My Picks for the worst ads in America 2011

Consumerist is running one of its most treasured annual routines until October 16th, the Worst Ads Awards, where readers get to vote for, well, the worst ads in America broken down by category (Creepiest, Worst, Most Annoying Performance By a Human, etc.). This year has had a slew of television ads worthy of scorn, some […]

Leroy NOOOOOOOOO!

City Paper reports horrible, awful, catastrophic news: Leroy, the Mayor of Fells Point, has been arrested for assault and subsequently sent to Spring Grove Hospital. The suit lovin’, woman huggin’, smilin’ bastion of Fells Point allegedly punched a cop in the face on May 2nd and was charged with 2nd degree assault and deemed mentally […]

Alright, now I’m concerned.

The fucking DOW is down 230 points today to an almost 3-year low, while Oil is approaching $140 a barrel. Unemployment is rocketing to the future, everything is going fucking crazy. OK ECONOMY, WE GET IT, IT’S TIME TO STOP SHITTING THE BED NOW. I looked through my photo collection and found pictoral evidence of […]

(Mis)Adventures in House Hunting – Part 2

(see part 1) WOOPS forgot about Part 2. What can I say, what doth life life life life life So. We’re briskly vacating the scene of horrors and beating feet back to our respective vehicles, through the rain, quite frankly feeling really uncomfortable to the point of nausea. We arrive at the car and agree […]

(Mis)Adventures in House Hunting – Part 1

(Originally posted May 19th, 2008) I don’t really think anyone enjoys the process of house hunting. The somewhat creeping urgency of having a lease that’s going to expire in three weeks and having to find another roof over one’s head is stressful to say the least, but in this particular instance, it turned out to […]