Mayhem Onward!
3rd Friday Night PerVERSE
Friday, November 21 at the Hamilton Arts Collective, 2927 Hamilton Avenue, 8pm
Part of the Poetry In Baltimore reading series, share your words at the beginning of the night with the open mic, then stay for featured performances by Brian E. Langston, Jennifer Blowdryer, and David Salner.
There is a $5 donation at the door and proceeds go to the Hamilton Arts Collective.
Party Like It's 1492 - Old Navy, Capitalism, and Genocide
This weekend (October 3-5, 2008), the clothing chain Old Navy is celebrating Columbus Day early with its "Party Like It's 1492" sale. Apparently, Old Navy, and the creative directors that created this misguided advertising campaign, and the suburban White Americans who have bought into it, only learned the sanitized, white-washed version of Christopher Columbus' arrival to the Americas.
The Mountain Goats' Heretic Pride - Best Album of 2008?
You know that an album has to be good when you can't get it out of your mind. I mean the whole album, not just one song off of it. Seriously. That's what's been going on for the last few weeks with album Heretic Pride released on 2/19/2008 by The Mountain Goats on the 4AD label.
Don't Eat the Octopork
Last night, my fiancée and I went out to dinner with her mother, who is visiting from the Philadelphia area. After an aborted mission to eat seafood at the Red Fish in Canton (closed, maybe for good (?) - their web site is now a random register.com search portal), we decided to head over to Ikaros Restaurant in Greektown as we'd been meaning to try some Baltimore Greek food.