I've Unlocked Your Mama on Foursquare

Saw my first Tea Party sign yesterday. In Hampden. I know, crazy, right? Oh, what's a Tea Party? It's when you hate black Presidents.

I had fries in Five Guys downtown, and I was thinking, "I wish I had Foursquare so I could unlock this place," and then I realized I had no idea what it meant.

Still a few mountains of dirty ice scattered around the city. Remember those crazy ice storms? Remember we all woke up at 4am because of the THUNDERSNOW? Or did we collectively imagine all that?

Speaking of Hampden, Hey, Golden West, more pictures of Jesus eating dinner, less dead animals on the walls, OK?

Oh, and I was in Port Discovery last week. They have a model of a Royal Farms there, complete with a gas station and some groceries. Very realistic, but just not sad enough. Where are the old people standing in line for the lottery? Where's the junky leaning on the door? It didn't even smell like chicken wings!

An Open Letter to the Residents of Rodgers Forge

Seriously, what's with the lawn chairs? It's been two weeks, you spoiled brats!

The End.

Post-Snowltimore Thoughts

So? How was it for you? It wasn't that bad, was it?

Sure, a lot of small businesses suffered. But we get to stimulate the economy of roofers! Personally I can't wait for tomorrow's snow so I could put my trash cans under my kitchen ceiling again.

Do you feel stupid about going up to the roof to shovel snow, now that your neighbor's roof didn't collapse? If I shovel the snow on my roof, I expect my neighbor to tell me, "Man, I should have done that."

Rain or shine or snow, you still fill up that 13.5% place. What am I missing?

So they say it's going to be 6" tomorrow. Digging out six inches? I can do that in my sleep.

Notes by Someone Who'll Never Leave the House Again

Went to Superfresh on Friday night. They ran out of bananas. No refried beans either. I hope you're all enjoying your banana tacos, Baltimore.

My neighbor shoveled the roof above her porch. It's a rowhouse. Couldn't she shovel mine too? I hope my roof collapses, so I can give her the stink-eye.

I shoveled a path for the dogs in the back. Almost fell down the steps. My wife would have found me frozen like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Only with a shovel instead of an axe.

I'll give you five big ones if you dig out my car. (here's a picture of one big one. Imagine five of those!)

Snowed In

Really? They're really talking about the possibility of a foot of snow? Man... I had plans... Ah well, here's what I need to make it through the greatest snow storm of 2010 (so far):

1. Nutella. Make it two.

2. Season 4 of The Office.

3. Some people watch Jersey Shore. This is MY guilty pleasure.

4. Caillou. Hey, I'm not alone here, you know.

5. TweetDeck

6. Waiting for my neighbor to shovel the sidewalk in front of my house.

7. Secretly curse my neighbor because she shovels the entire block at 6am.

8. Thank my neighbor. Tell her I owe her one.

9. Pretend I'm hungover after pretending to play a SOTU drinking game.

10. Complain about the weather.

This is all I'm gonna say about the game

A Ravens loss means the people in the neighborhood are upset.

Which means no fireworks.

Which means my dogs don't bark, cry, or pee on the floor.

The dogs not barking means my baby gets to sleep.

The End.

About the Marc Steiner Scoop

Yes, it's true that Marc Steiner came out first with the resignation news. But he did it in a badly worded email that stated the Mayor has resigned already, when she didn't. Steiner admits the email was wrong, yet he still states he had the facts right before anyone else did. Maybe. But his email didn't convince anyone; it only added to the confusion, which ended when an hour later, WBAL reported the Mayor had agreed to resign.

It's funny how the ant-looking blogger from the Sun is so passionate about giving Steiner the credit, calling it "a remarkably clean scoop." Maybe the hatred for WBAL, which officially broke the news, is too strong?

After I pointed out in a comment that this was anything but a clean scoop, the ant-looking one was a little bit of a dick about it, calling my comments meaningless and empty. However, he has edited his post since then. There is no more mention of a remarkably clean scoop. Apology accepted in advance, Douche.



Edit (see, Zurawik? it's easy to inform people when you edit something):

So I felt a little weird about it all. Maybe I just imagined Zurawik calling Steiner's email "a remarkably clean scoop"? After all, a commenter on Baltimore Brew writes that Zurawik teaches Media Ethics... A Media Ethics professor wouldn't belittle me for arguing Steiner's email wasn't "a remarkably clean scoop," and then take this phrase out with no mention of the editing (and no apology to the readers).

Without  proof of the editing, I was either crazy or wrong. Probably both. Unfortunately, Google Cache did not have the original editing.

But TweetMeme did:

And here's the current editing from the Sun:

And here you have it. With no mention of editing, without admitting he was wrong in calling Steiner's email "a remarkably clean scoop," and without apologizing to his readers, Zurawik quietly changed his post from

And while he was incorrect in saying that she had already resigned, when in fact a deal was still in the works, Steiner's e-mail was a remarkably clean scoop given all the media outlets competing on the story.

to

And while he was incorrect in saying that she had already resigned, when in fact a deal was still in the works, Steiner's e-mail was a surprising way to first hear the news of resignation given all the media outlets competing on the story.

Well, so much for Media Ethics.