CHARM CITY ROCKERS LOOKOUT 4 DR.DRU

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I am going to move to Balt1more in August (for a teaching position at j0hns h0pk1ns) . . . .

who w1ll be my Natty Bo lovin' noize bros?

― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

Congratulations!

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

congrats Drew -- you made quick work of the job search!

― Dominique, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:52 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, I need advice about where to live / buy groceries / see shows / see movies / eat burritos / meet folks / get robbed and killed / other fun stuff. Baltimorean n0izers sound off now (jess I am looking at U) . . . .

― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 22 February 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

are you teaching audio/visual stuff or literature or what?

― █▄█▒ ▄ █▄█▒ sans ░&#, Thursday, 22 February 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

drew why baltimore over tronno? (ps. congratz!)

― ^@^, Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

dru give me a few hours to clear off my desk and i will return with my accumulated b-more knowledges.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

be careful who you bone in the STD capital of the US

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

ALRIGHT, SO:

Living:

Charles Village: Since yr gonna be all up in the grill of the school where you can get a sex change (I'm assuming you'll be working out of arts & sciences campus?), you'll already be in Charles Village, which is a perfectly okay place to live. Rents aren't as high as where I live (Mt. Vernon, though rents aren't exactly crazy here either) and either way you're on all the major bus lines and whatnot and cabs are generally, while not as easy to find as downtown, not as atrocious to locate in Chas Village as everywhere else in the goddamn city. There problem is that there's not much IN Charles Village except Hopkins and the new Starbucks. It's a college town within a city--complete with frat and sorority houses--and while people I know who live there have no complaints (other than the relative crime levels of the surrounding neighborhoods), you still have to, like, go places to do things. The Art Museum is in Charles Village, and yr within walking distance from Normals Books, which is home to the Red Room [see music section, below] and a pretty great used bookstore and vinyl emporium, a few bars, and not much in the way of restaurants.

Mount Vernon: The downtown that's not actually, like, downtown, in the Inner Harbor Hell sense. I'm biased, because it's the only place I've lived here, but I have no complaints. Within walking distance of my work (which will not be the case for you) as well as plenty of bars, restaurants, one of the only movie theaters within city limits (the Charles). It is also the Gayborhood, so be prepared for a week of Pride madness to choke the streets in the spring, and basically where almost any and all street fairs, public gatherings, and city events take place that don't take place in Hampden. Not much in the way of shopping -- food, clothes, or otherwise -- but a Super Fresh opened recently, which at least saves you from having to shop at Eddie's (the local ghetto grocer) or driving to Hampden or Charles Village. It's definitely a yuppie-ish, gentrified area, but in a city like B-more that's not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to, you know, not getting killed. Basically I do all of my hanging out here that isn't related to show going, but that speaks more to B-more's general entropy about moving outside of yr neighborhood, especially if you don't have a car.

Hampden: Bastion of old white Baltimore, which at this point basically means semi-scary white trash families screaming at each other outside the 7-Eleven. The rest of Hampden has been overrun with B-more hipsters and upwardly mobile aging indie rocker types over the last few years, apparently; I guess imagine a Williamsburg where none of the working class people actually moved out. (Or maybe an Olympia, Washington with yupsters.) From what I understand Hampden is very livable--decent shopping, restaurants, bars, whatnot--but the bananas housing market of the last few years has priced out almost anyone who wasn't grandfathered in. Hampden is close enough to Charles Village that yr commute would be fine, though don't expect to get a cab there without calling. Ever.

Medfield: Like Hampden but, like, slightly further away and not so hipster-gentrified.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Bolton Hill: Neighboring Mount Vernon. Seems to fluctuate between pretty decent place to live and "do not enter after dark" areas. Very much a bedroom community. (When I was looking at places two summers ago, I really thought all of Baltimore was this empty at 3 pm on a weekday.) If you have a car, expect it to get broken into. Repeatedly.

Federal Hill: AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. While I'm sure some people have no problem with Fed Hill, it's college-bar-hell on the weekends and I can't imagine living there without wanting to kill myself after the first week or two. Though, hey, that's where the American Apparel store is. Uh.

