Baltimore

i've still never had lake trout but i don't really want to anymore. do you have to eat it on white bread like that? also why do ppl eat "cheese fish" subs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2buuZgjKUo

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-12-06/news/bs-md-ci-fire-downtown-20101206_1_smoke-and-water-damage-buildings-red-light-district

http://mimg.ugo.com/200810/25743/tha-block-is-hot.jpg

Holy shit at attempt to bomb Army recruitment center less than a mile from my old house.

this is retarded http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/bs-ae-hon-trademark-20101209,0,7828781.story

http://www.baltimorehousing.org/vacants_to_value_search.aspx

are beehives, feather boas + specs specific to that lady, or is it a baltimore-wide thing?

no everything she does is a like a parody of the thing, that is a "hon" costume

my work closed at 2:30 because of the dusting of snow and it took 2 hours to get home!! wtf baltimore

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-02-07/news/bs-md-toilet-bomb-scare-20110207_1_toilet-baltimore-county-courthouse-mysterious-package

He said of Monday's incident, "It's not a stunt. It's a statement." He denied that he had left the toilet at the courthouse, but in a post on his Facebook page about 7:30 a.m. Monday, he wrote: "Left my Toilet at the Baltimore County Courthouse. Also left a kite of Knowledge. Secrets will not Block Justice."

According to his Facebook profile, Davis owns Shorty's Underground Pit Beef Shack in Upperco. Reached by phone at the restaurant, he at first denied knowing anything about the toilet. Later, he said he boasted on his Facebook page about leaving it so that his supporters, who are responsible, "don't get in trouble for it."

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/DavisDuaneToiletCourthouse.JPG

DavisDuaneToiletCourthouse.JPG

so cool video http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/02/15/police-apprehend-suspects-accused-of-stealing-car/

Ugh at Shomrim supporters

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-shomrim-demonstrators-pg,0,2929017.photogallery

Police say the pursuit was especially hot

Here is her letter:
Hello, my name is Chiara and I'm a 15-year-old Italian student who went to Baltimore this summer, with my family.

I found your email address on a page of the BaltimoreSun website and I'm here to write you due to the impression my family had of the city. I actually like "bad parts" because anyways, they are a part of the city culture and everything.

We were arriving from DC and we got into East Lafayette Street and then to Berea because the GPS didn't work. You can't image: my mom, dad and sister were literally frightened of everything they saw. Nearly all the houses were boarded up, the streets were so dirty and it all seemed about crime and bad stuff. We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)!

We were afraid of asking directions to Downtown so we just went straight on until we were alone and then called Hertz for info.

As I could hear and see, literally 85% of the city is a ghetto. Go five blocks north, east, or west of the Inner Harbor and you are in a war zone. 90% of the houses are boarded up, rampant drug trade and prostitution everywhere. We wanted to stay there for 2/3 days but we abandoned the idea and went back to Georgetown, DC.

Is it possible that a city like Baltimore has this effect to tourism? They say the Downtown is more or less safe but we had the chance to see 3 purse snatching in AN EVENING!

Please tell me your ideas about that and what the city is actually doing to battle against this!

Chiara M.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/02/a_wrong_turn_and_a_visitors_di.html#more

We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)! We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)! We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)! We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)!

lol fake

literally 85%
90%

characteristic wikipedia entry

Ellwood Park is a neighborhood in the eastern part of Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for a small public park with a playground between Jefferson and Orleans Streets. The neighborhood extends from Ellwood Avenue to Highland Avenue, between Monument Street and Fayette Street. It is contained within the 21224 zip code. Sorry but when I was growing up this was East Baltimore not Highlandtown. Highlandtown started at the other side of Fayette Street Between Highland Avenue and Foster Avenue.

God, who is this bitch?

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2011/03/del_carters_gay_marriage_tantr.html

By which I mean: she is this bitch

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa13966.html

and please call her up on her lunch break and tell her to vote for gay marriage already.

on your lunch break

Good job y'all, it looks like she's back on track.

http://www.wbaltv.com/politics/27053790/detail.html

chazz
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/bs-ae-chazz-palmienteri-20110301,0,3440209.story

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/bs-ae-tiki-barge-sl-0301-20110302,0,984051.story

When the Tiki Barge opened early last summer, crowds flocked to the new club, soaking in the novelty of a pool party on the Patapsco. Yet for Tiki Barge's neighbors in high-priced condos like HarborView and the Ritz Carlton, the novelty quickly became a nuisance.

