Category Archives: Misc

Border Blunder

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“Government watchdogs have found that thousands of people who shouldn’t have been admitted to the United States were mistakenly allowed in last year because of security lapses at legal border crossings.” -CNN.com

Please stay on the lookout for the following security threats:

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My little monster

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We went to see Avenue Q at the Hippodrome last weekend. The play was terrific. But a little disturbing. Because, as it turns out, Natty and Trekkie Monster are separated at birth:

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Seeing Beyond Sight

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It was a personal injury lawyer’s dream come true.

Sixty blindfolded photographers bumbling around the top of Federal Hill taking pictures of darkness before tumbling to their peril on the busy Key Highway below.

The event, hosted by the American Visionary Arts Museum, promoted the book Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers.

My blindfolded photos are below.

As an aside, it’s a bit unnerving that they’re better than many of my not-blindfolded photos.

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Night of 100 Elvises

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There are no words that can possibly describe the Night of 100 Elvises at the Lithuanian Social Hall. Except to say that this was pure Baltimore.

Here are pictures:

Night of 100 Elvises

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The Suffering Must End

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Wherever there is hardship in this world, there is someone else who’s trying to help. Be it oppression or adversity. Cruelty or injustice. It seems that everyone has an advocate.

But, sadly, there’s one group whose anguish has gone overlooked for far too long:

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After the Storm

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Last Thursday there was an all out monsoon.

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Your Comments

Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to post comments and sorry to everyone whose notes haven’t shown up on the site.

After some serious noodling with the settings on blogger, I think I’ve finally fixed the comments problems.

In theory, blogger is going to e-mail me anytime someone posts a comment and I just have to click approve and, POOF, it’s posted. So if you send a comment, it should get posted within a day.

In theory.

That said, I have the technical prowess of a retarded hippo. So no guarantees.