This domain was quite unusual in that it got a fair amount of traffic on only the second or third day of it’s launch. Even more unusual is the fact that there was ZERO content on the site during that time period. Hey if you got an interest in wine and you want this domain then depending on how I feel maybe I’ll sell it to you (I’ll take out all the existing content, pics, words, etc). Wow come to think of it this would have been a great site for good oldGarry Winogrand.
I’ll be publishing an FAQ-type post with TenantX in due time.
As for now, all I can say is that TenantX is content. He is content due to having settled his disagreement with Management. He looks forward, and is very eager, to start the new year fresh. He has a short list of concrete goals and ventures he looks forward to tending to in 2013 and is indeed working on those goals right now.
He also wants to thank his attorneys (and people like Gabriel and Mary Jo) for doing an incredible, OUTSTANDING job representing him in his battle with Management. TenantX told me that Gabriel, Mary Jo, and his attorneys were (and are) very thoughtful, caring young people.
He also wants to give a special thank you to Officer Daniel Neifier of the San Diego Police Department for the way he handled a couple of situations that involved TenantX.
I’ve seen TenantX the last couple of days and he actually looked a little sad. He didn’t look like a happy camper to me!
He informed me that he is a happy camper. He is content with having settled with Management and actually looks forward to the future (and, potentially, some victories to score in a couple of cases that do not involve Management).
The thing is TenantX is a sentimentalist at the core who is prone to reminiscing about the good things in the community, the good things in San Diego.
He informed me that when he reminisces about the good things that took place in the past, and some of his good neighbors (both past and present), he can become a little sad. But make no mistake about it: He is totally content with the outcome that came to fruition on the morning of November 16, 2012, the decisive and momentous (and some might say “fateful”) day when Management’s legal team and TenantX’s wonderful attorney were able to settle their differences amicably.
He also has a strong need to step up and “Go to bat” for Officer Neifier. It appears as if TenantX owes something to Officer Neifier or has some work to do on behalf of the good officer. Earlier in 2012 TenantX started to go to bat for Officer Neifier but was forced to abort. More about some of this stuff later……..
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Because you need to switch browsers.
Many people can see only a percentage of pictures that I publish to a post.
I find that Firefox, as great a browser as it is, will sometimes block certain pictures.
So I simply switch over to Chrome or IE. For more info please see the post titled:
Computer Tip for Faster Operation, More Speed, More Horsepower for Your Computer (revealing the best, fastest web browser for you to use)
that you’ll find in the Technology section of this blog.
So you want to publish posts to the Internet (Facebook, digital magazines, digital newspapers, discussion forums, etc, etc.) but you’re not confident because you’re not good at spelling and you either forget to use Spell-check or you don’t always know how to use it.
I will tell you why you should not be ashamed to publish a post to the Internet that has words that are misspelled. I don’t have time at this moment to delve into the reasons why.
Please check back because I intend to tell you why at a later point in time. For now I’ll just say that my reasons are valid reasons that relate to cowboys, Indians and slaves who lived during the 1800’s.
And with input from Up2sd.org (some say you should never start a sentence with the word “And,”…aww, the heck with that rule.)
The following information was taken from the Summer 2012 newsletter published by the good people at Up2SD.org. Perhaps you’ve seen their slogan plastered on the side of a San Diego MTS bus:
“IT’S UP TO US
to create a Healthy and Supportive San Diego.”
I think the second portion of the that slogan is touching, spot on, and very appropriate. TenantX goes to group therapy and he says it is very beneficial. When you find a good group the support will be there for you.
Peer support, in the form of valuable feedback from your peers, is where it’s at when it comes to group therapy. The key is finding the right group. And if you like to get “high” by helping people like TenantX does, then you can aid a fellow peer member by offering them a suggestion to a daunter. Put another way, offer them a suggestion, or a piece of wisdom, that’ll help them defeat or make a dent in a problem that daunts their senses.
Here’s the information copied from Up2SD.org’s Summer 2012 newsletter that I’d like to share with you:
“The National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) defines mental illness as a medical condition that disrupts a persons thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate to others, and as being associated with distress or impaired functioning.
“The most common forms of mental illness are anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar and other mood disorders, eating disorders and schizophrenia.
“It is important to understand that there is no one underlying cause for mental illness; it is caused by a combination of biological, psychological, and environmental factors.
“What we do know is that it is not a character flaw or caused by personal weakness.”
That is all I am going to quote from that issue, for now. If you check back at a later date you might find this post revised with additional excerpts from that issue published to this post.
As I mentioned in a previous post elsewhere on this blog, I have a post titled The Top Three Suicides rolling around in my head that I’ll eventually post, I promise. Also, I may post other personal observations and experiences that both I and TenantX have with suicidal tendencies and attempted suicides (then again, I may not).
At some point in American history there must have been a rock band that called themselves “Suicidal Tendencies,” I would think. I tend to think there was…
Before I end this post I’ll share one personal observation about some folks who have a mental illness vs. those who don’t:
There might come a time when you witness a mentally ill person in a happy and euphoric state. Their elevated state of happiness, as you witness it, is kicked up 100 notches and takes place, or is triggered, for absolutely no understandable reason to the discerning eye.
In other words, you can’t figure out why they’re so happy. You, they or anyone else cannot decipher the reason why. I mean, it’s not like it’s their birthday and it’s not like they just won the lotto, but yet they’re happy as all can be.
The “normie’s” (normal people) often need a solid reason to kick it up a hundred notches, say for example a minute before the clock strikes 12 on New Years Eve, in order to show a heightened and accentuated form of exuberance.
Some of those who are afflicted with mental illness don’t need no stinkin’ New Years Eve to justify their break away from a state of placidness. They don’t need alcohol in order to jump, click their heals together and punch the sky when the mood strikes ’em. Demonstrative at times, yes. And that demonstration, sometimes lasting only a few seconds or minutes, is an oh-so-nice, unexpected feeling; like the curious howl of a wolf in the hot, afternoon sun.
PLACID
: serenely free of interruption or disturbance, complacent
— pla·cid·i·ty noun
— plac·id·ness noun
I’ll note, from my own personal observations of TenantX, some people who are bipolar have a Jekyll and Hyde personality in that they may be highly extroverted on Monday and then, conversely, extremely introverted on Tuesday.
One example of an extreme form of introversion might be where the bipolar person feels as if no one person (and that would include the entire human race) should be allowed to see, or glimpse at, his or her face and/or body, no matter how good a body shape the bipolar person has or how good looking they are. The aforementioned state of mind is an “episode” that does not last forever, according to one person I know who is bipolar.
When it comes to the feel good part of a bipolar person’s mindset, I almost feel a little sorry for those who have to drink more than a little and drug quite a bit in order to get off; in order to take the Electric Avenue elevator to get to the Land of Bacchanalia. To get wasted. On weekends. Or whenever.
