I’m running for office. I don’t know which one. But please donate to my campaign. I’ll be spending it on Botox, OnlyFans, and Birkin bags in the spirit of full transparency.
On a more positive and hyper-local note, Lake Montebello (which was already great and a big jewel in Northeast Baltimore’s crown) is 100% sexier now that it’s officially permanently car-free.
Since Morgan’s homecoming is cancelled & classes are cancelled for the rest of the week, I hope students are able to go home or someplace else the feel supported and safe to process what happened. Wondering aloud if there’s anything neighbors of the campus in NE Baltimore can do.
Literally look up Reagan’s response to the AIDS epidemic, remind yourself “moderate” Larry Hogan voted dead Reagan for President in 2020, and connect the fucking dots. I hate it here.
Today’s cicada update is that a lady got on Nextdoor asking what the alarm was going off in Northeast Baltimore and her neighbors had to inform her that those were, in fact, the dulcet tones of cicada love.
I really hope Lake Montebello never reopens to vehicular traffic. I’ve probably tweeted something similar to this before, but I’ll say it again and again.
At a wine bar in Western PA. Dude I Married™️ and me are reviewing our menus.
Man with mediocre hair implants and microbladed eyebrows volunteers, unsolicited: Might I recommend the crabcakes?
Me: We’re from Maryland. You may not.
My unsolicited life advice today is to get you someone who loves you the way you love* Taharka Bros. Honey Graham ice cream.
*If you don’t love Taharka Bros. Honey Graham ice cream with every fiber of your being and then some, you should. Get your life together.
Parenthood is having the house to yourself at 5:30 pm, making some dinosaur chicken nuggets and pouring a glass of that questionable rosé in the fridge, and calling it happy hour.
At this point, if someone is offering you a position at the top of an arts org and you’re Black, brown, queer, and/or a woman… I would vet that institution to within an inch of its life because it’s probably a trap.
Speaking of chaos, someone at WYPR booked Andy Harris on Midday to talk about his thoughts on critical race theory, and this has got to be one of the most violent choices someone at that station has ever made.
After two nights in DC, I truly don’t understand how Baltimore got the rat reputation. These vermin down here are joining me on my commute and walking home alongside me.
There’s this long-held/wrongly-held (oftentimes unspoken) belief that Black people don’t enjoy or appreciate recreation in green spaces, so seeing Lake Montebello filled to the brim with Black people meditating, running, walking, cycling, and practicing yoga today brings me joy.
Tree down on eastbound Northern Parkway just before Sinai Hospital and a Good Samaritan who just so happened to have a chainsaw in the bed of his truck (?!) is clearing it away. Baltimore, man… she’ll surprise you sometimes.
Did I read that right? The City Council President is introducing actual legislation to honor his spouse who was voted out of political office in the face of scandal? Have we really reached full blown simulation status? We’re no longer real.
Sharing the concept of Baltimore with a group of people who have barely ever heard of it. None of them asked me about The Wire (victory!!) but I did play them the “Aaron earned an iron urn” video to help explain the accent.
@BradleyWhitford
@WhiteHouse
They’re counting on many of us being too scared to vote this November. It’s clearly a large part of the (grasping at straws) game plan.
We arrived in Iceland. First thing Dude I Married™️ did was find a group of older Black ladies from Maryland vacationing here and charm their socks off. Dude’s a magnet.
@thebrokenplate
@LisaMcCray
Every time I see one of these, I’m like “🤨 maybe I should download that app” and then I remember that some of you angels put the truly best content on Twitter for those of us that are Tok-less.
I can’t help but wonder aloud what it would look like if Lake Montebello was in Harbor East and the inability to travel completely around it inconvenienced that population. Would the powers that be so casual in repairing the sinkhole?
Just wondering if the MVA has updated the driver’s exam to reflect that red lights are merely a suggestion for a brief pause now if you’re operating a motor vehicle in Baltimore City.
