Does the Baltimore City Paper even have editors anymore?
In the latest “Social Studies” column by Vincent Williams, we learn of Mr. Williams’s recent purchase of a “really cool messenger bag” with a red star and a Mao Zedong quote (in Chinese characters, but the Chinatown shop clerk translated it for him) printed on the [...]
An interesting fact about Montana:.
“It is the only place in the lower 48 states in which all of the species that existed before European settlers arrived are still present.”
Oh, and this is the school where A. works now:
“…one of the “frequently asked questions” in school materials was whether students could bring their rifles to school. [...]
So that you don’t have to waste time scrolling down through my diary entries to get to the good stuff, I’ve decided to make A.’s Bird Camp reports a separate feature. This will also make it possible to read them all at once, by clicking on the “Bird Camp” category in the left sidebar. I’m [...]
A. checked in from Flagstaff yesterday, the town closest to Bird Camp and where the crew gets “shore leave” every nine days or so for laundry, showers, square meals and the like. (The research project rents a block of motel rooms where everyone stays.) On top of the usual fun, this break also saw the [...]
…I finally got around to calling a property management company and was pleased to hear the same things from them that I’d heard from various friends and acquaintances who know a little about the world of landlording: they charge 10 percent of the annual gross, which is a nice chunk of change but, if I’m [...]