Today, my beloved Orioles played a regular season game at Camden Yards before an official crowd of 0.

Today, my beloved Orioles played a regular season game at Camden Yards before an official crowd of 0. It was eerie, chilling, and more than just symptomatic of the currently smoldering racial & economic conditions in Baltimore—it's such a perfect metaphor for the whole situation it's almost poetic. See, for 25 years now Camden Yards has been held up as the template for urban renewal for Baltimore & many other blue-collar cities like it that were once hubs of industry. These retro-classic ballparks were all built with promises of economically competitive jobs that would replace the industrial labor of the past. What the stadiums have instead brought is gentrification & displacement, becoming symbols of economic & racial apartheid. Dave Zirin has a great article up at The Nation for more. #BaltimorePoliceDepartment #Baltimore #FreddieGray #BlackLivesMatter
http://m.thenation.com/blog/205561-apartheid-games-baltimore-urban-america-and-camden-yards

Oh, shit, mic dropped.

Oh, shit, mic dropped. #BPHSWalkout #Justice4All #BreakTheCycle‪ #‎BaltimorePoliceDepartment‬ #‎Baltimore #‎FreddieGray‬ #‎BlackLivesMater‬

If I weren't so all-about #voting, #civicduty & all that, I'd sure be fucking irritated about serving #juryduty...

If I weren't so all-about #voting, #civicduty & all that, I'd sure be fucking irritated about serving #juryduty every 2 years I'm eligible like goddamn clockwork for the past decade. Yay #democracy, but jury duty is fucking terrible.

#dietarystaples #spam #msg

#dietarystaples #spam #msg

You know, two of the neatest inventions in human history are alcohol & cameraphones.

You know, two of the neatest inventions in human history are alcohol & cameraphones. This late-night drunken selfie is brought to you by both of them.

#hootratshit

#hootratshit

When you're a grown 30-year-old man this is how bad you fuck up selfies.

When you're a grown 30-year-old man this is how bad you fuck up selfies. Also I'm gonna miss this asshole when he moves back home to Texas next week. Being my boss ain't easy—thanks for putting up with my shit & taking it all in stride Brando!

I know the most awesome people, and they give the most awesome gifts.

I know the most awesome people, and they give the most awesome gifts.

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of...

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball…Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs…The game of ball is glorious…

"It's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life." —Walt Whitman #OpeningDay