Banal SoCal Shopping Malls Re-purposed as Urban T.A.Z.s for the Alienated

“I’m not alone. We’re a legion of anti-intellectuals who now use L.A.’s forgotten enclosed malls to rebel against — and avert — the hipster gestapo’s Borglike assimilation of the city's youth. When I need to escape hipster hegemony, I prowl around the Burbank mall, sneaking in before the shops open to skate on the slick tiled floors and clear my head of any negative thoughts associated with hierarchical thinking …” The subculture of L.A. mall rats who eat, sleep, skate, wander, work, in L.A.'s cavernous malls and gallerias.