Andy Warhol. Three Rivers Stadium. Mother Jones. Dell. Professor Frink. United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Athens, Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch. Saratoga Performing Arts Center. ESPN. The Pennsylvania School Boards Association. Pop Rocks. Sausage Gravy. The Ambridge Area Chamber of Commerce. Giant Bicycles. Chuck Taylor. Strunk and White. Confused? Look here.

I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with a regular kind of postage. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I had three projects at work come due, all around the same time. Even when I’m not working on those, I feel guilty enough that I’m not doing… Read More Hey!

As I noticed that Uncle Crappy is now listed on Google, I’m reminded of this, from The Jerk: Navin: The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! Harry: Well I wish I could get so excited about nothing. Navin: Nothing? Are you kidding?! Page 73, Johnson, Navin, R.! I’m somebody now! Millions of… Read More googlelicious

I’ve started paying attention to how the Blogspot banner at the top of the page changes its references to match the input from my posts. As we speak, there are links to pages that sell University of North Carolina merchandise and Monty Python-related dolls. You can see where the references came from pretty easily, which… Read More Al Gore. Brussels Sprouts. Mechanical Pencils. Fort Knox.

Part 1: I’m a finalist for a Golden Quill Award! Part 2: A friend from college just won a Pulitzer! Lessee … On one hand, you have a nomination for one of the annual awards from the Press Association of Western Pennsylvania, in this case for a cool little story I did about alternative-fuel vehicles.… Read More BIG news

I never did get around to making any predictions about the NCAA tournament, but in the pool that matters — and that would be the one with a $220 winner-take-all pot — I’m still alive, based on my fearless prediction that Georgia Tech would win it all. I’m also still alive based on the fact… Read More hoopage