I’m starting an MFA program at MICA next week, so I’ll get to spend a lot of the summer in the Greatest City in America. I was thinking about my love/hate relationship with Baltimore when this photo popped up on the screen saver. I took it in 2001, on E. Lombard, I think.

poverty muzeum

Take me down to ol’ Charm City, where the houses are vacant and the vandals are witty.