
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "
simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at
erik.maza@baltsun.com. Click
here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.
Midnight Sun covers Baltimore music, live entertainment, and nightlife news. On the blog, you'll find, among other things, concert announcements, breaking news, bars closings and openings, up-to-date coverage of crime in nightlife, new music, round-the-clock coverage of Virgin Mobile FreeFest, handy guides on bars staying open past 2 a.m. on New Year's Eve and those that carry Natty Boh on draft. Recurring features include seven-day nightlife guides, Concert News, guest reviews of bars and concerts, Wednesday Corkboard, and photo galleries, as well as reader-submitted photos. Thanks for reading.
Comments
I poo for martyrs.
Posted by: MrIncognito1 | August 27, 2009 7:45 AM
)) ((
Posted by: CJ | August 27, 2009 8:16 AM
This Wall Intentionally Left Blank
Posted by: Alexander D. Mitchell IV | August 27, 2009 8:44 AM
Welcome Senator Larry Craig!
Posted by: Andy | August 27, 2009 9:01 AM
Poop shacka lacka lacka
Poop shacka lacka lacka
Posted by: RayRay | August 27, 2009 9:26 AM
Many years ago there was a bit of poetry on the bathroom wall of the bar at the MIA. Can't remember the name of the bar. You know, the one with the Creation of Life replica on the ceiling... Anyway, the poem talked of purple feathers and it was such a bittersweet image. Like faded pictures of a costume party with friends you never see anymore. I always meant to copy it down. But when I went back with a pen and paper it had been painted over.
Posted by: Kate | August 27, 2009 10:00 AM
My personal favorite was this little philosophical bit...
"If you could, would you? And if you did, how would you do it?"
Scrawled under it, a poetic response...
"Who gives a F***?"
Posted by: Terry | August 27, 2009 10:06 AM
Shortly after Dick Cheney went quail hunting years ago. In the Mitchell Courthouse. 4th fl by the elevators i think...
"Last time someone in a Presidential administration shot someone in the face, they got impeached!"
Posted by: Chw | August 27, 2009 11:44 AM
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite infects most genera of warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family. Animals are infected by eating infected meat, by ingestion of feces of a cat that has itself recently been infected, or by transmission from mother to fetus. Cats have been shown as a major reservoir of this infection.
Up to one third of the world's population is estimated to carry a Toxoplasma infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that overall seroprevalence in the United States as determined with specimens collected by the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) between 1999 and 2004 was found to be 10.8%, with seroprevalence among women of childbearing age (15 to 44 years) of 11%.
During the first few weeks, the infection typically causes a mild flu-like illness or no illness. After the first few weeks of infection have passed, the parasite rarely causes any symptoms in otherwise healthy adults. However, people with a weakened immune system, such as those infected with advanced HIV disease or those who are pregnant, may become seriously ill, and it can occasionally be fatal. The parasite can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and neurologic diseases and can affect the heart, liver, and eyes (chorioretinitis).
Posted by: Evan | August 27, 2009 12:34 PM
I ****** YOUR MOTHER
Go home dad, you're drunk
Posted by: johnnycat | August 27, 2009 12:56 PM
Some really bad greasy spoon outside of Louisville:
"Flush once. It's downhill to the kitchen."
Posted by: Chw | August 27, 2009 1:02 PM
"poops mcgoops was here"
Posted by: Poops McGoops | August 27, 2009 1:34 PM
Here I sit broken-hearted,
come to [ahem] but only [you get the picture].
Posted by: PW | August 27, 2009 2:16 PM
Did you hear about the constipated mathmetician?
He worked it out with a pencil.
Posted by: RayRay | August 27, 2009 2:55 PM
@#&^%$ *$*@ *&^)#$ #@!*&&
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: RayRay | August 27, 2009 2:57 PM
Dyslexics of the world untie
Posted by: fluffhead | August 27, 2009 4:51 PM
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Posted by: A Nonymous | August 27, 2009 8:42 PM