to have 7 Grands Prix here in the States. But Bernie talks a lot.

Eddy's Bread: Good... to eat!

I think a lot of people just feel weird in malls any more. Not so much in the Cincinnati area, which still has three busy malls and two somewhat-traveled malls in addition to the two dead ones, but enclosed malls are really on the way out. People associate malls with this bygone era when people had tons of money and free time to kill. And there's been so much talk of dead malls over the past 10 years that it has kind of tarnished the whole concept.

All these old b&w pictures from the clear-cut days of Cincinnati make it look like it's in Southern California.