Posted by pittgirl on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Random
I love my TiVo.
Sometimes my TiVo records the programs it is supposed to record at the times it is supposed to record them. Sometimes my TiVo gets moody and cuts off the last few minutes of very important, educational programs like the Biography of Alexander Hamilton and by the “Biography of Alexander Hamilton” I [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Local media, Penguins, Random, Sonni Abatta, Steelers, The Damn Pigeons, Weird Burghers
1. Officially now, I can no longer even SEE the winner of the Sportsocracy March Madness Challenge. I’m that far away, mired in something like 366th place. Here’s Shiny Quarter, sweating it out, worried, wringing his hands, wondering what is PittGirl going to do to his lame ass.
Voodoo? Juju? A [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Eye rolls, Mayor Ravenstahl, Pirates
Giant Overpriced Eagle is complaining that they paid too much for chocolate.
The O’Hara-based grocer claims it was overcharged for $200 million worth of chocolate products between 2002 and 2007.
I should care about this because price fixing is wrong. I should care about this because if Giant Eagle is paying too much for chocolate [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Downtown happenings, Penguins, Pirates, Sidney Crosby
1. Tennessee is out of the NCAA championship with a ridiculous loss to Louisville yesterday. There goes my hopes of dominating the Sportsocracy contest. Damn brackets. I frickin’ hate brackets.
2. The Pirates’ Kuwata, who likely would not have made the roster, retired from baseball and was asked to pitch one [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Local media
Boy, the one week I don’t grab the City Paper from the newsstand and Chris Potter writes this:
This morning, for example, I opened up my Post-Gazette to the Forum section’s “Cutting Edge” feature. Cutting Edge offers a weekly wrap-up of the posts from the wonderfully diverse world of Pittsburgh blogging. But I wasn’t exactly surprised [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: David Conrad, The Damn Pigeons
A pigeon quandary from reader Jennifer:
Dear Pittgirl,
I have a problem. Pigeons have taken up residence in the roof overhanging my back door. This also happens to be right up against the windows to my bedroom and my sons room. So we hear them. Cooing. Coo Coo Coo every morning and all day. [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 27 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Steelers, Troy Polamalu
I had planned to take today off, I did. My oldest sister is in town and I’ve been enjoying chitchatting and not going to work and just kind of drinking coffee and blasting the suck that is certain American Idol contestants.
But then I checked my emails to see if anyone had written me all, “Where [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Hot Burghers, Penguins
Petr Sykora:
Versus the Burgh’s own Ryan Malone:
If you know me at all, you know I’m kind of icked by Ryan’s body, so my vote is for the happily-married and proud of it Petr Sykora.
Posted by pittgirl on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Hot Burghers, Local media, Penguins, Pirates, Sidney Crosby, Steelers, Troy Polamalu
1. I’m over Jason Castro and his gorgeous eyes, sticky dreads, and ’sup, dude? ‘tude. I’m getting over Brooke White’s Who? Little ole me? furrowed eyebrow schtick. I’ve been over David Archuleta’s lip-licking, heavy-breathing singing and I was never under any other contestant.
Now, in addition to finding Michael Johns suddenly worthy of my listening ears, [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Mayor Ravenstahl
Boy, that warmonger kid Lukey is not content with a war on snow, a war on potholes, a war on electronic billboards, or a war on ethics.
He’s now warring with some members of City Council and if Bruce Kraus is to be believed, Lukey made the following threat:
“His exact words to me were, ‘We’re coming [...]