A Question for the Dynamic Duo

It seems like about this time every year just as hundreds of thousands of bloated pasty middle class American families are packing into their oversized SUVs making their annual pilgrimage to one of a handful of overly commercialized beaches the air waves are suddenly polluted with horrific accounts of blood thirsty sharks terrorizing the US coast. If you listen to the latest CNN Headline News report you'd think that every sorry bastard that stumbles into the Gulf of Mexico returns at least a limb short. So in response to this media driven non-problem a crack team of scientists has developed the "first" shark repellent. When I first saw this report on World News Tonight I accepted it as fact ( always a mistake when watching network news)
Then just this evening I was watching a TV show were they played a clip of the 1966 Batman movie and suddenly it hit me! Batman Had A Working Shark Repellent in 1966 that was 39 years ago! Now I'm a big fan of The Batman but I think someone has to ask What else is he hoarding in that cave? Who knows what scientific marvels are hidden in the caverns below stately Wayne Manner. I think it's time a certain member of the Justice League of America comes forward and contributes more to society than just the apprehension of the occasional super-villain.

Batman we appreciate you saving the world and beating the crap out of the Riddler
Just answer me one question Is a cure for Monkey Pox too much to ask? You know you have it sitting in the back of the cave. Come on Baty share the love

peace out yo

Exhibit A.: Batman uses his Bat-Shark Repellent ( 1966)



Exhibit B: Scientists Test New Shark Repellent (2005)

And So It Begins

As promised in my January 24 post An Immaculate Reflection I'm taking a trip to Latrobe for Steeler training camp. I've given my employer my 1 month notice so apart from the week I'm on vacation ( the aug 6- 12 ) I'm open for a trip to Camp Cower on just about any day. Below is the camp schedule look it over and let me know what you think

Tuesday, August 2: Open Practice 3 p.m.
Wednesday, August 3: Open Practice 3 p.m.
Thursday, August 4: Open practice 3 p.m.
Friday, August 5: Open practice 3 p.m.
Saturday, August 6: Open practice 12:15 p.m.
Sunday, August 7: NO practice
Monday, August 8: Open practice 3 p.m.
Tuesday, August 9: Open practice 3 p.m.
Wednesday, August 10: Night practice at Latrobe High School
Thursday, August 11: Open practice 3 p.m.
Friday, August 12: Open practice 3 p.m.
Saturday, August 13: Open practice 12:15 p.m.
Sunday, August 14: Closed practice
Monday, August 15: Steelers vs. Philadelphia
Tuesday, August 16: NO practice
Wednesday, August 17: Open practice 3 p.m.
Thursday, August 18: Open practice 3 p.m.
Friday, August 19: Closed practice
Saturday, August 20: Steelers vs. Miami 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 21: No practice
Monday, August 22: Open practice 3 p.m.
Tuesday, August 23: Open practice 3 p.m.
Wednesday, August 24: Open practice 3 p.m.
Thursday, August 25: Team breaks camp (closed)
Friday, August 26: Steelers at Washington 8 p.m.

Afternoon workouts run from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. at St. Vincent College in Latrobe. The campus opens at 1:30 p.m. when there is a 3 p.m. practice. Bad weather could cancel practice. The practice schedule could change without notice

here we go Steelers, peace out yo

Stop Drop and Roll Baby!

So I was fixing one of our screwed up gas pumps at work this morning when I saw a van enveloped in billowing smoke come flying down the street. At the last moment the driver made a sharp skidding turn into our parking lot and pulled up to a gas pump. The driver, a teenage girl, stepped out of the van through the cloud that surrounded her vehicle and asked me..."Do you think it's ok to put gas in a smoking car?" I replied... " I probably wouldn't . Then again I also try to avoid prolonged stays in the hospital burn ward" she responded "ok, thanks" in a cheery tone. Before I could say anything else she hopped back in the van and sped off

Hey Remero, Turn Off the Fence, This City Deserves It

it's about 3 am and since i have to leave for work around 6 i guess sleep is a little out of the question. the reason i'm up so late? well, i went to a late showing of george a. remero's latest gore filled zombie extravaganza Land of the Dead.

