Oh no, I didn't mean to imply that Miller High Life wasn't the sudsy and delicious champagne of beers! (It so is!) Just that for a place with such a booming craft beer culture, it sure is disproportionately expensive compared to what Pgh prices for things usually are.

Shadyside Market District's beer selection isn't too bad considering the size constraints. You can definitely get any of the tasty standbys as well as some of the fun craft beer frills. I hear a lot about D's Six Pax, but I live JUST far enough away from Regent Square that I haven't talked myself into going there yet.…

Yeah, the Shadyside one is at the corner of Negley and Centre, which I believe is in that general Highland area? I'm in walking distance (hooray!) so I don't pay attention to the street names as much, haha.

I AM in Pittsburgh! :D I know for a fact the Shadyside Market District has a beer area—they even have growlers now! Only catch is that you have to pay for it separately from your groceries at the special beer counter, but that is an inconvenience I will cheerfully suffer through for a six-pack. And I believe the Giant…

BEER DISTRIBUTORS! The bane of my existence! I finally found one that isn't the worst in the world, but I STILL don't need an entire pallet of Magic Hat #9.

I went to college in West Virginia before moving up to Pennsylvania. In college, I thought absolutely nothing of going to 7-11 at 4am and getting a 40 and a lotto ticket or picking up wine at the CVS. Heck, in the particular WV town I lived in, the Rite Aid was also the liquor store. Imagine my disappointment when I…

I have been through this McDonald's drive thru because sometimes I get out of Trader Joe's and I need some french fries. It is the shadiest McDonald's ever. The dining room is never open. Like, we'd try to get in at like 7:00, and there's clearly people in there, and the drive thru is working, but all of the doors are…

Oh man, I'm 5'1" and used to deal with this ALL THE TIME in middle and high school. Luckily, I have managed in college and beyond to surround myself with people who are respectful of my boundaries and height difference, but I feel like that might be a double-edged sword, because I honestly think I'd be too shocked to…

I saw something the other day on Zagat that was asking 24 chefs and foodies what restaurant was currently topping their bucket list to go visit. There were two women on that list, and only one of them was a chef. (The other was a Zagat food blogger.)

That, and Eddie Murphy was at the top of his game when that movie was made. Plot, schmot. I will watch 80s Eddie Murphy ALL DAMN DAY.

Couldn't even tell you. Just remember awkward floppy dongs and not making eye contact with my dad on the ride home. That sounds about right though. :)

My dad and I made it a point to go see all the football movies that came out when I was growing up, which was mostly nice. "Remember the Titans", "The Replacements", whee! So when "Any Given Sunday" hit the theaters, when I was about 12 or so, not a thought was given about it. We were going to go see the football…

They're like the royal couple of Pittsburgh. (As far as I'm concerned.) THIS IS THE WORST.

I could get behind a "just coffee" line where it's just like a kiosk in the corner of the coffee shop where you give an employee money in exchange for a cup which you then fill up like in one of those coffee pump thermos things and then grab a lid and peace out. The library at my college campus had a similar set up,…

Oh my god, YES. I hate it when people who KNOW they're in zone 3 or whatever go crowd the gate way ahead of time. More than once, I've thought they were in line and politely queued up behind them, and after a few minutes of waiting for them to move forward, when I had the EFFIN' AUDACITY to ask them if they were even…

When my family was stationed in Japan, the PX and Commissary didn't use pennies. Instead, they would round your total to the nearest $0.05 (up OR down, very fair) and it was basically the best. THE BEST. That's a year's worth of pennies I didn't have to pick up off of my floor before vacuuming. YES.

Or "Directress". But seriously, just no. :)

Directrix, if we're following the "aviator"-"aviatrix", "dominator"-"dominatrix", etc. model. But I am personally fine with defaulting to the "or" ending as a unisex catch-all word. (Although "Directrix" would look pretty boss on some business cards.)

That about sums up my feelings re: the sucky, sucky residue of the women-as-trophies nonsense. Get it, Jasmine.

An emphatic fist pump for Flann O'Brien! He's one of my favorites, the The Third Policeman is just amazing and bonkers. :)