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Human cattle call and a roll of toilet paper in John Waters country.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Too many people are unjustly caged in American prisons. (Image from Bureau of Prisons' website). Why does John Waters make so many of his films in Baltimore? Because nobody could create in a studio setting as strange a place so full of urban decay and quirks as Baltimore. I love Baltimore, and not the mall-ified Inner Harbor, but the Bromo Seltzer tower; the ugly blocks after blocks of identical inexpensive rowhouses; the Baltimore accent punctuated by many with "Howyadoin', hon?"; a walk in Hampden; and even some of the gritty aspects of the infamous Block, whose businesses' First Amendment rights I strongly support. Poe was at home here, as was John Waters, and Frank Zappa lived there for a short spell before his family relocated to the decidedly non-Baltimore Lancaster, California, for his asthma...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).