In Baltimore, I came across this structure as I strolled along the waterfront. I enjoy it for the way it simulates water with blue paint. This is a difficult feat to accomplish.

I also enjoyed the fact that it led me inside a shopping mall where I could order a beer. You may think this is absurd, but in Pennsylvania, we cannot order beer in shopping malls, so even that insignificant allowance is a substantial boon to me. I do often feel that Pennsylvania is to the rest of the United States as the United States is to the rest of the world. This is not an easy impression to have without feeling contempt, but contempt is something I strive to abolish from my perception of reality.

On the way to Baltimore, I stopped in a shopping center which contained a seafood restaurant. The restaurant's logo featured a stern looking crustacean fellow, claws held aloft, Disney eyes bulging, and mouth turned into a frown that bespoke indifference to the pain of being supper. It is amazing, is it not? We anthropomorphize even the things we eat.