Baltimore Or Less

Tootsie Roll Month for the Mentally Retarded

Posted on May 30, 2012 by atomictv

Times do change. In the past “Tootsie Roll Month” materials mentioned the “mentally retarded” and “God’s Special Children” but now the yearly event benefits children with intellectual disabilities.

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Baltimore Pastor’s Wife Launched John Waters’ Hitchhiking Trip

Posted on May 30, 2012 by atomictv

By Jill Rosen (The Baltimore Sun 5/30/2012)

Sarah Finlayson’s morning routine is fairly set. Wake up early. Workout with a trainer. Call her twin sister.

Picking up a hitchhiking John Waters? That’s not part of it. Yet the minister’s wife from Baltimore stopped her Lexus for the filmmaker and gets the credit for launching his cross-country hitchhiking journey.

Finlayson, who’s a 59-year-old wife and mother, was driving down Charles Street, heading home from her workout and chatting on the car phone with her twin sister who lives in Jersey.

As she approached the intersection of Northern Parkway, she thought she saw what she calls “a beggar” peddling with a sign on the corner. But a closer look made her think twice.

Continue reading “Baltimore Pastor’s Wife Launched John Waters’ Hitchhiking Trip” at The Baltimore Sun.

Myersville councilman continues journey with Hollywood’s Waters
Bidle rides with John Waters a second time — Gazette.net

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“America’s Got Talent” Features Daring Stunt By Baltimore Escape Artist Spencer Horsman

Posted on May 30, 2012 by atomictv

By Sam Sessa (The Baltimore Sun 5/30/2012)

Baltimore magician (and self-proclaimed “world’s youngest escape artist”) Spencer Horsman slipped out of a straightjacket and avoided almost certain death on last night’s episode of “America’s Got Talent.”

Horsman, a 26-year-old who runs the South Baltimore bar Illusions with his father, had “America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon strap him into a straight-jacket. He then hung upside down, between a set of metal jaws with nasty looking spikes, held open by a rope. The rope was set afire, and Horsman had a minute and 20 seconds to escape before the jaws clamped shut on him.

“Do not try this at home,” Cannon warned as Horsman’s escape began. “This is crazy.”

With the clock ticking and Horsman squirming in his straight-jacket, the judges cringed, recoiled and squealed, afraid they’d have a mess to clean up in a few moments. Horsman escaped in the nick of time.

Continue reading “‘America’s Got Talent’ Features Daring Stunt By Baltimore Escape Artist Spencer Horsman” at The Baltimore Sun.