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Old 03-25-2008, 06:17 PM
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I know David Simon, I worked with him for years, he is my friend. The source is David himself. Ask him, he'll tell ya.

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Old 03-25-2008, 06:30 PM
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I can tell you from personal experience, people do not like having their picture taken without permission. The last time someone did it to me, they ended up with a broken camera -- happened at Union Station as I was getting into a cab.

It's just rude to get in someone's face and start snapping away, or even from a distance.

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Old 03-25-2008, 06:39 PM
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I know David Simon, I worked with him for years, he is my friend. The source is David himself. Ask him, he'll tell ya.
Were you/are you a Sunpaper reporter? I wish I knew him or could meet him, he's one of my very favorite writers. I was introduced to his work (the novel "Homicide") in the Publications Design program at UB, and have read everything I can get my hands on by him since. His ability to get a reader into the head of the character is literally unparalleled.

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Old 03-25-2008, 06:42 PM
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Were you/are you a Sunpaper reporter? I wish I knew him or could meet him, he's one of my very favorite writers. I was introduced to his work (the novel "Homicide") in the Publications Design program at UB, and have read everything I can get my hands on by him since. His ability to get a reader into the head of the character is literally unparalleled.
He lives here in Baltimore and can often be found walking around. I've only had the pleasure of meeting him once, and I have never watched The Wire...I did read The Corner, though, so it was nice to put a face to the person who wrote the book.

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Old 03-28-2008, 11:53 AM
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Default Corners in west Baltimore

Here is the truth about corners and the culture of west baltimore-paritcular African American.

If you know a corner is a corner because of drug dealing-avoid it. If you don't know-drug dealing is related to violence-so why would you put yourself in armsway. Other corners are occupied by people, mostly men who use it for social purposes.

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Old 04-12-2008, 06:52 PM
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Baltimore like any other metropolitan area has good spots and bad spots. I have lived here my entire life and I am familiar with the westside of Baltimore City and parts of the county. I see just as much crime in the counties as in the areas of the city where I have lived. Go to Randallstown, there are some shady areas out there that need to be exposed. If you want to take a picture of something... take one of an area where crime is just as bad or is increasing.

Just be ORIGINAL. We know there is crime in Baltimore City, but expose the gang activity in Carroll, Howard or Harford County for a change.

Randallstown, Woodlawn -- they tore down the projects downtown and some of the former project-dwellers were reloctated to Randallstown and Woodlawn -- this helped speed up the negative change in those communities.

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Old 04-13-2008, 10:09 AM
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Homicide is NOT a novel! It's a work of journalism: David Simon's one year following the Homicide detectives of the city around. Subtitle: One Year on the Killing Streets.

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Old 04-16-2008, 08:10 AM
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Homicide is NOT a novel! It's a work of journalism: David Simon's one year following the Homicide detectives of the city around. Subtitle: One Year on the Killing Streets.
I got The Corner and Homicide last week after reading about the books online. I'm halfway through The Corner. Its a great read, but I am glad baltimore is not like that anymore. Cant wait to into Homicide.

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Old 04-16-2008, 08:28 AM
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I'm sorry to wake you up, my friend. Much of West Baltimore is still like that. Only The Corner keeps moving around.

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Old 04-17-2008, 12:25 PM
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Homicide is NOT a novel! It's a work of journalism: David Simon's one year following the Homicide detectives of the city around. Subtitle: One Year on the Killing Streets.
I'm aware of that, I know it's non-fiction. I typed the post quickly and used the term "novel" incorrectly as a synonym for "book" --- sorry.

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