Fells Point: On the beautiful waterfront. Again, I'm sure many people have no problem with Fells Point, and while it's certainly a nightlife destination, it's in no way as bad in that regard as Fed Hill and many of the streets are utterly charming the cobblestone street/adorable rowhouse kind of way. From what I've gathered, though, it's a pretty expensive place to live rent-wise, though if you look hard enough, I'm sure you'll be able to find something affordable. (I also have no idea about how much yr willing to spend -- but I would assume since yr moving from SF anything's gonna be an improvement.) It's also where Baltimore's teeny, tiny Hispanic community is settling, so if you want a burrito, this is probably yr best bet. (Seriously though, yr gonna have to get over that burrito craving pretty quickly.) It's also the exact opposite direction from yr work.

Roland Park: Unless yr planning on dropping a couple hundred grand on a house and enrolling your kids in a top rated preschool, feel free to avoid.

There are plenty of other neighborhoods, obviously, but these are the ones I'm most familiar with. I'll try to hit the other ones later, and of course Amon (and Al, if he's even reading this) should feel free to chip in. I'm gonna go get some lunch but I'll try to rattle off some other relevant info when I get back.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I tried to post that as one post and it told me I couldn't. Fuck nu-ILX.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

congrats, drew. canada is sorry you will not be here, but J0HNS H0PK1NS! awesome

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

there's lots of code for "around blacks, watch your backs" in the above guide

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

well DUH have you seen his MS paint drawings??

― max, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

is this move permanent, drew?

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

there's actually far more code for "stay away from college students and yuppie hipsters" in the above guide, though i guess drew doesn't have much choice about staying away from college students

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

in talking to a friend of mine who lives there at lunch, apparently i was too hard on ol' charles village apparently

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

apparently apparently apparently

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i have no idea what pigtown is like, but i have to admit i wouldn't mind living there simply because it's called "pigtown"

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

pigtown is allegedly on the fast track to gentrification, from what I am told

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

well it is full of pigs

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

one thing i like about baltimore is that it's possibly the most misanthropic city i've ever lived in

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

(p.s. there are more middle-class black folks than middle-class white folks in baltimore.)

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

technics will set you up! good luck, drew!

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/images/technics.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

I am actually going to make my first trip to Baltimore in like 3 or 4 years (maybe more) because I want ink done but do not want to pay NYC prices.

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

PLACES TO SEE TEH MUSIC:

obviously decorum and my job prevents me from offering an opinion on any of these fine establishments, so i'll just run down what you can see there:

the ottobar - your mid-level indie rock/metal/semi-avant/electronic shows. stuff that's, like, big enough to play in baltimore essentially, rather than skipping it entirely for d.c., but not so big that there's no place for them to play here. lots of indistinguishable emo, straight-up punk, etc. but then stuff like the ex and dj/rupture played here last time they came through.

sonar - like the ottobar but more warehouse-like, cavernous, impersonal, and more expensive. too dark and smells like wee. hipster dance party central. decent acoustics but poor "vibe."

we recently lost our teeny hole-in-the-wall venue that used to put on all the really good underground/weirdo/whatnot shows, in a debacle that i really don't feel like getting into here. hopefully they'll reopen soon, as there's not many places for those sort of bands to play.

charm city art space - your one stop shop for five-band punk and hardcore bills that make you feel geriatric from the moment you step in the door.

floristree/h&h - loft space that puts on semi-word of mouth weirdo shows on no regular basis. (3xc3pt3r played there last time they came through for instance.) your standard art loft with beer sold out of a cooler.

current gallery - downtown art gallery that occasionally puts on shows.

(here's where i say r.i.p. tarantula hill.)

an die musik - mostly jazz and chamber-sized classical performances, but they have a good booker who can wrangle stuff like bennink/brotzman last year, etc.

new have lounge - charming jazz bar tucked into a strip mall where sharply dressed older men give you funny looks if you wear jeans

rams head live - hideous sports bar megalopolis-type venue where traveling oldies reviews that can still draw big numbers and shitty rock bands on their way up play. good if you enjoy being served a plate of nachos while watching the next hinder.

