The Pittsburgh Mayoral election is over now, so we can all go back to looking for 50% off Halloween candy at Wally World. Luke was elected, so nothing has changed, right?? Wrong! Much has changed with Dok Harris and Kevin Acklin having run.  They captured enough of a percentage for Pittsburghers to say “we notice and want people working out of the box” loud and clear. Now we get to see: If the Mayor can gain enough respect to stop people from calling him names like Opie (SWB) and... Read Full Story

Capture from That’s Church … click it to go there. Well, we’re a bit late on giving a shout out to Pitt Girl’s (Virginia Montanez) new site. Hopefully you’ve already found it, but if you have not, or are new to Pittsburgh – click on the picture above. It’s great that Pitt Girl is “out” …. not in the way you think, but the fact that she no longer has the need to hide behind an identity. This gives both men and women the inspiration ... Read Full Story

Capture from City Paper’s “Street Wise” article. Click it to go to the City Paper article. SWB just wanted to highlight another one of the excellent articles that The Pittsburgh City Paper has been putting out lately. It’s about Dok Harris and Kevin Acklin going back to the basics of appealing to the actual voters personally for their votes. Hmmmm … amazing how going back to the simple things actually works. Now, since neither of these guys is a typical politic... Read Full Story

… if you read the article from Yahoo, you’ll get where the post title came from. Now, there seems to be a whole new wave of extortionists showing up. The latest training camps must have let out. Along with glorifying crimes and adultery, etc …. the more and more these things happen, the more they become accepted and “normal”. Everyone will say the economy is the main basis for it, but SWB disagrees. I think we as humans, are just losing complete respect for each... Read Full Story

… who? The terminator? The Back Street Boys? Kanye West’s career? Nope …. none of the above. The leaves … those wonderful leaves we all so treasure when the seasons change? Yep, that’s it. Unfortunately, this year they also brought the G-20, protesters, and construction debris. So what do we have to rake up this season? As far as SWB can tell: Opie’s popcorn in the media room at Snoop Dogg’s house Shards of glass within the normal level of street lit... Read Full Story

Yep, you guessed it by the pic … fall is quite quickly on it’s way. (BTW – isn’t it interesting how simple words like “quite quickly” when put together make you sound like you have some command of the English language??). It’s time to get the leaf rake out, pull the fish and frogs out of the pond (if you do that), find your kid that fall / winter coat, and go back to supporting your local Starbucks (personally I support local companies like Crazy Moc... Read Full Story

Well, some good news today: With a slight bit of issue, my Limoncello project worked out well. Unfortunately I used too much water for the simple syrup, so it freezes … but you learn for the next time. What does this have to do with the G-20? Absolutely nothing, except I wanted to see if the combination would get me a few international hits … or maybe a few of the visiting leaders that like Limoncello will find my blog and contract me to make it for them. Anyway, back to some typ... Read Full Story

For all those on the negative side of our city (the ones that whine about the big companies being gone, the steel industry being gone, etc.) you need to read the blog entry on Pittsburgh’s Future by Harold D. Miller at the following link. The Steel City Transformed The info in the post is also excellent for those that would like to highlight our city to the folks that are here for the G20. -SWB Kudos to Harold for the enlightening article! Posted in Article/Blog, awards, business, colum... Read Full Story

Just a quick note for readers and people we haver referring links to … we discovered our link list widget and some other widgets were no it was longer active on our website.  We didn’t take them off, that was courtesy of WordPress.  They are now restored. Thanks -SWB Posted in alerts Tagged: screaming weasel blog, seb, srcreaming weasel, swb links Read Full Story

Q. How do you put a scar on the music industry (and probably young inner-city artists trying to make it)? A. You let Kanye West within 5 miles of any music awards show. If you missed his latest self – P.R. effort, Click Here for the Yahoo! article. At this point, if Kanye says he doesn’t need some serious professional help, that’s about equivalent to a mom driver her child to daycare while sucking down a bottle of grain alcohol. The dumbest person on earth could easily figur... Read Full Story