Well glory be, time has flown straight past us all and ye olde blogue has suddenly turned two years old. Here are some of my favorite posts from the past few years (that you might have missed since no one really read it back in the day); a hodgepodge of stories, comedy and HARD HITTING JOURNALISM.

• Misadventures in House Hunting - a personal tale of trying to find a domicile in Upper Fells Point. With sexy results!!
• Federal Hill – still decidedly evil – a personal tale of trying to get a drunk guy – and his teeth – to a hospital. With sexy results!!
• Scientology Digest – 07/16/2008 – The evil church of Scientology hunts me down… to my mom’s house!
• Spontaneous Deadification: The New Threat to Baltimore? – Murder may be at its lowest, but a new threat is taking its place.
• The struggle of Little Havana – HARD HITTING JOURNALISM about a popular restaurant’s ongoing woes with the city.
• Fells Point Fun Festival canceled in favor of tax hike – oh those zany city council folks.

Mmmmmmm delicious re-purposed content. You love the way it tastes. Thanks for reading folks!

After much deliberation and whats not and whose forth, it has been decided that a spinoff website/blog dedicated to kickass gee dee em effing food is in order with regard to Baltimore (and stuff). Behold,

The City That Feeds.

All food posts seen previously on this here site will be listed there, and all new food-related (but not booze, that stays here for now) material will be posted there. Everything is infant stage as of now, but keep your eyes peeled, folks!

-mangia-ment

Don’t you miss the Sunday comics? Especially Mark Trail? No? Oh well. Here’s a new comic called Jasón Roland by Brian Nowakoswki. He describes the new effort as such:

This is going to be a stream of consciousness strip so it’ll go where ever it’ll go. Part experiment, part I feel like it. Hope everyone enjoys it. Inspired by Sunday funny comics, european comics, pulp films, and life.

Sounds good to me – and without further ado, Jasón Roland (click to enlarge).

The City That Breeds will be taking a posting hiatus until after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and will resume its total idiocy on November 30th. The aforementioned Movember Charity pub crawl last Saturday raised a grand total of $1690 American U.S. Cold Hard Dollars™ (click here for some pictures!)- if you enjoy reading this site at all and would like to donate to the charity, click here and do so – no amount is too small. Have a safe and slap happy holiday.

(painting by Bryan Moon)

MOVEMBER!

The full-month charity extravaganza known as Movember has begun. Throughout the month, men all over the world will grow mustaches (and the occasional beard) in an effort to raise awareness for men’s health issues with a primary focus on Testicular and Prostate Cancer. The international organizers of Movember have teamed up with the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Prostate Cancer Foundation and will be splitting the money raised by Movember between the two.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation will use the money raised by Movember to fund research to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer, while the Lance Armstrong Foundation will use the money raised by Movember to fund the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance program, which has the goal of improving survival rates and quality of life for young adults with cancer between the ages of 15 and 40. They will provide additional funds toward research initiatives to further understand the biology of adolescent and young adult cancers.

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