Month: January, 2008

You should try to remember the good times and the high life

30 January, 2008 (13:01) | Memories

After my parents split, I got to have a day with my dad by myself.  Thursday nights.  I normally had a boy scout meeting then we’d go home and watch the simpsons.  Sometimes, we’d take a drive out past Malden crossroads and up a hill to the left past a church to a dead end […]

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Powerful words for Charlie Chaplin

29 January, 2008 (23:18) | Thoughts & Ideas

Good stuff from the movie "The Great Dictator" (1940).  Even out of context, these words are like a bullet to the head, or a knife to the heart.

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Groceries for the Hill

29 January, 2008 (10:29) | News

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08029/853048-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml That’s the plot of land a block up from my old apartment and across the street from the Hill House and Kaufmann auditorium.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=15219&ie=UTF8&ll=40.442897,-79.98166 So, looks like I’ll be stopping for dinner on my walk home for work.  Oops, no eggs for those brownies?  Don’t worry, I’ll walk 2 blocks to the grocery store.  […]

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Save-a-lot might be coming to the Hill District

28 January, 2008 (14:25) | Pittsburgh

Save-A-Lot is going to have breakfast with some city officials tomorrow at the Grand Concourse down at Station Square.  Looks like is completely separate from the arena talks, which really might sweeten the deal if the peguins are going to chip in something.  They turned down starting a store in 2004, but a lot has changed in 4 years…  If […]

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Opposites Attract

25 January, 2008 (23:05) | Site Update

New songs uploaded to the Myspace page!

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Scar tissue that I wish you saw

25 January, 2008 (13:02) | Thoughts & Ideas

This will parallel any thoughts in wonder about how atoms and molecules decide to come together and make a body.  How they can keep adding other atoms and molecules, and we call this phenom "growing", but at some point, they just decide to stop adding more.  So strange.  I have a big scar on the […]

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