Pittsburgh Magazine is runnign their Best of Pittsburgh feature…which gives us the perfect opportunity to plug Sally for both “Best TV Personality” and “Best News Team or Anchor.”

Just go to http://www.wqed.org/mag/index.php, scroll to the bottom, and click on the Best of Pittsburgh text to take the survey.  It’s a little long, but it’s worth it!

Show your support for Sally!

Marginal Designs has teamed up with some friends to build and operate a new site: http://www.onlyinpgh.com!  From the about page:

Only In Pittsburgh is a project by and for the citizens of the Steel City, and our aim is to showcase all the quirkiness, splendor and sheer ridiculousness our town has to offer.  We want to capture all that makes Pittsburgh the unique place that it is, ranging from the grandeur of the inclines and the quaintness of a pierogie-making shop to the monstrous potholes in our streets and the questionable fashion sense of our people. In essence, yinz know it when yinz see it.

Where does our content come from? You. We look for pictures on Flickr, post those we’ve taken ourselves and put up other items of interest, but we also depend on you to send in your best shots and observations of the Burgh. If you have a photo or anything else you’d like to share, send it to submit [at] onlyinpgh [dot] com. Please make sure to let us know who to credit it to, your website (if applicable), the location in Pittsburgh, and a caption.

We look forward to hearing from you, and, of course, Go Steelers.

Let us know what you think!

Here are the results from the favorite Pittsburgh landmark poll!

As you can see, the Cathedral of Learning ran away with it, followed by the Downtown Skyline, the Incline(s), and a tie for fourth between the Point and the Smithfield Street Bridge.

Thanks for voting!

Cynthia over at My Brilliant Mistakes is participating in an interesting meme, as seen below:

Leave a comment and I’ll give you a letter. Post ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter.  Then give a letter to anyone who leaves a comment for you… and the cycle will continue.

I commented, and my letter is V…but for some reason I just keep thinking of funny things that start with that letter instead of things I love.  Viagra, for example.  And along those lines, Viva Viagra, a song inexplicably stuck in my head for about 3 days a few weeks back.  The longest days of my life. Ever.

I’m going to take a shot at this, but for anyone brave enough to comment, I’m going to switch it up a little bit.  Instead of receiving a letter and having to write 10 things you love, you will need to write about 10 Pittsburgh-related things that start with that letter.

For example, for my letter V, I would write “Valentine’s Day–specifically the yearly Valentine’s Day Monster Truck Rally at Mellon Arena.”

Come to think of it, that’s also something I love…score.  Onto the ten things I love that start with the letter V:

1. Valentine’s Day: specifically the yearly Valentine’s Day Monster Truck Rally at Mellon Arena.  One of these years I’ll actually convince Christina to go, and that, my friends, will be a good year.
2. Vaunted Defense: i.e., the Steel Curtain.
3. Value:  When it comes down to it, I’m rather thrify.  Flea markets, beware.  And Wiggin shirts for $14.99?  That’s value.  (If my letter had been S, I would have done “Self Promotion”)
4. Verszyla, Jeff:  Come on folks, show Jeff some love on the poll!
5. Vague explanations for things given by people who obviously don’t know what they’re talking about: Hilarious.
6. Vintage clothing: Eons, you have gotten me through some tough times and clothed me when no other clothing would do.
7. Vans: Not in a dirty way, I swear.
8. Visions: At least they seem like something I’d love, depending on the subject matter.  Maybe one day I’ll be cool enough to have one.
9. Val Kilmer: Can’t explain it.  Must be the rugged good looks.  Did anyone else think he was actually a decent Batman?
10. Vats of Goo: Kind of like a Chuck E. Cheese ballpit, but grosser and more dangerous.  Probably would get old after a while, though.  For example:

 

Remember, if you comment, you’ll owe 10 things about Pittsburgh starting with the fateful letter I give you!