Today some friends and I drove to New Haven, Connecticut, to attend a record fair and eat some famous New Haven pizza. It had been quite some time since I was at a record fair, and I had a great time digging through the crates again. I happily walked away with a few good reggae and 60s R&B records.
As for the pizza, I was a bit incredulous about the hype surrounding New Haven’s Frank Pepe pizza, especially after finally making it to Brooklyn’s amazing Di Fara Pizza a few weeks back (those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know what I’m talking about). But nevertheless, Frank Pepe lived up to its reputation and made for a pretty serious competitor to the New York pizza titans. Note the line outside of Frank Pepe. Doesn’t this remind you of the pizza madness we are used to seeing in New York? I won’t say which pizza is better, but at least here’s some pictures for your enjoyment. Read more…
Last Thursday, I stopped by The Change You Want To See Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to hear Stewart Ewen speak about “Symbols, Branding, and Persuasion”. Stewart has written many books on media and politics, one of them being PR! A Social History of Spin.
Though I haven’t read this specific book, I was familiar with the BBC series “loosely” based on it titled The Century of The Self. In The Century of The Self, director Adam Curtis draws connections between the history of political power and execution, propaganda, and Freudian psychoanalysis (amongst other things).
And while Mr. Ewen clearly wanted to remove Freudian connotation from his own work (he was much more interested in theorists Bernés and Gustave Le Bon), the topics at hand were equally heavy and entertaining. Case in point, at the end of his lecture Mr. Ewen played the opening from the popular children’s show Bob The Builder. All I can say is, what does the message remind you of? (By the way, I apologize if the theme song gets stuck in your head for at least the next couple of days.)
Check out some of the other programming at The Change You Want To See Gallery: here.
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