the 8x10 - if you want jam bands or anything else "funky," they've got 'em

the sidebar - like charm city space, except a dive bar instead of an artists' cooperative and "street punks" instead of young and idealistic hardcore kids

the depot - faux-seedy hipster bar which occasionally puts on pretty great small-scale local and touring weirdo shows

the red room - tucked into normals books and the center of baltimore's small but ever-thriving group of people banging on pots and pans and bending circuits

the yabba pot - still in operation i think. restaurant that puts on local hip-hop and r&b shows, mostly of the backpack and neo-soulish variety but by no means entirely

the five seasons - hip-hop spot which has become an epicenter for the local rap community over the last 18-24 months or so.

i know i'm forgetting shit, but that's most of 'em.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

we recently lost our teeny hole-in-the-wall venue that used to put on all the really good underground/weirdo/whatnot shows, in a debacle that i really don't feel like getting into here. hopefully they'll reopen soon, as there's not many places for those sort of bands to play.

you mean the Talking Head?

fucking sleazeball establishment, lasted way too long

sidebar > all else

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i mean talking head.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

GROCERIES AND SHOPPING WHATNOT:

Obviously not a full accounting.

Most of the neighborhoods have their own giant, impersonal chain grocers. Mount Vernon doesn't really seem to have much in the way of fruit stands or organic produce shops or independent butchers, but perhaps I'm just not looking hard enough. I'm not even gonna pretend I'm familiar enough with the other neighborhoods to judge their unique grocery qualities, but if there's one thing I've learned about this weird ass city, it's that each neighborhood has some crazy ass bullshit specific just to it, so I'm sure wherever you settle you'll find something.

Actually I just thought of something in the semi-immediate Mt. Vernon area which is Trinacria which is a rather amazing little Italian market full of meats and cheeses and whatnot and really fucking great sandwiches.

The Baltimore Farmer's Market operates downtown on Saratoga St. between May and Dec. and is exactly what you think it is.

(I don't know the geographical demarcation boundaries well enough to know if this counts as Mt. Vernon but:) Lexington Market, which is where you want to go if you get a craving for fried chicken, 2 pounds of cookies, oysters, a really questionable taco, potato chips, and a pit beef sandwich all at once. And really, who doesn't on occasion. Also produce and other things that won't eventually give a heart attack. A Baltimore mainstay which people who've actually grown up here get all misty about.

Apparently there is a mythical chicken box place that also sells sex toys, knock off Xboxs, weed supplies, and more, but I have never been to this promised land.

Apparently if you were born with breasts and a vagina or have since acquired them we're living in a golden age for local clothiers. As I have neither, I find clothing shopping here a bit of a pain in the ass. But I'm also broke and don't take part in Noize Denim Discussions, so there may be snappy boutiques I don't know about.

Places to buy booze: throw a rock.

Records:

I buy most of my music (what little I still have money for) at either Sound Garden (down in Fells Point) which is good for your standard pop/rock/hip-hop/r&b/electronic stuff. Pretty decent used selection. Not great for vinyl. Fairly decent weirdo section, but pretty middling jazz/"world" stuff. Nothing like what you're used to, I'm sure. The other place is the True Vine, up in Hampden, which is good for a very tightly curated selection of obscure and semi-obscure CDs and very good for vinyl, though not so much for new vinyl. There are other stores, but I'm starting to glaze over here.

Movies:

Your options are...limited. The Charles, downtown in Mount Vernon, is your one-stop middlebrow indie/art-film house. The Senator, up in Govans, is a B-more landmark that recently escaped being demolished, one of those giant theaters from the olden times that you just don't see anymore. Unfortunately they show stuff like the new Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore movie. The Rotunda, up in Hampden, is a little semi-rundown theater that shows Hollywood flicks. The museums and galleries will occasionally do revival shows, as will places like the Creative Alliance and other "cultural institutions." There are plenty of godawful multiplexes in the county, however, including Muvico which is possibly the most ostentatious suburban movie theater I've ever been to.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, i dunno man! aside from my clear and obvious biases towards staying with my own kind in gentrified neighborhoods with a starbucks (haha just kidding...we don't have any!!) and at least one place to buy a six pack within walking distance of my house, that's as broad an overview as i can give! i'm not from here--and i've only lived here about 18 months now--so i'm not as familiar with the ins and outs and nooks and crannies as someone who grew up here would be. if you've got other questions, feel free to ask! it's a pretty good place to live all things considered.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I lived there a couple of years

avoid: Johnny Bravo's, "art spaces"

do want: chicken from lexington market, Sidebar

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

actually i'm pretty sure there's a starbucks in the inner harbor.

