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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Forty Feet From Hot Topic

Posted by on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM

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Fnarf 1
Yes, malls have stores in them.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on March 10, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Baconcat 2
You've pretty much smudged your phone's camera lens to the point of being useless. Unless you're intentionally going for that Glamor Shots look.
Posted by Baconcat on March 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Ron Bennington 3
That font is so yoked bra.
Posted by Ron Bennington on March 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM
4

Are you looking for "Bennie and the Jets" perhaps?
Posted by Rock of the Westies on March 10, 2010 at 11:11 AM
LogopolisMike 5
In the index of my life, I will file this as:

Bad Reputation Comma I Don't Give a Damn About

(the store, not this post)
Posted by LogopolisMike http://logopolis.typepad.com on March 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM
More, I Say! 6
Teehee! Who could have thought someone would create a store that made Hot Topic seem like a more practical and less harrowing option.
Posted by More, I Say! on March 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 7
What the fuck is that supposed to be a photo of? FAIL.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Timmytee 8
What's up? And what has it to do with HT? And why do so many people hate HT? Every time I've ever gone in there (admittedly not more than a half-dozen times) I've gotten great help either finding what I wanted, or an alternative, or deciding they didn't have what I wanted that day, yet I always hear comments like, "Ewww! Hot Topic--Ewww!". What am I missing here? P.S. I'm 60 YO.
Posted by Timmytee on March 10, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Amy Kate Horn 9
They're very different stores, Dom. For instance, I don't think Hot Topic would ever carry TapOut gear.
Posted by Amy Kate Horn on March 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM
michaelp 10
WTF are you doing on the bottom floor of Westlake?
Posted by michaelp on March 10, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Fnarf 11
Young people often make clothing choices that befuddle, amuse, or annoy old people.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on March 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM
12
i pass this place all the time on the way to the gamestop. the female manikins have mega-huge tits and it creeps me out.
Posted by bumblo on March 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM
13
Yeah dude. If this is news to you, you don't get out enough.
Posted by Johnny D on March 10, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Cato the Younger Younger 14
The guys from Jersey Shore have to buy clothes from someplace!
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on March 10, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Baconcat 15
@10: Daiso? Hello, duh.

Plus I reckon with his choice of visual subjects, probably getting new glasses.
Posted by Baconcat on March 10, 2010 at 11:49 AM
COMTE 16
So, this is like the retail clothing equivalent of siting a Burger King right next to a McDonald's?
Posted by COMTE http://www.chriscomte.com on March 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM
blip 17
i think it's more like the mall equivalent of sitting a store that sells things next to another store that sells other things.
Posted by blip on March 10, 2010 at 12:01 PM
TheMisanthrope 18
That's been there for a year or two...
Posted by TheMisanthrope on March 10, 2010 at 12:11 PM
stinkbug 19
@10: Sometimes using the basement of Westlake to access the bus tunnel provides a good change of scenery.
Posted by stinkbug on March 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM
COMTE 20
@17:

Yeah, but most malls have enough sense to site stores that sell similar types of items a bit farther apart than 40 feet.

Unless it's a food court, of course, and even then you don't see Pizza Hut and California Pizza Kitchen right next to each other, now do you?
Posted by COMTE http://www.chriscomte.com on March 10, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Violet_DaGrinder 21
@8

REAL punk-rock people who wear tight torn-up black and purple clothes and band t-shirts are angered by FAKE punk-rock people who have the same uniform. It makes it hard to tell who rocks properly and who is just a conformist suburban poseur.

Or something.
Posted by Violet_DaGrinder http://www.imeem.com/jukeboxmusic51/music/y1malqpG/prince-the-new-power-generation-featuring-eric-leeds-on-f/ on March 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM
22
@11- Exactly.

Also their music is not as good as the music I listened to when I was their age.

And they persist in invading my lawn.

The mall store I find most interesting is "Torrid."
Posted by dwight moody on March 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Fnarf 23
@22, Torrid is good, and so is Forever 21, but the store I get arrested in most often for surreptitiously masturbating in an old raincoat in is Claire's.

@21, seeing as how punk is well along into its fourth decade (fifth, if you count Iggy), I'm not incredibly impressed with their originality whatever band shirts they've got on.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on March 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM
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@20 In what way is Bad Reputation similar to Hot Topic?

Also, malls usually put similar clothing retailers near each other. Take a look at few mall directories and I'm sure you'll notice, for example, that Hollister, A&F, American Eagle, Aeropostale, Express and other similar stores tend to be in the same general area. The same is true for many other types of retailers.
Posted by BrinkleyBoy on March 10, 2010 at 1:13 PM
blip 25
yeah, at the stonestown galleria in SF they put torrid plus-size next to the mrs. fields. same deal.
Posted by blip on March 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM
Dougsf 26
How's that font doing?
Posted by Dougsf on March 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM
27
@25 FTW, thanks for making me laugh out loud in the library.
Posted by Dcal on March 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM
i'm pro-science and i vote 28
hahaha. ftw
Posted by i'm pro-science and i vote http://home.comcast.net/~theyellowdog/joerepublican.htm on March 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM
29
I'm pretty sure that sign contains a subliminal message which reads, "BRO".
Posted by heatherly on March 11, 2010 at 4:21 AM

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