Weekend in Baltimore

Spent this weekend at the Wushu US Team Trials. Good time to get out of town and get a little perspective - travel does that. I've been to Baltimore several times but never this part and not since I was 20. One of the things you notice is that the trees, birds and people all look different. The architecture is very brick and square. Colonial.

Adjectives to describe this place; Swampy, Smoky, Economically Depressed, Lush, connected with long narrow roads. There are very few street signs and highways have few turnoffs. Once you are going, it just keeps going until you are there...Making wrong turns is bad.

All of the electrical and phone wires are above ground. I think most of SF's cables went underground 20 years ago?

At work I had to make a cartoon "Suge Knight" stomping around smoking a cigar. I never thought I would see the day. In the concept stage it is Suge but once it gets done for real it will be Suge with an eye patch or a peg leg or something so it's not his likeness. A Suge knight knockoff. I hope we get to do something that bites less!