I spent the afternoon yesterday reading through Grafton Tanner’s Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. It’s a fun book! It’s some of the best writing I’ve seen on how the internet actually feels right now: disjointed, ephemeral, endlessly complex and yet somehow still fundamentally shallow. One of the main arguments of the book, as […]
Wikipedia: Rolling Acres Mall was a shopping mall located in the Rolling Acres area of Akron, Ohio, United States. Built in 1975, it originally included approximately 21 stores, with Sears as the main anchor store. Later expansions added J. C. Penney, Montgomery Ward, and O’Neil’s, along with a movie theater and food court. Montgomery Ward was converted to Higbee’s in 1986, and then to Dillard’s in 1992, while O’Neil’s became May Company Ohio, Kaufmann’s, […]