Posted by pittgirl on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, The Damn Pigeons
Some of you may not have been reading the Burgh Blog that long, so let me first refresh your memory by sending you to this post about school administrator Andrew King who was pissed he wasn’t named superintendent of the schools and then sued saying he was passed over for racial discrimination:
Likely the reason Andy [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Weird Burghers
PG writer Dennis B. Roddy has lost his mind.
In writing an article about a lunatic that punched a fast food drive-through worker in Penn Hills, Denny uses all of the following AWESOME lines:
A Penn Hills man’s beef with a drive-through clerk at Wendy’s ended in a knuckle sandwich and Penn Hills police promptly served assault [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Local media, Weird Burghers
WPXI is holding a contest with Bradley Michael Furniture to make over the Burgh’s ugliest living room.
Some of the living rooms that have been submitted, particularly this one:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure some major crimes have been committed there.
And for sure, some of them don’t need “updated” so much as they just need “cleaned.”
Or this one [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Local media, Mayor Ravenstahl, Random, The Damn Pigeons
1. Unlike that cutie iJustine, PittGirl will NOT be purchasing an iPhone just yet. The reason for this is that I never am ever the first person to purchase new technology … I’m not usually even in the first MILLION to purchase new technology. I’m a simple girl.
Burghers … I was without [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Mayor Ravenstahl
Lukey must have finally found another talking point index card that says something other than “Move Forward.”
We, the political leaders, educational institutions, religious leaders, neighborhood organizations, business owners—every Pittsburgher—must rise up together and say, “No More. Not in our streets. Not in our backyards.”
Mayor Ravenstahl offered his condolences to the two families and called [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Eye rolls
The Des Moines area faces a slow economic decline if it doesn’t filter more money into arts, cultural and regional attractions, the former mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa., said Tuesday.
Tom Murphy visited Des Moines to lend support for the proposed “Yes to Destiny” sales tax that will be considered by voters in Dallas, Polk and Warren [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Random
Most awesome line you’re going to read in One of America’s Great Newspapers today:
Inmates get sanctioned if they’re caught with their heads in the toilet bowl.
And here you would have thought that putting your head in a toilet bowl would be a punishment and not something for which to be punished.
Do you think Paris Hilton [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, David Conrad, Steelers, The Damn Pigeons
1. An attempt to out PittGirl (see June 26 entries)… and by “out” I mean “stalk.” (h/t to Eric Heyl, B., and one other reader whose email I can’t find now.)
Also, readers, be mindful that if I am outed I will have to nuke my blog. After I posted lots of [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 26 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, Eye rolls
The Pittsburgh Planning Commission today reversed itself and approved the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s request to install a sign atop the U.S. Steel Tower in Downtown Pittsburgh, where it is relocating its headquarters.
The vote was 6-1 in favor, with one abstention. Two weeks ago, the request was defeated in a 3-3 vote.
What is [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 26 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Random
An email:
There’s been a burst of publicity lately about JetBlue needing better support in Pittsburgh.
Airfare to NYC and Boston have plummeted since JetBlue entered the market last year (cheap enough for a fun weekend, even!) So, I thought you, and your fans, might be interested in the “Buy One, Get One” sale that JetBlue announced [...]