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Remembering Preakness
Oh Preakness, I remember how you used to be. Before the B-list bands, the exhibition sports and thinly veiled attempts at gouging people for beer money. You were the Best of Times, the Blurst of Times. The rampant pissing, the fecal lagoons, the 3rd world population density, the fist fights in the mud, the dried beer and dirt slip n’ slides, the guys passed out on top of their girlfriends who were too weak to push them off, the toilet bridges, the full beer can fights, the entire bus vs. bus fist fights after ….truly magical. A single tear wells in my eye every time I think of you, and it is with great fondness I present this small slice – the parts that are safe for the public to view … Read entire article »
Doin’ the Baltimore!
It may not be as well known as The Charleston, but hey at least Baltimore gets its own dance – and song! Check out this jaunty little number by Fred Rich and his orchestra with “The Baltimore” in 1928. FUNFACT: Fred Rich was the first music director for CBS radio in the late ’20s and had a radio show called “Freddie Rich’s Penthouse Party” in the mid ’30s. Awesome. AWESOME. … Read entire article »
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Remembering Steeltown
Having read today’s totally amazing blogoentry by Sam Sessa featuring a promo video for the defunct Hammerjack’s, I find my brainstrings stretching far and wide enough to remember another club that was sadly not long for this world: Steeltown. Steeltown was a gargantuan, 32,000 square foot bar/restaurant/concert venue with an industrial theme, presumably an homage to Bethlehem Steel, Sparrow’s Point, that sort of thing. I remember eating there once after playing Laser Tag – er, sorry – PHOTON at a shopping center in Dundalk. It was bizarre, since the actual restaurant portion of the place was called The Bomber Cafe, and it had airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Even as a child I asked “What does this have to do with steel?” Then there’s the stage area, known as THE … Read entire article »
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As if I couldn’t miss Billy Mays any more.
Autotuning may be the most immensely played out crappy gimmick the music world has known since the fisheye lens in all of those Puffy videos in the late 90s, but this video of an autotuned Billy Mays selling affordable health insurance is …truly inspired. … Read entire article »
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Dave Attell’s Insomniac in Baltimore
(video is up on our webspace, apologies for the lack of ease of use that is youtube) While rummaging through an entire life’s worth of crap left in my childhood closet the other day, I found something of untold worth: my old VHS collection. $35 dollars for a video capture device and hours of editing later, I’ve got a video treasure on my hands – Dave Attell’s visit to Baltimore for his Comedy Central show, Insomniac. … Read entire article »
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