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 BLAST FURNACE. Awwwww yeah you just KNOW shit’s gonna get awesome in there!! 98 Rock would plug the ever loving crap out of the place constantly – I swear I must have heard at least a thousand times on the way to school how Great Train Robbery or Laughing Colors were playing there pretty much every week. At any rate, Steeltown didn’t make the long haul and shuttered a few years later, and today I’m pretty sure it’s a Walmart or something.

I couldn’t find anything nearly as awesome as Hammerjack’s video, but here’s a video featuring the Funk Junkies at Steeltown, with bonus guy-playing-a-guitar-with-a-chicken goodness!

In what will undoubtedly appear in your inbox as the next “Epic Beard Man” I present to you Cheeseburger Josh, a rather drunk and angry fellow who ended up tackling with the wrong dude at a Whataburger on Saint Patrick’s Day. Enjoy!

Some of the best comedic writing ever seen, in cartoon form? Yeah. Watch Archer. Brought to you by the same guys who dropped Frisky Dingo (a show I never really got into) and starring the likes of Chris Parnell, Aisha Tyler and Jon Benjamin? Watch Archer.

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.