Dave’s in Pittsburgh and… wait… where the hell is Tara? WTF?!
It’s like Groundhog Day but instead of magic and finding love it’s office hijinx and generating documents — six hours away. Things can only get better from here.
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June 13th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Man. This is why you need an awesome housesitter with keys who knows how to use FedEx or something.
Sorry to hear that genuinely horrible horror story, but now it’s done and you are back on the road! Here’s to better days.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Glark wrote: “Mike, next time … you’re going to show us all the good stuff. Could have used a Pittsburgh native today as I was ’stuck’ in Pittsburgh without having time to do proper research.”
Hey, don’t look at me! Though I’ve lived in Pennsylvania most my life, I’ve spent just a few more days in Pittsburgh than you have. Only visit to the Warhol Museum was, like, 20 minutes to closing, so they let us dart through for free, like some art appreciation take on “Supermarket Sweep.” I mainly recall the stairwell. In light of your experience, I should note I’m not claiming my suggestions are good suggestions — in fact, it occurs to me the podcasts may have even more entertainment value if people lace the comments with some secretly sadistic curveballs. It’s unreliable narrator meets Web 2.0.
Your podcast tag is close — it’s “Duquesne” (flip the “n” and the “s”), pronounced “Dean Cain” but far more fun and antagonizing to say as “doo kez knee.” Another one you may have been searching for is “funicular.” (Just remember, “fun!“… elbow bump!… and the charm evaporates about… here. But how ’bout the description on that video link, huh?)
Also? That cab driver? Failed you big time — the way a Pittsburgher or Pittsburghian meets late night nutritional requirements for fries and grease is the “Primanti,” which by one origin story began as a one-handed meal for workers perched on the steel beams of sprouting highrises. Being in Accentland, the Primantis are paired with catch up and pop, or mebbe jessa glyzuh whuter ahtuhduh spikket. All locations open by 11 a.m.: try one for brunch!
June 13th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Duquesne! DUQUESNE! The unnamed university is Duquesne! Sorry, shouting it at my computer screen didn’t seem to do much good.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Tag fixed! On the podcast all that was running though my head was Duck University which I was pretty sure isn’t a thing.
Though if ducks had a university of their own? So going on the tour there.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Another Kim Reed research knowledge bomb:
“The Warhol Museum is currently featuring exhibits by Mondrian, and some dude named Glen Kaino. But the silver clouds thing was all Warhol, created in 1966.”
THanks Kim!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
In fairness to the cabbie, we aren’t staying in Pittsburgh proper but in Washington, which I gather is south of there? He fully admitted to me that he didn’t know this part of town at all.
Also, Dave is taking the first shower RIGHT NOW. Victory!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Oh, and: Linda, we would have absolutely imposed on you to housesit again if we didn’t know you’d have to leave the place at the end of the month. (Sadness.)
June 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Oh, no, I didn’t mean it like that. I couldn’t have done it; I was just saying, this is the only time when housesitting for you might have actually benefited you instead of me.