Tag: pa
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2015 Summer Wonders #72: Hey! Ice Cream!
Another summer wonder: ice cream trucks. Imagine a world where people with ice cream spontaneously appear on your street! It’s beautiful. I know the folks in the photo–they ran an immensely popular local restaurant for years before selling it and starting the ice cream gig as a semi-retirement thing. The ice cream is outstanding. The…
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Prom Gown Shopping For Men
When I realized that the day of shopping for prom gowns my wife had scheduled with my daughters was not a much-anticipated day of mother-daughter bonding, but a drudgery to which my wife was looking forward with all the eagerness of shoeless pilgrim standing before a road of broken glass, I grimaced and stepped into…
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Homecoming Football Game
So, the Homecoming football game turned out well. It rained before and after the game, but not during, and the kids did pretty well. A news team from KDKA-2 Pittsburgh showed up–cool for the kids. Blows my mind to watch this video, though, despite being there in person: I’ve known at lot of these kids…
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My Photos: Rainy Idlewild Summer Night
One evening a few years back a swift and torrential rainstorm hit our favorite amusement park, Idlewild in Ligonier, PA, with ten minutes of sideways rain and wind. After a long, fiercely hot day, the relief was almost welcomed. Better still, when the rain passed the park stayed open even though the lions share of…
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Random Photo Found via Google: PA Mac
I’m not the kind of guy to have a favorite store. That said, this is absolutely my favorite store. About these posts and the photos in ‘em: http://wp.me/p3AOvB-FN
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Jimmy Stewart & His Poetry on Shprockets : Best SNL Sketch Ever
Quite possibly the most gut-wrenchingest, funniest SNL skit of all time. If anyone has a copy of this video–which I’ve been unable to find–send me a link, drop me a line, let me know and I’ll be eternally grateful. Sprockets Announcer…..Phil Hartman Dieter…..Mike Myers Jimmy Stewart…..Dana Carvey [FADE IN on the “Sprockets” opening, with the…
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Pittsbugh: Man, I Love This Place
An exhausting home-swim meet day on Saturday–six hours on my feet pimping hot dogs and haluski in the concessions stand when I should have been dozing off in the bleachers, snoring into a paperback novel. At least the night was tempered by an invitation to share dinner with some friends–sandwiches, beer, crinkle-cut french fries and…
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Pennsylvanian? Support House Bills 1621 and 1622: Draft Your Personal Letter to Your Representative
Tired of UPMC spending millions of “non-profit” funds trying to run other companies out of businees and secure a monoply for themselves? This will help. http://www.congressweb.com/sohcc/1 Background: http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/health/i/UPMC-vs-Highmark.htm “Earlier this year UPMC (formerly known as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) announced that it would not renew its current hospital and provider contracts with Highmark when…
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Where I Live: Indiana, PA
Coming up on the beginning of the holiday season, our town kicks things off with the annual “It’s a Wonderful Night In Indiana, PA” light up festival–there will be a parade, the mayor will wave from his car, and the marching band playing Christmas songs; next up is a bonfire, hot cocoa and all sorts…
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