In the plaza between buildings, there are freestanding sculptures. The most interesting one is an egg covered in fragments of mirror. I guess I’ll take a selfie in one of the mirrors. [pause] Behind and above me is a balcony made to look like a bird’s nest. The egg...
Photo: Remington neighborhood community center. “Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons” driving to the baltimore queer tattoo shop for a tattoo from the tattoo artist i can never quite tell about. hoping it doesn’t...
Photo: Baltimore Heritage – Gundry/Glass Hospital (2015), CC BY 2.0 It had gotten to the point that if I didn’t get out to explore an abandoned building more often, I began to lose sleep, like a thief with one more safe I had to crack. I suppose I was what...
Photo: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On another too-long country daytrip, the father flapped jaws with the farmer, taking on his accent and mannerisms. Even at four, the girl found this silly. “Why is Daddy talking like that?” she asked the mother as...
Photo: Wgreaves, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Nani and I do the tourist thing: drinkwith Beat ghosts at Vesuvio bar, glancelovingly at one of many book-loverMeccas, and try to read in the loudand dark but for noise-cancelling airpodsand weak, weak window...
Photo:Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post-modern painting forced into this context of high-key low-brow art again greets you as you begin your shift. A gobsmacked cousin of a Keith Haring hound, its fuel ever-hovering above empty, always catches...
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