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you should've seen Luke
Over a nearly six-hour lunch-turned-dinner with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
khaleesian today, we talked too loudly about fandom, she fretted over my lack of sweaters for New York, we toasted to mutual regrets of omission rather than commission, and managed not to cry on each other while saying I love you, man. Sniff.
Then she showed me the episode of Supernatural where Sam and Dean are the stars of a novel series and promptly discover they-know-we're-brothers-right? fandom, and I had to hide behind my fingers for a while. Why anyone thinks it's a good idea to enlighten the actors and production team of a show about what we do in their sandbox will never make sense to me.
Day 3: Marina Mall (February 2008)
The capital is studded with malls, but this one with its newly renovated movie theater, Zyng (Asian fusion), Caribou Coffee, H&M, Forever 21 and giant Carrefour is probably the best. It sits on its own little island just off coast of Abu Dhabi's Corniche, which it appropriately shares with a small heritage village, what used to be the world's tallest free-standing flagpole, a sandy concert area and a whole lot of eye-wateringly expensive villas. Really, a microcosm of the Emirates.
This particular cafe, besides looking pleasingly like a life-size board game, serves surprisingly generous sandwiches, but it's what's just out of frame to the right that remains a much-discussed topic. This mall once aspired to the Mall of the Emirates' SkiDubai, though SnoWorld was never meant to be more than a short downhill toboggan run. So they built the glass enclosure and ramp, and even filled it with snow - which lasted about a week and caused several stores to flood and generally ruined the entire mall's climate control system. This was about four years ago. To this day, all that remains of the experiment is the SnoWorld signage, a child-size ice rink, the abandoned ramp, and a lot of stores all around it that, rumor has it, stay rent-free because no one comes to what should've been the family entertainment hub of the mall.
Sorry about the sad story.
khaleesian today, we talked too loudly about fandom, she fretted over my lack of sweaters for New York, we toasted to mutual regrets of omission rather than commission, and managed not to cry on each other while saying I love you, man. Sniff.Then she showed me the episode of Supernatural where Sam and Dean are the stars of a novel series and promptly discover they-know-we're-brothers-right? fandom, and I had to hide behind my fingers for a while. Why anyone thinks it's a good idea to enlighten the actors and production team of a show about what we do in their sandbox will never make sense to me.
Day 3: Marina Mall (February 2008)
The capital is studded with malls, but this one with its newly renovated movie theater, Zyng (Asian fusion), Caribou Coffee, H&M, Forever 21 and giant Carrefour is probably the best. It sits on its own little island just off coast of Abu Dhabi's Corniche, which it appropriately shares with a small heritage village, what used to be the world's tallest free-standing flagpole, a sandy concert area and a whole lot of eye-wateringly expensive villas. Really, a microcosm of the Emirates.
This particular cafe, besides looking pleasingly like a life-size board game, serves surprisingly generous sandwiches, but it's what's just out of frame to the right that remains a much-discussed topic. This mall once aspired to the Mall of the Emirates' SkiDubai, though SnoWorld was never meant to be more than a short downhill toboggan run. So they built the glass enclosure and ramp, and even filled it with snow - which lasted about a week and caused several stores to flood and generally ruined the entire mall's climate control system. This was about four years ago. To this day, all that remains of the experiment is the SnoWorld signage, a child-size ice rink, the abandoned ramp, and a lot of stores all around it that, rumor has it, stay rent-free because no one comes to what should've been the family entertainment hub of the mall.
Sorry about the sad story.