Shootings in Baltimore

Everyday at the moment my email pops up with another news notification that there has been another couple of shootings in Baltimore.

It’s a time of great sadness when this dominates the news of a city 😦

Edward Norton

The movie-star Edward Norton is from Columbia, I found out today. That is very exciting for movie-buffs and shallow celeb-lovers like me. He graduated from Wilde Lake and is the grandson of none other than Jim Rouse, the clever chap who planned and built Columbia. Well I never did! Ed, next time you’re in town, let me know and we’ll hook up for a cuppa 🙂

I love your work, especially Primal Fear and American History X

Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland

I got told today something that made me squeal with a) untold delight and then b) sadness and despair….

Martin ‘Muscles’ O’Malley (= squeal of untold delight) was in River Hill, that is in my neck of the woods, not a mile from my house (= double squeal of untold delight!).

But ‘was’ = ‘last winter’ = squeal of sadness and despair upon acknowledging the fact that we had been so, so close to each other and yet I was unable to meet him.

I was shown pictures of this event. He had his clothes on = squeal of sadness and despair…..

This is a better picture (squeal of delight) 🙂