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They say its my birthday . . . gonna have a good time

When I went to college in LA back in 1967, I used to drop acid (LSD) almost every weekend. My friends and I would have either small gatherings and sometimes larger ones, in which most or all of the group tripped together, listening to record albums on a stereo phonograph, engaged in intense conversation or wordless connections. At almost of of these gatherings, one album that was sure to be among those that would be cued up was the Beatles ultras mash hit, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Even without chemical psychedelic enhancement, that album takes you on a trip. Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

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What Its Like to Write a Book Live Online

Writing my onlne book Memes for the Creation of a New Culture has been an intense and surprising process, different than the way my first book was written. back in the days before the internet and also different than the way that most books are written, even up the present day. I decided to take the leap of creating an entire book online about two years ago. I started it by blogging the book but quickly realized shortly into the first chapter that blogging and publishing a book length work are so different that it is better not to try Read more »

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Memes Book Plan Moving Forward

As I mentioned in a post a couple of days ago on the Bruce Eisner Journal I am getting ready put Memes for the Creation of a New Culture, a book I began writing online on this blog, in its new format, as a separate Wordpress weblog on bruceeisner.com. at the directory http://bruceeisner.com/new_memes/. Of course I have been talking about doing this for a long time. If you visited any of the sites the new bruceeisner.com you have looked at that black bar at the top of the page and have seen New Memes Book Coming Soon. You have to Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

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10 Things You Probably Did Not Know About Steve Jobs

I have not been posting much but this story is so good, I had to share it immediately which is close to 4 AM. Like many others, I have been feeling sad about the passing of Steve Jobs. Jobs died at age 56 which is about 6 years younger than I am right now and about the same age as my younger sister. When I lived in Santa Cruz California, I met a guy who became a regular at my Island parties named Dan Kotke. Dan was one of the earliest employees of Apple and told me a story about how Jobs had Read more »

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