♬ Brass Monkey, that funky monkey
Brass Monkey junkie, that funky monkey….♬
I was waiting for a suspect to be announced in the Brass Mill Center mass shooting in Waterbury, Connecticut (33% White, 20% black, 40% mestizo) where five people were shot but now they have named the suspect so here we go…
Brass Mill Center mall in Waterbury reopens following mass shooting
As for the alleged shooter, Tajuan Washington, Thursday was his 20th birthday. He was arraigned and is being held on a $2 million bond.
He is facing multiple charges, including five counts of first-degree assault, carrying a pistol without a permit and criminal use of a firearm.
Well happy birthday Tajuan! Here is the birthday boy….
His attorney looks like a chubby Long Duk Dong and he might want to cut back on the sushi.
Remember when we could go the mall and shop and stuff without gunfire breaking out?
Good times indeed.
They quit making Brass Monkey back in early 2000s but Boone’s Farm is still around and Thunderbird.
I always though the rappin’ Jews the Beastie Boys were making fun of the whole thing on that breakthrough album.
They did sample Led Zeppelin, CCR, Johnny Cash when you could get away with such things.
Back from strip mall temples of consumerism Palookaville where I caught a contact high.
The historic Magic Soil czar is going to have to plant some more if we are going to move the whole world out here, the particle board section 8 apartments all over former farmland is an eyesore.
Sushi? That slant eye shyster has been chowing down on the quintessential American diet of McDonalds and Starbucks, by the looks of it. I need not add any commentary on the gar who cast a pall over the mall, just more of the usual niggotry.
Yeah, I probably should have used an American diet but I had to amp up the racial stereotype a bit.
Sushi? Please, wigga. It should have been something about multiple large dogs mysteriously going missing in his neighborhood. That’s okay though. Use it next time. The goal is “Progress, not perfection.”
[chuckling]
Your image has a stereotype Irish “This punk needs a tune-up!” Cop glaring at the worst society can produce:
* A stereotype Asian, a stereotype inner-city slum-trash.
For the last two, I blame soy.
A liquor store out of Rhode Island has Brass Monkey for $8 a fifth plus $30 shipping.
That sounds like money well spent
Coincidentally, there was a stabbing just this morning around 2 am outside the Brass Monkey nightclub in San Antonio, following an “accidental shoulder check” that led to 3 victims hospitalized. Mestizos, rather than pongids, hence knives instead of Hi-Points. Same hypersensitivity to slight, apparently.
Oooh, I will have to check that one out!
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/first-target-now-dollar-general-why-dr-jamal-bryant-is-asking-people-boycott-company/PM7H54BE7ZD7BJ7V5ENH3V33OE/
Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant has now started a new boycott against discount store giant Dollar General.
Bryant started the Target boycott earlier this year after the retail giant rolled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in step with an executive order by President Donald Trump.
Now, he is asking people to boycott Dollar General because they have done away with their DEI programs as well.
Target was already on my permanent shit list for their embrace of faggotry, and kissing ass to niggotry during the Fentanyl Floyd incident, in which their Lake Street, Mpls store was completely destroyed, and then gutted to the bare shell and rebuilt (with “minority contractors”) at great expense in a sickening display of further obsequience. Well, those among other reasons, that go back two plus decades.
The glory of Big Ruckus has never once graced a Dollar General, and I don’t foresee any circumstances where it would. On the other hand, I’m not one who is inclined to do what some jive ass preacher spook tells me to. So, my ongoing boycott of both will be strictly for my own reasons.
Dollar General is trash but if you need a loaf of bread it is more convenient than going to a bigger store but I have never gotten the appeal of Target. Pay more for the same products, what a bargain!
Well crap I will have to go buy some cheap shit at DG now
Think of the Dollar General as a smaller, quieter Walmart. With parking 10′ from the door. Whether a tube of toothpaste, a pair of shoelaces, or some paper towels, it is quick and convenient. And not crowded.
Won’t work. They’re one of the few stores in the hood.
There are a few Save-a-lot stores but fewer every month. You have Boost mobile and drive through liquor sores, with bars on the doors and windows, thats about it. I have to work in some of these shithole places sometimes to fix trucks that have broken down. 2 of us go and both take guns. Violation of company policies and all that but fuck them. At night you show up just long enough to call the wrecker.
