in other news, did you know that baltimore's slogan is- prepare yourself for the genius- "GET IN ON IT." yes, wow.
they spent 1/2 a million bucks coming up with GET IN ON IT. i think that is just pure amazingness. they try to say that 500,000 was worth it to spend on GET IN ON IT, because it will demand more tourists to come here and spend their money at the fucking inner harbour, which will pay us back like tenfold. uh, i don't know, maybe you could have used the 500,000 to fix the fucking pothole-ridden streets, or maybe put some streetlights up in the ghettos or make an ATTEMPT at ACTUALLY DOING something to benefit this city. here is what baltimore.org says regarding the "research" that was spent brainstorming this phenomenal phrase:"Our new brand identity didn't just happen. It was guided and informed by months of market research and consumer testing... After 10 months of careful research, thinking, testing and tweaking, our wonderful logo and a memorable themeline emerged."
TEN MONTHS OF CAREFUL THINKING what could be more obvious? i would like to meet this panel of braniacs.
HA i don't know who originally created this image i found it on myspace.baltimore seems to have a history of amazing slogans. like this:
indeed.i looked around but couldn't find any park benches that still had "BALTIMORE THE CITY THAT READS" with a homeless dude sleeping on them like i saw during the first few years that i lived here. i shit you not.
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I added that book to my wish list at Amazon HINT HINT
I think slogans in B'More try to be a self fulfilling prophecy. If you say it enough maybe it will come true. (modified from Field of Dreams)
next on the list. thanks! i wish people would recommend books more often. reviews are slanted since reading is slanted and yeah recommendations from friends are usually the only ones worth reading and recommending to someone else.
i'm inspired to steal your unicycle and learn to play both my accordion and ukulele and do some other stuff while riding it but i know you'd punch me in the head for taking it. we could always combine efforts and intentions and figure out some kind of four-armed woman vaudevillian musical spectacle?
Maybe it's the city that reads slogans? Anyway the new logo totally works, because I was all "they have dinosaurs and forks in Baltimore I AM SO VISITING BALTIMORE."
I'm ashamed to say I just drove through Baltimore and totally did not get in on it. But I did get to experience the potholes. Maybe they should have gone with "Jiggle to it".
ok this dude dave white is totally going to owe me now look at all the business i'm getting him.
sweaty i will think about this and come up with the perfect act. maybe we should add a fire element? everyone likes fire.
jim don't forget PAPER BAGS and HATS!!
meat-o what were you doing down here? shit these people need your help i will tell them about you and the jiggle idea that word is PERFECT for baltimore- trust me there is a lot of jiggling going on here.
i think we should've gone with "BALTIMORE, let's get it on."
remember "the city that breeds" punk rock compilation?
HAHA YES
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