JUDEE SILL - "Jesus Was A Cross-Maker"

Warren Zevon (appropriately enough) covered this nicely on his 1995 album Mutineer...

He's a bandit and a heart-breaker
My Jesus was a cross-maker...

THE SINGING LOINS - "Please Take My Scissors Away"

PSYCHO CHARGER - "Grave Robbers from Outer Space"

MAD DADDYS - "Take a Trip to the Other Side"

Congratulations to...

...the following individuals/entities for making Baltimore Magazine's 2009 "Best of Baltimore" list:

BEST FESTIVAL - CityLit Festival (thanks also to Baltimore Magazine for the nice little shout-out to, among others, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!). Except for the year I had cancer, I've tabled at CityLit Fest every year since its inception, and it only gets better with time. Congrats also to CityLit Executive Director Gregg Wilhelm for being named one of four of the Baltimore art world's MVPs.

POP ART - Vinylmore. The good folks at Atomic Books (including frequent Smile, Hon contributor Benn Ray) are behind this annual exhibition that "include winking allusions to art history and pop culture."

For the complete list of this year's "Best of Baltimore", pick up the August issue of Baltimore Magazine.

Bodine Slideshow/Lecture on October 18 in Baltimore

Jennifer Bodine, daughter of legendary Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and proprietor of AAubreyBodine.com, will present a slide-illustrated talk about the life and work of her father, whose photographs captured the essence of life in Baltimore and Maryland from the 1930s and beyond, beginning at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, October 18, in the Poe Room of the Central Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. (Copies of Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country will be on sale following the program.) Jeff Korman, Manager of the Central Library’s Maryland Department, will also talk about the work of the Federal Writers Project in Maryland and Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State.

Back in Baltimore....

Returned to Mobtown late Sunday afternoon after participating in the 22nd Annual St. Vincent's Foundation Swim Across the Sound, an event that raises funds to support low-income cancer patients and their families while they deal with diagnosis/treatment/etc. Further details to follow....