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B-more
Over the past few weeks I have begun straying farther and farther from farm life, drifting back to Baltimore, my hometown and ”The City that Reads.” That slogan was adopted in 1987 by former mayor Kurt Schmoke and was pasted to a great number of bus stop benches in an effort to revive slacking literacy levels. In ...
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Northern Lights
This weekend, following a concert featuring Kurt Vile & Real Estate, my friends and I stumbled onto what appeared to be an all-night rager in the parking lot and disused garage behind the converted warehouse in which former Voice multimedia editor Logan Zemetres currently resides. The party featured live, sweaty music, a man dressed as ...
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This one’s a mixed bag
I don’t have a clear topic for this post per se, so I’ll toss out some nuggets and things I’ve learned this summer. And we’ll see a lot of .gifs along the way!
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Help The Homeless?
Hello World! Now if you’ve ever been to San Francisco, you know about the plethora of homeless people scattered along Market, Powell, Montgomery, Haight, basically anywhere in the city and you’re used to it. San Francisco is known for being pretty temperate year round, the summer being strangely foggy and never really getting above 70 ...
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On Kelis and Entrepreneurship
Spent all of last night sitting at a kitchen table brainstorming the gaps online that are waiting to be filled. Generated… well, one. I’m still looking for others. I could tell you that one, but that’s just impractical; I’d have to think of a new one.
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POT IS BACK (apparently)
In this episode, your author will ostensibly use local periodical Philadelphia magazine as a jumping off point to talk about drug culture in his region. I’ll start by saying I know very little about drug culture in my region. Really. But Philly mag’s most recent cover story certainly grabbed my attention. The cover itself features ...
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The French “Ed Rooney”
One of the best thing about a farm is that it seems to be about as far from bureaucracy as we can get. There are a number of definitions for the “B-word”, my favorite being : government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority (As provided by Merriam ...
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‘MERICA!
I’ve seen my fair share of amazing fireworks and been to a handful of crazy 4th celebrations but seriously, none top being in DC. If all you want to do is visit DC, try to get your travel bug out during this time of the summer. The whole city has been teeming with interesting people, ...
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These Bitches are Just Tryna Live
New York City may be the vermin capital of the United States. The city teems with creatures so filth-ridden and depraved they nearly defy enumeration—rats, cockroaches, Collegiate alumni. Out of the corner of one eye, you see something emerge from a crack in the wall, scurry across the room, buy your friend a drink. It’s ...
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The dish before the utensils
Amidst cries of “out of the sidewalk, into the street” and “si se puede,” with American Hi-Fi’s “Flavor of the Weak” stuck in my head, as I threw my fist into the driving bullet-sized rain and pulled parsley leaves off their stems, as my neighbor Adrian compared Nas’ Illmatic to a sister, as I woke ...