1. I need a vacation. Christmas week cannot come soon enough for me to hop my flight to Texas to spend a week having my sister (Tina Fey) cook for me and shop with me. 2. As reader M wrote, “All over Pittsburgh, people will be adding “elbow gloves” to our Christmas lists.” Boys, Sonni [...]

Category: Sonni Abatta | tags: Sonni Abatta | December 3, 2007 | 16 Comments »

What a game! Sitting out there in the cold, crappy rain, soaked to the skin and wearing a big smile on my face. I’m totally lying. Sit in that shit? Absolutely not. Especially not when I’ve got a brand new LCD TV above my fireplace beckoning with its warm pixels, my coffee pot beckoning me [...]

Category: Ben Roethlisberger, Mike Tomlin, Steelers | tags: Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers | December 3, 2007 | 24 Comments »

An email from David Johnson at WPXI: Hey PittGirl – enjoy your blog. Thought you’d like to know I saw David Conrad at my gym yesterday. As George Costanza of Seinfeld would say, “I say this with a staunch, unblemished record of heterosexuality…” he looked pretty good. You and my wife immediately came to mind, [...]

Category: David Conrad, Local media | tags: David Conrad | December 3, 2007 | 8 Comments »

Before we get to the Steelers on this fine, cold, windy, perfect Burgh morning, can we just take a minute here and talk about the pigeons? Great. 1.  Reader Dwight sent me a link to this photo of what appears to be some pigeons taking up residence in an old air conditioning unit.  My first [...]

Category: Downtown happenings, The Damn Pigeons | December 3, 2007 | 9 Comments »