28. A Berger is not something you grill. A shortbread cookie with a pound of fudge sounds reasonable.
29. Your Senator's website features a recipe for crabcakes. http://mikulski.senate.gov/crabcake.html
30. You can spot a Baltimore accent immediately. The standard is hearing someone say “downy ay-shun” for “down the ocean,” but to hear local sportscaster Keith Mills call the name of White Sox outfielder Magglio Ordonez is to hear the undiluted Balamer at its best, hon.
31. You watch a John Waters or Barry Levinson movie and recognize someone. I knew a guy named Ralph Tabakin. Levinson used him in all his movies for good luck. He played the TV salesman in “Diner.”
32. Artscape is the event of the season. It takes place in the heart of the city in the heat of the summer.
33. Five homicides is a good day for your town. And when it’s a young man with $766 dollars in his pocket, surrounded by hundreds of glassine packets and glass vials, the news always reports that drugs are a suspected cause.
34. Lacrosse ain't no city in Wisconsin. My mother’s cousin Charlie Ellinger is in the College Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
35. School is out when there's an inch of snow, but when you can't get out of your driveway you somehow have to go. It’s a stitch when people from Minnesota move here and see the panic in the streets when a flake or two come along. But the same people who thrill at staying home due to a two-inch snowfall are the same ones who HAVE to get out on the roads during a blizzard.
36. You know what Natty Boh is.
Tomorrow - the grand finale!
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John Waters: do you know anybody from that early crowd? A guy who we've lost touch with but was a good friend, Chris Lobingier, was the composer/player of all the incidental music in John Waters's earliest movies--Desperate Living springs immediately to mind, but he's also named in the credits of others. He's a pretty prolific and well-reviewed composer, pays his rent as the a/v guy at the Peabody music library.
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