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In the long, Bible-thick petition more than 40 neighbors filed with the board in December, one complainant noted seeing patrons "trampling a flower bed in the residential area."

The petition also accuses the bar's patrons of accosting neighbors, illegally parking on driveways, destruction of property, causing traffic jams, and "simulated sex with a potted palm tree."

oops lol

More than 30 people, including the actress known as "Snoop" from the Baltimore-based HBO series "The Wire," were arrested Thursday morning across the city and its surrounding counties in connection with a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation.

Raids were carried out in the pre-dawn hours by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore police and a slew of other federal and state law enforcement agencies.

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, known for her drug-assassin character on "The Wire," was taken into custody at a downtown apartment on a state warrant, officials said.

The actress has a troubled past, having been convicted at age 14 of second-degree murder. More recently, she refused to testify as a witness at a murder trial and was arrested at her then-Northeast Baltimore home.

The arrests are part of a five-month drug investigation, officials said.

Welp. No more Sonar.

yeah it's pretty nuts!

i was all excited to get Shellac tickets on Friday (playing Baltimore was all kinds of ?! considering their MO) and then this shit went down. it was actually a decent medium/large venue, i'm bummed to see it go. and for what seems like totally unnecessar, silly bullshit. unfortunately another reason for a lot of bands to pass over Baltimore.

http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/facepalm.gif

http://www.conawayformayor2011.com/index.html

i am pondering moving to baltimore.

cool! do it!

ah, i miss this place. it seems so long ago now.

I heard they have moombahton parties there, so you might need some new trousers to fit in

i was just taken aback by how awesome it seemed. i mean, i hung out with some friends (ami dang, rjyan, our very own dr3w daniel), got hit on by some gay boys, ate some amazing food, and saw a really good show in a space that reminded me of old warehouse spots in the Tenderloin. it kind of charmed my pants off, will be back in the coming months to make my final verdict— trying to get away from oakland, but i want to give myself another few months to tie loose ends and all that bullshit.

Why would you want to leave Oakland?

the short version: i'm sick of being un- or underemployed, i've pretty much exhausted many of the avenues in regards to meeting potential partners (despite the gayness of everything), and you know that comfortability that a place starts to breed in one after a few years? yeah, that's happening. also, many of my good friends, including my two best female friends, are all moving away. and some other awesome people have moved recently, too. so i'm figuring: what is stopping me?

"The Gayness of Everything" is a bar, right?

This is why i think I like LA, it's never comfortable haha (unless I stay at home)

the short version: i'm sick of being un- or underemployed

i can't speak to the possibilities re. yr other potential reasons for moving there, and things may have changed in the last two years (some dude and amon can more likely speak to this), but baltimore is imo not the place you wanna go if yr looking for easier gainful employment

not trying to piss on your parade, just keeping it as real as possible

it is a great place, though! and you can live on amounts that would have you eating cat-food-on-playing-card sandwiches in other cities, so.

if all else fails you can work at my temp agency and get me some referral money

lol... well, okay, the overall unemployment rate is at around 7% in bmore, whereas it's 10% in the bay, and most of the available jobs here are in industries that i am not capable of operating in. (sorry, i'm not a code monkey for startup).

quintessential baltimore moment, talking with rjyan about the loft he was living in with 4 other people, I asked him how much it was and he said 'oh it's $150 each but we're thinking of getting a 6th person in to get it down to $120, that would be sweeeeeet' and I think I just started rapidly blinking while trying to wrap my mind around everything in his statement

sorry, $125

sorry to be rude by mentioning dollars but it is the only way to illustrate baltimore's economies of scale

good luck baltimore / fuck you hurricane btw

sometimes i actually get nostalgic thinking about how much the rent was in my first baltimore apartment

haha yeah i lived in pretty swank mt. vernon yupster apartments both times i lived there, nicer than any other places i've ever lived, and i still paid less than anywhere else ever. (except for the house in philly with crack dens at either end of the block.)