I love it when The Onion makes fun of Pittsburgh. “Make fun of” isn’t totally accurate, because I sense a fondness for the city.
Some of my favorites include “Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared for Full-Scale Zombie Attack” and “PNC Park Threatens to Leave Pittsburgh Unless Better Team is Built.“
In the latest issue, though, there is one that I think sort of misses the mark: it’s “Steelers Jersey Worn to Pirates Game.” The Onion generally walks the line between deadpan humor—more or less describing things as they are, thereby playing up their absurdity—and more overt jokes. This one falls too far on the side of outright observation: Pittsburghers wear Steelers jerseys all the time! If you live in Pittsburgh, you’ll have to read deep into the article for the “joke” part of it (that the subject of the article brings a Terrible Towel and a “Cleveland Sucks” sign (which is a nice touch on the part of the writer), and starts a “Here we go Steelers” chant).
My fussiness aside, I like the accuracy of this depiction of Pittsburgh sports culture. Good one, Onion.
In other news, yesterday’s pizza-baking experiment was a qualified success. I stupidly used a pizza tray that had a number of holes in the bottom, with the result that the pizza sort of fused with the tray, making it very hard to cut and remove a slice. Live and learn, I guess. But it looks pretty much like a pizza, and tastes quite good.
In yet other news, I reversed my ordinary protocol today and did my fiction writing prior to blogging. I think this may be the way to go, rather than using the blog as a warm-up; I tend to rush through the blogging, and besides that I think these are two different writing “muscles,” and blogging is less of a warm-up than I’d thought.
Anyway, I’ll be back with anything interesting that happens.
