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Posts by Sam:

Pittsburgh Chronicles: Karaoke Showdown at Bob’s Garage

Last updated: Feb 1, 2023   (First published: Sep 23, 1997)

We’ve had the big overview, now for the in-depth experience. Last in the series, I swear. I’d been warned about Bob’s Garage before, how it was a funky little place…

How to Waste a Beautiful Summer

Last updated: Jan 29, 2023   (First published: Jul 2, 1998)

When I was about 12 or 13, the way that I spent my summers suddenly changed. Instead of swimming lessons and bicycle racing and peanut butter sandwiches in the shade, I found myself…

Going With the Flow

Last updated: Jan 29, 2023   (First published: Mar 1, 1997)

When I was a kid, we had a little stream that ran behind our house. I spent hours, sometimes whole days down there mucking around, hunting for crawfish, arranging and…

The Country Squire’s Rambunctious Car Quest

Last updated: Jan 29, 2023   (First published: Feb 2, 1997)

When my latest car quest had me searching deliriously through hot and dusty used-car lots recently, I fell into a rather nasty automotive-type hallucination which, naturally enough, I decided to share with…

Fall is in the Air

Last updated: Jan 19, 2023   (First published: Aug 1, 1999)

The first hint of fall is in the air. It ain’t the frost on the pumpkin and it ain’t the leaves turning hometown brown and orange. It’s the banging of…

What scares me the most…

Last updated: Jul 15, 2020   (First published: Oct 1, 1998)

….about my daughter gettin’ her license is: remembering all the STUPID CRAP I pulled when I first started driving. The car got ‘accidentally’ dented so many times in various parking…