BACCHANALIA
1a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry
2 : orgy 2 b : orgy
All of the people pictured in this post had or have a mental illness of one kind or another and some of them are dignitaries, which is sayin’ something. That statement does not include the young woman seen wearing my hat who is accompanied by the young man with the Ted Nugent belt buckle pictured above as they wait for an MTS bus on Bayard Street in Pacific Beach/San Diego. Ditto for the MTS bus driver shown sitting in the cockpit, a photo that can be referred to as “picture #1.”
P.S. If you’re a young’en, an MMA fighter, or boxer, and you want a song to listen to as you get ready for a hot date or big fight, check out a song titled “Stranglehold”…it’s airtight and will do ya right. It’s by Ted Nugent, of all people. If you’re apolitical or a Democrat, steer clear of anything Nugent has to say. With that, the man does have a handful of good songs.
Yep, my smoke alarm is inefficient.
And that jeopardizes my life and personal possessions. It also compromises the life and property of any tenant who lives directly near my apartment unit.
And since my alarm is incompetent then there’s a chance that your smoke alarm might be incompetent.
Management needs to provide each and every tenant with what a fire marshal would call a ‘competent’ smoke alarm, and that would be an alarm that does not gamble with a tenant’s life. And then the defective and/or incompetent smoke alarm needs to be destroyed. As soon as Management furnishes me with a new alarm I’m going to smash the old one to bits with my favorite hammer.
Some apartment managers in the U.S. (and I imagine around the world) like to save money by not upgrading certain items like smoke alarms.
Other apartment managers are a little ‘clumsy’ because they are, for whatever reason, uninformed on important subject matters like smoke alarms. I sent Diamond Apartment / Embassy Apartment Management an email requesting a new smoke alarm. I am waiting for their response.
This post will be updated sometime between October 8 and October 20. It will be revised and overhauled with relevant information as to why some of the smoke alarms in various Diamond Apartment / Embassy Apartment units, and other apartment complexes in the U.S., might be declared defective and/or incompetent and/or pose as a significant risk to a tenants life, property and digital data.
in·com·pe·tent
1.Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application.
2.Devoid of those qualities requisite for effective conduct or action.
Until this post is updated with said relevant information, it’s Management’s duty to know why a smoke alarm like the one in my apartment and the one in my 93 year old neighbor’s apartment would be considered inadequate.
The future update will include proof that is beyond reasonable doubt that will show that my smoke alarm, the senior citizen’s smoke alarm who lives in the apartment unit next door, and, potentially, other smoke alarms in other Diamond Apartment / Embassy Apartment units are either defective and/or inadequate.
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UPDATE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012
I sent Management an email informing them that my smoke alarm needs to be replaced. They sent me an email that included a copy of Section 18 of the Rental Agreement. They did so in order to bring Section 18 to my attention. In response to Section 18 or the Rental Agreement, and in order to inform Embassy Apartments / Diamond Apartments of an unsafe policy that Management has in place regarding the use of incompetent smoke alarms, I sent them an email. Here is a copy of the email I sent them:
Embassy Apartment / Diamond Apartment Management forwarded me Section #18 of the Lease Agreement and that section says:
“The premises are equipped with a smoke detection device(s), and resident shall be responsible for reporting any problems, maintenance or repairs to owner. Owner shall have a right to enter the premises to check and maintain the smoke detection device as provided by law.”
1) Based on my first Embassy Apartment smoke alarm experience of great distinction, I would like to inform Embassy Apartment / Diamond Apartment Management that section 18 appears to be incomplete. It also appears to be intrinsically wrong. Intrinsically wrong because it omits critically important safety information: It does not inform the tenant that, much like a condom, a smoke alarm has an official recommended expiration date and/or a 10 year lifespan. Section 18 fails to inform the tenant that a smoke alarm should be destroyed and then replaced with a new one at the 10 year mark. That is a significant omission that can have a negative impact if a fire should ever start in an apartment building. In the interest of common sense and safety, I suggest that section 18 needs to be amended to inform the tenant of said official recommended expiration date/lifespan.
2) The smoke alarm in my apartment has been on my ceiling for 15 years. A consumer branch of the federal government declared it, the CodeOne2000, defective several years ago. That’s a serious problem. But that type of Section 18 ‘problem’, in this case a product recall notification, would not involve a tenant in that a tenant is least likely to be notified by the government or the manufacturer of the smoke alarm during the recall process. The recall process would start with the federal government, who would officially notify the manufacturer of the smoke alarm (Jameson Home Products) who would then, hopefully, officially notify the owner of the defective alarms (Embassy Apartments / Diamond Apartments). I would assume that Jameson Home Products does not know that I exist. I would assume that they do not know that Embassy Apartments / Diamond Apartments is loaning me a CodeOne2000. I would assume that Jameson Home Products does not know my name or have my contact information nor do they have the names and contact information of any tenant because tenants do not own the smoke alarm that is in their apartment unit. Management should have officially notified me, and fellow tenants, of the recall years ago, when the government mandated the recall. I’ll note that in the October 10, 2012 edition of USA Today that there is an article titled ‘Toyota Recalls 7.43M Vehicles for Fire Risk.’ One of the last sentences in that article states ‘Owners will get official notification of the recall by mail later this month.’ As stated, tenants do not appear to own the smoke alarm that Management provides to the tenant, it appears to be loaned out to the tenant.
3) I’ll note that Management has, on occasion, closely inspected my smoke alarm and on those occasions it should have been clear to them that, at the time of inspection, the CodeOne2000 smoke alarm was not only defective but older than 10 years of age. At the time of inspection Management said nothing/did nothing/acted as if the unit was a good unit when it fact the unit should have been destroyed due to being an inadequate safety device.
The question is: Was Management uninformed about the official recommended expiration date of a smoke alarm or did they fail to destroy it and then replace it with a new one for some other reason, for example, in order to save money? Either way, Embassy Apartment / Diamond Apartment Management compromised my safety, the safety of other tenants, and the safety of the building by not destroying and replacing my old smoke alarm.
4) It is possible that my CodeOne2000 was not one of the defective units in the batch, or on the list that was subject to recall. If that is the case, I think it would be wise, when discussing the recall of a life saving device like a smoke alarm, that one must take into account human error.
Human error on the part of a person and/or the government who may have declared my CodeOne2000 a good unit when in fact it may have been defective. But since a certain batch of CodeOne2000’s were declared officially defective I think the responsible thing to do would be to seize all CodeOne2000’s that are currently in place at 959 Felspar Street and then destroy them and replace each one with a new smoke alarm that has not been recalled by the federal government. Because it is a life saving device. Because of human error. Because in the event of a fire in an apartment unit it is better to be safe than sorry.
5) I took a look at Ms. Hanak’s smoke alarm in Apartment 2E and a) from the looks of it and b) from what Ms. Hanak said, she too needs a new smoke alarm. Keep in mind that as a senior citizen if her alarm fails to perform as it should her life and personal property would be in more jeopardy than you or I as she, being a 93 year old senior citizen, is not as fast on her feet as we are should she be in bed sound asleep when a fire breaks out. I’m not positive if Ms. Hanak’s alarm is a CodeOne2000. Ms. Hanak stated that her smoke alarm is probably the same smoke alarm that was in place when she moved in to her apartment unit in approximately 1998. That would make her smoke alarm a) approximately 14 years old and perhaps older than that and b) subject to being an inadequate/incompetent smoke alarm.