Y’all gird your loins and maybe stay off Nextdoor for the next 48 hours as we prepare for all the angry internet screeds from ladies named Susan & Carol that are pissed at the once annual personal inconvenience Baltimore Running Festival is to them.
The utter shock one gets from nice, nOt RaCiSt folk when you inform them that their anti-city sentiments they’re so quick to throw out are rooted in anti-Blackness. The shock is because they know you’re not wrong and there’s no good retort.
Hey
@BaltimoreDPW
— I’m terminally online, so I learned about your plea for residents to take your survey and check their own pipes for lead lay night, but the Dude I Married™️ is not and had no clue what I was talking about. How do you intend to inform residents about this?
I’m really tired of seeing politicians at all levels, local to national, just shrug their shoulders and say “I’m on your side, voter, but nothing’s going to change.” If you’ve reached an impasse to progress, don’t run for re-election.
My toddler fell asleep clutching cheese danish in one angry little fist and blueberry muffin in the other angry little fist and honestly if that’s not your life’s goal, maybe it should be.
Any single one of the systemic failures from Baltimore DPW that have reared their ugly head THIS CALENDAR YEAR could be named as my villain origin story. And my taxes are too damned high for y’all to not come out to my house and check my pipes your damned self.
My 12-year-old neighbor has an actual garage band rehearsing in his actual garage right now and it is the most adorably wholesome thing happening in Baltimore right now.
Marilyn Mosby saying the trial should take place “before my election “ (her words) tells you everything you need to know about how politics work in this town. It is actually the primary election that she sees simply as a formality before coasting into another term.
Dude I Married™️ brought home two pints of
@TaharkaBros
Honey Graham Ice Cream because he knows what’s up. “One for mom, and one for everyone else.” Happy spouse = happy house.
YOU GUYS! Just got my mother a vaccine appointment for tomorrow. I am crying literal tears of joy and breathing huge sighs of relief. Thank you all for your links, tips, tricks, DMs, texts, retweets. It shouldn’t be this hard, but we have to navigate the system we find ourself in
Just a perennial reminder that Lake Montebello isn’t your dog park. No matter how “good” or “well trained” or whatever you think your pooch is, it is LITERALLY ILLEGAL to have your dog off leash. You people are giving responsible humans with dogs a bad rap.
Will someone tell B*b Ch*rry that I just managed to run 5 miles around northeast Baltimore by myself before and after sunset without packing heat and I was perfectly safe? The scariest thing I came across was a dead deer on the side of Belair Road.
Here’s an idea, and it’s not even mine, but it’s a good one: increase the tax base by requiring every single person who receives a paycheck from this city to live in this city. Full stop. No exceptions.
Upgraded this guy from random dude to Dude I Married™️ 12 years ago today. I might clown him a lot on this website, but he’s pretty great. If you see me
#onhere
offering him up to the highest bidder, I probably don’t mean it.
Take your campaign trash down. I don’t care if you won or lost. It’s December. Half these contests were decided in the primary. I’m tired of looking at your names plastered everywhere still.
Y’all paying all this money to put your kids in summer camp. My 9-year-old was so bored yesterday she cleaned out the fridge. I’m going to save a metric ton of money this summer and maybe have a clean house by Fall.
There’s all of this talk about vaccine hesitancy, but can we talk about the apathy that eventually sets in with lack of access? The two most important adults to me in this life have both been eligible to receive the vaccine for over a month. 1/
Can someone please write a children’s book about that time the goats came to Wyman Park Dell to turn everybody’s covidtime frowns upside down for a fleeting moment?
Can I tell you how heated I am that they tried to push post-op narcotics on me? Contrary to what the officers tried to teach you at D.A.R.E., weed is not the gateway drug… percocet-pushing oral surgeons are the gateway drug.
The bonnet is making a public appearance today, but before y’all judge me just know that a cicada flew straight into my hair last night and tried to knit its wings into my locs and I am emotionally incapable of going through that same scenario again today.
How do we get the
@MarylandZebras
to Baltimore? If they only saw how much we appreciated the goats, maybe they’d make the trip up here to turn our Charm City frowns upside down.