There's something about a nice hot bath, transforms a person. It's not just about opening up your pores, know what I mean? There's just something about the heat and the wet that's calming you know? Settles me in a way that I really can't articulate.
“The stuff that is known to Baltimoreans to be rare, unique and improbable, you want that stuff to last forever.” This is something David Simon said that really resonated with me. I shot a video with Mr. Simon during the final season of a show he created called The Wire, which, admittedly, isn’t the best sales piece for Baltimore tourism. Still, there are passions for the city that are sewn throughout the five seasons of the show.
I’m not sure if he was being purposefully poetic, but that’s how it struck me. It’s true and you can certainly see those threads in the show. He sprinkles in those things. Whether it is Detective Jimmy McNulty offering the ultimate payoff, a bag of crab cakes from Faidley’s, or Werner’s Restaurant, a homey diner around the corner from City Hall that was often the meeting place to talk politics, the details of the most central character, the city, are provided in subtle, but large measures.
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