Everything is bigger in Texas.

This includes mosquitoes and my ulcer. 

Pittsburgh's lack of glitz is now a selling point.

VisitPittsburgh is now marketing the city as a glamorless destination for the post-luxury age.

"Nobody is going to raise their eyebrows when you book your conference in Pittsburgh," said Craig Davis, vice president of sales and marketing for the region's official tourism agency.

I hate it when they're ( Read more... )

Dear Mommy,

When I close my eyes at night, is that really you I see? Not the phosphorescent Picasso dreams where everything may or may not look like stained glass in funny shapes, but those ones where it looks like you stole the idea from your father where you're sitting in the living room "just popping in to say hello and play catch up", and I ( Read more... )

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This was Track 2 of a ten-track hour-long production show with me and another drag last Thursday.

Reg Henry's brilliantly funny article in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Dear friends, family, and associates,

I wanted to let you all know that my last day with HealthyWorks of PA will be this Friday, November 23, 2007.  I have accepted a position with another company here in town (information below) and begin there on Monday.

We have placed an ad for my replacement, and they will probably choose a candidate early ( Read more... )

 It's been one year today.

http://www.webfh.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=102219&fh_id=10411

http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030525ethnicreg3p3.asp

...and this was written four years ago.  It's becoming even less so now.  Buried two more church ladies on Saturday.

By the way, West Pike Run Township -- population of 1800 people covering 17 square miles -- is where I grew up in Washington County.  Daisytown, PA, which is the only "town ( Read more... )