#92 - Yinzer and Brothers Roofing Company

Mentioning to your friends or family you want to replace your roof and rather than giving you contractor #'s they figure out "how many shingles and how much beer it's gonna take to get it done this weekend..." and they do it and will run out of your house like you caught them sleeping with your wife if you try to pay them. That's Yinzer.

- Ryan "Skip" Kennedy

#91 - Hard Selling Pittsburgh

Lone native Pittsburgher among a group of ex-pats from places far and wide, looking forward to the challenge of hard selling Pittsburgh to the skeptical couple of new arrivals.

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#90 - The way things were

Spotting a never noticed lump of steel and twisted
ringlets climbing out of the river
once used to secure economic barges
now rusting and returning from whence they came.

a seldom noticed reminder
of the way things were

A bar top, hands glance across a faded
'est 1984' screened on wood
and a hand wraps around a pint glass
and the mind thinks of these rungs

as hands once wrapped these rungs
while the mind wrapped itself around a pint.

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#89 - Rick Sebak - again

Following random people on Twitter just because Twitter suggests them as similar to Rick Sebak.

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#88 - this fire escape

Escape from a fire. With Style.

 

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#87 - eternity in seconds

Late day sun as it drops faster than any flaming sky orb should be able to, changing, painting, illuminating everything rapidly, an orgy for the eyes that a brain can barely process and the only hope is that your shutter is quick enough to save some of it for later.

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#86 - The Best of Humanity...

It often takes the worst of humanity to bring out the best of humanity.

I had begun to doubt the awesome of Pittsburgh about a week ago; yet another serious incident with a cyclist went down.  After two fatalities, at least one cyclist rehabbing in a wheelchair, and countless others dinged, hit, and scratched, the story of Colin Albright being chased down by a knife wielding road rage dickhead made me question my faith in the burgh.  I even twittered "If Pittsburgh is Americas most livable city, there must be some serious Mad Max shit going on elsewhere."  

I walked, I rode, and I saw things through a murky filter for a few days; but then I saw the love and the positivity that came out to help support Colin and  I realized that one lone sociopath can't bring this City down.

Colin Albright Fundraiser

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