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!

Throughout the last ……4397534 days of snow, the Baltimore area continues to collectively shit its pants and devolve into an infant state, a lot of which I would like to complain about in a timely fashion. But before I do, I continue to die laughing every single time I see Mr. Accuweather, over and over.

Hilarious.

And speaking of the internet, Foot’s Forecast literally exploded onto the scene as the most popular …weather blog (?) I’ve seen pretty much ever. Strange, as it seems they’ve been in operation for six years and change, but I hadn’t heard of them until last week. But they do damn fine work and you should check them out!

One more internet point: internet humor, it would seem, has reached real-time. Once upon a time, internet jokes would saturate the market after a period of several weeks, stop being funny, and then proceed to be forwarded to you by your mother 7 months later. Now it would seem the rules have changed thanks in part to #hashtags, Facebook, on and on and on – until we see the President himself engaging in an internet joke by referring to the whole thing as “Snowmageddon” and taking credit for naming the blizzard. Well played internet, you’ve destroyed humor!

Coming up next: more pictures. If there’s one thing Baltimoreans do engage in enthusiastically during a snowstorm, it’s photographing the whole damn thing. That and drinking. A lot.

Check out my guest spot on Midnight Sun today where I ask the tough questions regarding swankariffic joints around town.

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Continuing our list of websites you may have missed from the past ten years or so, the remaining five websites are examples of those beloved sites that are no longer with us. Whether it be the stiff competition from other sites, lack of interest or just bad timing, these sites for whatever reason didn’t last. It is with a single tear that we remember them fondly.

	pimpmybaby.com Originally intended as a site for people to gussy up photos of their respective babies and enter them in “hot or not” style voting contests, this site was shut down by perverted-justice.com in 2006 on the hit television show “Dateline: To Catch a Predator” under suspicion that the owners were running an underground baby hooker ring. Shameful.
	xtremerabbis.org In operation starting in 1993, XTREME Rabbis was a haven for Rabbis looking for an outlet to express their love of Xtreme sports and Xtreme lifestyles. Complete with photo profiles, chat rooms and forums it was the most successful website of its kind until late 2002, during which a great deal of infighting as to which member Rabbi was most Xtreme erupted, resulting in a BMX competition in which all 14 members of the website were killed in a massive wreck. The website was mothballed immediately.
	mushroomcloudenthusiast.net Formerly the Internet’s premier forum for appreciating the beauty and splendor of nuclear explosions, the site was tragical brought to a close during 2003’s planned “Shroomfest” during which the majority of members attended a nuclear test in Nye County, Nevada. The gathering was raided by the DEA, who were under the impression that the event would be an illicit drug use party. The fleeing cloud watchers evaded the DEA during a 3 hour chase, eventually finding themselves within a quarter mile of the blast radius and winding up instantly incinerated.
	sockssockssocks.biz An internet sock outlet, defunct since 2000. I can’t imagine why!!! Fun fact: the pets.com sock puppet was their original spokespuppet.
	enron.com Whatever happened to these cool dudes? I heard they were going places!!