It must be something with the basil, my backyard, or me, that brings the praying mantis every year. Welcome back samurai jack jr.
Baltimore City
RIP Meridian 54
Meridian 54 is dead. They posted new signs tonight that it’s under management. It’s gone the same route as Red Fish, belly up. It’s probably just as well, they service was horrible and the food was mediocre. They only have location going for them. If they want to benefit from their location they’ll need to make sure they offer something unique instead of $15 kobe beef sliders that are were the size of silver dollars. Kobe beef or not, that’s not something you offer in a location like that. I’ve written about how bad their service has been.
http://www.blogbaltimore.com/2010/01/merdian-54-in-baltimore/
http://www.blogbaltimore.com/2009/04/meridian-54-on-boston-st-baltimore/
Where are all the rentals?
I’ve been watching craigslist.com and the various rental agency sites for about a month now and I’m not seeing much. When we started looking to rent in the city, particularly Canton and Fells Point, two years ago there was a massive amount of properties available. Craigslist.com was full available rentals, there was houses left and right. Places went fast but at least there were places.
Over the past month craigslist.com has had a massive amount of places available north of Baltimore Ave. This area seems to be the main focus of a lot of rehabs and clean ups. I wouldn’t mind living north of the park but unfortunately our friends live south of the park. I’ve yet to have any desire to make the trek through Patterson Park after midnight any time just to get home.
I would think that with all the properties that were being bought and rehabbed that people would be renting the properties they can’t sell. Maybe the renting season is a bit slow and I’m looking a bit early. Lets hope so.
The Circus is in town!
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey have the first show tonight at 1st Mariner Arena.
http://www.ringling.com/TourSchedule.aspx?action=details&engagementId=99500
It also looks as thought Lexington Market is setting up for the Elephant Parade. According to the City Paper they march elephants and horses up to the parking lot of Lexington market.
I’ve been hearing from a lot of people where I work that elephant poop (such a fun word!) is a very good fertilizer. It’s been suggested that I head up to the market with the plethora of empty planters peanut jars that I have to get as much as I can to use for my tomatoes!
Charm City Tomatoes at Locavoreintraining
I’ve the posts about my continued saga of the planting/growing life in Baltimore. The article is here at my friends site.
http://www.locavoreintraining.com/2010/04/01/charm-city-tomatoes/
Growing food in Baltimore City
I did a post over at my friends site about what I started and how I started growing food locally in the back of our row house. You can read up on it here
http://www.locavoreintraining.com/2010/03/30/urban-locavore-a-tale-of-two-pots/
Who forgot to plug the boat?
So I emailed this to the blog back in November and apparently the blog forgot to post it? It’s a great picture and I find it quite comical. Enjoy!
Baltimore bus and bike lanes on Pratt Street need a repaint and reinforcement
It’s nice having a bus and bike lane in Baltimore to bike to work in. Recently though, it seems that the cars have started to ignore this fact. Over the past month I’ve started to see drivers disrespect these lanes, pulling out randomly on bikers and other cars alike. Even though there are signs posted every other block and the city has (almost readable) bike lane markings, drivers feel that they should drive in these lanes and speed excessively. Not only are drivers pulling into these lanes without really looking, they are also taking the opportunity to go as fast as possible down the street – as if they have more important things to do than wait for lights, pedestrians, bikers, and buses.
There was a sign posted when the city first designated the far right lane on Pratt Street for buses, bikes, and turning cars. It stated, “Bus lane violation $90 and 1 point.” If the city would like, I would love to start snapping photos of all the violators, including the license plates. I am sure I could save a few jobs from layoffs with the amount of revenue I could generate.
This would also include the taxi cabs that still refuse to obey the no stopping signs by the ESPN zone.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28
- Looks like @wypr's twitter account got hacked. Don't click the link #hack #hijack #talkradio #
- @SylvanElf this is FF XIII right? How are you liking it? in reply to SylvanElf #
- @gerdalti @SylvanElf its so sad how true that statement is
in reply to gerdalti # - Anyone experiencing painfully slow google searches right now? #
- @FOXBaltimore great, cutting fire, police, air and, marine support. Baltimore should be a bustling drug harbor again real soon #mdbudget in reply to FOXBaltimore #
- @MolliMegasko would this be considered spam? I'd love to report it as spam. Looks like spam…spam? in reply to MolliMegasko #
- @SylvanElf @gerdalti Does it have that old school Final Fantasy hold? 12 just didn't keep me. 4,6,7,9,10 did. in reply to SylvanElf #
- @fourmajor what were you using? Firefox? in reply to fourmajor #
- @gerdalti @SylvanElf if you actually beat it Jay, I know it's a keeper in reply to gerdalti #
- @fourmajor I made the transition about a month ago. I'm annoyed by the massive amount of chrome.exe processes but I'll survive. One per tab in reply to fourmajor #
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