Dunno if you all heard about this but in South Africa they had a bank created, run by and servicing BLACK Africans.
What happened ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c725rn355ero
No one scams or steals from blacks more than other blacks.
A brass monkey with brass balls
Went and shot up the Brass Mill mall.
He went into court while grabbing his dink
Represented by a lawyer who was a fat chink.
When asked why he went and lit the joint up,
He stinkeyed the judge and just said “whassup?”
“Sheeeeit, I was looking for the Benetton, son
But a nigga can’t read, so I pulled out my gun!”
I should get you in touch with the remaining members of the Beastie Boys to write some rhymes
Remember when it was fun and safe to go to the mall? You could shop, eat, and look for girls/guys in our younger years. Now, the fat ladies will mow you down with their “scooters” or you can get shot by your local 2G. America keeps bending over backwards to please every fuck up in the world and I don’t see it getting us anywhere. We just keep losing our heritage, our culture, and our lives. More than time for change! I see Back to Africa as a real movement to get behind.
Yes, I remember it vividly. As I entered highschool in 1989, there were still a few years of “prime mall” era in my teens before it started going to shit. Back then there were actual interesting and cool stores in the two malls closest to me. I didn’t hang out at either a lot, but once in a while I’d head up to one or the other to get something at Babbages (a software store), Radio Shack or one of the places that sold tapes and CD’s. Or hit the food court for something other than typical fast food swill. Had a local Greek place that did killer Gyros back in the day.
My fair city (the overall metro area) has seen a net loss of 8 medium to large regional malls in the last 30 years, which seems almost incredible to contemplate . All 8 not only closed, but were either partially or completely demo’d, with two (in undesirable areas) never having seen any redevelopment yet. There is a 9th large regional mall (of the one time total of 13 or 14 true traditional malls that were here at the peak) that is struggling now. It just lost it’s Macy’s in April and is left with JC Penney as it’s sole anchor (after losing it’s Sears a few years back). I expect it will fail completely in the next real economic downturn (the early stages of which we are already in).
It is mind boggling to consider not just the total number of malls that once existed here, but the aggregate square footage of retail those facilities comprised, and the number of different stores that once existed to fill all that space. To think of how much of it is gone now – in the span of a mere 3 decades – really brings home how far and fast we’ve fallen. Admittedly, they were overbuilt when times were booming (a typical misstep of human endeavor) but even accounting for 2 or 3 malls that probably shouldn’t have been built in the first place, it’s still a breathtaking decline in the sector, for one fairly large, spread out metro area. Some of the collapse in malls locally in can be ascribed directly to 2G’s, but not all of it..
On-line retailing is the culprit as stated in The P&L, but having to worry about being hassled by scholars, athletes and happy-go-lucky guud boyz pretty much sealed the fate of The Mall. Why get robbed or worse over a pair of slacks and a new copy of Horses For Dummies, when you can sit at home listening to a black-pill podcast while you shop?
We used to go to The Mall in the early eighties to flirt with girls, buy records and very occasionally get a new pair of kicks. Sometimes a meal or a movie ticket was part of the adventure.
Every time a mall started to slide downhill back then it either got a facelift and more cops or it eventually lost the “A” tenants that draw shoppers until it was filled with gift shops run by street-shitters or mexican clothing boutiques or korean hair salons or nail salons until The Mall eventually just shut down.
Ten years before that I was young enough that going into a KMart or WoolCo with two bucks in my pocket was a big deal. Times surely have changed.
Sho’ nuff. A lot of these malls were doomed because they were built at least partly on speculation (if you build it, they will come) as is so frequently the case with commercial real estate development; the water was great but too many people jumped in the lake. The wider metro area here (as it ultimately developed over time) is about a 70 miles or a 1.25 hour drive “end to end”, maybe even a bit more than that now with the far flung exurbs. Admittedly, some of the defunct malls made 40-50+ years in business, but were well off their peak by the time they were 3 decades old, and then muddled on for another 10 or 15 years before taking the bullet, so to speak.
