In the WooWoo Wonderland™

The Fifty Books Challenge, year four! (Years one, two, three, and four just in case you're curious.) This was a secondhand find.



( >For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret they felt too ashamed to reveal, much less speak of among themselves... )

The Fifty Books Challenge, year two! This was a special gift to me from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] for my birthday, complete with a autograph to ME from the Pope of Trash himself!



( Glory-hole-lujah. Amen. )

The Fifty Books Challenge, year two! This was a library request.



( Marital Strife and Stress Though the Years in the City By the Bay )

From here:

City Homeless Donate $14.64 For Quake Victims
Relief Workers Moved By Sacrifice at Downtown Shelter( Read More... )


I haven't been this moved by my country or by my city in a long time. ♥

Got the best e-mail from my brother this morning:

At the army base where I work, one of the guys I wait for the bus with and I were talking. He's a Sargent Major, the highest enlisted rank in the military, usually meaning 15 years or so of service and rigorous training. The awards on his uniform indicate he's served in a war zone and been in close combat. I mentioned I was from "just south of Baltimore", and the decorated combat veteran responded:

"Baltimore? That's kind of a rough place isn't it?"

Forget this 'city that reads' shit. Baltimore's motto oughta be "The city that even makes guys with chunks of fundie shrapnel in their ass nervous".


Baltimore, you're home to me...

I FAIL at updating things (as you've noticed) but over a month ago, the wonderful and supportive anais_rhys gave me five words for the Five Words Meme.
Here they be!

( Turn Down Lights (Where Applicable) )

... and/or people that like Baltimore. I'm aiming to make a color bar for Baltimore as I've yet to see one. I'm stuck since we have such an embarrassment of riches (so to speak) when it comes to landmarks/stuff to put on the bar.

I'm going to have to put a pink flamingo on the side since our native son, the divine John Waters, has donated so much to the hip, exotic quality of our fair city.

Some examples of color bars done for places include these that I'm using for inspiration (that I ripped off from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s profile, where these ideas spawned in the first place):


Created by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]



And of course there is my Glen Burnie color bar (which is, of course, 80% in irony) that I made since frankly it was simpler than making a Baltimore color bar.

Any ideas are appreciated. ♥

Because I apparently don't have enough to do...



In my quest for making a "Baltimore is Love" banner, I somehow made a "Glen Burnie is Love" banner instead. Just call me... riddled with Stockholm Syndrome? If there is anyone out there who would like to use this as well, credit or fear the wrath that comes from the ghetto redneck capital, the charmless city outside Charm City.

From The Baltimore Sun:

$10 is Small Price For a Big Escape
Movie Box Office Figures are Flourishing Despite, or Because of, Economic Worries ( OH GOD THERE'S MORE )

Jesus Christ. I love the 1930s but this is ridiculous. And guess what? This article, as you can see, is nearly a month old.