i grew up with malls, loved malls as a kid. the mall near my house was called cinderalla city. it had amazing flying saucer-like light fixtures that i imagined putting into sci-fi movies some day. the parking lot had structural problems. the concrete deck sagged dramatically so that driving across it made you sick to your stomach. cinderalla city turned into a pumpkin and has since rotted away. a new, more glamorous mall replaced it, much like the new and popular susquehanna mall that we visited as bugs last weekend. gabriel, mike and i with a troupe of acrobats from philadelphia, flew our 16-foot tall butterflies about the mall delighting, terrorizing and non-plusing the shoppers. some of the most receptive people to the bugs were teen boys. this surprised me. lots of older grumpy men were heard to say things like, "i can't believe they pay people to do that." but, mostly, people smiled, laughed, teen girls wanted hugs, and lots of people told us how "cool" they were. the butterfly puppets were invited to perform as part of a butterfly celebration at the mall. there were real butterflies in a pavilion near the entrance and butterfly balloons, stickers and other paraphernalia. many people choose to spend their entire saturday at the mall. i noticed quite a few people who didn't appear to shop much. they mostly seemed to enjoy just being there. some meandered the halls people-watching or pretending to be on some kind of mission.
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