Baltimore

Highlights: the waterfront/Fells Point, the diners, the accent, The Brothers' strange and terrifying junk shop... ah, I should really wait until Pam gets home to do it justice.

Lowlight: the Keith Jarrett CD I bought for $2 from The Sound Garden which turned out to a 1979 Cars album when I cracked it open. Unfortunately picked it up from the 'no returns, no bitching, no whining' section.

JUST KIDDING!

Baltimore rules. When I lived there, I loved the Mt. Royal Tavern, the Rondez-Vous Lounge, the Ottobar, duh byoo-tee-full myoo-zic uf duh die-leck, Bolton Hill, the SoWeBohemian festival, Fells Point, Thairish on Charles Street, Federal Hill, the American Visionary Art Museum, Little Italy (pronounced Lil Itlee), duh Abnoo (spelled Avenue) in Hampden -- oh, many, many things.

Highlight: the waitress calling me "Hon" and making me so befuddled I asked for a cheese chomelette.

I don't know if Edith's shopping bag is there any more as Edith Massey died in 1984. Maybe they kept it open to preserve her memory, bless her.

gareth you have no taste

Final issue available now. Although it’s moot at this point, Flappy Bird , why is the EIC a moron? Former/currrent (?) old contributor Some Dude used to write for them.

Old ilx contributor to Baltimore City Paper

that was overly harsh, they’re all good people, I just don’t dig that person’s writing style at all. Wasn’t the appropriate time to bring that up in any case. Picked up the paper today and stared at the cover for a while, didn’t really hit me til this morning, and won’t until weeks and months from now when it’s just a distant memory...

on sunday i opened a book and i found a whose responible i had ripped out and used as a bookmark maybe 7 years ago. i haven't looked at city paper much since sun bought it but it will sometimes be missed, i guess.

it was this one lol http://photos.citypaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/192.jpg

Creative Alliance has been doing some special music events at other locations in Baltimore. I saw Innov Gnawa, a Moroccan group based in NY do a special Moroccan Jewish music program at Bnai Israel synagogue.

On Nov. 11th they are doing a special soul program at the Arch Social Club with the great Winfield Parker and others

http://www.creativealliance.org/events/2017/creative-alliance-arch-social-club-ru-jac-records-legacy-baltimore-soul

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/11/02/baltimore-beat-new-alt-weekly/

Washington Blade owner is starting new Baltimore Beat newspaper and website with a few Baltimore City Paper staffers. 1st issue November 15th

how about our mayor

lol

amazing that she barely squeaked out a win against SHEILA DIXON in 2016

friend of mine said Pugh might be worse than SRB. hard to say - SRB presided over a major crisis, didn't do a good job, made a lot of mistakes, & was generally incompetent. and though my first instinct re: Pugh's book scam is garden variety corruption, it is pretty despicable, and a lot worse than the gift cards or whatever Dixon did.

i decided a long time ago she was worse than SRB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq3aUqQcDk

good morning baltimore

Flappy are you a resident?

yes

happy holidays, baltimore!

Right wing Sinclair TV local news network chief David Smith bought the Baltimore Sun and will likely kill it in a Republican way.

NPR's David Folkenflik tweet-

The Baltimore Sun's new owner, David D. Smith, met with staffers today for more than two hours. Many left on edge.

He claimed he had read the paper just four times. He grew up here; his family's local TV empire - Sinclair - is based in Baltimore Co.

!!!

Baltimore Bridge is 1.6 miles long,

this is the moment it collapsed after a cargo ship struck it in the early hours of this morning
pic.twitter.com/eA6womQlcI

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) March 26, 2024

Checks front page of the NYT.

Holy fuck.

fucking hell that's horrifying

Shit

It's vehicles we see in the middle section right

I'm thinking this is the biggest structure I see collapsing since WTC. Much more closer in time, the highway bridge in Genoa.
Hoping there were as few people as possible on the bridge. It's crazy if workers were allowed on the bridge after the cargo hit.

there's a longer video here and you can see the volume of traffic and how quickly it came down after the impact, don't think anyone had much of a chance to do anything

Here's a longer and higher quality video of the Baltimore bridge collapse. Crash and collapse happens at 2:34 #Baltimore https://t.co/qMDsAG01z6 pic.twitter.com/k5cVY5DqXI

— UnCover (@uncoovr) March 26, 2024

My bad, from the first video I didn't realize the bridge collapsed immediately

The video is horrifying to watch - it just crumples like it’s made out of popsicle sticks

Ahhhhhhhhh Jesus

😖

From the Washington Post: The fire chief said emergency personnel removed two people from the water; one was in very serious condition and the other was uninjured. He said rescuers were looking for upward of seven people, with search efforts expected to continue for hours.

Sonar showed cars in the water 😬

Holy shit, looked like the ship was on the blink and the massive exhaust plume might have been engine trouble?

Fucking horrifying, hoping friends & loved ones & bmore ILX are all safe & sound <3

No deaths yet, right? Fingers crossed. You should have seen my mom's face when I showed her the video this morning.

massive exhaust plume might have been engine trouble?

What I read is that this is indicative of the engines going full reverse in order to try to stop the ship. I read that the issue was probably with the steering of the ship, though everything is speculation at this point obviously.

xpost One dead and six missing according to Reuters. One saving grace is it happened when it did, hate to think if it happened a few hours earlier.

i want to hear the story of this one survivor who was reportedly uninjured and refused medical treatment. you just go about your day after that?

I can only imagine you go home, sit on the bed, and start shivering / weeping uncontrollably. Also, being useless to society for a few months.

possibly delayed shock

The person may not have been thinking clearly. I know I wouldn’t be rational in a situation like that. Rationally, I’d want to go to hospital—I’m not a doctor maybe there is something wrong that’s subtle that paramedics didn’t catch.

I wonder what the legal reasons are you can’t just take someone to the hospital if they refuse it.

The person may have also been undocumented and/or without insurance.

If I wasn't hurt I probably wouldn't want to go to the hospital either tbh

yeah, who knows what that bill could be, amber waves of grain an all that

i heard this happened because of OPEN BORDERS!

oh I know for a fact that someone's gonna blame this on DEI and Elon will massively amplify it

First part at least happened fast on Twitter/X.

people are mad the Infrastructure Bill didn't immediately fix all roads and bridges like Joe Biden promised

where was the funding to reinforce all bridges against container ship collisions?!?

I wonder what the legal reasons are you can’t just take someone to the hospital if they refuse it.

If this person was able to leave under their own power, the first responders probably had no grounds to detain them. But I do hope this person does get a proper checkup soon.

Also, WHY did the Trump Administration--during its four years--NOT reinforce the Key Bridge against container ships? Was Infrastructure Week for nothing? Hey, I'm just asking questions here!

Construction crew apparently didn’t get the Mayday announcement.

https://x.com/maximillian_alv/status/1772675933742260723?s=46&t=u2ZSlsY3trRV36IPP6jNDQ

Construction crew are/ were immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras working 9pm to 5 am