Karen reminded us that next Sunday begins the Chinese New
Year 4711, the year of the snake, and she will lead a run, natch, down the
Serpentine, starting at Commonplace Coffee on Forbes. Don't forget to
wear something red. We hope Yi will come and explain everything.
I did my usual run to the run - which unlike you all I only do when I don't actually do the run itself - so I missed the revelation of Tom's mysterious Sunday whereabouts, except that it tends in the Oakland direction. It was a somewhat snowy slog, but winter still has charms, one of which is the miracle of sweating in 15 degrees. Immediately on sitting down to coffee we returned to the topic of local writer David Gershon-Harris and his fascinating profile by Virginia in the PG (scooped here first, please note) and his prize-winning Moth story (as promised) combining trolling for sex and canvassing for votes - no wonder Obama won. Telling funny stories led us to Wendy's recollections of the Squirrel Hill Lapiduss family - with two famous and famously gay sisters continuing to tell them to Hollywood and the world. Continuing down memory lane, we reminisced about our adolescent musical discovery - why always in the basement? - and the ways we all arrived in Pittsburgh, the best of all possible worlds, where things that are not there anymore are still there.
And vat else? Related endorsements:
Restaurants: Ramen Bar, Mongolian Grill, the soon-to-open French Bakery only steps away on Forbes (mouth-watering pastel macarons pictured outside), e2 and its Sunday Sauce event (RG to go in April?)
Movie: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Songs we still know the lyrics to: Rocky Raccoon, American Pie, Age of Aquarius
Yoga: Inner Hearth (on Reynolds), Mookshi Wellness Center (above Biddle's Escape), and to prove that the whole yoga world has arrived in Pittsburgh - a Yoga Expo on the 17th.
Future re-opening of the Fountain at the Point, closed since 2009!, at the 3 Rivers Arts Festival this summer
I did my usual run to the run - which unlike you all I only do when I don't actually do the run itself - so I missed the revelation of Tom's mysterious Sunday whereabouts, except that it tends in the Oakland direction. It was a somewhat snowy slog, but winter still has charms, one of which is the miracle of sweating in 15 degrees. Immediately on sitting down to coffee we returned to the topic of local writer David Gershon-Harris and his fascinating profile by Virginia in the PG (scooped here first, please note) and his prize-winning Moth story (as promised) combining trolling for sex and canvassing for votes - no wonder Obama won. Telling funny stories led us to Wendy's recollections of the Squirrel Hill Lapiduss family - with two famous and famously gay sisters continuing to tell them to Hollywood and the world. Continuing down memory lane, we reminisced about our adolescent musical discovery - why always in the basement? - and the ways we all arrived in Pittsburgh, the best of all possible worlds, where things that are not there anymore are still there.
And vat else? Related endorsements:
Restaurants: Ramen Bar, Mongolian Grill, the soon-to-open French Bakery only steps away on Forbes (mouth-watering pastel macarons pictured outside), e2 and its Sunday Sauce event (RG to go in April?)
Movie: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Songs we still know the lyrics to: Rocky Raccoon, American Pie, Age of Aquarius
Yoga: Inner Hearth (on Reynolds), Mookshi Wellness Center (above Biddle's Escape), and to prove that the whole yoga world has arrived in Pittsburgh - a Yoga Expo on the 17th.
Future re-opening of the Fountain at the Point, closed since 2009!, at the 3 Rivers Arts Festival this summer
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