October 26: Life in the City

I went to Sunrise after waiting for a bus was 15 minutes late. Afterwards, I then hung out with a friend Starbucks. I'm went  the

TD bank at 38th to get a cashier's check for the landlord . It will be the last time I pay $500.  to use the rent will be up in December. Let's see  get a weird post on

Pat's Ca

Facebook arm and I think was directed me but oh well I learned something. I'm sitting here at ordering a pizza with a cute little kitty cat on my lap. I just called Pasquale's pizza and that now getting a large pizza

My Parents 1972

g with green pepper and mushroom.

I then  to go to Harry's Occult Shop  for a book signing with Larry and his wife. This ought to be VERY interesting for sure. Maybe I will go to South Street early and get my haircut and face cut as well. I suppose

Probation DONE!!

I should look a little more normal. The black and white photo is of my parents taken in 1972 going on a vacation at the Greenbrier. Its a nice hotel they liked to go to to escape us kids ( 7 in all) every so often. I think my mother liked to

go glamorous sometimes. Note the fur coat. My father was still wearing a hat which was a conventional men's attire that was popular until the 1970's

Pat's New Drum Kit

 I just thought I would just randomly add this. Pat just told me today that he bought a set of Tama drums. It's 5 piece and he is certainly glad it for about $300 bucks Pat said to that he always wanted to get a drum kit! I am now on the bus heading eventually to a book signing 

at Harry's Occult Shop on South Street.

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On the way to the book signing I got my haircut at the Chop Stop at 6th and South. It felt good to get all that hair off.

A Book Signing was Held Here.

I then went to Harry's Occult Shop at 1238 South Street.It had a nice incense smell and it was a nice store. It got pretty cool since when the sun was setting. At 6:17 PM and we left Harry's and took the Broad Street line then the Market-Frankford Line to 2nd Street. T9here we went to the Book Trader where Veronica had a 2nd book signing. I went up to Larry's and watched a little of the

Larry and I at Harry's

World Series between the Red Sox and the Cardinals (Cardinals won in the 9th on a funky play). I talked to Kerry and Molly

Veronica and Store Employee.

while they were driving home from going to a state park near Buffalo. I then took the EL home and I saw that dude Max we met at the Cigar Shop. At the Cigar Shop he talked about Ok Cupid and the women in it. He has a company called Bio-Meme.

A Pretty Dog at Cigar Shop.

With his product, you can test people on your phone for chlamydia and other sexual diseases. Really weird, yet a concept that might take off

Halloween is Near

in this day and age.He told me he dated a borderline (Umm)I got his phone

number. He is from Santa Rosa California.

Max on the EL.

I went home and thought I would make pasta but I fell asleep while the water was boiling. THANK GOD, I got up an hour later and the water was still at boil.

Texting via Gmail

I took a break from work to engage in some conversation....

The last history book i read as "PR! The Social History of Spin"the guy who fatheed PR as a field was Freud's nephew and was admired by Goebbels the propaganda minister cuz he wrote a book called "the crystallization of consent"me: I really like stuff on the Nazis and the Germans between WW1 and WW2Sent at 3:52 PM on Monday

Jozsef: Edward Bernays... among his other contributions is getting women to smoke, convincing people that black top everywhere would be good and i think helping to topple a south American government in addition to being at the treaty of Versailles and coming up with propaganda for Wilson

me: Germans give you less personal space then us in the US. Very interesting people. So gifted yet so scary at the same time Sent at 3:53 PM on Monday

me: Crystallization of Consent? Sounds real interesting. What is the name of the Author?? Well I suppose I could "Google" the book and just buy on Amazon. I have to save money so reading will be good.Sent at 3:55 PM on Monday

Jozsef: edward burnays... Sigmund frueds nephew... among other things he was regarded as psychotherapit for corporations... hed be called in to he them with their images etcme: I ought to get that book Sent at 3:57 PM on Monday
Jozsef: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.me: Wow..thats pretty deep....

Jozsef: his quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernaysme: Pretty pithy my friend Cool will check it out.Sent at 3:59 PM on MondayJozsef: this may be interestinghttp://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrlm&fileName=me20page.db&recNum=1&itemLink=r?ammem/coolbib:@field%28TITLE+@od1%28Edward+L+Bernays+Papers+++Are+We+Victims+of+Propaganda?+A+Debate++Everett+Dean+Martin+and+Edward+L++Bernays+%29%29a debate between him and some other dude in the 20s "ae we victims of propaganda"from a magazine back in the day propaganda was an acceptable term prior to the nazis and used descriptively more often wiout negative connotations quote