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before a long night of socializing, i often stop at the [tag]Wawa[/tag] for a 20oz. i find the caffeine helps keep me awake when inbibing brings me down. so this defintely isn’t the first time i’ve acknowledged a need for [tag]Buzz Beer[/tag], but after reading these two articles today the demand grows:

so bring back Buzz Beer, we’ll all be better for it.

[tags]beer, coffee, alcohol, caffeine[/tags]

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.

– Chas. Bukowski

I visited Havre de Grace’s 25th Annual Decoy & Wildlife Art Festival this weekend.
The Chesapeake Bay is a very awkward place. It’s a weird amalgamation of the privileged and the redneck. The beauty of the bay overcomes class…sorta… I guess it can’t decide whether you live in a shanty or a estate.

John Water’s Pecker introduced my friends and I to the pit beef sandwich. This weekend was my first taste. Simply put its a smoked beef sandwich maybe of lesser quality than a traditional roast beef sandwich. The brisket looking slap of beef is sliced and smoked (probably in a pit at one point, but now modern smokers abound) with a secret seasoning only know to the Chesapeakeans or maybe they’re Chesapeakers… I prefer the first because it rhymes with Puerto Rican. It was pricey at $5… but I think we were taken advantage of because of its convenience.

I tell my lady friends…”Give a man a pit beef sandwich… and he’ll be back for seconds”…. All Baltimore loves a pit beef sandwich! – Memama

Havre de Grace
Here are some pictures:













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Havre de Grace Decoy Museum

Here is what pit beef sandwich looks like:

Almost sexual isn’t?

my bike arrived today.

[tag]Jamis[/tag] Durango 2.0 Mountain Bike
I purchased it from Biketopia in Havertown.

its been 3 years since i was in san francisco. it was nice.

How many pieces of plate metal do you use before deciding to replacing the bridge?

[tag]Market Street Bridge[/tag], [tag]Scranton[/tag], PA

I miss the rattling noise.

In 1992, I had a pretty good grasp of black culture and the urban racial issues being brought out by the Rodney King trial. Being that there were about 6 black people in Scranton, I had to feed my mind with MTV and Naughty By Nature Lyrics.

If you ain’t never been to the ghetto
Don’t ever come to the ghetto
‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto
So stay the fuck out of the ghetto
Why me? Why me?

My class took a field trip to Philadelphia where I was thrilled to finally see real black people. Some of my friends bought “X” hats which were popular with the the release of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. I remember regretting not getting one – they’d never have these in Scranton!