Location: Charles Street, Midtown, Baltimore, MD
Rating: 2.5/5
Description: It’s just like Baltimore city government to blame The Wire for the poor reputation of urban Baltimore, and gloss over the total mismanagement of city assets and decades of systematic disinvestment from not only residents but also those managing the city operations (how many cops do you know that actually live in the city?). Now that this site is picking up some steam I’m just waiting for the day when Baltimore city tries to peg TGOH for creating a perception of a drug problem in Baltimore…
Thankfully, Baltimore has people who have been chronicling Charm City’s most underutilized assets well before I took a sarcastic suggestion and turned it into a site on the interwebs. This post came with the following caption:
Took this about a year ago and saved it for the day when a glorious blog such as this existed. Snapped at 7 PM on a Sunday while I was walking back from Penn Station on Charles Street.
There is a special place in heaven for people like this (my heaven unfortunately which is analogous to most people’s hell…). I mean taking a picture of a smacked-out stranger to post to an online site which rates them for awesomeness is one thing, but taking a pic and just storing it on your phone for OVER A YEAR for nothing more than the sheer joy of viewing someone fucked up on a public street…oh wow… I can’t finish that thought, I’m getting all choked up… Baltimore… how did I ever get so lucky?!