A History of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium Scoreboards

Posted on August 17, 2012 by atomictv

( The Fleer Sticker Project, 8/13/2011)

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MD Man Breaks Into Home, Strips to Undies, Cooks Chicken Pot Pie, Licks Remote

Posted on August 17, 2012 by atomictv

Russell E. Neff / Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office image

WICOMICO CRIME: Man breaks into house, takes off clothing, bakes chicken pot pie

(Delmarvanow.com, 8/16/2012)

SALISBURY — A 22-year-old man is facing criminal charges after breaking into a home, taking off all his clothing save his underwear and baking a chicken pot pie.

Russell E. Neff was charged with first-degree burglary, theft less than $100, malicious destruction of property and resisting arrest after he allegedly broke in the front door of a Civic Avenue house, while the owner was home and proceeded to make himself at home.

The incident began around 10:23 p.m. on Aug. 15 when the homeowner heard Neff banging on his front door, trying to get inside, which is when he called 911.

The homeowner went upstairs and hid while Neff allegedly broke into the home. When deputies arrived they round Neff sitting in a chair in the living room licking the remote control in nothing but his underwear, according to police documents.

Police say Neff was also cooking a chicken pot pie he found in the kitchen. When they attempted to handcuff him, Neff allegedly resisted.

Following an initial appearance in front of the District Court Commissioner, Neff was held at the Wicomico County Detention center on $250,000 bond.

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Paul Bunyan Welcomes You to the Anne Arundel County Fair

Posted on August 16, 2012 by atomictv

Paul Bunyan Welcoming, Anne Arundel County Fair Grounds, Annapolis, MD.
(Photo by Joel Abler, Ephemeral is Everything)

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Marble Bar’s “Tone Scale” Zine

Posted on August 16, 2012 by almosthipguy

By Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude, 8/15/2012)


Tonescale Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 1982)

My lifelong-bachelor friend Bernie Ozol is getting married soon and, as part of his pre-nup, he’s been cleaning out the detritus from his house in Baltimore’s Barclay neighborhood. This modern day equivalent of Hercules cleaning up the Augean Stables (a perennial labor-of-sloth I know all too well!), resulted in Bernie offering me all of his old music mags and zines en masse. One hoarder offering another his bounty of treasures is like a drug dealer offering testers to his junkie clientel: ’twas an offer I simply couldn’t resist. So now I have mountain-high stacks of musty and dog-eared Trouser Press and Creem mags from the ’70s and ’80s.

I loved these publications back in the day, but buried beneath one box of mags was the true diamond in the rough: an assortment of old Tone Scale ‘zines – the official music newsletter of The Marble Bar back in the early ’80s. The publisher was LesLee Anderson who, along with her husband Roger Anderson, ran the Marble Bar rock club in the basement of The Congress Hotel from 1978 until 1985. (Roger Anderson tragically passed away from a heart attack in April 1984, and LesLee soldiered on for one more year before other parties – including former Marble Bar bartender Robin Stuprich, her husband Ed Linton, Joe Gary, and later Vermin Supreme – tried their hand at putting on shows there, before Supreme moved upstairs to carry on the tradition and add his Jockee Clubbe/Subgenius extravanganzas in the Galaxy Ballroom.)

I think the first Tonescale came out sometime in 1982, because the earliest issue in Bernie’s collection was Vol. 1, No. 2 dating from October 1982. I don’t know much about this zine because I fell out of the Marble Bar scene after 1982, but I’m sure it’s familiar to area musicians dating from that period.

Tone Scale was a “‘zine” in the true sense of the word. It was a Xeroxed-and-stapled publication featuring photostat copies of typewriter-created articles and local band gig flyers. Copies sold for 25 cents and the name of the zine seemed to change with each issue, the February 1983 ish even calling itself Valentone.


Valentone Vol. 2, No. 2 (February 1983)


Katatonix flyer in same ish touting “Valentine’s Day” single

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