Archive for October, 2027
Sunday, October 31st, 2027
Visit from the ‘Rents
My mom and stepdad visited this weekend. After I graduated from high school in New Wilmington, they told me that they were planning on moving to Florida to join the rest of my family which has migrated down there, and by the time I finished college they had bought a house down the block from […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2027
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Last night was nuts. The long-awaited showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show finally happened at the Castle, and it went off better than I could have imagined. It started at 9, but by 8 o’clock there was already a line that looped around to Oakland Ave and went almost all the way […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2027
Community Development, Pittsburgh-Style
Another interesting History of Pittsburgh class–Dr. Lemley’s teaching style is very different than any other professor I’ve had, especially in history classes. Instead of teaching in a time line fashion, he’s always jumping back and forth between early Pittsburgh, steel-era Pittsburgh, back to Pittsburgh around World War 1, and then to Pittsburgh in the […]
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2027
Spooky Night in Squirrel Hill
Over the weekend, Gretchen and I went to a Halloween costume party that some of her friends from work were throwing over in Squirrel Hill. I went as my usual “Werewolf in a business suit,” and Gretchen went as her usual “non-participating party-goer.” Fun was had by all.
My favorite part of the evening, […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Public Transportation, Squirrel Hill by Frank
Monday, October 25th, 2027
Mayor Conway
I haven’t mentioned anything so far about the mayoral race that’s been going on, but that’s mostly because no one in their right mind is planning on voting against the incumbent, Mayor Conway. Since her victory 8 years ago, the amount of stuff she’s gotten done makes it hard to believe that she’s slept. […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2027
All’s well that ends well
Yesterday afternoon, I was just taking the first sips of my after-lunch decaf coffee when the door to the PWF flew open and Robin, one of my colleagues who works with girls in sports, burst in, her face extremely pale.
“Samara’s hurt,” she blurted out. “I think she broke her leg.”
I jumped up from my desk […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Public Transportation, Healthcare, Pittsburgh Women's Foundation by Gretchen
Friday, October 22nd, 2027
Dr. Lemley rocks my world
Yesterday in History of Pittsburgh, the three main points of discussion were:
How ridiculous the city was after the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2005.
How crazy people got when the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2009
How BATSHIT INSANE the city got when the Steelers did a three-peat from 2014-2016.
There was a bit of a […]
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Monday, October 18th, 2027
Office of Entrepreneurial Development
There was a SSP meeting this past week, and they were talking about something I never really thought about before, but might be a good opportunity. One of the more recent things SSP has worked on is getting an Office of Entrepreneurial Development started at Pitt, and to link it with similar offices at […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2027
So what do you do?
At 7 AM, I press the snooze button and crush a pillow onto my head. I am not ready for the day to begin. Today will be long and exhausting and yikes I don’t even want to think about it.
At 7:30 I grudgingly get up and shower, eat some scambled eggs for breakfast, down a […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2027
North Side Adventures
The North Street corridor is a very happening spot if you’ve never checked it out. Yesterday there was a local film festival held at a place which just reopened called “The Garden.” My dad told me that back in the day it was a porno theatre, which struck me as hilarious, because now […]