6) Management is gambling with the lives, personal property and digital data of tenants when they use and rely on a smoke alarm that is older than 10 years of age.
If management is not aware of the official recommended expiration date of a smoke alarm then Management is clearly uninformed and/or uneducated. It has been estimated that a smoke alarm that is older than 10 years of age may incur certain degradation, upwards of 30% degradation. On 10.09.2012 I destroyed my potentially defective CodeOne2000 smoke alarm with a hammer and had a new one put in place.
7) I would hope that Embassy Apartment / Diamond Apartment Management acts responsibly by taking action to a) make sure that each apartment unit does not have a CodeOne2000 smoke alarm in place and b) that each apartment unit does not have a smoke alarm that is older than 10 years of age in place. To not do so would be irresponsible and hazardous to tenants and their possessions.
8) I find it incomprehensible that, in this day of instant access to information thanks to computers, that Management did not inform tenant(s) of a recall mandated by the federal government for the CodeOne2000 smoke alarm.
I find it wrong and irresponsible of Management, and hazardous to tenants, to not keep track of all smoke alarms and to not seize and destroy any smoke alarm that is 10 years of age when spreadsheets are available for free on the Internet.
9) This Embassy Apartment smoke alarm experience of great distinction, regarding my expired and potentially defective CodeOne2000 smoke alarm, resembles another incident of similar distinction that took place in my apartment in late February 2009. It was then that I dodged the proverbial bullet: A fire almost started in my apartment that morning due to an electric short that took place outside on the patio. It was raining that day and the rain appeared to contribute to the near-fire. Out of the blue I heard a LOUD boom that shook me. My computer monitor went black. And then a large volume of smoke came pouring out of an area near the southwest side of my apartment unit. Afterwards, Management / Inga Nardone, acted in a way that was, on that day, very odd and inappropriate. If a fire marshal had been on the scene that day I believe that he, or she, would have approved of the quick-action that I took in order to stop a potential fire from spreading to nearby units and throughout the rest of the building. It is clear to me that some members of Management are not educated in certain principals of fire safety. Principals that would include the use of hardware like smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, and fire hoses.
10) I would hope Management acts mature and perhaps learns a lesson from this email and that they do what’s right for the community, and what is safe for tenants, by implementing changes in policy, as opposed to acting vindictive by seeking to retaliate against me by using sleaze tactics in order to garner revenge. Management’s policy of using smoke alarms that are older than 10 years of age is a procedure that needs to be changed as soon as possible. And Management should not discourage tenants to grab a fire extinguisher and a fire hose when a tenant sees and hears signs that are indicative of a fire that, potentially, is about ready to start.
11) To tenants on Felspar Street and around the world: Of course there are tenants who do not like smoke alarms. Some of them consider smoke alarms to be a nuisance. Some of them remove the batteries permanently to avoid false alarms. And then they may go out to drink and frolic in an attempt to find an attractive mate on a Friday night. Other tenants who choose to be sober may go to a 12 Step Meeting at the local Alano Club on a Friday night.
When both parties leave their apartment there’s a good chance they don’t stop and pause to think that when they come home their apartment and possessions may have gone to hell for having been lost in a fire. Because at that moment in time on a Friday night they take life for granted. There’s nothing wrong with drinking and frolicking or going to a 12 Step Meeting on a Friday night. And it’s natural to take life for granted when you’re preoccupied with a certain endeavor. Many tenants realize that a renters insurance policy obtained from an insurance company is a paper document that would be considered a highly valuable asset that provides peace of mind. Those same tenants should realize that a small piece of hardware, hardware like a smoke alarm that is under 10 years of age, is hardware that can be thought of as a secondary form of renters insurance that provides additional peace of mind.
The picture below is my old CodeOne2000 that I smashed with a hammer.
Peter Mack
Unit 2D
The title of this post is fake. Neither I, Peter Mack, or TenantX, sells stolen cell phones.
But I will tell you that when you hold an iPhone up to your ear it can be, depending on your physical location, just like holding up a fistful of dollars for someone to come along and snatch out of your hand.
The fake title of this post is meant to mock the stupendous lies and slander that Embassy Apartment/Diamond Apartment management, including San Diego apartment managers Ray and Inga Nardone of 959 Felspar Street, use against tenants they are biased against.
mock
1.to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
2.to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.
In some cases their gang (a gang that includes their favorite tenants) use deceit and ploys in order to usurp San Diego’s Just Cause Eviction law. And in other cases, I surmise, being at complete ease with having an unethical and deceitful mindset is the type of devious ease that, I suspect, flows freely through Ray and Inga Nardone’s bloodstream.
ploy
Noun: A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s own advantage.
The Nardone’s are fond of telling people and fellow tenant’s on Felspar Street that TenantX and I are “a threat” to people. If you’re a San Diego cop who works out of Northern Division you should know this:
A Ray or an Inga Nardone will look you straight in the eye and accuse people, including tenants who live in their building at 959 Feslpar Street, of bad things that are not true. And in some cases a cop will take the word of a Nardone for any number of reasons that include the Nardone’s age (they’re senior citizens), the Nardone’s authoritative job title as that of an apartment manager, which is of course, a higher rank than that of a tenant. If that doesn’t convince the average cop then the Nardone’s sweet, endearing, convincing, double-talking personality will.
From what I’ve read on the Internet, if you ask 10 people if you can make any money by selling stolen iPhones you’ll get answers like:
1) Of course not!
2) Yes you can!
3) Oh I don’t know…
The correct answer is yes you can.
Several weeks ago I watched a few videos that really opened my eyes. The videos showed several men and women, at various locations around the U.S., who had their cell phone snatched right out of their hands by a thief. One victim was a woman who was actually put in a headlock by a man. The thefts were captured on video with a surveillance camera.
In a recent news report given by FOX News San Diego reporter Sherri Palmeri, she stated:
‘These items (the iPhone) are a hot item for thieves not only here on campus but across the nation.’
Ms. Palmeri gave her report from San Diego State University. A FOX News anchor stated that SDSU receives a report of a stolen iPhone on an ‘almost weekly’ basis.
Captain Lamine Secka, he of the SDSU police force, stated that most of the robberies
‘…have been strong arm robberies that involve force where they just basically grab the device from the students or community members.’
Captain Secka went on to say that one cell phone robbery incident involved the use of a gun on campus.
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) states that 30-40% of robberies in several major cities involve cell phones. Thieves sell the phones online, on Ebay or Craigslist for example. Thieves are also known to cash in the phones at recycling websites and kiosks.
Even more dangerous, the theft of personal information stored in most iPhones. But there are ways to safeguard your information. One safeguard is an application that tracks your stolen iPhone.
The FCC states that the theft of stolen iPhones is rampant and that they intend to launch a website that will allow a victim to report the theft of their phone and then the carrier will in turn block the phone from being used.
