Man, I really missed having a feature this past week – I Love the change of pace and a mid-show wiggle just didn’t make up for it. Fortunately, this weekend we’ve got Dan Zimmerman and his Great Outdoor Fight performing, which will keep me on my toes a little more effectively.
Unfortunately, I’m beginning to really worry about the sheer over-crowdedness of the event. It’d be a real shame to ever have to move someplace else, I don’t think it could ever have a feel like we have at CCC – but I’d also hate to ever have to institute rules controlling how many times people can sign up over a particular time. I already feel hated for instilling rules and trying to run a tight ship. I see how people bristle at being restricted to time limits, people email me and try to get me to make exceptions, claiming that they’re so awesome / professional / important / individual etc that they are deserving of more time… I get no small amount of little angry notes…
It’s still far out-weighed by the number of positive statements. Most people are having a great time, but I probably get one angry note a week – stupidly, generally from someone who’s never been there before. Who reads the rules and thinks they’re unreasonable.Â
Sigh – you don’t have to come!
Blah – I’m just griping. Last night’s energy was all off, partially because the crowd was a bit small (I counted 40 people) and partially from the lack of a feature. Partially I was worried about overall draw because of the VENUE’S concern about draw – and all day had been stressful. Hell, all week’s been stressful. I’m finishing off a CD design project and the artist has just pointed out that the Hebrew glyphs that I’m using for the title are incorrect… I’ve gone back to the source and have pointed out that that’s because the glyphs she SENT me were wrong… maybe I should have a rule that I don’t design in languages I don’t know…
But again, I’m just griping. Every project has it’s little issues – and if I was running AHEAD of schedule for a change, as opposed to just hanging on by my fingertips, I’d have plenty of time to make changes sans stress.
Sigh twice. However, I did get a pretty awesome happy birthday song last night – I’ll have to mix it down and share it because it was too wonderful NOT to show off!
I can’t believe I’ve Lived in and around Baltimore since 1993 and have NEVER BEEN HERE!!! I also suddenly can’t believe I’ve Lived in and around Baltimore for that long… I guess there WAS time taken off for Crownsville and Edgewater and five years in a car… but minus about 9 years… hrm. In any case, their collection is AMAZING. The beautiful interior of the B&O Railroad Museum’s Mount Claire Roundhouse – built in February of 1884. Most of the roof however, was replaced after a snowstorm in February of 2003. We were fortunate enough to have a bright sunshiney day – the lighting was absolutely fabulous.
The locomotives at the museum range from some of the oldest… the above is a replica of a locomotive built in 1837, the Lafayette – the first B&O locomotive to have that (to my mind) ubiquitous horizontal boiler – but even this replica was built in 1927.
To some of the smallest… this beautiful G scale model railroad set is maintained by my favourite nursery, Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville, MD.
The HO scale model railroad set up at the Baltimore Railroad Museum recreated plenty of Baltimorisms and had a beautifully integrated backdrop painted on the back wall of the passenger car in which the whole thing was contained. Bromo Seltzer tower and construction? The only thing that’s missing is the crazy blue lights of the tower and sodium lamps. HO-scale continues through Maryland farmland
Kristen climbs in a train cab and asks…”what’s THSI button do?!”
Still rob day! Kristen and I then headed over to the Geppi’s Entertainment Museum. Geppi’s was the comic book store that I went to every other week to purchase Magic cards all through college. A couple of years ago they ceased being a retail and apparently bought part of the Orioles, constructing a temple of toys and comic books in Camden Yards. A couple of WTF items from my birthday. They speak for themselves, I feel. Separated by “age” (Silver Age, Golden Age, Atom Age, etc) – the vast comic book display at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.
You could wander most of Baltimore by going from one church to whatever other churches are within eyeshot. It’s a beautiful city for structures of worship. I need a pretty atheist temple though.
