Pittsburgh Heritage

It's come to my attention that people are wondering why I haven't written more about Pittsburgh. The heritage I have with Pittsburgh is this: I spent the summer of 1992 in Pittsburgh, as a sixteen-year-old kid. I was doing the Carnegie Mellon pre-college program for drama. I happened to be a year younger than everyone else there. What I learned that summer was simple: I was a reasonable actor, nothing special, but possibly an extraordinary writer. By the time I got to State College in 1994, I was a philosophy major. Then, a long break, even if I did meet a number of people who became my friends in State College from Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh burbs. In 2004, I was included in the classic, Pittsburgh-based initial issue of Cake Train, ed. Donna Weaver. Then, another break. The Beehive in Oakland was a hangout place for many of us in the summer of '92. I saw Blue Velvet there for the first time. Even as I can always boast that through having done Philadelphia, State College, and Pittsburgh, P.F.S. has the state of Pennsylvania covered, on some kind of el bizarro reconnaissance level. So, there it is. The perks of being a state-hogger.