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22 ____ Charm City, MD.
i like british accents, books, booze, bikes, and blank slates.
22 ____ Charm City, MD.
i like british accents, books, booze, bikes, and blank slates.
Posts tagged baltimore.
(Original post from Daniel Alexander on Google+, I’m just helping to spread the word. Reblog this)
I spotted this poor lady initially on Thanksgiving Day looking for work as I was leaving the York Road Shopping Center in Baltimore (http://g.co/maps/2ymdz). I felt so helpless and guilty because she wasn’t asking for money, but for a steady job. It was beyond me. It was especially sad because this was someone who should be enjoying retirement, but can’t.
The next day, I thought to take a picture of her and her sign to post it online to have her exposed to more people. When I went to find her though, she wasn’t there.
I was in the area today, and coincidentally, there she was: Still asking for help as cars were exiting the plaza. I finally approached her and asked if I could snap a picture so I can put her ad online in the hopes that someone out there would be able to find something for her.
So, here it is.
If you know someone looking for a seamstress, will you please tell that person about Gail? If you yourself can help, please reach out to her. Gail can be contacted at 443-810-0561. If you can’t help, at least share this post so that someone following you can.
Thank you.
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5 months ago on December 06, 2011 at 09:12am
The Raven Faithful giving it up to our fearless leader
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6 months ago on November 07, 2011 at 10:23am
Repping the purple today in honor of the beautiful Raven’s victory over Houston yesterday!
Also, love my Ravens tevas coffee mug <33
7 months ago on October 17, 2011 at 12:41pm
Tumblr Blog Contest - WIN TICKETS TO ARCTIC MONKEYS AT RAMS HEAD LIVE
To all my Baltimore (and surrounding cities & towns) Tumblr followers. Win TWO free tickets to see ARCTIC MONKEYS (w/ Smith Westerns) at RAMS HEAD LIVE on Saturday, October 15th.
This is a SOLD OUT show so if you haven’t purchased your tix and want to win TWO for FREE just play along…
The rules for this blog contest are easy…
- Step 1: Think about what the heck is an Arctic Monkey
- Step 2: Draw, Paint, Sketch, Doodle, Photoshop, Sculpt (or whatever) some sort of visual representation of an ‘Arctic Monkey’ (Make it interesting, make it funny and be creative!)
- Step 3: Send me an email to BaltiAMORE@gmail.com with a picture of your ‘Arctic Monkey’ creation
- Step 4: Your work is done. I’ll choose what I think to be the most creative and/or funniest on Thursday October 13th and announce the winner (with their creation) right here on BaltiAMORE.tumblr.com. (I’ll also contact the winner via email and let them know how they can pick up their tix!)
ASHLEY // offbeatorbit!!! Reblogging for you :) :) :)
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7 months ago on October 06, 2011 at 10:19am
Be Better…at Weather.
I feel like New York and Baltimore are interchangeable at this point.
At least that’s how I’ve been preparing…
stocking up on alcohol is how I prepare for all major weather events.
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9 months ago on August 26, 2011 at 02:42pm
my reaction to the quake in Baltimore was to shriek and run outside with my cellphone and water bottle screaming WHAT THE FUCK in front of all of my co-workers
9 months ago on August 23, 2011 at 04:48pm
33. Maryland
The Old Line State sports lots of nice scenery, and some parts are conveniently (or detrimentally, depending on your view) D.C.-adjacent, but its main city is a Dickensian nightmare.
The Good: The whole Chesapeake area is definitely pretty. There’s a whole island full of wild horses, so that’s pretty cool. Some of us have cousins that live in Rockville and that always seems pleasant enough. There’s a town named after Chevy Chase! (It couldn’t possibly be the other way around.) They have blue crabs there that are very delicious to eat. (No, they are not STDs that are sad.) Annapolis is a pretty little town, and there are lots of hot young Navy cadets to peep there. You can buy a house in Baltimore for under $10,000!
