After an amazing brunch at Marathon Grill with friends, I decided to go meet another circle at the pool at Philadelphia Sports Club in Society Hill to lay out and work out. As soon as I came in, I could see eyes gravitating to me, trying to figure out whether it was really me or not. I told my friend and she laughed thinking I was insane, but as we looked around, we saw several people reading my article in Philly Mag, and I knew my presence was now known. It was funny because people become mesmerized when reading the article because it is so layered and balanced, and I read one review recently where someone called it “The best story in Philly journalism in a long time” and another calling it “The Greatest Story Ever Told”. As one of the readers was leaving the pool, he actually threw his magazine at us when my girlfriend joked to him about the article with his response being “I don’t really care!” I guess jealousy happens to the best of us.

I then went to the newly built Piazza complex in Northern Liberties where I hung with a more “hipster” crowd (I am trying to build a unity with the Kade Brand) and had a blast. I met some great people and had my first Corona of the summer. I met a girl whose husband I was told was “A Huge Fan”, and she gave me her hat to wear and to keep but asked for a shout out on the the blog to “A Nice Texan Girl”, and ran into a friend who gets mistaken for me because people think we look alike.