Category Archives: Vices

All Aboard For Back River!

Posted on October 24, 2012 by atomictv

“Be a roughneck for once and ride down to Back River,” he suggested. “There’ll be rough stuff there if you want it, but you’ll he safe enough if you’re good.” (The Baltimore Sun, 7/23/1911) Click for large image ”HEY, wait … Continue reading →

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Maryland Tattoo Artist Transforming Mastectomy Patients’ Scarred Chests

Posted on October 23, 2012 by atomictv

The tattoo artist transforming mastectomy patients’ scarred chests with incredible three-dimensional nipple inkings Many women who have surgery to treat breast cancer are left without nipples and areolas, the pigmented area around the nipple By Sadie Whitelocks (Daily Mail, 10/22/2012) … Continue reading →

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H. L. Mencken: “The human race is incurably idiotic”

Posted on October 10, 2012 by atomictv

H.L.MENCKEN 1524 HOLLINS ST. BALTIMORE December 2nd 1927 Dear Charles:- A few notes: 1. I bought some brown shoes six or eight years ago, and have worn them off and on ever since. I have also taken to brown oxfords. … Continue reading →

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Porn Again

Posted on October 3, 2012 by atomictv

Satanic texts, dirty readers, and radical manuals make a potent library By Baynard Woods (Baltimore City Paper, 10/3/2012) A few years Ago, when the peep booths over at Sweden Books on the Block switched to DVD, Kevin I. Slaughter happened … Continue reading →

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