That's Church

1.  Giant Eagle Get Go’s are selling a seasonal pumpkin spice-flavored coffee.  It’s not the most disgusting thing I’ve ever tasted. But it certainly is no crack-laced, rainbows and heaven in a cup Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice latte.

2.  Hah!

Suck it, Seattle.

3.   Who said it:

“This is fantastic — loops and loops of bowels!”

A.  A lunatic

B.  A lunatic named Cyril Wecht

C.  Ew.

Sorry, I can’t even finish this quiz. 

That body separated into muscular and skeletal systems is the grossest thing I’ve seen since Benny’s face.

My refusal to see this exhibit has nothing to do with ethics and everything to do with tossing cookies.

4.  Smoking Hot Burgher Matt Lamanna continues to put the Carnegie Museum of Natural History on the map. (h/t Jill)

5.   David Conrad is doing a Christmas concert at the Carnegie Library in Homestead.  This is because he rocks.  Did I tell you guys this already?  When we met, I asked him if he came home to Pittsburgh to relax and just get away from life and he said it is quite the opposite.  Working on a television series in LA is filled with lots of sitting around doing nothing.  When he’s home in the Burgh, he says his calendar is absolutely insane, usually with charity work.  How can you not love this guy? (h/t Bethany)

6.   State Representative Sean Logan?

“We didn’t know about any of this. That’s what angers me so much,” Mr. Logan said. “He did not inform the board about what was going on, he withheld information from the board and he went against what the board wanted and now he has to go.”

Yeah, I have a question.  Isn’t it your responsibility as chairman of the board to look over financials on a regular basis and to understand what the heck is going on at PHEAA?

You had no idea that the entire staff of PHEAA spent the day at Hershey Park?

Seven million dollars in executive and staff bonuses didn’t even blip the radar of a single board member?  If that’s true, you need to resign, too.

And if I were pinching pennies to put a kid through college and read that PHEAA spent over $7 million on staff bonuses … cow?  Had.

What are you guys doing this weekend? Wait. No. What I meant to say is let me tell you what you guys are doing this weekend.

First, tonight, you’re going to head to the Harris Theatre to catch In Service.

In Service is a multi-media production detailing the experiences in first-person of Iraqi war veterans from Pittsburgh. The trailer is absolutely intriguing and I encourage you to watch it.

Now here’s the deal. This war is controversial. The Burgh Blog is not. The Burgh Blog rocks. Yo. This production is reportedly historical and not political (if I find it to be political, there’s a few people’s whose asses I’m going to kick.)

That said, your opinion on the war should have absolutely no bearing on your willingness to listen to every story a soldier will tell … stories from those soldiers that support the war and stories from those soldiers that question it.

Your opinion on the war should have absolutely no bearing on your willingness to listen to their stories of the desert, the heat, the fear, the pride, the fight, and the sacrifice.

That’s why I’ll be seeing In Service.

Then tomorrow?

MOVIE TIME!

Adventureland is casting extras at Kennywood tomorrow and Sunday. Adventureland is being directed by the same guy that directed Superbad and is set in 1987. That means if you want to be in the movie, you need to get some 80′s gear together.

Adventureland stars Ryan Reynolds. You’ll be on a movie set with this fine piece of ass. (Do you think it objectifies men when I refer to them as fine pieces of ass? Deal with it. It’s not like I get mad when someone calls me a fine piece of ass.)

Go here to read everything you need to know.

Also? I bet when the producers were trying to figure out where to film Adventureland, they asked, “What city can we film in that would get us hundreds of extras that would not have to dig that far down to find their 80′s wardrobe?”

Pittsburgh! Bust out the AquaNet, baby!

(h/t Julie Gong)