Whoever made the schedule cares not a whit for rush hour commuters nor their cars’ emissions: This afternoon around 5pm, President Bush will cause the Parkway West, the Pittsburgh Downtown area, and everything else around there grind to a halt while he makes an appearance in support of Senator Arlen Specter. The NRA convention is …
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Mm-mmm good!
Life imitates art imitating life: Campbell’s is releasing limited edition cans of soup that mimic the paintings Andy Warhol made mimicking Campbell’s Soup cans. [T]hese limited-edition designs will be available at participating Giant Eagle stores in the Pittsburgh region. The four-pack, which sells for $2, will contain at least two colorful labels based on the …
We all need goals
Anyone whose credits include this kind of accolade is worth looking out for: [Chris] Morris’s last TV work, the 2001 one-off Brass Eye special, was the second most complained-about programme in the Independent Television Commission’s 13-year history, attracting 992 complaints. However, the ITC received a similar number of calls from viewers applauding the programme’s satirical …
Palm-igami
For Catholics and lapsed Catholics in the audience: a Budding Young Theologian, a new featured columnist at Zulkey.com, considers whether it’s sacrilegious to fold, spindle, or mutilate the palm fronds distributed at Palm Sunday Mass. First, I have to say, in all my many years attending Catholic Mass, I
How the other half lives
I’ve mentioned before that I could well have been the bride of a software mogul. Now we are treated to a view of what my average day would have been like. I have not read the entire article yet — I find myself gagging every few sentences, and this slows my reading speed — but …
What Bobbie DeNiro and I have in common
We’re both fans of Queen. (For you young-uns, Queen was a glam/hard/progressive rock band in the 70s through the very early 90s.) As much of a fan as I am, though, I still don’t think I’d have put money into a Queen musical. And I know I would never call “Bohemian Rhapsody” “Bo-Rhap.” (Can you …
R.I.P.: J.J. Jackson, original MTV VJ
I’m sorry to hear that J.J. Jackson, one of the original MTV VJs, died Wesdnesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 62. Of those first MTV personalities, J.J. seemed to have the most knowledge of the music business and to be more down-to-earth/less gimicky than the others with their hair and pretty faces, at …
Don’t make a fedral case of it
yourDictionary.com offers 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words. I’m sorry to discover a few mispronunciations that I’m guilty of (“cardshark” for “cardsharp,” “lambast” for “lambaste”) — or maybe I should feel glad to now know how to pronounce them properly. I am pleased to see that I already say most of these properly, including “February.” (Link …
Gonna make you sweat
I attended an all girls’ boarding school — Villa Maria High School, unfortunately now closed — and I lived in the dorm for the first three years. Each year around this time all the girls would start to worry about weight we’d gained over the winter months. The cafeteria specialized in heavy carbs, and there …
My mental state, depicted graphically
Gapingvoid has tapped into my brainwaves somehow. How else to explain this poignant image? It’s amazing what he can do with a pen and a business card.