Before i get down to what i do best ( writing lousy movie reviews that no one with half a brain would listen to) I have to diverge from this rather cheery post to say something else

Biz I'm sorry, leave it to the backwards idiots we share this town with to ruin one of the
few great things to emerge from the steel city in the last twenty years ( and no i don't
count michael keaton and dennis miller among them) if i had realized what was
going on i would have gladly switched seats with you so you didn't have to endure
those rejects doing their very poor impression of mystery science theatre 3000.
but alas, i have a tendency to be completely oblivious to my surroundings and i had
no idea what was going on. i know this movie meant a lot to you and i can't even
imagine what it would have been like if someone had done that to me during the
lord of the rings movies. the only words of advice i have is; try to think of what serge
would do in this situation. and if this line of thinking leads you to the hardware store
on a "supply run" i'll be more than happy to assist in the construction of whatever
device you devise to destroy those little bastards. and as always if the police are
asking for an alibi i'm more than happy to provide one of those as well. "No Officer
She couldn't have killed those punks by making them watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith 17
times in a row, she was hangen with me"

Right, with that said lets get back to what's really important, flesh eating zombies !
Since it's now nearly 4am and i'm finding hard to string together a coherent paragraph i guess i'll have to go back to my faithful companion The List Post

- Land takes place in a post-zombie invasion world where one of the few remaining bastions of human society is pittsburgh, surrounded by rivers on two sides and a giant "jurassic park-style" electric fence on the other. I've come to the realization that the only possible way to convince people to stay in the city is to blow up the bridges, build a giant electric fence, and surround the whole thing with zombies. even then the main characters are willing to risk thousands of miles of zombie waistland on the way canada rather that staying here.


- why am i not surprised that pittsburghers, even when they're in a state of decomposition, still drop everything to watch fireworks. this town is so obsessed with them it only makes sense that zombie fighting mercenaries would utilize them as a distraction. in the movie the zombies eventually stop falling for this clever ruse as they become more intelligent . I however have a different theory for the living dead's reaction, the mercenaries probably ran out of Zambelli fireworks. Pittsburghers will only accept the best when it comes to colorful explosions in the sky.

- for years public officials have been trying to raise funds to build a tunnel under the allegheny river to the north shore. i personally have always considered this a stupid, useless, and very expensive idea. romero incorporated this idea in his script and after seeing the potential of this tunnel during a zombie holocaust i am willing to reconsider my position on this project.

- finally, i was amused to see that the lead zombie in this flick was in fact a full service gas station attendant( my curent form of employment). but this leaves a very large hole in the credibility of the story. The main zombie is supposedly evolving into some form of advanced "thinkin zombie". I've met a lot of people that hang out in gas stations and i'm not sure that some of them have evolved into homo sapiens yet. i consider their ability to lead a zombie revolt sketchy at best.

ok well it's getting close to 5 am and i should probably shower before i go to work so this post should probably come to an end.

remember a good crack to the head will put an end to any living dead you find shuffling around the back yard

peace out yo

20 Days, A New Record in Laziness

So what happens when you don't update your website for nearly three weeks?



Well apart from causing people to curse your name on a regular basis as they repeatedly go to your site and find no change you also gain an amazing amount of free time. What do you do with that time? Well, The Traveling Proudfoot ticker has gone from 5 miles 0 nights to 54 miles 2 nights. Last week I took a quick bike trip and I got back from a backpacking trip very late last night. To be honest with you the only reason I took the time to update now is because hiking has left me too sore to do anything else. So I've prescribed a strict regiment of napping, video games, and other activities that require the movement of my fingers only.



That brings me to the pics I posted below. We stayed at a free camp site along the Yough near the old Dravo Cemetery. The group that maintains the campsite and trail also takes care of the Cemetery. So since we didn't plan on walking until 9:00 Saturday night we offered to help with their project for the day. - Actually we decided to help because the "work crew" they sent out looked like they were about twenty minutes away for taking up residence in the Cemetery they were working in. The youngster of the group looked like he couldn't have been a day younger than 67- So the work crew informed us that the job for the day was filling in old collapsed graves! They gave us shovels,pointed us to an enormous pile of dirt, and said they'd check back in a few hours. Now some people would have spread the dirt and walked away maintaining the sanctity of our ancestors burial ground but I wouldn't be caught dead (pun intended)with people that wouldn't seize this opportunity.


I immediately grabbed my camera and took a few shots then realized we had an audience of bikers moving past us on the trail. So we made sure we gave them a nice view of us "digging up" old graves while looking over our shoulders and acting as suspicious as possible.



that's about it for now, more posts to come soon I promise


peace out yo

Ah yes grave robery, one of my favorite summer activties.

Officer there's a bunch of kids with shovels in the old graveyard.

I've never met a jagged rocky cliff I didn't like.