I came across one story of a cell phone thief who used a bold ruse in order to steal cell phones. He posed as a cop in uniform. He would then ask a victim for their cell phone in order to, as he claimed, to check the phones serial number. And then he would take off with the phone or trick the victim into thinking that he was a good cop who was keeping the phone as evidence.
The following is an update as to what transpired when Tenant-X found an iPhone on Embassy Apartment/Diamond Apartment property:
Tenant-X handed the once moist but now dry cell phone over to the San Diego Police Department. Officer Erich D. Bennet, badge #6133, accepted it. It appears as if Officer Bennet then took it to a Verizon store where they charged it up. It was then that the rightful owner was contacted. The incident number generated by SDPD for the recovery of the iPhone is incident number P120 200 260 67. The phone did not appear to be brand new as it was loaded with a lot of files.
For the record, the landlords team of lawyers sent Tenant-X a notice several weeks after the iPhone was found. In that letter TenantX was falsely accused of a bad thing he did not do. Tenant-X will fight their lies and slander in court. And, depending on circumstances, the outcome of the fight might be decided by a jury.
Next week TenantX will be filing a restraining order against a tenant in his building who, accompanied by two of his friends one early morning on Labor Day weekend, caused trouble for TenantX. It was a bad deed that clearly indicates that he, a drunk, bellicose goon, sympathizes with and/or aids and abets Management in their quest to target TenantX. TenantX does not know the identity of the troublemaker.
Advice to those who sympathize with Management and who fall on every word that comes out of the mouth of a Nardone:
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
goon (gn)
1. A thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents.
2. A stupid or oafish person.
Decades ago labor management used goons to injure, harass, intimidate and perhaps kill certain employees. Employees who acted as activists by trying to organize a labor union that would benefit employees and hold management accountable for wrongdoing. I’m not sure, but I tend to think that you’ll see goons in action in the movie HOFFA. In that movie Jack Nicholson plays Jimmy Hoffa. As of today, with over 11,000 votes, HOFFA has a 6.5 rating at IMDb dot com.
I’ll end this post with a few words of wisdom: The words that come out of the mouth of Ray and Inga Nardone (and some of their fellow employees and close, favorite tenants) are not words that you can always believe in, especially when they talk bad about a tenant.
Their words, their slander, are not believable because some of the words they choose to use are smear words that are designed to make a good tenant look like a sinner who is going straight to hell on Judgement Day. And, in Tenant-X’s case, they are smear words that management uses when they converse with tenants as, Ray Nardone once said, to help Management create ‘loopholes’ in San Diego’s Just Cause Eviction law.
There’s lots of info on the Internet that’ll provide you with more information about cell phone thieves. If you wish to obtain more information about cell phone users who have had their cell phone stolen out of their hand do what I did just type the keywords ‘snatch and grab cell phone‘ into your favorite search engine and you’ll find relevant videos and text about thieves like the one shown pedaling his bicycle ready and poised to strike in the photo above. Google is not my favorite search engine…
P.S. TenantX wants me to add that he does not like me (Pete Mack) having to represent him by posting about any incident that involves a deed that he’s done in the community that might be interpreted as an act of goodwill towards man, woman or child. Or anything he’s done that benefits humanity or constitutes a random act of kindness. Not only does he not like this type of representation…he’s repulsed by it. He, as mentioned in previous posts, only feels compelled to post about some of the good things he’s done for various reasons. Reasons that include a desire to help other tenants who live in states in the U.S that have a Just Cause Eviction law in place; to combat the nefarious slander, lies, ruses and ploys that Management, certain tenants, and Ray ‘Slander King’ Nardone and Inga ‘Slander Queen’ Nardone create in order to target TenantX with hate and mean spirit; to prevent the destruction of a 15 year record of good rental history. And because, before this blog was launched, he had no voice on Felspar Street, no voice in the community.
re·pulse
1. to cause feelings of repulsion / for example: The scenes of violence in the film may repulse some viewers.
The following is a release: TenantX wants you to know that you, and Management, have his permission to record him with a still camera or a video camera any time he is on Diamond/Embassy Apartment property also known as ‘The Embassy.’
TenantX lives on the southeast side of the building in Unit 2D, right behind where FOX News reporter Sherri Palmeri is shown reporting the news. TenantX is issuing this release for a specific reason. The specific reason may, or may not, be published to this post at a later date.
TenantX does not want me to publish his real-world name to this blog. If you want to know who TenantX is simply ask our apartment managers: Ray and Inga Nardone. I, Peter Mack, made sure that the Nardone’s are aware of this blog. I sent Management an email that included the web address to my blog.
It is possible the Nardone’s will claim they don’t know who TenantX is. I am basing that on my experience as a tenant at Diamond/Embassy Apartments located on Felspar Street in San Diego, California. Ray and Inga Nardone are prolific liars who mill around the apartment building, like machines, spinning lies and manufacturing false statements at whim, whenever they feel the need.
PROLIFIC
1 : marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity
2 : causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction
MILL
1 : one that produces or processes people or things mechanically or in large numbers for example: a diploma mill or a rumor mill
2 : a machine that manufactures by the continuous repetition of some simple action
3 : the engine of an automobile or boat
But why? In in some cases a Nardone will use lies and slander to circumvent the pro-tenant, anti-Management Just Cause Eviction law. Another reason may be because their boss, the landlord, requires them to lie for any number of reasons including usurping the Just Cause Eviction law. If they, the Nardone’s, do as they’re told, perhaps they’ll get a monetary bonus? If they don’t lie then perhaps they’ll lose their job, paycheck and apartment? Speculation abounds…
The Nardone’s are, in several ways, an amazing, gifted, unbelievable pair of human beings. Be it at your place of work, be it at school, or be it at home, slander is a powerful tool when used by an authority figure like a teacher, boss or apartment manager. It’s a potent tool a dishonest man like Ray Nardone and a devious woman like Inga Nardone will use in order to accomplish their goals.
Aside from environmental factors that might make a human prone to being abjectly dishonest, there are genetic factors to consider.
A dishonest man (or dishonest apartment manager) like Ray Nardone, upon telling a lie to another person during a conversation, may experience a certain level of euphoria if he is able to successfully pass a lie off as the truth. A Ray Nardone might receive the same feeling a baseball player feels when they hit a line drive single or when a person jogs and receives what is known as the ‘runners high.’ Or what I call an endorphin rush. Then again maybe that feeling is not as euphoric as a runners high but instead is a lower version of satisfaction that is nevertheless superior in quality that serves to placate, or satiate, his senses.
A prevaricator like Inga Nardone may find it only a little less stimulating than receiving a satisfying orgasm. For someone liker her you might say: the bigger the lie she is able to use and get away with, the bigger the virtual orgasm she receives, figuratively speaking. Her satisfaction is compounded if the lie is a ruse that involves plotting, planning and multiple people. Multiple people in the form of other tenants who take everything, including her lies, to heart. And why wouldn’t a tenant believe what a person like Inga Nardone says? After all, she has a wonderful personality that inspires trust and believability, and I make that claim without a trace of sarcasm.
pre·var·i·ca·tor
1. a person who speaks falsely; liar.
