My degree in English forces me to point out that your title to this post should be, "The Baltimore blog aggregator whose name we do not speak" or "The Baltimore blog aggregator of whose name we do not speak".

I apologize. I'm a terrible person.

yes yes. I too am familiar with the dangling participle. I was quoting The Village, crap ass movie that it was. Double checked the internet before posting the poor grammar. According to the internet, the movie used the wrong grammar.

That is just so...

...sweet of you?

Smartass.

http://www.bo-films.net/index.php?action=showarticle&id_article=261

Of course, the web page could be wrong. God knows I wasn't going to watch the movie again to get make sure.

And anonymous... don't sweat it. Being a smartass on a smartass post is a forgivable offense.

Does your nose wedged so thoroughly up its butt make Blogtimore, Hon an A-lister?

Yes.

Next question?

having never lived in a place that had a good nickname (chocolate city??) or catch phrase, i have to say that i think you baltimore peeps have it pretty damn good! heh. there's worse things than throwing "hon" on the end of everything, right? right???

i'm getting the feeling you're just not into the cute stuff, eh?

Debbie-Sweet Parliament reference. Unfortunately, real estate prices in the Chocolate City are turning P.G County into the chocolate suburbs and DC into the vanilla city. Gentrifiers are de-p-funking the p-funk city.

Kitsch in baltimore is like wine. there are many grades of quality, and only the finely tuned palate of a connoisseur can navigate through them effectively. I know this is only one man’s opinion, but I consider use of the term “Hon” to be a grade of baltimore kitsch reserved for bumper stickers and washingtonian tourists. ;)

I can only see the first two .gif buttons, the .bmp buttons don't show up as images, just file names? (I'm using Firefox if that makes a diff)

really? thanks. I'll fix it. sounds like a mac issue.

Good, I thought that problem was just me. :)

Nice buttons.

Another grammatical correction, sorry, this is such a pet peeve of mine: it is "its butt" not "it's butt." :-)

Yes. You are correct. I always get tripped up on "its" being the exception to the possessive rule for the apostrophe, what with the rule not actually making any sense and all. “it” is a word and the “s” denoting the possession of it. that rule drives me bonkers. I know, I know, “its” follows the same rule as “his” and “her”. It still drives me nuts.

if there was such a thing as a Grammar and Punctuation Court, I would like to argue in favor of "it's" and have the rule changed. Such as it is, there is no such thing as Grammar and Punctuation Court. Chances are, that error will continue to occur on this site.

I’m a very stubborn ignoramus.

More buttons for the masses! The masses say, More buttons!

I stole a button. They're nice buttons. Buck the trend, I always say and never do until now.

A-lister? wait -- there are A-list baltimore blogs?!?

huh?

also: does anyone know who is behind this blogtimore dealy? i mean for
all we know this is but one of the many faces of The Man.

I asked them who they were and they wouldn't say. That's WEIRD.

Are they even local? Is it related to del.icio.us?

I think the anonymity is intended to protect it from becoming cliquish.

blogtimore is run by an eastern european syndicate loosely affiliated with the russian mafia. they're the same ones who have been scattering mosaic crab statues all over town for the touristas to photograph. it's (its) a conspiracy.

The odd thing is that the secrecy is what makes it seem MORE clique-ish and less friendly. If the intentions are good why not say who you are and what exactly you're doing?

Right now, you have a bunch of people signed up in good faith...and all it's doing is creating a central location for everyone's content and we don't even know who's in control.

I'm not saying there's some nefarious scheme unfolding...it's just weird.