Big surprise that Baltimore is listed here
- "Cultural Highlights of Baltimore: Auto Theft, STD Clinics, Getting Mugged on the Steps of Your Own Home, Overpriced Crabs ..."
- Dundalk: "White Trash Ghetto at its most terrifying. Shirtless four-year-old children stomp down the sidewalks with the authority of a hardened criminal."
- Inner Harbor: "like Disneyland in the middle of Afghanistan."
FWIW, the asshat meant for the book to be satirical. He even used The Wire as part of his basis. Gilmarten is about as bright as the fuckwads who came up with Baltimore's new branding campaign:
"On the other hand, while planning the city’s new branding campaign last spring, San Francisco-based firm Landor Associates quickly identified the award-winning series as a problem. The advertising agency told city officials that Baltimore had a perception problem and The Wire was, in part, to blame. Baltimore, they seemed to be saying, needed to stop talking about its problems in order to sell itself to the outside world."
BTW, Urbanite is one of my new favorite rags
