I just noticed that among the 12 visitors to Uncle Crappy on Tuesday was a person searching Yahoo for the following subject: “How To Set Channel Frequency On Soundboards.” Wow. You couldn’t possibly have found a worse site for your given question. Can I interest you in some stories about drinking in Pittsburgh instead? Because… Read More umm.

When I woke up this morning, I was presented with a dilemma: North Carolina? Illinois? What the hell do I do? You’ve heard me ranting about the various basketball pools, and you know by now that I was in a position to win The Big One … if Illinois won tonight. That’s Two Hundred and… Read More conflicted.

I’ve already been given my assignement for my Sunday shift — going to Mass, to gauge the reaction of local Catholics to what we all assume will be the death of the Pope. Or the miracle of Papal life, if JPII manages to hang on that long. At least, that’s what I was told. I… Read More i’m not dead yet.

PITTSBURGH (AP)– A Tulsa, Okla., resident was the first to respond to a nationwide search for readers of a Pittsburgh-based web site, and will win a “glorious prize,” according to the web site’s owner. Uncle Crappy, a newspaper journalist based in suburban Pittsburgh, said Brian Byrne, a noted Tulsa blogger, was the first to respond… Read More news flash.

As I was preparing to lurch towards bed (see previous post), I became curious about how long it would take Miles, who was asleep on the other side of the apartment, to hear me dumping his nighttime snack into his dish. The answer? Three seconds. That cat is goooooood…

This post is titled for the folks at the Victory Brewing, an excellent establishment about an hour outside of Philadelphia. I may have written about Victory products before. If so, it bears mentioning again, in part because I’m currently working on my fifth bottle of their Storm King Stout, a luscious imperial stout with an… Read More victory.