Does this sound preposterous to you? Or farfetched? It might. All of what I stated here is speculation on my part, or suppositional.. But this type of speculation is by no means preposterous when you consider that some members of the medical community might say that the euphoric, pleasing and stimulating feelings described above might indeed be felt by certain people who are genetically predisposed to lie much more often than someone without the same genetic pattern. Or the same pleasing feelings that are felt by someone a psychiatrist would diagnose as a ‘pathological liar.’
These are some of the reasons why TenantX has a notice on his door that refers to Ray Nardone as Slander King and Inga Nardone as Slander Queen. At this point in time I will not reveal the specific slanderous lies Ray and Inga Nardone have subjected TenantX to. Elsewhere on this blog you’ll find a post where I state that the Nardone’s once called TenantX a ‘racist,’ which constitutes just one incident of slander the Nardone’s created that I revealed – the other incidents of slander will be revealed at a later date.
Ray Nardone informed other tenants that TenantX is a racist. The fact is TenantX is not a racist. The fact is TenantX was angered by that slanderous statement. The fact is TenantX was emotionally hurt by that statement, very hurt. But what could TenantX do? Nothing, he’s just a tenant, a tenant who keeps to himself – he doesn’t patrol the hallways of Embassy Apartments the way Ray and Inga Nardone do.
TenantX is Caucacasian. The fact is, back in the 70’s, TenantX learned at a very young age that Caucasian people, Caucasian people just like the Nardone’s, can be just as evil, just as deceitful and just as sinister as any person of color – and thus racism makes no sense to TenantX. That is just one of many reasons why TenantX is not a racist.
One more thing: it is possible and conceivable that there are people who live at Diamond/Embassy Apartments, or neighbors who live in our good community on or around Felspar Strett, read this blog and are racist.
And so TenantX knows that he is not necessarily doing himself a favor by stating his feelings on racism when in fact he may be angering a neighbor or two who favor racism (as a matter of fact there was a very prominent neighbor who once lived at Embassy Apartments who told TenantX that he ‘had a problem’ with the Emancipation Proclamation – more on that in a future post.) Like cockroaches who feed off of rumors, gossip and crumbs, racism will never go away – in the United States racism is a wound that will never completely heal, and so TenantX knows that he may be taking a small risk by expressing his feelings against racism here on the Internet.
The slanderous Nardone machine, engineered by Ray and Inga Nardone, rolls through the hallways of Embassy Apartments with complete impunity. At risk is 15 years of good rental history that TenantX has to his name. TenantX refuses to let their gang tarnish and destroy all those years of good rental history. It’s a a gang that includes: Various people that are associated with Management, landlord George Lattimer, Ray ‘Slander King’ Nardone, Inga ‘Slander Queen’ Nardone, and select tenants at Embassy Apartments who aid and abet Management.
IMPUNITY
: exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss, for example: laws were flouted with impunity
If you’re a gay or straight person who considers yourself a pretty honest individual, and you’re in a relationship with someone who comes close to being a pathological liar or would be diagnosed as a pathological liar by a psychiatrist, then you can expect your relationship to be a rocky one filled with headaches and heartache – because some humans find using slander and telling lies almost as exciting as robbing a bank or as stimulating as sniffing a line of cocaine or as pleasing as having really good sex with a loved one, it’s their nature. Now, back on track…
As for the release, the only thing that TenantX will state regarding the release is that:
a) he issued this release approximately several years ago in an email he sent to Diamond/Embassy Apartment Management and so it can be said that Management has prior knowledge of this release.
b) TenantX and Peter Mack reserve the right to revoke this release at any time.
c) if you’re saying to yourself ‘Hey I’ve seen that news reporter on TV before what’s her name?’ you’re right, you have seen her before, her name is Sherri Palmeri.
Ms. Palmeri is giving a news report. The report was related to a violent incident that involved Embassy Apartments. The unidentified cameraman is shooting film for FOX News San Diego – at one point all major San Diego television news stations (CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.) were on the scene that day. Embassy Apartments is shown in the background. The filming took place in the alley behind Embassy Apartments, the same alley and almost at the same location where TenantX used his camera to capture a potential bad guy breaking into his neighbors car (details of that incident can be found in the post titled ‘Potential Bad Guy Caught on Camera at TenantX’s Apartment Complex’).
This is the first sit down, person to person, Question and Answer interview, that I, Peter Mack, am having with TenantX. There may be more Q&A interviews to come.
PM: So how’s it going?
TX: Not good. I had some photos of two thieves I captured on camera that I couldn’t find. I was just lookin for them. I wanted you to post them on your blog. I just got done lookin for them but I couldn’t find them. I got one more place to look. When I find them I’ll let you post them – but that’s if I find them. I am very, very disappointed that I couldn’t find them. I hope they’re around somewhere.
PM: So are the pictures just like the ones I posted where it shows a strange man breaking into your neighbors gray/silver car? And that would be the pictures in the post titled “Potential Bad Guy Caught on Camera at TenantX’s Apartment Complex.”
TX: No, they’re different, much different.
PM: How so?
TX: First of all both incidents involved a certain amount of risk for me. The one involving my neighbor’s car involved a significant amount of risk. The one involving the car cover involved a little less risk.
PM: Car cover?
TX: Yeah I’ll get to that in a bit. But first I want to point out that the photos seen in the post titled “Potential Bad Guy Caught on Camera at TenantX’s Apartment Complex” were taken from my patio balcony. The potential bad buy saw me taking pictures of him. And that’s no good, that’s where the risk comes in, the moment he spotted me with camera in hand he knew where I lived. Although you blocked his face out with Photoshop you can see in a couple of those pics where he actually stops searching around the inside of my neighbor’s car and then starts to focus on me.
PM: And so where does the risk factor come in?
TX: In the form of retaliation. When you’re in a scenario like that there’s a chance the bad guy might come back later to retaliate. Now if I was taking pictures from the 14th level of a 20 story building, there’s much less risk. But I live close to the ground.
PM: So why’d you take the risk?
TX: Several reasons. For one, at the time it felt like the right thing to do. Two, I wanted to help a fellow tenant in the event something bad happened to her car. At the moment of discovery I had no idea if he was trying to hot wire her car in order to steal it. Or if he was trying to steal a stereo or what. Three, I once heard a cop say “During the event of a crime you, the average citizen, need to be the best witness you can be!” Makes sense to me, I firmly believe that motto. So I decided to get my digital camera and start shooting. And four, I kinda feel like it’s a civic duty. I feel that particular incident was just a little Neighborhood Watch effort on my part. I had less riskier alternatives though.
PM: What alternatives?
TX: I coulda played it safer. Much safer. He was at ground level. I was on my second story patio balcony. I coulda not used the camera. I coulda bent down low, kept my body low and out of sight, noted his physical appearance and then called the cops. Which is what I basically did the second I spotted him. I noted his appearance and then went back inside my apartment to call the cops. It was after I called the cops that I went back outside on to the patio balocony to capture him with a still camera.