The Bad: Do you know why you can buy a house in Baltimore for under $10,000? Because it’s something of a murder-ridden horrorhole. They like made a whole television series about what a scary and miserable place it is! Sure there are revitalization projects underway and crime is falling some, but it’s still pretty bad. Other than Baltimore, Maryland is basically just the Mid-Atlantic’s Connecticut — all suburby sprawl dotted with occasional crumbling cities. Oh, and of course rural Maryland’s woods are full of mean old witches who hate film students.
Final Score: 5.75
Gawker’s The 50 Worst 50 States in America. Am I the only person who thought The Wire was about American cities and its bureaucratic nightmare and not exclusively about Mobtown tales that had occurred two decades before the show was written?
Can anyone name Maryland’s other crumbling cities? I demand literal falling-down.
I’d like to note that when I was in college (over three years ago) you could buy million dollar homes in the city. It’s not like every neighborhood was West Baltimore.
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i recently read this article too. They basically pissed on every state that wasn’t NY or Cali. Fuck off gawker. MD is fucking LITTLE AMERICA. We have the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor and everything in between. We have the woods, the ocean, rivers, mountains. A lot more that I’m too lazy to write about right now. We’re awesome.
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Basically seconding everything that Zoe already said. MD is fucking awesome, and Baltimore is awesome as well. Fuck you, Gawker. Guess what? You can certainly buy homes in Baltimore that are well over $10,000 (hello, have you ever been to Federal Hill or Fells Point or Harbor East?) - which is not at all the point, but for some reason that little factoid bothered me. Guess what, Baltimore is a big city and yes, there is a lot of crime and poverty here. Baltimore is also home to two of the foremost hospitals and some of the best universities in the country.
Like any big cities, Baltimore has it’s sketchy neighborhoods and crime problems (for example, someone dumped a stolen car in the alley behind my office today which was curious) but I defy you to name one other big city that doesn’t have these exact same problems, and that retains flavor that truly makes earns Baltimore it’s moniker - Charm City, baby.
Home of the Ravens, Edgar Allen Poe, Natty Boh, and some of the best fucking food you will ever hope to eat. YOU’RE WELCOME, AMERICA.
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9 months ago on August 22, 2011 at 11:53pm
Ray Rice #27 RB Baltimore Ravens!!! Let’s GO RAVENS..!!!
Hells yeahhh hey baby boyyyy <33
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teadanceordie
10 months ago on July 27, 2011 at 10:58am
Apparently last night I:
1. made out with some poor random *blessedly i do not remember this.
2. was forcibly ejected from Looney’s
3. bit the bouncer at Looney’s.
4. threw up in Ashley’s backseat.
5. had to be carried inside by John and Bryan.
6. bit John. bit Bryan.
7. told Lauren’s date that I hated him.
….birthday weekend has started off successfully, yes?
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10 months ago on July 23, 2011 at 10:46am
W H Y
there’s no escape
“there’s no escape” omg
Why do they even put the temperature after it goes over 80? They should just put “really fucking miserable.”
California luuuuvvvv
now lemme welcome everybody to the wild wild west <3333333333333
That awkward moment when Michigan is hotter than down south
In England it’s so cold that i’ve had to put the heating on and two blankets on my bed. Summer doesn’t exist anymore
105? yummy.
It’s usually 100 by this time in Denver. 91 still sucks, though.
LOL IT IS 69 DEGREES IN LA RN BE JEALOUS.
IT HAS BEEN OVER 100 IN THE CITY ALL FUCKING WEEK I CAN’T EVEN MOVE OUTSIDE WITHOUT WANTING TO CRY. UGH. BALTIMORE, PLEASE.
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10 months ago on July 20, 2011 at 10:08pm
The Peabody Stack Room of the George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland
The George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, dates from the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857. It contains more than 300,000 titles—most of which date from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Renowned for its striking architectural interior, the Peabody Stack Room contains five tiers of ornamental cast-iron balconies, which rise dramatically to the skylight 61 feet above the floor.
In addition to its traditional use as a research library, it is available as an event space. The library accommodates wedding ceremonies, wedding receptions, private dinners, holiday parties and lectures.
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11 months ago on June 07, 2011 at 11:02pm
