So tonight I met another member of the Wire cast, Jay Landsman. We were at the O's game, and we were sitting among a rowdy crowd of "good police." Seriously though, they were really great including Jay who introduced us to everyone as part of his family.

Oh and the Orioles won 11-3 which is always a plus!

From YTMND, I got about 20 of them...

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has awarded Garrison Spik it's highest prize for bad writing for this opening sentence: Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.

Just some snaps from our trip to New York [Ollabelle playing at One New York Plaza; MTA says "Please, dip your ATM card"; Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Brewery; Monster, cashier and brewery cat; Aaron enjoying his hefeweizen; the Apple Store; a.k.a. Mecca; beers and frites at Vol de Nuit; and this guy who was on our TV the entire time we were there, just laying there, I don't know why]