Not much, except that Citizen K. happens to like both places.
Late last night while upgrading my iPhone software -- you can tell from this what wild weekends the middle-aged indulge in -- I stumbled across the Rajun' Cajun', KLRZ-FM ("All Louisiana All The Time") and its terrific late night brew of swamp rock, blues, zydeco, and obscure R & B. This morning played all zydeco interrupted for an occasional dedication or exhortation to attend tonight's fais-do-do. Best of all, it's free...
Meanwhile, USA Today has a very nice feature on my mother's home town of Pittsburgh, here. While I admit that the Steel City is not a tourist destination, it's probably the most unappreciated city in the country. As the article points out, Pittsburgh offers everything from high culture to great neighborhoods, significant architecture to sports, and good local dining spots to world class museums. When I was a kid, I figured that every city had a Dinosaur Hall like the one at the Carnegie Museum, and was surprised to discover that it wasn't so...
Don't miss the Pittsburgh Skyline Project here, which features hundreds of photographs taken by professional photographers. One of them is above...
Take It Off Dept.: Remember when commercials could sell good old fashioned Swedish sex without resorting to scantily clad women either mud wrestling or spraying shaving cream all over each other while dressed in fetish wear? Those were the days, my friend:
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Vaquero and I have been planning for ages to take a weekend, or daytrip, to both Philadelphia and to Pittsburgh. They are so accessible by train and by bus. But we never seem to do it, the more fools us.
Hopefully we just may make it over the river via the PATH to Newark, to visit the Yoruba show at the museum before it closes next month. I have informed N that this what I want to do for our anniversary next weekend.
Love, C
I once told my Pittsburgh-native (and booster) uncle that I would like to visit Philly. He waved me away and informed me that "You don't want to go to Philadelphia. There's nothing there that we don't have right here in Pittsburgh."
K, my husband is from Pittsburgh (southern part) and I lived there for nearly 20 years, and I have to tell you your uncle is right. There's no reason to go to Philly! ;-)
On the other hand, Lancaster and the other Amish communities are definitely worth visiting.
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