top two instances in which the dufferin mall appears in literature

1. scott pilgrim vs the world - actual text from cory: OMG YOU HAVE TO GET TO BOOK SIX BECAUSE SOMETHING AWESOME HAPPENS! me to coworker: it must be something really, really awesome, because cory never gets all-caps-enthusiastic about anything. UNLIKE ME! however, in this case, he was right, because in book six when scott is woken up by wallace and forced to leave their sweltering apartment in order to find some air conditioning, where does he go? THAT'S RIGHT THE DUFFERIN MALL BITCHES. and he sits on that bench that cory would always sit on to wait for me when i went to the bathroom. you know, the one in front of the flight centre and the cinnabon, with a perfect view of all the slutty teenagers coming in the front door. and then he goes to the food court and i think he eats at jimmy the greek! it is basically the most exciting thing in the book next to the plumtree tshirt he wears during his first battle.
2. my new short story, "atikokan is for lovers," currently on the taddle creek website and forthcoming in their christmas, 2010 issue - i swear to god this didn't start out as just another shameless promo blog post. i was actually super excited about SLASH kind of homesick to see the dufferin mall in scott pilgrim, because it was basically the only place i ever went in toronto for about a year and i overheard some of my best conversations there and almost lost cory and jeffy there when we were super hungover and stood in the parking lot with jeff in the pouring rain pulling futon parts out of a box (remember my futon?!) and took adrienne there to buy a shelf and bought my frozen christmas dinner there at the no frills. like, it really is a hilarious place. so it was pretty natural that the main character in this story would end up there at some point, when she was feeling her most angsty and alone. but i wasn't going to write about that, really, i was just going to make up some list about scott pilgrim (which is the shit by the way) and then i found out my story was on the web and it just seemed like too much of a coincidence not to mention. so there. i mentioned it! DUFFERIN MALL 4EVA!