PM: Events like that happen fast, lightening fast. Any regrets? Anything you learned from that experience?
TX: No regrets. The guy, the perp, the POI (person of interest), or whatever you want to call him never came back around. And I never saw him again anywhere in the community. But here’s the deal: If I had a kid, like a son or a daughter, I’m not so sure that I’d want them to do what I did, I mean, unless they live up high say like on the 10th level of a tall apartment building. When you involve yourself in an event like that the way I did you don’t know if the POI is a gang member or what. Then again everything ain’t relative when it comes to the advice a parent gives to their kids in a Neighborhood Watch matter. If your son or daughter has a cabinet full of rifles and shotguns and a Kevlar vest hanging in the closet the way a Green Beret or street cop might have well then that’s different. But if all they have are a few tennis rackets and Super Soaker water guns in the cabinet…
PM: And so is it safe to say that you weren’t wearing a Kevlar vest when you grabbed your camera and started shooting pics of him?
TX: That is correct. And if he had come back at a later point in time to retaliate I would not have been able to put a Kevlar on cause I don’t own one.
PM: You made some good points with your reference to the advice a caring parent should give to a son or daughter as it relates to home security and the Neighborhood Watch concept. The Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman case sorta reinforces that point.
TX: Yes the Martin / Zimmerman case is an interesting one. I’ll note that George Zimmerman appeared to be working as some sort of roving, on guard, on duty Neighborhood Watch volunteer who was armed with a gun. I don’t know all the facts of the case, but Zimmerman appeared to be like a Guardian Angel in that he was “on duty” the way a Guardian Angel would be. Of course the Guardian Angels are unarmed.
PM: Let’s get back on track as it relates to your neighbors car… I’ve seen the photos of his face before I blocked his face out with Photoshop, and that would be the two pics where he stops searching around the inside of your neighbor’s car and looks right up at you. He even leans out of the car to get a better look at you. Did he say anything to you at that moment?
TX: No comment… for now.
PM: What was the POI doing while you were shooting?
TX: He was lookin all around the inside of the car – in the front and the back – under the seat – under the dash. It was like he was lookin for something.
PM: How close, physically close, were you to the POI?
TX: Like I said, he was at ground level and I was on the second level. But distance-wise, maybe 30, 40 feet away from each other, not far.
PM: Moving on…so what photos did you have that you wanted me to post to my blog but couldn’t find? You said something about a car cover…
TX: I once had an old Mustang with two car covers, one cover was silver the other one was light tan. I had the silver one on and one morning I went out to my car and it, the silver car cover, was gone. My car was parked on Diamond or Emerald Street that day, ’bout two blocks from where we live on Felspar Street.
PM: So what happened next?
TX: Well it wasn’t windy so I knew it hadn’t blown off. We get little ‘wind storms’ every so often. The wind will whip out to like, I don’t know, maybe 5, 10 or 15 miles an hour or something like that. But not that day, there was no wind that day. Plus I had a cable with a lock on it so it was obvious that someone cut the cable and made off with it. A hunch came to me…I made a bee-line over to the church, St. Brigid’s Church over on Cass Street, that was the first thing that came to mind.
PM: The church? Why’d you decide to go there of all places?
TX: I don’t know for sure, but it was the first thing that popped into my head: Go to St. Bridgid’s Church! When I got there I saw two homeless men outside of the church. And they had my car cover in their possession. I just had a feeling that maybe, just maybe, a homeless person made off with it. Then again my car was parked right near the church so that too made me think it’d be wise to walk over to the church to scout the premises.
PM: So what did you do when you saw them with your car cover?
TX: Went to a pay phone and called the cops. And one cop who rides alone showed up.
PM: Do you know his name?
TX: I’d seen him around many times, back then he was a Northern Division regular, I guess, which means Pacific Beach was his beat. But I haven’t seen him in many years. Maybe he’s a detective now? I don’t know. He was tall, like 6’2″, lean, about 180lbs, maybe in his 50’s. He kinda looked a little like an old television actor from the 60’s, an actor by the name of Dennis Weaver. I think he (the cop) had a mustache and I’m pretty sure he was wearing eyeglasses at the time.
PM: I remember Dennis Weaver. Now what about the photos you took? Where do they come into this story?
TX: I got my car cover back and I went about my business that day. The next day I was on my bike and I crossed paths with the two of ’em. I mean I turned a corner and there they were, it was a chance meeting. We didn’t say anything we just glanced at each other and I went on about my business. But then an idea came to me…I got to thinkin…I made a bee-line to the drug store. Something inside of me said “Go buy a camera at Long’s Drugstore and then go take pictures of them.”
PM: Long’s Drugstore?
TX: Yeah on Mission Boulevard it’s where CVS is now.
PM: Okay, right, but why take pictures of them? What was the point of doing that? The cop, the one who looked like Dennis Weaver, the same one who used to patrol your neighborhood already had identified them, so it wasn’t like you needed to show some pictures of them to the police.
TX: Well, first of all, if I remember correctly, I think the cop said that one or both men had a criminal record or history or something like that. So yeah, the cop ran a background check on them when we were at the church. And I must say…there’s one thing I’m leaving out of this story and it’s because it’s none of anyone’s business. I’ll just say this: When I observed the officer dealing with the two men he did so in kind of a way that a father deals with two little boys who are acting bad and I’ll leave it at that.
PM: Right, I get it, I think. Okay, back to the photos, why did you take them and what for?
TX: This all happened around ’97 or ’98, I think. Then again maybe it was 2000 or 2001. Way before digital cameras came out on the market. I had no interest in street photography like I kinda do now. You and I knew each other back then.
PM: Yep, we sure did.
TX: And it was long before you became computer literate. Meaning, you had yet to learn how to use a computer, meaning, you didn’t have a copy machine like you do now. So what I was gonna do, the reason I took pictures of the two men: I was going to blow the pictures up at Kinko’s and post them on 4 or 5 telephone poles located around the Felspar Street area. (Note: FedEx bought Kinko’s out.)
PM: Why?
TX: When I saw them the next day I was annoyed. Just annoyed. There they were… walking around scopin’ out the neighborhood and that annoyed me. I have no problem with homeless people. But if they rip me off or rip someone I know off then that’s a concern. At the time my thinking was that if they saw their pictures on a telephone pole then maybe that would get them to leave the Garnet/Felspar Street area.
PM: Post their pictures on telephone poles?
TX: Yeah telephone poles, street light poles, whatever. I figure it would put a little heat on them knowing that the community was aware, that the community was, figuratively speaking, watching them. Of course I was going to tack a text message to the picture, a message stating that these two guys had stolen something from a member of the immediate community and that YOU might be next. I remember at the time thinking ‘Well now I gotta go buy a staple gun.’ A staple gun that I figured I was gonna use maybe only 5 or 6 times maybe more if they needed to be reposted due to rain, wind, or someone tearing the posts down. I had never owned a staple gun let alone used one. At the time I wondered if there were different sized staples to pick from. I wondered if the staple gun I was about to purchase would do the job. Then again some of the poles in my neighborhood are made out of metal so that would have required a different method of attachment. For about 2 or 3 days I on occasion thought all about staple guns.
