On Saturday, I was able to check a couple significant things off my list of stuff to see — along with my parents, we toured Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, the two Frank Lloyd Wright houses in the mountains east of Pittsburgh. Fallingwater was first, and I may be the only one in our group who… Read More flw, ftw.
Derrick had a good suggestion when I asked for help with topics a few days ago. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve sampled a huge variety of beer; Derrick was curious about what I had tried and liked. I’ll address Derrick’s suggestion more directly in the near future; what I want to do today… Read More beer me.
Wow. I asked yinz guys for help, and you totally came through with some great ideas. Some will be fairly easy (see Derrick, Doogle and RPM), some will require audience participation (E came through with a good one) and some are going to require a fair amount of work (see Goob and the tag RPM… Read More ideal.
I didn’t watch a second of the Michael Jackson service today. I haven’t said anything here about what I think about the biggest pop musician of my lifetime, the one who shaped what my contemporaries listened to while we grew up. Back then, I was chasing a different kind of musical buzz, and Mike’s stuff… Read More mike and jerry.
Welcome to my annual summer slump. It might be the weather. It might be an extra busy schedule. It might be my tendency towards general laziness. For whatever the reason, I generally find it’s a struggle to post during June, July and August. It shows. Over the last three years, I’ve averaged just 18 June… Read More slumping.
Our work schedules prevented us from making the trek home for our traditional UA Fourth of July. But we had been invited to share my favorite holiday with the crew at the Burghseyeview Lounge and Resort — and as it turned out we had pretty much everything we needed for a great first Fourth of… Read More first fourth.
Uncle Crappy 