Dude... What Did They Do?

1. What did they do before You Tube to get psyched for sports events and then to bask in the glory of victory?

2. What music did they use prior to 1988 in sport's montages?

3. Lastly - how did people live, in 1979, without montages like this one - readily available for your viewing pleasure?

CITY OF CHAMPIONS ONCE MORE!!!

Pittsburgh is The Best City In The World!

There is a campaign going on to get Pittsburgh's official website to show up at the top the search when someone searches "The Best City in The World."

As you may or may not know, Pittsburgh was recently named the most livable city in the US by the Economist and has recently become widely regarded as a really cool place to live (probably because I left). As someone who grew up in Pittsburgh, I have strong ties to the city and a big part of me wishes I was still there. Visiting several times a year and hanging out in Edgewood with my sister and going to the Children's Museum or going to Pap's for a Steeler's game in the fall has really become one of the highlights of the year for our family.

If you have a blog or a website, take a minute to link to Pittsburgh's official site using the anchor text as The Best City in The World. More information can be found in the article that I linked to at the onset of this post...

And GO PENS!!!

UPDATE: I hear Bill Cowher is coming to Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit and plans to root for Russia.

Gluttony & Monkeys

We spent Thanksgiving with my family in Pittsburgh and had incredible amounts of turkey, stuffing, beer, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and some other things. The afternoon and evening was spent at my cousin Eric's house. He has a boxer/rotweiler mix who Robby just fell in love with (go figure). The kids were all a bit nervous at first but by the end of the day they were letting him lick their faces and feeding him from the table. His name is Monroe:


After dinner we headed to Melissa's house to crash... which we did successfully. We woke up this morning with nothing planned so we decided to head to Eat 'n Park for breakfast. If you have not experienced the Eat 'n Park breakfast buffet you are missing out on life. Man... I miss E&P and I hope that they, someday, expand east of Harrisburg. All of the kids ate for free and I had unlimited eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, fruit, french toast, waffles... and following Thanksgiving Dinner - I probably weigh an extra 10 pounds...

Then we headed off to the Pittsburgh Zoo with Aunt Melissa and Uncle Justin. BTW - I've been to Pittsburgh twice in the past several months and last time we went to the Children's Museum for free on our reciprical membership to the Garden State Discovery Museum - and today we went to the PGH Zoo for free b/c of our membership to the Philly Zoo. I love it! Anyway there were some cute baby elephants that the kids liked to watch and the polar bears were putting on a show for us today.


I'm sure you all find this enthralling - I'm just trying to get back into the habit of writing more regularly... and if you don't like what I'm writing about... click away from this page...

until next time!