Seems a good time to post this again.

whenever I see someone hate on canned pumpkin just because it is like, butternut squash and not pumpkin, I think "there is a person who values authenticity over flavor." which is cool for them but I'll pass on their pies

new post on the blog... another cake, this one very different than the apple cake! An orange-filled cake from a Smith Island woman. It has layers! oldlineplate.com/orange-layer...

I planned this to be my last year of selling books and crafts at markets. I’m enrolled in one last market where I usually do well and it funds months of my work. … then I found out that this year the Christmas Parade is that day and now I’m basically having a crisis

Oh, *experts* predict this? Uh.... don't more millennial and Gen Z candidates HAVE TO run for office? Were more boomers going to run for office? Next thing you'll tell me more teenagers are going to enter the job market

Helicopters are the leaf blowers of the sky

I left work and saw the smoke and thought it was my old block, 25th and Howard so I walked down there. saw it was fawcett and walked home 5 blocks north... regret the detour because the smoke got worse and worse; had to change clothes!

We have a this guy in Maryland his name is John Merryman

the place in Frederick that he sued and made to change their name to "Beef n Buns in Paradise" gets the last laugh www.beefnbunsnparadise.com

something I think about kind of a lot is how people used to say it was creepy to go on amazon and have the site remember your name

I am reposting this link because I have made this apple cake three times; most recently for family over the weekend and someone brought my grandmother some and she emailed me about it. its so good and so autumnal. oldlineplate.com/sugar-top-apple-cake-lucretia-harris/

many are saying this

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

the Mamdani campaign wasnt mean enough to do this, but finding out Wallace Shawn was canvassing makes me feel like there was a real missed opportunity for My Dinner With Andrew

I went ahead and listed the little books I made to accompany cemetery tour. Contains 19 profiles and recipes (some from tour, some not) lots of imagery. 5x7 because I love cute things. I may expand and revise this later into some larger project who knows. oldlineplate.com/product/gree...

amy sherald is so amazing that as a person who has problems making eye contact with people I had a hard time looking in the eyes of her paintings. So I walked through a second time to do ONLY that and it was an intense experience.

wow so it seems like we're already entering the maîtresse-en-titre era of this aristocracy so things are moving pretty fast and maybe heads will roll sooner rather than later en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%A...

Speaking of reporting spam, when I unsubscribe from an email and they’re like “it may take [any amount of time other than immediately] to stop receiving emails” I’m like… do you think we are stupid? It’s a computer. Get your shit together. If I get a single additional email I am marking it as spam.

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I would like to personally thank all of the idiots who subscribe to my posts, of their own free will, only to report them as "spam". Thanks to you, no one who is on my tour has been getting their confirmation emails because google decided that my own gmail address and my domain address are spam.

I had a system worked out for my tour to run smoother and got the rug yanked out from under me at the last minute.. but the books arrived on time and look pretty good at least. It’s hard to accept less than perfection when it was in my grasp but i need to stop trying to be the “best” and just *be*

its so weird to me that people who think they're going to heaven when they die are currently going around saying the absolute most nasty, despicable, cruel things. Like what do you even think you're going to do in heaven, keep talking about how people need to get a job?

I was just talking about this book yesterday! I read parts of it for research for my Green Mount project and was like holy shit i need to find time to read this one cover to cover.

I know I'm a drama queen but calling this 400k dream house a "starter home" makes me sick and I think the realtor should be fined for doing so www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

a lot of people reacting to this story who don't understand that the word "can" does not mean the same thing as the word "will" 🫠

i relate to this in that if I started my blog today, I would get absolutely zero traction if I didnt do video. (which I dont.) As it is I already get quickly lapped by people who do video within months of their projects starting up.. but it'd be even more bleak I think.

I just saw a link for an event and it had so many comments acting entitled to a recording or an online version of that specific event that it made me want to stop making my map app (I wont). Not everything can be in every format.

I've been kinda working my butt off lately and it feels awesome but I wonder how long it can last. Like in addition to all the bodily maintenance/health/mobility stuff I have to do I've been working on cemetery tour stuff, then "for fun" when I have time I work on this database project..

"The [oracle] founders decided that Ellison was the worst programmer so he became the salesman. " - wikipedia in 2025 failing upwards sends you to the strarosphere

I finally have the programming in place to organize scanned cookbooks for import into my database. Problem now is the actual scanning. Its too bad a good comb binder costs like $500 because the best strategy tbh would be to disassemble them, feed scan them, then reassemble with said binder.

Issue 69 of Baltimore Beat is live! Welcome to our first-ever food issue. In these pages, we explore the food and foodways that make Baltimore so special.

I found a weird AI generated article about... me and it is SO flattering and laying it on thick that I'd love to share it but I absolutely will not give this slop traffic. I will, however, screenshot parts of it lol. But... I don't understand the point of this?

hey its me, I'm a typical careless bad driver who makes no effort to take note of my surroundings or be thoughtful in any way. Except for right now when, while you wait, it is absolutely necessary for me to take great pains to back into this parking space.

people should just mute all of the names of food items they don't like it would make the internet better.

ever just think about how cherries and almonds and peaches are all the same thing?

in non-annoying news I ordered takeout from Cinco De Mayo Dos last night and I got an al pastor gordita and it was literally the first thing I thought about when I woke up this morning, barely even conscious

Building of the day: 221 E Baltimore Street which used to be the "Crown Lunch Room"

My culinary Green Mount tour is already close to selling out and I feel.. bad kinda! I’ve never done anything before where I have to exclude people by design. Hopefully I can do more in the spring 😬

how often do you reference 'plate of shrimp'?

Imagine updating all of your legal documents if you were Elaine

What the fuck this truck was just spewing garbage 😡

New on the blog: Mrs. Snapp's Peach Cake oldlineplate.com/mrs-snapps-p...

I really want to know what screenplays came across Enigma guy's desk that were so bad that "Sliver" was finally money worth taking

does anybody else separate these and keep the components, dump the salt in with your regular salt and or course throw away the sawdust pepper?

Half the ads I get online are like “all this plastic stuff is clogging up landfills! So throw away yours and buy this one made out of bamboo!”

its insulting to me that microsoft is pushing the copilot shit on me at work without even acknowledging the sacrifices of Clippy

New blog post: I made jello pretzel salad again. Someone else’s recipe, Eastern Shore: oldlineplate.com/jello-pretze...

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its too bad when I unsubscribe from a marketing email and they don't give me the little "reason why" poll; I want to tell them that they email me way too much. It still blows my mind that companies think its okay to email you ads multiple times a week.