| Posted this over on Facebook, but it's much more suited to my LJ. |
[20 Dec 2009|08:38pm] |
1. I have been saying since training camp that Mike Wallace's pseudo-mohawk would make a big play, but then when he took off his helmet, he had one of those hood things on! Any Pittsburghers have local Wallace's-hair coverage? Does it still exist?
2. I suspended my affection for Aaron Rodgers for this game, and it would have been an indefinite suspension if he'd beaten us. I'm sure that's a silver lining for him in this loss. Right, Aaron?
3.Thank god Ben's career-high/team-record 503 yards didn't go to waste in yet another ugly loss.
4. Woooooooooooooooo!
Edit for #5 from post-game quotes. I thought that Wallace catch looked like Santonio's from the Super Bowl. Then I saw this:
Q: Did that play remind you of Santonio Holmes’ catch in Super Bowl 43?
Mike Tomlin: Oh my gosh, that’s so far in our rear view, we’re just trying to stay alive.
There are about four things in that one sentence that I love. Tomlin is the best. And Mohawk Wallace cracks me up too:
Q: Why do you think [Ben] said he’d come to you?
Mike Wallace: Because I’m the least one that everybody is worried about out there. We have great guys. We have a Hall of Famer, Hines Ward. We have Santonio [Holmes], a potential Pro Bowler. We have Heath [Miller], another potential Pro Bowler. So it’s just little old me, out there by myself on an island.
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[12 Dec 2009|01:58am] |
I have to admit, I got a little misty-eyed tonight when Chad and Sybil (and Jeb and Matt) presented Oxfam with one of those giant novelty checks for for the stoves project.
So proud of team SR/CAC.
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| A Modest Proposal |
[03 Dec 2009|10:52pm] |
I was talking about this the other day, and just thinking about it again in the shower: In the decade I've lived in Boston, I've considered myself both a Bostonian and a Pittsburgher. A Bostburgher? A Pittstonian?
In those same 10 years, the cities' sports teams have won nine championships: Three for the Patriots, two each for the Steelers and Red Sox, one each for the Penguins and Celtics. Plus several assorted conference and division championships even in years they didn't win it all. So clearly, I bring an aura, or good sports vibes, to my cities.
[There is no hope for the Pirates.]
Anyway, the modest proposal in the title is this: provide me with modest lodging, good food, and a reasonable stipend for spending money, and I'll move to your city and bring my sports mojo with me. Who's in?
While we're talking about local sports (of course), Laura sent me this, which had me dying:
Pittsburgh School District Leads Nation In Ability To Spell 'Roethlisberger'
Clients in Southwestern Pennsylvania appreciate, above all, a lawyer with a working knowledge of how to spell the names of the entire 2005 Super Bowl team. "Anyone can go to law school and pass a bar exam, but knowing that there is a silent 'h' after the 'w' in Cowher? Well, that takes somebody special."
And then there is this, from last Saturday. THOSE HATS! (Give it a little time to load; it's pretty long for a gif.)
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[13 Nov 2009|12:02am] |
I was just reading a magazine article that mentioned a motel near Pittsburgh, and since I was familiar with the general area, I googled the address to see if I did actually know where it was and just didn't recognize the name. Ah, route 30 in Irwin. Yes, I think I do know that area... Let's look at the street view and see what the building looks like... Ahhhh! OMG, WE'RE IN HELLLLLL!
(If that link doesn't work, just google-map "13930 Route 30, Irwin, PA" and look at the street view. Spin around, click up and down the street... It's terrifying!)
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[11 Nov 2009|12:36am] |
Running Lady, wherefore art thou?
Sign I don't get back to Pittsburgh enough: I had no idea about Running Lady! Definitely check out the comments; she is a THING. A favorite: We would see her on the Blvd of the Allies and sometimes on Smithfield. Rumor was she worked at the Hilton. She would make little loops at the intersection until the light changed and then she’d be OFF, like a gazelle in a business suit!
(And the comments on "her" myspace are fantastic.)
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[04 Nov 2009|10:13pm] |
I love this post. Love, love, love this post.
Here’s why we’re The Best Sports City … it’s because we wear our jerseys year-round and not only that, we wear them to work and to church and to weddings and no one thinks twice about it. We’re fans who love our sports teams like they’re our family, or in the case of the Pirates, like our bastard love child that no one talks about, but instead just throws money at hoping he’ll eventually make something of himself. We’re a football town with a hockey problem or maybe a hockey town with a football problem or maybe a hockey town and a football town with a really really scary baseball problem. We sell out every game, we know every player, we show up a quarter of a million strong for every championship parade, and it doesn’t matter where we move to or where we’ve moved here from, we’ll stay Pittsburgh sports fans until we die and even then, bury us in our Malkin jersey, put a Terrible Towel in our fist, and go ahead, slip a Pirates ball cap in there somewhere just so long as its not visible when the casket is open, and play Renegade as we’re lowered into the ground.
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[02 Nov 2009|03:45pm] |
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Setting my Gmail theme to "random" is the best decision I've made all week. I get so excited every time it changes!
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| I'm laughing all over again. |
[27 Oct 2009|11:18pm] |
Okay, I'm not sure if this will be funny, or even make sense, to anyone else. But my mom and I were just in absolute HYSTERICS over this on the phone, and I need to save it for my own memory.