Here, there was a big geographic area with a lot of population in aggregate to support a lot of retail at one time. But they just built too damn much during the boom times. First with an excessive number of medium to large malls, and then strip malls and free standing “lifestyle centers” as became popular starting in the late 90’s. All of this, along with the ever ongoing consolidation and bankruptcy of various and sundry retailers, plus changes in the population center of the metro, demographic shifts in portions thereof, and finally crime from “undesirable” elements all worked together to bring about the decline in malls. Then along came online retail as both a cause and effect in the decline of brick and mortar to finish the job.
Now, we have 3 major regional traditional malls left in the county I live in. One is struggling (the previously mentioned with only JC Penney as an anchor) and is undoubtedly the next to fall. Another is getting along ok for the moment, but is (and has been) dealing with a 2G problem for years that is slowly eroding it’s customer base, along with all the other previously given reasons. It’s location would be great, except for the influence of hoodrats (and all that entails). The last one (and geographically closest to me) remains the most viable and financially successful of the three for now, but is also showing some vacancies, and is now at about the 25 year old mark, so isn’t exactly “fresh and new” anymore. I never go there, because I’ve no real reason to.
Aside from those 3, there is one smallish “luxury” mall in traditional 2 level format with indoor concourse, but it isn’t exactly doing great these days. Has both it’s anchors yet, and a couple of fairly decent (non-chain) restaurants in it. Just recently lost its movie theatre, which was evicted for failure to keep up it’s lease and CAM payments. Thus, it now has a large vacancy in it. The adjacent county to the northwest has one traditional mall, which isn’t doing great (has a vacant Sears that was never even de-signed on the exterior) but still managing to keep up appearances. A couple of outlet “malls” in the westernmost suburbs (really just a bunch of adjoined stores with outside entrances, not an indoor concourse) one of which has already more or less failed after less than 10 years from being built. The developer is now trying to “reimagine” it as an entertainment and dining destination, with limited success. Still a ton of vacant space there that I doubt they’ll ever fill.
For now, new lifestyle centers are still being actively developed. One with a Costco, Target and grocery store (plus other smaller tenants) is under construction presently in one of the older inner ring suburbs ~15 minutes from me, where they “eminent domained” a bunch of old run down shit to clear out two corners of a highway interchange. This will mostly cannibalize business from other retailers nearby when it is fully open; there is neither population growth nor any organic growth in retail sales to really justify it. But political subdivisions desperate for added tax revenue (always at someplace else’s expense) and the flimsiest appearance of “doing something” to improve their area will keep at this shit until the big money financing to get these products out of the ground dries up. Meanwhile, all the other social and economic indications of decline continue unabated.
Man, I’d hope a grocer throwing in with Costco and Target would be a niche retailer like Whole Leftism or Traitor Hoes. I can’t imagine how a conventional grocer like Smith’s or HyVee or Publix could stay in business with Costco and Target in the same parking lot.
On that note, the last time we drove through Socorro, NM it is obvious that SOMEONE is dumping money into that sad, broken, corrupt little town. I would love to know who is funding the effort at gentrifying what is perhaps the least appealing municipality in all the western US. *just to clarify-spokan’t is the next least appealing municipality, but if you’d never been through Socorro you might guess that spokan’t is in fact the least desirable. First place belongs to Socorro, though.
That’s the kicker. It’s one of our local, family owned chain grocery outfits. I consider it an ill-advised expansion on their part for the very reasons you’ve given. They’ve built a couple of new (and very nice) large stores recently, after many years of exceedingly slow growth. A couple were arguably justified, this most recent one, not so much IMHO.
What’s kind of funny is that both the.grocer, and the Target were briefly pulled from the development plan a few months ago, probably over concerns regarding their long term visibility. The Costco was already open at that point, having been phase 1 of the buildout. I surmise that much ass kissing and arm twisting then went on, and the grocery store and Target were finally convinced to reinstate their respective stores as part of the project.
Honestly, I won’t be surprised to see one – or both – fail within 5-7 years, given the inter competition between them (and the Costco) plus Target’s present business issues weighing them down and making them more likely to bail on an unprofitable store sooner rather than later. It strikes me that their patience for allowing a marginal store to show sales growth over a longer time frame has become more limited in the last decade, where they used to be more willing to take a gamble on a wait and see approach.
In any case, this project stands as another potential boondoggle like some others before it, especially since two of the larger tenants may potentially be gone before the tax abatements that were granted to get it built even run out. It’s not as if we haven’t seen that happen before.
He might be a weekend sumo enjoyer.