Checked out Carma Cafe. Coffee comes in a giant bowl of a cup here. Walked back to Sarach and Kendra's place, internetted alot and tried to find food at the international food market but they only had whole goat/lamb5.50lb, canned goods and bags of onions. Went to Safeway instead.
We went to the beer/liquor store with Kendra and then meandered over to the Current Space gallery place on Howard St. What I can remember is that this place is a group gallery, studio, apartment thing and alot of people were there. I got to meet a few of the artists and their friends. That was a blast. Got a little drinky and hung out on the roof. According to Kendra I sprayed Febreeze on James' crotch and used this cat to help him mop it up.
Roof time
Kendra finds this questionable, the food
the cat
fun with people
A cute cake, someone ate the face off of it so I helped redecorate it
"Obama the Boss"
I concur
Goodbye Betty Wallace
11/7
COFFEE IN BIG CUPS
Discovered how to change voice on GPS to something else. Cantonese?
Drove to my godparent's place in Darlington which was really nice.
Had some lunch and chatted a bit then moved on to check out my old house which was right down the road. This whole region is a giant nostalgia time warp.
Continued on and drove over the Conowingo Dam, which was really cool but I didnt really get any good pictures. Drove through Port Deposit on the way to I95 and finally got to Philadelphia around 6.
Port Deposit had some interesting architecture and landscaping. Jammed right between a rocky and some train tracks
Entering Philly
We're staying in Fishtown with James' friends Patrick and Christen, both wonderful people. Ended the evening going to Atlantis. Insert positive descriptor.
Fell asleep to watching Return of the Living Dead. 5 minutes of that movie scared the shit out of me as a kid, things have changed because I fell asleep 2/3rds of the way through.
Atlantis, The Lost Bar
Deep sea next door to haus
Dog is scary
11/8
Explored Philly a little, went to a cafe, tried to follow directions fro the GPS and the bastard kept sending us in circles through sketchville parts of Chinatown and stuff.
Did manage to get some produce from an asian market thing. At least 6 fruits I have never seen there.
Went back to Patrick's and watched Akira. Ventured back out to go to dancing stuff at The Barbary. Mas Funzors.
SNORLAXXXXXX
There was construction occurring on the Frankford trolly thing so more people could get to the swanky casino. This is a man cutting a rail
A knitted tree.
Asian market
This is Spooky. Are cute
This is Apple. Equal cute
11/9
Started day by going to Rocket Cat, a eclectic cafe with interesting decor and steam punk bar stools.
We met up with Pat and biked over to the Mutter Museum(that u is supposed to be an umlaut).
This place is out of sight! Anyone visiting Philadelphia must go here. Lots of medical curiosities and historical facts. It was quite inspirational and informative. I definitely want to research some more stuff I read about there. Some things of note were:
-The Soap Lady, a fully adipocered body. Also, cool band or record label name, Grave Wax
-Shrunken Heads! or Tsantsas. There was even a shrunken sloth head.
-Hanovia Ultra Violet Lamp. I dunno, I thought it was worthy of research cuz it would be fun to find a way to reconstruct high powered UV lamps for historical process photographs.
-Coolidge X-ray tube. More diy project research.
-Resin and Wax corrosions of placenta and a tiny monkey.
-HUMAN LEATHER, wut. And books bound in human leather. One was bound using the skin from a convict's wrist which had a tattoo around it. You could sort of see it running along the binding.
-Bezoars
-Lithopedians
-Some quotes from skull labels from the Hyrtl Skull Collection
"Suicide by gunshot wound of the heart because of weariness of life"
"At age 70 attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Wound not fatal because of ossified larynx. Lived until 80 without melancholy"
-As of 2008 there are still 30 people in the US using an iron lung due to polio.
Other things:
Pine St. is really nice to bike on
So that should catch you up on the last few days.
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