Making room

I changed up the layout a bit around here, so if things are looking a little iffy, try refreshing a few times. It’s still looking a little iffy? …Oh. Awkward. To give proper credit, the fonts are a mix of Conglomerfont and MEgalopolis Extra, and the background was retrieved from Pixels & IceCream. I have these postcards of [...]

Expectations

Fifteen years ago, on the days my grandfather was able to talk me into walking down the towering flight of stairs connecting the hilltop of Mount Oliver to the far corner of 18th and Carson to church, the one thought I always had circling in my mind did not have to do with seeing [...]

Salute

Around the time of the election, as I thought back to the personal websites I’d been reading for years, I made a mental note to myself that the ones I really looked forward to reading had the most incredible staying power. It was as if their blogs were never a decision, but rather, something [...]

STBD

Bello and I make an appearance in this week’s episode of Something to be Desired, a hilarious, Pittsburgh-based web sitcom about life after college. Derrick also shows up towards the end, after a particularly spectacular ninja maneuver by Bello at 4:47. Something to be Desired was the first podcast I subscribed to on iTunes (which [...]

Payback

After a very long day and night of non-sleep and hours of diligent carpet cleaning, Bello is home from the emergency vet and satisfied with the state of his stomach on drugs. As am I. For a five pound animal, you’d be shocked at the metric tons of discharge that had been heaped upon [...]