October 26, 2006

Lie to Me!

Business…here’s why I think it was okay for Doc Rivers to lie through his teeth about Sebastian Telfair.

I greet you today from scenic Belle Vernon, PA.  I’m here to interview Calvin Brock, who’s fighting Wladimir Klitschko next month for the IBF title.  Tonight, I’ll get to watch him spar and do an interview over breakfast tomorrow.  Should be pretty cool.

But goodness gracious, I better make sure I’m full at 10pm.  Cuz this ain’t no 24 hour sort of place.  I’m in the boondocks, baby.

But no joke, this area is really beautiful this time of year.  It’s not witch-tit cold, and the leaves are making a smooth transition from green to orange, with a lovely stop at yellow.  And when you look off the freeway, all you see is trees.  It’s really cool.

Unless you’re looking for a gas station.

The way they keep this place so gorgeous is by moving those obtrusive signs of modernity a few miles off the freeway.  That might be a fair trade if you’re from this place, but not if you’re coming in for a day from North Carolina.  Man, if I was getting gas instead of gum, I might have broken down looking for a BP.  You’ll see the gas station from the freeway, the big towering sign, and then you’ll get off the highway and think you lost your mind.  That was a bit of a hassle.

As were all the dead deer on my hour drive from the airport in Pittsburgh to my room in Belle Vernon.  Unofficial count–four.  And that’s not counting the possums.

Anyway, off to eat.  I think I’ll check out this Eat ‘N Park place Josie keeps talking about.  Or I’ll be a walking stereotype and hit up the Colonel.  New stuff is cool, but I haven’t had one of those biscuits in a while.  That’s good eatin’ right there.

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1. i’m waiting for the backlash on the “lie to me” story

   Comment by ladyB — October 26, 2006 #

2. The way they keep Hawaii gorgeous is to not allow those obtrusive signs in the first place. There is a “No Billboard/Road Sign” law across the state.

   Comment by Rex — October 26, 2006 #

3. Oh, and as for Doc Rivers… There’s nothing wrong with simply saying, “No Comment.” Avoids having to lie.

   Comment by Rex — October 26, 2006 #

4. So I see you addressed the “No Comment” option, but I still feel it was the best thing to go with…

   Sorry for the multiple posts, but there’s no “editing” comments on blogs.

   Comment by Rex — October 26, 2006 #

5. And this differs from North Carolina how, exactly? :-)

   Comment by Kristalogy — October 26, 2006 #

6. eat n’ park welcome to pittsburgh’s perkins

   Comment by Max — October 26, 2006 #

7. WTF is Calvin Brock doing in BELLE VERNON PA. HE MUST be from there.

   As a Pittsburgh Native, allow me to assure you that you are, indeed, in the boondocks.

   Eat N Park is pretty decent. Enjoy the burgh, and avoid sports radio by any means necessary.

   Comment by DP — October 27, 2006 #

8. As a former resident of both “da Burgh” and the Triangle I’ll say this; all Eat N’ Parks remind me of the IHOP on Hillsborough Rd. in Raleigh. Part of a national chain of restaurants, but only nominally. Slight variations of the signature dishes. Kind of like “McDowell’s” from “Coming To America”. Now that I think about it; that IHOP is just shitty.

   Comment by Tommie Foster — October 27, 2006 #

9. Yay, you took my advice about Eat ‘n Park!! If I recall, they have some sort of citrus-y fish thing on their senior citizen menu that I liked. And yes, I did order off of the senior menu.

   Comment by Josie — October 27, 2006 #

10. What, no Ponderosa?

    Pittsburgh used to have Perkins’s here, in addition to the Eat ‘n Park. Perkins was more “upscale”, lol. But ENP has stepped up in the 9 years that I’ve been here.

    Oh, and if you were a kid, they’d give you a free smiley cookie at the end. :-)

    Comment by viciousvamp — October 27, 2006 #

11. Don’t forget to hit up that COKE machine, my man.

    Enjoy the slice of Americana.

    Comment by Jarrett — October 28, 2006 #

12. What did I miss about my fav player, Bassy Telfair?

    ((I have GOT to keep up with the haps…))

    I dedicated a whole post to him on my blogspot in June I think… “31 Reasons Telfair Could Get my Tail.”

    leggs

    Comment by Leggs — November 7, 2006 #

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