Baltimore

xpost: i moved to baltimore for a job! i will agree it's no philly.

My mom didn't find anything under her beds. But she did find shit smeared under her couch. A pile of shit under her TV stand and one Thomas the Train Table had even been smeared!

This is not possible - they were in the living room, and the cat boxes are in one of the closets.
I mean, my cats don't carry their cat shit around the apartment with them.

Nice try, though. You're not destroying anything. I can always go back into Voyager
and make more printouts, including printouts of the po to indicate that the item
was replaced.

This just shows how scatalogically minded these people are.

It's true I don't clean the cat box enough - but I am depressed and otherwise
occupied, not to mention suffering from chronic headaches.

But why do I find myself defending myself like this, when they're not
even supposed to be here.

And this reminds me of a fight I had with Ken about not cleaning the cat box
enough.

It also reminds me of the 'how often do you change your towel' thread
on ilx, because I probably wasn't changing my towel enough for their
satisfaction.

I mean, these people have to break into your apartments to get
dirt on you.

And I'm sure they rationalize the fact that they use a key - it's
not burglary if someone gave you the key.

I mean, you would not believe the rationalizations these people
use. I can only hope they all end up in prison, where they'll
actually have to face someone who tells them what they did.

Have you ever talked to someone whom you know is a criminal?

If you have, you know what I'm talking about - the way their eyes
shift around, the way they can't talk without giving themselves away....

One of their justifications is that I don't own the property, that I'm
a renter, and I can only afford that apartment by someone else's
grace.

And I know "Ken" buys into all of this shit - he just rationalizes and
rationalizes. He's obsessed with education, the education he feels
he was cheated out of, and he tries to sound all 'philosophical'
when he rationalizes the most heinous things.

i have a week off between jobs and flights are cheap. my best friend from LA would go w/me and we have a college friend that lives there.

d.c. -> baltimore is one hour by MARC train. can't recall if it runs on weekends but its only $7. by car, the same, but traffic permitting.

i'm thinking high black population = records!

but d.c. proves this wrong!

I like DC, it is much more fancy and uptight and expensive though.

http://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland_gazette/ph-ac-gn-bwischuh-0122-20150122,0,2786891.story

County Executive Steve Schuh said Thursday he will declare a public health emergency as soon as next week in response to a "heroin epidemic" in Anne Arundel County.

"It's not like it was back in the old days. That drug is not just sort of in pockets in the gritty urban neighborhoods in minority communities," Schuh told the BWI Business Partnership.

"It's everywhere, it's north, south, east, west … you name, it's there. It's every racial type, every income level. It's absolutely everywhere. And it's going to get worse if we don't go after it in a very serious way."
- See more at: http://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland_gazette/ph-ac-gn-bwischuh-0122-20150122,0,2786891.story#sthash.qqNjGewA.dpuf

This guy's a fuckin' treat.

lol i read that like 4 times last night very ragefully

Oh no one (that you know of, Mr. Executive) of my rich constituent's kids in Annapolis or Severna Park is on heroin that's just not possible EPIDEMIC.

the solution is more arrests & prosecutions, mandatory penalties for "repeat offenders" which has worked amazingly in the past and made us feel very good because 10 years in DOC will cure anyone's heroin addiction, right? i was also disgusted to read that harford county is sending a narcotics detective to every overdose call, which is sure to motivate more people to run away rather than calling 911. best practices.

i really love annarunnel cownee

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Nice. I saw a typically vociferous Britney Girl comment on an aacpd facebook post a few days ago. I don't even remember what it was. Something about catching a robber in Laurel maybe? Anyway, it made me smile.

that landslide video upthread is completely insane

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/fbi-told-baltimore-police-department-to-keep-phone-tracking-technology-a-secret/

anyone in the city tonight

wondering the same. out of town for the weekend and this pops off.

i don't like to leave my house but reading the dog whistle racist pro-police anti-baltimore facebook updates of a few professional acquaintances makes me wish i had. also ban whites from quoting MLK.

i've been swamped w/ work but trying to get out there soon

dog whistle racist pro-police anti-baltimore facebook updates of a few professional acquaintances

"shoot these rioters"

property damage really brings out the worst in some people

fish or click bait (how's life) wrote this on thread rolling "Is This Racist?" thread on board I Love Everything on Apr 20, 2015

For the past couple of weeks, one of my facebook friends (a high school buddy's spouse) has been posting up updates or comments like "they're not racist, they're just BAD POLICE. there are white police shooting black kids, black police shooting black kids, black police shooting white kids. why does everybody have to keep bringing race into this?" I've been biting my tongue pretty hard because she's my friends wife and like, I'm going to be charitable and imagine they are in disagreement about this already and hopefully having fights at home about it, but holy fuck.

