So.
I hope you’re doing well.
Mr. TR drove away today with our pets and all our stuff. Goodbye pets. Goodbye stuff. Goodbye husband.
Hello rented room.
And I thought I was ready to get back to Pittsburgh before? That was nothin’.
Archive for March, 2009
So, what’s up with you?
Posted in Moi, Moving on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hi neighbors
Posted in WWMRD, tagged Fred Rogers on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Fred Rogers’ birthday. Or Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Day, a day to honor Mr. Rogers conceived by his foundation, Family Communications, to carry on his spirit of human-to-human caring.
I don’t have a Mr. Rogers story of my own, other than all the happy hours I spent as a child watching him invite [...]
Save Our… Products
Posted in Libations, tagged Save Our City on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I could have one Pittsburgh-related wish (okay, provided the city’s financial woes were taken care of and the mayor were de-attention-whore-ed and the Bucs had a winning season…), it would be to bring back the Iron City aluminum bottle. Those were awesome.
I know a smart engineering student at Bucknell University technically proved that beer [...]
Yay, 100,000 more cool people
Posted in Oz-tin, Pittsburgh Arts and Culture on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, here’s where I show that I am definitely, definitely not a tech/media person.
I’m bracing myself for SXSW (South by Southwest, for the uninitiated). The movies! The music! The meeting of great media minds! The huge crowds of really cool people clogging my streets, my work, my restaurants, my bars! I know, I know, SXSW is [...]
More from the top of the city
Posted in Photos, Point of Interest on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know there are hundreds of thousands of pictures of exactly this. We’ve seen them before, on postcards, tourist brochures, books, everywhere. But you can never look at it too much, can you?
Second most beautiful place? Don’t be silly.
Theater 101
Posted in Pittsburgh Arts and Culture, WTF on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I thought people who worked for theaters knew something about theater. Or at least that they could use Wikipedia. Perhaps I am asking too much.
The City Theatre is currently running their production of August Wilson’s Fences, and Mrs. PF and I cannot wait to get a chance to go. I was perusing the theater’s website [...]
Proof
Posted in Moving, Photos on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you’ve been yearning for visual proof that I hung out on the deck at the Grandview the first week in March:
Also, I apologize for not being around so much since I’ve been back in Oz-tin. Truth be told, I’m a little melancholy and a lot distracted. Ya see, turns out Mr. TR’s [...]
Travelogue: Things that made me smile this week
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Don’t worry mes amis. At 5:25 pm EST today I will board a westbound flight and the coach will turn back into a pumpkin – I will be back to my grouchy, Texas-hatin’ self. Have no doubt, the seeds of a rant are already germinating.
But for now, here is a brief, far-from-comprehensive list of things [...]
Keep Pittsburgh Weird
Posted in Cat's Call on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you are no doubt aware, I think Keep Austin Weird is misguided, smug, self-conscious, and counter-productive. I don’t need to belabor that point any further I’m sure. But remember in that high school personality parade, how there were two kinds of “weird?”
The kind that was in-your-face weird, constantly declaring the names of underground-y bands [...]
Travelogue: Excuse me, senor, but there’s a papa in my arroz
Posted in Pittsburgh Food, Point of Interest, Steelers on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Dorothee Trois-Rivières. Motto: Trying out restaurants so you don’t have to.
We kept seeing signs advertising Emiliano’s in McIntyre Square in McCandless, and we figured that now was as good a time as any to be disappointed with Mexican food in Pittsburgh. That’s definitely one area in which Texas has us beat, and if you’re ever [...]
