Baltimore

[rengadeirishman]

whilst our mayor, the (dis)honorable Sheila Dixon has been indicted on 12 counts including perjury and theft, our own Ravens, named for the classic Edgar Allen Poe poem, The Raven, are going to the AFC championship.


GODDAMN I LOVE THIS CITY!!

 

[trysail]

"Tip of the South,
toe of the North,
a little of either,
and neither of both.''

-Ogden Nash


"The ruins of a once great medieval city.''

-H.L. Mencken



Birthplace of Eubie Blake, Leon Uris, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Billie Holliday, John Waters, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson and Frank Zappa. Residence of the aforementioned Edgar Allen Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Wilkes Booth and John Barth. Home of H.L. Mencken and Anne Tyler.

Site of the first bloodshed of the "War of Northern Aggression" or "The Civil War" or "The Recent Unpleasantness." Baltimore Clippers and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Thoroughbreds, Maryland beaten biscuits ( what other recipe calls for the blunt force trauma of an axe? ), Maryland rye whiskey, aristocrats and cavaliers mixed with Germans, Poles, Irish, Italians, Lithuanians and refugees from Southern poverty. Débutantes and scoundrels.

Where the falls of rolling hills meet Piedmont, marsh, and Tidewater— neither entirely freshwater nor oceanic saline. Where northern grain growers meet tobacco planters. Salty mariners, duck and goose hunters, fox-hunters, watermen and merchants.

"Smalltimore," "Charm City," "Queen City of the Chesapeake," "The Monumental City," "Crabtown" and "Mobtown".

Fatti maschii, parole femine.

 

[rengadeirishman]

Known as "A city of Pirates" Baltimore was targeted during the war of 1812 due to attacks on english shipping by ships who made berth at the port of baltimore. The British attacked Fort McHenry, an attack witnessed by Francis Scott Key, who drew his inspiration for the United States national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner", from what he saw during the attack.

 

[cloudy]

home of the best damn crabcakes I've ever eaten.

...and has a rockin' harbor area.