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A Hackney Cab Ride through The Corporation of The City of Baltimore: 1834
With free blacks and slaves sharing the streets alongside merchant bankers, shopkeepers, artisans, seaman, and an influx of immigrant labor, antebellum Baltimore City in the early 1830s was growing fast. Irish and German emigrants often booked passage with Baltimore as … Continue reading
Spring Break at Virginia Tech
My first spring living in Baltimore, late 80s, I had no friends in town, but I did have a record collection, a television set, and a Mazda 323. In my third-floor walkup near Mount Vernon Square, I’d collected every gourmet spaghetti sauce on the … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Food and Drink, Satire, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, Blacksburg, Cowgill Hall, Gillie’s, Virginia, Virginia Tech, writing
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The Many Delusions of C. Auguste Dupin
Other cities would like to claim him, but Baltimore has Poe. There is a society of scholars and devotees who meet to discuss Poe works and a special Poe room in the main branch of our library. There are Poe … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, Food and Drink, Satire, Uncategorized
Tagged actor, advertising, Americano, Baltimore, Baltimore Sun, Bun Shop, C. Auguste Dupin, copycat, David Franks, Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe, espresso, Evening Sun, France, Jeff Jerome, Jeff Savoye, Long Black Veil, Madame Flame, Mark Redfield, meerschaum, Poe Baltimore, Poe House, Poe Toaster, promotion, Rudolph Valentino, Sam Porpora, Sean Penn, tomb, Urban Legend, Westminster Hall, William Donald Schaefer
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Branding the Offbeat: A Path for 2016
The beauty of blogging is that once you’ve published your post, you can check your “stats” minutes later and see if anyone is looking. I say “looking” because who knows if anyone reads such things. When I visit other blogs, … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Business Communication, Satire, Uncategorized
Tagged Baltimore, bourgeois, branding, Charmin, Charney, ethos, Hansel and Gretel, Kardashian, Macy’s, Maryland, motivational speaking, Mr. Whipple, offbeat, ozonosphere, personal branding
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A Guiding Light for Baltimore
Anyone who has followed the news in Baltimore this year knows that we have been a city in turmoil. After the death of Freddie Gray, allegedly at the hands of several of our city’s police officers, Baltimore experienced terrible riots. … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Politics, Satire, Uncategorized
Tagged Baltimore, Battle Monument, Dorothy Hamill, Freddie Gray, fried Oreos, holiday lighting, Maryland National Guard, Michael Phelps, Mount Vernon Place, National Aquarium, National Katyn Monument, riots, Walter's Art Gallery, Washington Monument
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Still Over the Moon for Caribou
I am not one to believe that a person grieves, gets over, and moves on. For me, the loss of a loved one sends shock waves through my system that can linger for a lifetime. Such are my feelings concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Food and Drink, Satire, Uncategorized
Tagged Artifact, Caribou, Charmington's, Dooby's, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, latte, latte liberal, Mustang, Panera, Peet's, Spro, Starbucks, venti, York Road
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Fiddler on the Tomb: MHS Picks a New Poe Toaster
When the Maryland Historical Society (MHS) announced they would be taking proposals to choose a new Poe Toaster and holding a competition in the manner of American Idol and America’s Got Talent, I was excited to see what my fellow … Continue reading
New Poe Toaster will be Show Star
As an acolyte of Edgar Allan Poe and someone without much to do in the evenings, I’ve spent the past nine years, on the anniversary of Poe’s birthday, January 19th, waiting outside of Westminster Hall, beside the author’s grave, for … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, Uncategorized
Tagged Halloween, Maryland Historical Society, Poe Toaster
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