maybe it's just because i've never been confronted it with it directly (knock whatever's around to knock) but i find charm city's TERRIFYING CRIME STATISTICS WHICH PRECEDE IT IN THE NATIONAL MEDIAS a little overblown when it comes to day to day living. obvious we ain't one of the murder capitals of the country for nothin' but at the same time i think a lot of it comes down to the standard muggings and cars getting broken into and whatnot. i got robbed twice in philly and never here. still, i'm not a woman, and i know there's been an increase in rapes recently. (and there's also been an increase in gay bashings lately, including a really horrible one where the poor bastard got set on fire, which seems like a mind-boggling one-off no matter where you live.)

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

when I lived there I knew exactly one dude who had never been mugged, and it was me

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i mean i say that about the crime and then i hear blase stories about getting carjacked, so grain of salt and all that

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

man, i don't even know who you are and i can't believe you like the sidebar

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

it's okay, but i can't think of putting it on my list of do wants

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

scariest place i've ever lived remains olympia.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

dudes who want to steal the change out of your cup holder > guys who throw beer bottles at you from passing cars

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

sidebar has buybacks and actual punk rock

also I presume they still employ cool people? I can report back further after my trip

if I go

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Olympia is some stressful shit, true

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

the gentrification thing is interesting because it actually a hot button topic at the moment. from what i gather, the city resisted all the typical big box horseshit and pandering to "creative types" to move in and set up jobs and businesses (like, uh, dot coms, i guess) that have swallowed other cities in the last few decades and now that it's slowly trickling in, everyone is losing their shit. i find it nice actually that there's no target or wal-mart here (even if there is a best buy), and i'm not exactly sure if the city's economic and social woes will be cured by a bunch of people coming in and setting up ad agencies in hampden.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

there is a target on the south side

unless it closed

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

yeah closest one is in towson, i think

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

oh and i'm not even going to get into restaurants because i think the place i've eaten at most in this city is the new york fried chicken on north ave. and charles, drunk at 2 am. i am a poor gourmand.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

which is not even good fried chicken.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

general things i like about baltimore: cost of living = zilch; not so much ethnically diverse in the oh-so-cosmopolitan nyc sense, but far more integrated than any city i've ever lived in; genuinely weird in an unpretentious way; cheap beer; lots of people doing their own idiomatic thing, creatively.

things i like less so: sometimes very forced "weird" in an obnoxious way; incredibly insular; somewhat hostile to newcomers; public transport could be better; needs better book stores; built on an incline means i'm almost always walking goddamn uphill; parts of it really smell.

a lot of this is re-posting from the original toronto vs. b-more thread.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

add to the cons column: lack of decent mexican food.

add to the pros: not washington state.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

ill hang drew - i get up from DC pretty frequent

― 69, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

well the experimental scene seems to be coming together, I was casually looking into playing some east coast shows to pad out the april nyc shows & three seperate people said 'skip Boston just go to Baltimore'

but two people pointed me towards Talking Head, too bad that's a miss

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

add to the cons: none of the thrift stores/goodwills seem to be within easy walking distance. and while we're at it the city's car dependence.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

yeah there's definitely an exponentially growing experimental scene here. whatever the talking head's problems were as a business operation, they had really, really strong booking.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

i mean any place that could wrangle keith rowe or pita or whatever to a city of this size has to be doing something right. unfortunately the booking policy and the lack of money it brough it probably contributed to it closing down.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

please keep in mind that housing guide is as a dude who walks just about everywhere. if you'll be driving, then yr looking at a totally different map.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I meant to say there is a wal mart on the south side

wal mart

also, are you fucking kidding me the hotels there start at $150 a night

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

yeah

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

my sister came down to visit last weekend with a buncha friends, decided to get a hotel, and one night at thee holiday inn set them back about $200.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

no continental breakfast either.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

since when is baltimore more desirable than new york city???

― Count Nefaria, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, i'm leaving work now. i hope some or any of this helped drew. i also hope i haven't spammed this thread with my half-baked opinions about a city i still barely know and hope someone else who knows about all the neighborhoods i barely even touched on chimes in soon.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

trust your heart, young padawan, and you'll be fine, etc etc etc.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

xposts galore . . .

