2008 has been a year of great progress for the city of Baltimore with regard to its murder rate; with fewer than 200 murders and less than three months to go until the year’s end, the city has not seen such numbers since before the infestation of crack cocaine in the early 1980s. But in […]
Author: Evan The Mayor
Youtube Suggests Things
The Youtube Suggestion box is normally pretty useless, but over the course of the last day or two is has proven to be perfectly capable of producing some comedy gold. The next selections birthed by the bowels of history came about seemingly as a result of my use of The Hunger music video in a […]
*BARF*…I mean, let me try that
Whilst engaged in an online discussion regarding gross soft drinks, the usual suspects of seasonal Mountain Dew flavors versus Mr. Pibb XTREME were thrown around, until someone dropped a big, fat, curious bombshell: Yes friends, if your eyes are working properly you are seeing the same thing that I did; the unholy union of Budweiser […]
A Disturbing Old Chestnut
I don’t know why or how, but the song from this klassic internet komedy kommercial got stuck in my head this afternoon: not to be undone by its inherent level of disturbitude, comes a followup commercial: BABY DONGS ARE HILARIOUS
City Council Update 09/19/2008
Welp, there it is. The parking tax I mentioned last week has been signed by the mayor as mentioned in this week’s city council draft agenda. Get ready to pay even more for parking everyone! Apparently, the monies generated by this tax will be used to fund free shuttles that will “connect downtown with the […]
The Wonderful World of Carbon Offsets
So I’m browsing through my bank’s reward-related website so I can cash in my accumulated 15,000 or so bonus points that I’ve hoarded over the past four years or so, in an effort to maybe get something of value. And big shocker, the only thing worth trading those points in for is cold, hard cash […]