Christmas Comes Early To East Fourth Street

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The new, temporary Toys "R" Us, open in the former Tower Records space, continues to assault the senses of just about everyone who walks by. Today, the Copyranter alerts us to the fact that the toy store has seen fit to put out Christmas decorations a wee bit earlier than is called for. He writes: "It's September Fucking 27th, Toys-R-MotherFucking-Us. Yesterday, it was near 90 degrees. You're lucky I didn't find a stray Molotov cocktail in the streets...otherwise, I swear, I would've...considered raising the temperature in your new store to, oh, about 1500 degrees Celsius." That's the spirit. Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
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