I just defriended this chick because her fb posts have escalated into full-on shrieking "al sharpton don't you dare come to my city with your race baiting" and "now that the national guard is here, they won't be as patient with you as the baltimore pd has. if you don't get in line you will get shot!" I was all like, ok high school friend's wife whatever, but I really got no time for this shit.

i feel better about people who are outwardly racist today than i do about ppl go to baltimore unless they have to suddenly "disgusted" at the "violence" and posting things like this
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like, it's a picture of buildings whose owners pay no property taxes, in the part of baltimore built for white ppl to feel safe in, that is now being patrolled by national guard. and you love police. it is so peaceful.

Feel so sick

my neighborhood (like most neighborhoods) was totally unaffected as far as i know, therefore i am sick of people urging me and others to "stay safe", but i was still not able to sleep because i feel so bad about what happens here & everywhere. sirens kept me up and they never do.

i need to go to work in the suburbs now

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/these-are-the-two-baltimores-black-and-white/

i couldn't go to sleep last night either. teachers of my acquaintance were posting crazy things on facebook. i wish people could just refrain sometimes. also, buildings are not the city, you know? the people are the city. people can only live without justice for so long.

lotta high school friends on my fbook wall talking about "my city" like they haven't spent their entire lives in columbia

and yeah, i kept thinking last night how the words "be safe" sound either loving or reprehensible depending on who's saying it

Turns out white people from Severna Park down to Annapolis all secretly really loved Their City Baltimore right up until yesterday. Huh.

xp: "be safe" like a hundred times in the comments every time a local news story would post about county cops going into bolster the city cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqtxl4Qc_7A

also ban whites from quoting MLK

consider the alternatives.

bob marley?

Somebody on twitter pointed out that curfew effectively means baltimore is a sundown town

bit of a stretch. the curfew is city wide. even my whitebread neighborhood becomes a ghost town at 10.

I'm sure that was the goal?

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/Screenshot_2015-04-29-19-36-40_zpsbbic1kqu.png

Fuck, EVERYbody loves David Blaine.

i’m saying the city effectively shuts down across the board at 10 and that is not really what a sundown town is. like, yeah, i see how you can maybe bend it that way, but it’s an imperfect analogy at best.

xp

i need to stay off facebook until uh eternity

Oh, Baltimore!
Have you forgotten who you are?
You're the place of Babe Ruth, Brooks Robinson and Jim Palmer.
You're Johnny Unitas, Sugar Ray Leonard and Reggie Jackson.
You're Esskay Hot Dogs, Berger Cookies and Phillips Crabcakes.
You're The Star-Spangled Banner.
You're the Raven, never flitting, still sitting.
You're Francis Scott Key and Edgar Allen Poe.
You're Blue-crabs, Bertha's Mussels and Natty-Boh!
You're Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday and Mama Cass.
You're Frank Zappa, David Byrne and John Waters.
You're Fort McHenry, Camden Yards and the USS Constellation.
You're The National Aquarium, Penn Station and Harborplace.
You're Johns Hopkins, Loyola and Md Institute of Art.
You're Mt. Washington, Federal Hill and Fell's Point.
You're The Owl, The Hippo and The Cat's Eye.
You're as sweet as Domino Sugar and you're McCormick Spice.
Don't ever forget, you're everything nice.
Once upon a midnight dreary, Nevermore!
You're The Pride of Baltimore.

~Barbara Gookin

congrats! i now hate all of these things

It's not even Md Institute of Art.

is this a song? a poem? a rap?

vintage gookin

a poem by barbara grangus

http://i.imgur.com/S6mft7cb.jpg

Esskay Hot Dog, Sugar Ray
Frank Zappa, Holiday
Bertha's mussels, Reggie Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLHch7iWIAAYGSD.jpg

Yes!

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20160718&content_id=190277818&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t418&sid=t418

http://i.imgur.com/5NDuSIn.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTEyca9WgPo

http://i.imgur.com/isLOsxl.jpg?1

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sweet new Baltimore-themed mix up here: https://stadiumsandshrines.com/e63-glassine/

Wheatie Mattiasich – Gone Gone
Microkingdom – Chrome Dynasty
Andrew Bernstein – Broken Arc
Raw Silk – Malpresentations
Jacober – Move Slow
Amy Reid – Processoaring
Bastet – Rockit
Abdu Ali – I, Exist
Matmos – Teen Paranormal Romance
Glassine – Agency
Horse Lords – Time Slip
Ami Dang – Satgur Hoye Dayall
Smoke Bellow – Mary 3000
Wume – We Go Further
Outer Spaces – I Saw You
Infinity Knives ft. :3lon – blah blah supreme
The Office of Unspecified Services – Selflessness
Jana Hunter – Paint a Babe
Nicky Smith – Soulmate
Deakin – Seed Song

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-dave-sanders-20190315-story.html

R.I.P. Detour Dave the Traffic Slave

i saw that, didn't even know he was sick. at least there's still "jay walker" on wbal