PM: Do you remember where you saw the two men the second time after you found them in possession of your car cover?
TX: Not exactly, but I think it was near St. Brigid’s Church again, right around Emerald or Diamond Street, the very next day I believe (the day after I caught them with my car cover). And when I did I bolted to the drugstore to buy a throw-away camera. After I left the drugstore a little later in the day I saw them on Garnet Avenue. And when I did I got off my bike, walked up to them and started snapping pictures of them. And those are the pictures I can’t find right now. I hope to find them later, if not, wow, I’ll be disappointed cause I like photos of the old days.
PM: So after the film was developed and you got the newly developed pictures back from the drugstore did you post them to some telephone poles around the neighborhood?
TX: No.
PM: Why not?
TX: Back then you sometimes had to wait a week or so for the drugstore to develop the film. So I had to wait a week – then again maybe they were ready 24 or 48 hours later but for whatever reason it took me a week to pick them up from the drugstore. And during that week I never saw those two men again. It was during that week that I came to conclude that those two men had basically said “Adios” and left Pacific Beach. That’s why I never posted them around the neighborhood.
PM: Why do you think they left the beach community? Do you think you scared them off?
TX: How would I know? I don’t know. Maybe during that week, the week that I was waiting for the film to be developed, one of them won the Lotto, split the money in half, bought two mansions in Beverly Hills, and the rest is history. Then again, yeah, maybe they didn’t like the fact that a cop who looked like Dennis Weaver had treated them like two bad little boys and a citizen, a motivated, inspired citizen with a camera had all of a sudden taken a keen interest in them. They could have left the beach community for any number of reasons.
PM: What do you say to people out there who are skeptical that you were able to verify they had left town? I mean, San Diego’s big, there are millions of people who live in San Diego.
TX: Wow, that’s a good question, but it’s one that involves a lot of answers. First off, when it comes to any accusations or statements that I make on your blog it’s time for me to say this: polygraph exams are relatively inexpensive nowadays. I’ll pay for the polygraph exam and we’ll meet at the examiners place of business. If I pass the test then you pay me three times the amount of the test, if I don’t pass the test you don’t pay a dime. The fact is Pacific Beach is a tight, compact, walk-to-everywhere type of community that has a fair amount of homeless people I call ‘regulars.’ A regular is someone you see all the time when you go out. I’m not agoraphobic – although I was agoraphobic for a little while due to mental trauma – but I’m not perpetually agoraphobic. And I’m not a couch potato. Meaning I get outside. Meaning I see all the regulars, the regular cast of characters, the usual suspects, be they homeless or not. I might also call a regular a ‘fixture.’ Add some people mights say that PB is a homeless person’s paradise. There are homeless regulars that have been around for 10 years that I’m aware of. Then there are the homeless regulars who all of a sudden drop off the face of the earth. You and I have been living in PB for 15 plus years, we both have a tendency to get outside, so we’re both familiar with the regulars.
(agoraphobic: abnormal fear of being helpless in an embarrassing or unescapable situation that is characterized especially by the avoidance of open or public places)
PM: I agree. I remember an old homeless regular who called himself ‘Paul the Poet,’ a tall, bearded, homeless man who went M.I.A. Anyway…
TX: It’s possible those two homeless men are still living in San Diego but on a different side of town. All I know is they left PB (Pacific Beach) a week later and when they did I never saw them again – so it’s been over 10 years since I last saw them.
PM: And then don’t forget we live right around the block from Garnet Avenue.
TX: That’s right. Garnet Avenue is not the main drag in San Diego. Garnet Avenue is the main drag in Pacific Beach. Garnet has a little color, a little flavor to it. Garnet, in a small way, reminds me of Haight Street up in San Francisco. And like Haight Street the homeless tend to ambulate up and down Garnet. Sometimes they’ll sit on the sidewalk and ask for money.
am·bu·late (mby-lt)
intr.v. am·bu·lat·ed, am·bu·lat·ing, am·bu·lates
To walk from place to place; move about.
PM: Okay. I want to remind young people who are reading this that back in the late 90’s digital cameras were not mass marketed like they are today and that meant you had to have a developer develop the film for you. Sometimes you could get the pictures back the next day, sometimes you had to wait a little longer. Anything you want to add?
TX: We need to end this session now I gotta go. I’ll try and find the images, I’m bothered by the fact that I can’t find them. They were just two young homeless men in their 20’s with backpacks on their back. I think one of them was wearing eyeglasses if I remember correctly. I may have some more things to add to this post and if I do it will be at my discretion, at any time. So there may be additional info added in the future from time to time.
PM: Right, you never did say how they reacted when you started taking pictures of them.
TX: Maybe I’ll talk about that later, as for now I’m outta time. I’ll end this by saying that if you in some way associate with Ray Nardone or Inga Nardone keep in mind that they are a slanderous couple who try and make certain good tenant’s out to be bad tenant’s. If you’re the type of person who thinks lying is a gift then make no mistake about it Ray Nardone and Inga Nardone are two gifted people a man like Bernie Madoff would have loved to have had on his side.
PM: I hear ya.
TX: And one more thing: I don’t like sharing this story or any of the photos – not at all. To me this story is no big deal – it’s not something to brag about. I’m only sharing it with the Internet community because I’m dealing with two apartment managers, a Management group and a few tenants who sympathize with Management or aid and abet Management, a literal gang of people, who are causing me trouble by spreading misinformation, slandering my name, and trying to provoke or intimidate me. It’s like a mini-witch hunt, a smear campaign, orchestrated by two devoutly religious people: Ray Nardone and Inga Nardone. Look…I don’t party. But I ain’t lookin to come off lookin like Scott Chipman, the local PB guy who had a strong hand and a strong voice in shutting down the PB Block Party, shutting down the medical marijuana dispensaries, and banning alcohol on the beach. If I wind up finding the pictures of those two homeless men I’m going to have you block out their faces with Photoshop so no one can see who they are.
PM: Why?
TX: Because people change, people make mistakes and maybe, just maybe, those two homeless guys changed for the better, and outin’ them by showing their faces would not be the right thing to do. Outin’ Management and outin’ the Nardone’s with your blog is the right thing to do.
PM: Got it…good luck finding those old pics and thanks for your time.
: TENANTX FOUND PICTURES OF HIS OLD MUSTANG. THE PICTURES SHOW THE LIGHT TAN CAR COVER. THEY’LL SOON BE PUBLISHED TO THIS POST. HE HAS YET TO FIND THE PICTURES OF THE 2 THIEVES, THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THOSE PICTURES.
: TENANTX FOUND THE PICTURES OF THE 2 THIEVES. THE FACE OF EACH MAN WILL BE BLOCKED OUT AND THEN PUBLISHED TO THIS POST PROBABLY SOMETIME LATER TODAY.
PM: Describe what took place in this photo.
