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Congratulations, you’re weird. I hate you.
Everywhere I go in this town I am exhorted by t-shirts, bumper stickers, and alternative newspapers to “Keep Austin Weird.” At first, I found this clever - the original aim of Keep Austin Weird was...
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Thankful
I haven’t been here for a few days, since I’ve been busy being thankful for my parents coming to visit. They were excited about the planned weird warm Thanksgiving weather and brought all short sleeve...
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Online Shopping Guide for Ex-Pats
There is good in the world. Or at least on the world wide web. I made a wonderful discovery this week: Smilies smilies smilies smilies OMG YAY! I’m ashamed of the amount of pure unadulterated...
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A very Pittsburgh Christmas
In the TR household, there is today the keen understanding that it’s the last holiday season we’ll spend away from Pittsburgh. As usual, a lot of our gifts are charming Pittsburgh-oriented media or...
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Look, I started a new trend…
…moving back to Pittsburgh. The Post-Gazette today reports a bit half-heartedly on an apparent initiative to publicize PGH’s reputed ability to weather the economic storm. I can’t tell if the author is...
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Resolved
It is the year that I move home. I’m going to say it again, because it sounds so good. It is the year that I move home. I don’t need any New Year’s resolutions this year, because I made a resolution...
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Sweeter than usual
I was playing on YouTube today, looking at Steeler rally videos, when I found this: Yeah, I cried. You know, just a little.
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To Pittsburgh, from the Prom Queen
I was hoping to like the article in this month’s Pittsburgh Magazine entitled “A Love Letter to Pittsburgh,” by New York author Ellen T. White. After all, that’s what this whole blog is, right? A love...
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Waste some time tonight, on me
Mrs. PF and I went for ice cream this afternoon, and I ordered mine with “chocolate sprinkles” on top. Mrs. PF looked at me like I’d grown an extra head on my shoulders, and that head spoke a different...
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You know you’re from Pittsburgh when…
I’ve been tickled by the tongue-in-cheek lists of inside jokes that spawned a Facebook group and this really fairly annoying YouTube video: But last week when a colleague of mine who has family back in...
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