If he hadn’t become a filmmaker, visual artist, fashion model, ordained minister, puppeteer and poet, John Waters might have carved out a decent career as a bumper sticker slogan writer for Baltimore’s tourism industry.
He made a splash years ago with a slogan that he dreamed up for the Chamber of Commerce to use for his hometown: “Come to Baltimore and Be Shocked!” And it did.
In recent years, Waters has suggested that the city capitalize on the attention it got from “The Wire,” the HBO series from David Simon that presented Baltimore in a less-than-flattering light over five seasons, from 2002 to 2008…