Kinetic Mud Bath

I was going to post about the god-awful rain streak we’ve been slogging through during this lemon of a weekend (natch, from the weather report it will rain through Saturday). But as we’ll see, some people take crap weather and make mud lemonade.
The New Glitterati posts photos of a brave young gal who struggled through [...]

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Transfixed with Transmodern

We are still wrapping our minds around what we saw during our odyssey through the H&H building, tricked out for the Transmodern festival. From the outre–giant teeth-like installations jutting up from the ground–to terrifically engaging exhibits like human Foosball, foot baths, and a DIY tamale stand, the festival pretty much had us at hello.
Truthfully, our [...]

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The WaPost’s Fantastic Voyage

We love it when the rest of America discovers the weird, addicting charms of our city.  So the Washington Post’s Weekend story about day-tripping to trippy Baltimore was a delight to behold, on the weekly section’s front page.
A few highlights unearthed by reporter Michael Sullivan:
1. We are too idiosyncratic for chain stores a la Gallery [...]

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Baltimore Round Robin

The Round Robin tour of Baltimore’s wildest musicians had a happy homecoming last week at the Sonar music club,  just behind city hall, after cris-crossing the country to spread the gospel of Charm City talent. The veggie oil-powered tour bus motored from NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge through sold out shows in cities including Detroit, Boston and Quebec, and puttered home to [...]

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Mayor Leads Motley Crew down Falls

An unusually icy wind greeted the Mayor’s Annual Christmas Parade, which kicked off under frosty 2pm sun on Falls Road in Hampden. Children piled with blankets sat on folding chairs next to boozy football fans in maroon or purple, facing off across the street (the Redskins are getting a walloping by the Ravens as I [...]

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What the world needs now

From this Washington Post story, it’s evident that the world (or at least a few representatives in Turtle Bay) wants Obama.
What does the world need now? A decision! How can we get it?
Clearly, a dance off would help. Who’s got the moves? Who’s posse will regulate on November 4? How does McCain really feel about Sarah [...]

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Baltimore Block Blog Stats

Just like we all used to competitively monitor our myspace visitor count, pre-Facebook addiction, vanity leads us to glance every now and then at the Baltimore Block visitor stats helpfully provided by WordPress. The stats also show how visitors found your blog–by google or referring sites that blogroll or link to you in posts (thanks, [...]

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Sometimes news headlines are so surreal you have to wonder if you are reading fake news or genuine reporting. An example of the gray area between these two poles is this recent report from Reuters, “Johnny won’t sing for McCain,” that John McCain has dumped the Chuck Berry song he had been using for his campaign theme, [...]

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Ladies of the Block (the Calvert Block!) …

Ladies of the Block (the Calvert Block!): For a fun time, log in to see what people search for to wind up here, on our Baltimore Block blog. Pretty cool. “images of dogs eating poop” was a popular one for today. Yum, Frosty!

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New From Wii: Pii Standing Up

We think this is a (brilliant) April Fool’s Joke, from ThinkGeek.com: “When we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii Brothers we were only a little surprised…
Product Features:

Video Game for Nintendo Wii Provides a Virtual Peeing [...]

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