Mom lent me her copy of The Blind Side. I started reading it on the T tonight. The first chapter is about Joe Thiesmann's injury. (Seriously, if you don't know what I'm talking about and you're squeamish, don't look it up. Or read this book.) He doesn't actually describe the injury until the very end of the chapter, but from the first paragraph, I knew what was coming. And I started to get sick. I was sitting there on the T feeling embarrassed, because I was sure someone was noticing how I kept looking up from the book and taking deep breaths. I really thought I might throw up.
I finally made it to the end - made it through the injury without any actual puking - and turned to the last page of the chapter. And there was a little scrap of paper with the following in my mom's handwriting: I'm scarred... a little bit. I feel 3/4 violated.
And instead of puking, I started laughing. Hard. Face buried in my hands, shoulders shaking, right there on the T. And again, I got all embarrassed because I knew if anyone noticed me, I was suddenly even weirder. (Thankfully, it was fairly empty and I was waaaay at the end of the car.)
Now, that's funny on its own, but there's more to it. Over the summer, Andy (age 20) had his first "cougar experience" when a 40-something woman hit on him at a hotel pool. Mom told me his friend Charlie (who was also there) gleefully recounted the story, while Andy said he felt violated. Mom said it was so funny, the way he said it, that she wrote it down right there, but then couldn't find the paper again.
So when I found it in this book, I immediately recognized it as Andy's quote. And I couldn't figure out if she had found the note later and put it in there because she knew that's exactly how I would feel... Or if that's just where the missing note ended up.
Either way was hilarious.
I called her while I walked home from the T, we cried and shrieked with laughter (I could hardly even get the words out to explain what I was laughing about! it was so funny!), and then she said yes, she was reading this book at the time and must have shoved it in there. She did not put it there on purpose. OMG.
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[22 Oct 2009|06:25pm] |
Remember this? It gets better. I tracked the package to see if they had attempted to deliver it to my building, and the tracking showed it is being delivered to PITTSBURGH. TO MY PARENTS' HOUSE.
Now, that was the address on the original purchase because my brother was working at Best Buy at the time and I had him buy it with his discount. But when I went to the Cambridge store to drop it off for the repair, I gave the guy my current address. And I thought it was successfully updated because it appeared on my receipt (minus the apartment number, of course). And with all three phone calls, where I said that the Oxford Street address was missing an apartment number, none of them mentioned that they had a different address. What info were they even looking at while talking to me?!
On the one hand, it's good because at least (I hope) it will be delivered to my parents' house successfully without the hassle of my missing apartment number. BUT STILL. SO. ANNOYING.
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| Good Sunday: |
[18 Oct 2009|04:36pm] |
Steelers won, I finished my errands before the game and don't plan on going back out in the snow (!!!!) so I'm back in my PJs, chicken cacciatore in the crockpot. Smells delicious, though I wonder if I was a bit heavy on the onion. My first time making it. Will probably spend the rest of the afternoon/evening reading and half-watching more football. I was going to say this is a good FALL Sunday, but apparently we've skipped straight to winter.
And if you're not a Facebook friend, I posted this earlier today and feel the world needs to know: Am I the only one who never knew the beer and the world records were the same Guinness? I always just thought they were two things that happened to have the same name.
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[09 Oct 2009|01:02pm] |
If you type "pcakge," Thunderbird's spell-check suggestions are:
cupcake
cupcakes
cupcake's
spongecake
pancaked
But not "package," which is obviously what I was trying to type there.
Just thought you should know. Who wants a cupcake now?
Or Jay McKee? (INSIDE JOKE!)
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| Links: Volume 108 |
[06 Oct 2009|10:07pm] |
Friday Night Fights
For some reason, I read this again two months after it was posted, and just cracked up, right from the beginning: What you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed because we only know one dude's name. I mean, laughing out loud alone in my apartment. (For those who don't care about the Penguins, it has nothing to do with them, despite the general theme of the blog.) Also, not adding to the hilarity, but just an interesting fact: That DQ is right by my parents' house. I have spent lots of time there, and never saw a fight.
5:30 PM: We leave for the two hour drive...
I hate to laugh at someone else's tragedy, but this is great.
Herb Brooks's pre-game speech, as recited by a four-year-old.
Nothing better than a preschooler saying "Screw 'em!" (I guess since I saved this weeks ago, this kid appeared on Ellen. So maybe I shouldn't bother posting it. But I love him!)
Steelers Bird
I love that the top two related videos are also Steelers birds. And this one, too. Who knew this was a thing?
So, How Does It Work on the Bus?
David Byrne gives a nice explanation of tour-bus logistics, for those who are always curious.
'Funky Cold Medina' and 'Wild Thing' are the Same Song
I saw this link all over the internet recently. I remember realizing this my junior year of high school. I even remember the specific incident that made me realize it. How are people just figuring it out now, 10+ years later?
going postal on the wrong side of the counter...
OH SO FUNNY. Also, as someone who goes to the post office nearly every day, that description of placing their pen on the desk, pushing their chair back... That is exactly correct. I won't name names.
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[30 Sep 2009|08:50pm] |
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Another "Pittsburgh Rules" moment: Sid is asked to critique the Steelers. I love how, first, he asks for some clarification on the moment, and then his "it's easy to be that guy" answer is kind of priceless. (Starts around 3:20.)
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[22 Sep 2009|10:26pm] |
Public Service Announcement: Charade is now on Hulu. If you haven't seen it yet, WATCH IT!
Love it!
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