Posted by pittgirl on 30 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Eye rolls, Pirates
That’s because no other Major League team has gone so long without a winning season.
If the Pirates raised the price to go watch their sad form of baseball, there would be looting of epic proportions … and pillaging. And maybe even some plundering. Definitely some plundering.
Aye.
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Downtown happenings, Mike Tomlin, Steelers, Weird Burghers
1. Cincinnati-based undercover Burgh agent and reader Erik H is the winner of the free PittGirl shirt for his generosity in donating to the PAAR fundraiser in my name. Thanks again to all of you that donated. I actually put all of your names on slivers of paper, scattered them on my [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Random
Woy, AKA Mike Woycheck, AKA Alfred the Butler has been a very busy boy and has finally launched WearPittsburgh: Locally designed. Locally inclined.
I think it was about a year and a half ago that he first mentioned this endeavor, so you know, if you need something done right away, Mike is your [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Eye rolls
Penn State will have us believe that Joe Paterno is making $500,000 a year.
I’m sorry, but this has baloney written all over it and it’s spelled LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!
That is way too little money for a 158-year-old who has been coaching at the same school for 135 years to be making, right?
Also, speaking [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Downtown happenings, Mayor Ravenstahl
Lukey said:
“The rehabilitation of this century-old bridge symbolically captures Pittsburgh’s economic revival,” Mr. Ravenstahl said. “Built to support the once flourishing steel industry, the converted bridge will now support our burgeoning knowledge-based economy by linking critical places of economic development to social, research and medical centers. One-hundred years later, we have reinvented ourselves.”
The two [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Penguins, Random, Steelers
1. The blogroll. It has been updated with those blogs that I’ve been reading via my Bloglines feeds for six months now. Welcome, The Comet, The Burgh Report, and My Brilliant Mistakes.
2. I have been meaning for ages to link you all to this hilarious bit Julie Gong wrote about [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, Eye rolls
A North Versailles woman suffered a serious stab wound during a scuffle last night with a neighbor over a broken VCR, police said.
The chief said Mr. Simpson had sold a VCR to Ms. White for $40. The machine did not work and she went to his apartment for a refund.
The two argued and scuffled, during [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers
My good virtual friend Dom at ineedtwo.com is hooking me up with some tickets for this Sunday’s Steelers game (It is about high time this blog started being useful to me, don’t you think?).
He asked me to let you know that he’s got lots of tickets still available for this game and they’re starting at [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Eye rolls, Mayor Ravenstahl, The Damn Pigeons
1. Kelly Bow-Chicka-Bow Frey is at it again, this time doing the sexy belly dance grind in the middle of a bunch of stripper poles. Not to be confused with the last video, in which she actually used the stripper pole. I fully expect the next video to be Kelly Frey belly [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 27 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, Eye rolls
King Kong violently ripped the heads off of a bunch of villagers and called it physical therapy.
The program he was leaving, known as CROMISA, or Community Re-integration of Offenders with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder, is described in Allegheny County literature as a place for men with mental illness and substance abuse problems [...]