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 [...]
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Keep Pittsburgh Weird
Posted in Cat's Call on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t read this
Posted in Cat's Call, Pittsburgh Media, Steelers, tagged Madden NFL 09, PittGirl on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read this! (Woy is hosting surprise guest blogger PittGirl – aka Jane Pitt – this week) (Why are you still reading this?) (Though it’s hard to escape noticing that for someone who wanted to disappear from public view, PittGirl has had a lot of surprise reappearances…) (She should just come back permanently. Stop taunting us, [...]
Rubber penises and other internet fun
Posted in Cat's Call, Pittsburgh Media, Post-Gazette, tagged Cat's Call, Mike Seate, PittGirl, Whizzinator on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1. Front-page news at the Post-Gazette today includes this riveting story about two guys in California who sold a “device” to try to fool drug tests – they have been brought down by a federal court in Pittsburgh. I wasn’t clear on how these dudes ended up on the radar of the Western Pennsylvania Federal [...]
Reasons you’re glad you live in Pittsburgh #2: Cat kicks Abby’s butt
Posted in Cat's Call, Post-Gazette, tagged Advice columns on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love Tuesday. I love Tuesday because that’s the day the new Cat’s Call appears in the PG. Why do I eagerly await her advice every week? Because she kicks ass. She picks questions that make the questioner look like a jerk, then calls them on being a jerk. Other advice columns are full of [...]