Three times a year, Eight-Stone Press publishes the award-winning Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!, a submission-based literary zine dedicated to collecting the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark. Polished, professional essays; barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet's fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot. A two-time Utne Independent Press Award Nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004).
And perhaps print some souvenir toe tags to boot...
In much the way other cities' tourist centers feature caricature artists, I am seriously considering procuring several large pieces of sidewalk chalk, venturing down to Baltimore's Inner Harbor and charging visitors a flat fee to become chalk outlines along the promenade.
You should video tape the whole affair, because you are going to get booted out of the inner harbour in minutes - which would actually make for a more interesting demonstration of Finding A Happy Place that the chalking itself!
Sidewalk chalk is cheap, man.
ReplyDeleteYou should video tape the whole affair, because you are going to get booted out of the inner harbour in minutes - which would actually make for a more interesting demonstration of Finding A Happy Place that the chalking itself!