text: department stores are always awful spaces to be in BUT there IS something that changes a bit during the madness of the holiday rush like the mania of our commodityconsumer culture reveals itself in a particularly fascinating way the emphasis on the DISPLAY takes on new urgency and obsession during december I had kind of a great time just people watching as i tagged along behind my brother who was looking for a necklace for his gf Call it a sick fascination but i actually like being in the thick of the spectacle for the holidays so even though i bought nothing i did have kind of a fun minutes skulking around the multilevel storennI will also add that this particular Bay has the most enormous and endless perfume section I have even experienced each of the aisles in the nearinfinite procession of stocked smells is equally attended by some charming modelesque figure who is only too eager to spritz some Cherendorsed stink in your face hellish yet hypnotic