TX: This photo, like all the other images in the post titled ‘Potential Bad Guy Caught On Camera At TenantX’s Apartment Complex’ was shot while I leaned over my patio balcony. Here you see him take notice of me for the very first time. Up to that point in time he had been searching all around the inside of my neighbor’s car. At this point, when I snapped the photo, he is sitting straight up in the drivers seat. By the way this incident occurred in the early part of the morning when none of the businesses that line the alleyway were open for business. I think there are approximately 12 or 13 boutiques, hair salons, restaurants, nail salons, coffee shops, banks, etc, etc, that are in that particular alley.
PM: What happened in this photo?
TX: In this photo he actually leans his body and head out of the car a little and shoots me a look as if to say ‘Hey is someone actually taking pictures of me, what the heck?’ although I wish you’d cropped the image because then, with a cropped image, you’d be able to see the angle of lean a little better. Shoot… why didn’t you crop the image?
PM: No time to do that right now, maybe I’ll crop it and then repost the revised, cropped image at a later date.
PM: And so this must be one of the thieves…
TX: Yes it is… I’ll refer to him as Thief #1 and if you know PB then you’ll instantly recognize Bayard Street and Bank of America in the background, this image was captured on Garnet Avenue. It was taken long before cell phones became a must have item, when only a very small minority of people owned a cell phone and several years before you could buy a cell phone that had a camera built into it. The picture was taken on Garnet at around 9am in the morning at a time of day when there is very little pedestrian traffic and only a small amount of vehicular traffic. It was, essentially, for the most part, just me and them…
PM: You got a little close to him in this shot.
TX: That’s the yogurt shop in the background although back then it was not a yogurt shop. At this point we’re walking west toward Mission Boulevard away from Bayard Street, although we’re still located on Garnet Avenue right in front of PB Bar and Grill.
PM: Okay. I’ll note that I’ll be posting pictures of Thief #2 tomorrow for you.
TX: Thanks, I appreciate the help your providing me with by posting my images. I appreciate the fact that you started a blog to fight the slander that Ray Nardone and Inga Nardone slander me with. Not all apartment managers are bad, I’ve had good one’s, actually I’ve had some very good one’s over the years. The level of dishonesty, deceit and lies that Ray and Inga Nardone employs is stunning. And so I appreciate the fact that you started a blog to fight an illegal eviction and speaking of stunning, I’m always a little stunned, even to this day, that you started a blog to fight dishonest people like Ray Nardone and Inga Nardone and the rest of their team at Diamond/Embassy Apartments who are trying to ruin 15 or 16 years of good rental history.
PM: You’re welcome. I’ll note that TenantX has much more information to share. Information that will show the Nardone’s as people who have a habit of not telling the truth. Information that will show unprofessional and blatant incompetency on their part despite their ‘professional’ apartment manager job title. Information that will show several tenants who have aided Ray and Inga Nardone and have committed some very foolish acts against TenantX.
PM: Okay… here we are with Thief #2. Once again WOW you got up close to this guy just like you did in the pictures you took of Thief #1.
TX: Yes I got a little close but I can’t answer any of your questions about these images until a later date.
PM: Yes I’ve got questions about the images you captured of Thief #2, you bet I do.
It’s called “the box.” All of us spend time in the box.
But every so often certain people find themselves thinking outside the box. Outside of that box is a galaxy and you feel all alone in a vast spectrum of space as you, temporarily, float farther and farther away from the realm of normalcy, far from the box.
You’re so far out, so far away from the box, so far away from all the other people who inhabit the box that all the fish-line in the world strung end to end would not be long enough to reel you in.
I’ll come back to this post at a later date to give a proper name to that box. For now I’ll just call that box TLB which is an acronym for The Linear Box.
People who rarely stray outside the box are linear thinkers with very little highs and lows. Some people who think outside the box have the type of mind that, in tangential fashion, careen away from the box.
(ca·reen
1. To lurch or swerve while in motion.
2. To rush headlong or carelessly)
Of course you’re not alone in the galaxy found outside the box, it just feels that way. It is there, in the galaxy outside the box, where you’ll find certain scientists, artists, lawyers, homeless people, detectives, field generals, even criminals. Of course many of them might be lucky enough to have one thing in common: they’re good at what they do, real good, with a bit of swashbuckle tucked in a corner of their soul.
The person known for straying outside the box might be agnostic or a religious zealot. That doesn’t matter. The galaxy outside the box is a form of heaven that does not contain a god or an overlord. It is not desirable to stay outside the box on a continuous, around the clock basis, 365 days a year. To do so would not be heaven. To do so would, arguably, be a state of mind that resembles a condition relative to insanity.
As for me, Peter Mack (which is my real world name and not a pseudonym), I’ve been called a lot of things. For instance, I’ve been called “delusional.”
You’re not a famous person, you toil away working as a store clerk. Which means any person can point to your words and ideas and laugh. That’s one way for them to claim that those word and ideas are not legitimate. They are in essence claiming your words, ideas and actions “have no weight.”
What they (the detractors) and you (the accused) don’t realize is that a Maya Angelou or a Muhammad Ali or a Stephen Hawking might have the same words and ideas. The average person often leaps to assign a favorable rating to an icon’s words and actions which insures instant, automatic legitimacy. Many of those people who assign instant praise to an icon are impulsive fans in knee-jerk mode blinded by fame and hype.
There is danger when the average layperson, or fan, assigns instant legitimacy to the work, words and actions of someone famous. Danger for both parties in that the recipient (the icon or celebrity receiving the high-praise) may not be sure if the praise, the accolades, are worthy. Danger for the fan in that they come off looking like just another sucker. Another sucker caught in the throes of hero worship.
The thing is the suckers and detractors make up the majority of the population.
The majority matters less if you’re in a gang with major clout. If you’re a famous person in the Celebrity Club then you’re one of the few who can come close to nullifying the majority.
(gang
1. a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who gather together for social reasons.
2. a group of persons working together; squad; shift: a gang of laborers.)
I believe, in some cases, that if your words and ideas were presented to a celebrity or a societal icon there is a good chance that the icon would approve of your words and ideas. They might even be in awe of them. Maybe even a little jealous.
I have a couple of documents stored away for safekeeping. You can think of the words on those documents whenever a detractor assigns a negative label to any of your so-called weird, far-out ideas. You remember these words:
Document #1:
“There’s a wonderful delusional quality I possess that allows me to attempt things that are really bad ideas.”
Will Smith discussing the creation process.
Document #2:
“To tell you the truth, I’m kind of glad I can’t analyze it and tell you exactly what it all means. I sort of like that sense of mystery – or sense of stupidity.”
Paul McCartney discussing the creation process.
If I can get a hold of Stephen Hawking’s contact info I’m going to ask him one certain question about the creative process, just one. I doubt if he’ll respond back to me. I imagine he’s busy, has a lot of things to do. It might be harder for him to do things like answer mail, tons of mail, and make it through the day than it is for most able bodied people. And don’t forget, I’m an idiot…which is another reason why he may not respond back to me(?)
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