{"id":518,"date":"2008-07-21T01:49:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T06:49:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-21T01:49:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T06:49:32","slug":"saturday-was-a-lonely-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Saturday was a lonely one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made all the usual calls, but everyone was out of town, busy or just not answering.  I thought about going to see Batman, but all the showings were sold out at every theater (Jesus, it isn&#8217;t THAT good, is it?) in the metro Los Angeles area.  Left with little options I decided to go to the massive mega mega mega mall known as the Woodland Hills Westfield Promenade and just walk around for a while.  I discovered a few things.<\/p>\n<p>#1 due to their uselessness as a timepiece (due to the clocks on every cell-phone) watches are really coming back into style.  There were no less than four &#8220;upscale&#8221; watch stores in the mall.<\/p>\n<p>#2 other than the watch stores, the entire mall was filled with stores that were&#8230;.shall we say&#8230;female-centric.   <\/p>\n<p>#3 the other men there (with their wives\/girlfriends) seemed to be just as depressed to be walking around there as I was<\/p>\n<p>#4 Indian immigrants don&#8217;t understand ATMs, and if I wasn&#8217;t such a nice guy their account would be empty right now.  &#8220;PIN number?  what is your pin number?  -oh, 1234! (thank you, friendly white man)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#5 All along there has been an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm.com\/us\/#\/startpagedefault\/\" title=\"H&#038;M\">H&#038;M<\/a> store only a few miles from my house.  Someone has been driving by the under construction one at 3rd street promenade every week because H&#038;M is her favorite store.  Oh, and ironically the H&#038;M here is right next to a Gelato restaurant&#8230; Ironic because someone loves H&#038;M AND Gelato.  But, no reason for that person to be heading my way anymore, so I guess she&#8217;ll have to NOT shop at her favorite store with Gelato in hand.  (I really need to eat something to get this bitter taste out of my mouth, don&#8217;t I?)<\/p>\n<p>I lied, not everyone was busy, I had actually been invited to a UFC fight party earlier, but decided not to go because the group was planning to go clubbing until 3am afterwards.  I might do other things until 3am, but not clubbing. After I came home from the mall (after stopping off to read at the bookstore) I ended up watching the fight with Justin.  <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/extra\/mma\/news\/story?id=3497166\" title=\"The main event\">The main event<\/a> lasted about one minute and one second, it would have been a short party.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Why did Six Flags replace the creepy dancing old bald man with a spikey haired screaming Japanese man?  What does that mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made all the usual calls, but everyone was out of town, busy or just not answering. I thought about going to see Batman, but all the showings were sold out at every theater (Jesus, it isn&#8217;t THAT good, is it?) in the metro Los Angeles area. Left with little options I decided to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}