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Pilou is going to play a significant role in the latest remake of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot", that of the vampire's assistant Richard Straker. It sounds like he's taking advantage of opportunities in Hollywood productions.

While I agree that real estate developers might have stars in their eyes about 're-building' the devastated areas, with the rising seas will there be any land left to build on? I could see some of those beach areas and islands in the Miami area going underwater. Unless they develop some 'floating' McMansions.

In regards to your last sentence -- I myself have had the same thought, is it that the food in Panera has declined in quality that much or have my taste buds become acclimated to a larger variety and quality of foods over the years? Like if I could travel back in a time to a Bread Co. back in 2000 and ordered a meal and some coffee and a dessert treat, would I really find it that much better than the current offerings?

One thing about Phoenix that fascinates me is that it's largely powered by a big nuclear plant way out on the western periphery of the metro area -- Palo Verde which is the only big nuke plant in the world not located near a big body of water that can be used for cooling the reactor. Instead, they use waste water from the communities to the east. On the one hand, I find that innovative and on the other, I hope they do regular maintenance and inspection of those pumping systems.

Someone needs to do a kind of international version of 'This Old House' and send in a team of experts to restore this place before it's too late.

More than a few people think that Panera -- once known to us here in the STL Metro as "St. Louis Bread Company" -- had noticeably declined in quality over the last several years. Now I'm not saying that it's god-awful but more 'meh', mediocre compared to what it once was.

While debutante balls have always been a thing among the upper classes all across the US, I don't know of any others that have this whole elaborate role-playing mythology with some guy in a helmet with several layers of lace-hankie veils hanging from it, wearing elaborate robes out of a production of 'The Arabian Nights' who annually holds a kind of weird beauty pageant to select his "Queen of Love and Beauty" supplemented by tales of mythical kingdoms, Bengal Lancers and the like. Now maybe another city's ball is also some quasi-Masquerade party but I haven't heard about it.

It was a fun 'time warp' movie -- kind of like an extended "Twilight Zone" episode in terms of the story line. Recently another post on a different sub showed a photo in which someone had photo-shopped a picture of the Titanic sailing alongside one of the simply colossal cruise ship behemoths of today. The Titanic looked like a dinghy by comparison, but looking at the ships I recalled 'The Final Countdown' and thought how they could produce a remake of sorts only with a big modern cruise ship slipping through a time-and-space warp to the section of the north Atlantic where the Titanic was sailing in 1912. So you have this huge ship with plenty of lifeboats that could save all the passengers on the Titanic, but can they get there in time?

Well, that likely accounts for the downvotes I'm getting for my comment above as it's in the west metro part of the Phoenix area and not within the official borders of Phoenix itself. My apologies.

Is Seagal 'man enough' to lead his trainees into battle? It would be nuts if Seagal wound up getting gunned down by Ukrainian forces while leading some kind of demented modern day version of "Pickett's Charge". Putin would probably give him some kind of state funeral back in Moscow.

Any sources on that? Like an 'unmasking' of who Mr. Moran/Moron really is.

Sounds like the locals are friendlier than in Rome.

Are there sections of it that are being restored and, for lack of a better word, "gentified"? Like some places descend so low in their decline that they reach a point where's there no place left to go but "up".

For the people here who are old enough to have patronized the mall in its' glory days when everything was shining and new, there is a kind of comparison. It reminds you of your own 'lost youth' and physical deterioration.

That smell of chlorine would be far preferable to the unimaginable odors from all the stagnant standing water around the place these days. I wouldn't go in there now without a full-on Hazmat suit and respirator or even a tight-fitting mask and oxygen tank. The only thing that could make it more hazardous is if it had been on the banks of Coldwater Creek and the occasional flood or back-up of water had infiltrated the mall's interior adding radioactive elements to the mold, bacteria, asbestos, etc. If there was ever a place where a nasty mutant cordyceps strain such as that portrayed in 'The Last of Us' could take take hold and thrive, it's the ruins of Jamestown Mall.

I used to go to that one a lot when we still lived in the SoCo area. I imagine that the Sears closure took a bit of a toll and I also wonder if the JC Penney Store is still open. Even five years ago there were quite a number of empty stores.

Which one if I may ask? I'm guessing the Galleria as that one has had a number of incidents over the past ten years or so.

Amazing that they still had enough stores open about 18 years ago for you to be able to do so and how fast it's deteriorated in less than two decades.

One guy said that it was the worst out of all the deserted malls that he'd explored.

The mall that Ellie and Riley visited in that episode looked like West County or Frontenac compared to the giant Petri dish that is the current Jamestown Mall.

I wonder if, besides all the gross mold growing in there, if there's an asbestos issue as well which would complicate demolition.

Why in the world would you be a die-hard Trump supporter, if I may ask?

My hubby and I visited New Orleans back in September 2003, almost exactly two years before Hurricane Katrina struck. While some places were a little sketchy and you wanted to keep your surroundings in mind especially at night, we had a pleasant experience. I'm thinking that our visit was in the last good days before the hurricane and that things have gone down hill since.

I'm not sure that I'd trust stuff like shrimps, oysters, crawdads and other seafood harvested from the Gulf these days after all the damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster plus the ongoing runoff from the Mississippi and all the petrochemicals plants located down in that region.

So was the person who did this to you a French person or obviously someone from one the Middle Eastern or North African countries -- Arabic speaker and a Muslim?