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Log: Pittsburgh Alexander Graham Bell Christmas Extravaganza
2005-12-24 � 6:48 p.m.

Hello Everyone,

I hope you all enjoyed those pictures of people and their deer.

Oh and MERRY CHRISTMAS to my fellow Jesus lovers. Word.

Last weekend Katie and I went to Columbus to pick up Jenny and then Cincinnati to see Over the Rhine. It was fantastic. 2 long encores. Praise Jesus. Nothing log worthy really happened except for 5 minutes in Peninsula, Ohio we were stuck behind a train engine and car that had been turned into a car. It was very slow.

Here is a brief log from Katie and I trip to Pittsburgh to see JDo and then quickly to Athens to go to the FNS Christmas Party. I know it is short but it was worth it. Some Gold is in there. Holla

Log: Pittsburgh Alexander Graham Bell Christmas Extravaganza

Recorded by Captain Jessica

Thursday, 22 December 2005

7:44 pm � After enjoying a delightful dinner at The Sharp Edge, we (me, KT and JDo) are now on our way to Alexander Graham Bell Caf� and Bar.
7:45 pm � We pass a store named Sweats and Thangs
7:47 pm � We turn onto Shady Dr. This is asking for trouble.
7:51 pm � There is a road actually named Amazing Kids Way.
7:53 pm � Shady Drive makes an almost 90 degree right turn and if you go straight, you are on a different road. This happened to us. See? SHADY SHADE SHADE. I told you. Nothing but trouble.
8:15 pm � We are at Alexander Graham Bell Caf� and Bar. There are telephones at every table surprisingly enough. Also we have learned that is Pittsburgh�s number one karaoke bar.
9:40 pm � Kevin has joined us. He is delightful. I have to note that a waitress/bartender went into the handicap bathroom ten minutes ago wearing normal looking clothes and has just come out again. She is now dressed in a skin tight, short, sluttish Mrs. Santa Claus outfit, with hat.
9:50 pm � the other waitress/bartender has changed into a similar outfit. Like this picture on the right http://www.nucliawaste.com/outfits2.html but a lot tighter and on a female.
10:42 pm � there is this kid who is wearing over distressed jeans. It is making me distressed having to look at them. It seriously looks like somebody took a cheese grater to them. You know that one side with the huge ass holes that you never use b/c it would make your cheese in such large shreds that it might just be easier to just a knife to cut it into chunks and not risk cutting off your fingers in the large holes of that part of the grater.

Friday, 23 December 2005

12:07 am � Katie and JDo have sang Shoop for Karaoke, Kevin has sang some Johnny Cash Song and JDo and Kevin sang Love Shack, and Katie sang Did I Shave My Legs for This? . Everyone did a wonderful job. I was not bold enough to get my slip in before they already did not have enough time for everyone who wanted to sing to ding.
12:29 am � This girl is excitedly yelling at this guy (karaoke name Spike, who liked Katie's shoes) about how she hasn�t seem him for a year and why hasn�t he called her (I think by this action we know why he has not called her). Anyway at every jump her voice gets louder and higher and her butt closer and closer to our table, particularly to Katie.
12:31 am � The excited girl has gotten so close that her butt kept bumping into Katie as she sat distressed in her chair. Then the girl turned around and said �I am sorry I rubbed my ass on you! I am normally not like this!�
12:32 am � this really drunk guy, who�s karaoke name was Moon Dog, and whose real name we believe was Trevor, came over to our table for the 2nd time and told us happy holidays. He is now claiming he saw JDo on Wheel of Fortune today, as he invades Katie and Kevin�s personal space.
12:41 am � Some lady named Debbie is singing My Give A Damn is Busted.
12:49 am � This tattooed guy (karaoke name Spike) who has been scamming on Katie the whole evening is making out sloppily with his elbow.
12:52 am � Moon Dog comes and tells us this joke �What happens when two west Virginians make love? Relative Humidity�
1:01 am � JDo is dancing with Moon Dog. She continues to push him at a safe distance. Good call.
1:06 am � the guy we have been hoping would sing Karaoke all night has just sang a song. First lets describe him. Blonde Bowl cut sorta like this http://www.craigallencomedy.com/1985.jpg but 48ish not twelve, mustache sorta like this http://www.firstcoastnews.com/assetpool/images/0537123252_ap_bolton.jpg but still blonde, plain black tee-shirt covering considerable stomach, tucked into black jeans, with nerdy black Velcro sneakers. He sang Young MC�s One Hit wonder Bust A Move. What is amazing is not his appearance and the genre of song he sang, but that he did not look at the monitor once. He had every single word memorized. He did not miss one word. AMAZING. And entertaining.
1:08 am � Moon Dog tried to dance with Katie.
1:15 am � Moon Dog tried to dance with me.
1:17 am � Katie and JDo just came back from the bathroom. They have informed me that the drunk lady who may be a prostitute as well as Moon Dog�s date was in the bathroom. When they entered, she was standing holding the sink because it fell off the wall and water was coming out of the wall where it had been. She said something about how she had a sink at home too and this never happened there and �Oh fuck, I just don�t want to get fucked for this�
1:19 am � Moon Dog�s lady came back out the bathroom, Jessi informs the DJ that the sink in the ladies bathroom is on the floor.
1:30-1:33 am � All four of us sing loudly along with the person singing The Greatest Love of All. Katie and JDo do hand movements
1:34 am � JDo and Katie stand up and continue the hand movements, the middle aged ladies at the table next to us are greatly amused by this.
1:35 am � �Merry Fuckin� Christmas!� � Katie
1:37 am � someone is singing som jive song and one of the lyrics is Chomp. Katie and I say in unison �wtf is a chomp� then we imprivise the rest of the song using mostly the chomp. Things like oh my chomp, love the chomp etc.

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