Comments on: Cloudy With a Chance of Carrion Crows

By: rodgers_neighborhood

rodgers_neighborhood — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:24:02 +0000

Ape said: They can change their teams to the Pits and the Pendulums!

But then the Steelers will have to be renamed the Telltale Harfs.

/bound for Bawlmer this week to improve writing skills. Fuck me.

By: Christmas Ape

Christmas Ape — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:10:31 +0000

Of all the inane arguments I’ve gotten into in the KSK comments section, this one ranks… somewhere in the middle.

By: Gino Tourettsa

Gino Tourettsa — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:57:33 +0000

How ’bout the Baltimore Annabel Lees?

By: Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:50:54 +0000

I’m pretty sure that Edgar Allan Poe was from Boston.

OW-AH POEMS AH MORE-AH SPINE-TINGLING THAN YOUR-AH POEMS!!!!

NO ONE DENIES THIS!!!

By: Scott Levy

Scott Levy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:50:12 +0000

Right, but the team is named “The Ravens” not “The Edgar Allen Poe’s.” Furthermore, as you’ve pointed out so many times, Fearsome Ravens Fans wear purple camouflage, which is in no way the embodiment of Edgar Allen Poe’s identity. As an obvious Fearsome Ravens Fan myself, I honestly can’t remember any time where anything relating to Poe (besides The Raven) was ever invoked by anyone, except for maybe Tony Kornheiser.

Perhaps it’s a bit silly that the Ravens walking stadium mascots are named “Edgar” “Allen” and “Poe.” However, having an effeminate homosexual mascot named Steely McBeam is probably as unrepresentative of Pittsburgh steel workers as the Ravens mascots are of Poe’s connection to Baltimore.

By: Christmas Ape

Christmas Ape — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:47:17 +0000

The Utah Jazz makes sense though.

By: Gino Tourettsa

Gino Tourettsa — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:43:36 +0000

The Ancient Greeks spent zero time in Tennessee. The number of New Orleans residents who have been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church is minimal, but Viking explorers did make it all the way to Minnesota. It’s true.

By: Christmas Ape

Christmas Ape — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:23:32 +0000

I didn’t say it invalidates any logical reasoning for the name. I just say it’s a flimsy argument to claim that the author, who happened to write most (but not all) of the Raven in Baltimore and most of his other significant works in Philly, embodies the identity of the city. Wanna use H.L. Mencken? Go for it. Poe? Not so much.

Defending logic against someone who wants to bend it so liberally is exhausting.

By: Scott Levy

Scott Levy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:15:03 +0000

One scholar in Philadelphia disputes Baltimore’s claim to Poe, ergo Baltimore’s claim to Poe is questionable and invalidates any logical reason for naming a team The Ravens, despite the fact that The Raven was written in Baltimore.

“this is really tiresome”

Defending hypocritical logic can be exhausting.

By: Christmas Ape

Christmas Ape — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:03:35 +0000

Yes, but are Indy or Cleveland referred to as “The Steel City”? I don’t think anyone contests that that is Pittsburgh’s former identity, whereas Philly has questioned Baltimore’s place in Poe’s legacy. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/06poe.html

But whatever – this is really tiresome, so from now on Bawlmer can be “The Town That Poe Built.”