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU JESS and other Bmore folks for your heartfelt and thorough opinions. It's so super helpful to hear from people about what works and doesn't work, what is glorious and what is gnarly. I swing between being really apprehensive and really excited about all the radical switcheroos that are coming, and hearing from locals about what to avoid and what to seek out is crucial. I was kind of kidding about burritos, I know that Baltimore is not San Francisco and I'm not going to expect the leopard to change its spots.

To answer some upthread questions-

1. I am going to teach in the English Department there; I will teach Renaissance literature to undergraduates and a mixture of early modern literature and critical theory to graduate students.

2. It's a real-deal, permanent move, and so Martin is coming too. Bless him. "Permanent" is of course subject to change (as there is no long-term way to predict how the tenure process will go). Matmos will continue and hopefully in Baltimore's low-budget renter's paradise we'll have a lot more space in which to record and work and live; SF rents mean that our current apartment is insanely, unworkably cramped. So finding a good place to live is the big priority right now. I hear that DC folks are starting to live in Baltimore and that thus rents are climbing, but it can't be as bad as SF. (Houses in SF tend to go for 800,000 to 1,00,000)

― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

j0hnz h0pk1nz is lucky to have you--i only know one kid who goes there and he's kind of dumb, but he's an polisci major so you probably wont see much of him. actually i know another kid who's sort of an unredeemable douchebag. but he might have transferred to trinity or something. in any event. woo english!

― max, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

super-duper congrats, drew! you and martin can come visit us up in nyc much more often now.

also matmos/nautical almanac collaboration? make it happen! hahahaha.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

drew if you're even thinking about buying, you can probably find a very, very spacious house in many neighborhoods for approximately 1/3-1/4th of what you would pay in SF, even with the housing market still being someone crazy here right now.

i totally understand about the apprehensive and excited thing; when i was moving here back in august of '05, i really had NO idea what to expect, but the whole process was such a blur in such a short period of time that i didn't really have to think about it too much. four or five months should definitely give you enough time to find the right location for what you guys do.

if i'm still here come august (it's 50/50 at this point), i'll be more than happy to buy you and martin a welcome drink or 10.

― strongohulkington, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

drew, many congrats! sounds awesome! wai to go!

my friend is currently renting her house in bmore while she is living in nyc. she is probably going to stay here until next aprilish (it's a bit up in the air right now but she's leaning that way) so may need new renters. i'm not sure where the house is but she used to work at h0pkins, so it may be close/convenient if you're interested.

― tehresa, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Congratulations, Herr Doktor Professor!

A close friend of mine just moved down to Delaware -- OMG ROAD TRIP!!!! ha

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 23 February 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

congrats

put that phd to good use, work those undergrads/grads.

i mostly thought college was a ripoff. always felt that 95% of my actual learning was from combing through the open stack library -- as far as actual instruction went, out of each 5 class 15-18 credit semester three profs would always be disillusioned non-tenure track fakers, one would have a middling intellect, and just a single prof would have that real inspiring thunderbolt genius.

hope you can really push people.

― █▄█▒ ▄ █▄█▒ sans ░&#, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

CONGRATS DR. DREW

I will see you guys in a few days at the Natural History museum. I'm really looking forward to it.

― jeff, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

ALSO, WHEN IN BMORE, WATCH OUT FOR OMAR

USE NEW BURNERS EVERY WEEK

― jeff, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

way to go. my bitchin' about "pseudo-academic rock crits" does not include actual scholars such as yourself. and my bro-in-law lives in the yuppie burbs of balto, what JH said re: Roland Park is true.

― m coleman, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

issa dr3ew gnna score the next John W@ters film?

― Jonathan Williams, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/26/65272759_2695278a4b.jpg

― Count Nefaria, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Clash City Rockers is on repeat in my head cuz of this thread. Congrats Drew!

― G00blar, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

but it can't be as bad as SF

I was going to ask about your rent-controlled apartment, but then I remembered that it's still more than mine :-/

― Dominique, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

BALTO-WEIRD

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

i have one episode left in the wire

very, very sad

― jeff, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

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