#1 Schwenneker

Another member of our greater OPP community has just discovered that we came in first when Googling "schwenneker video". Yay!

Schwenneker Video

One of our peeps from the greater OPP community has informed us of video footage of Schwenneker doing what he does best. Come back Don (aka Big Weather)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SarullYeFU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVUabgZjqlQ

Come back Don (aka Big Weather)!

Breaking News!

This just in...

It appears that Don's last name is spelled with 2 Ns, as Schwenneker. This makes me sad again. But I'm still happy because at least if you Google "don schweneker news", we still come up first.

Yay.

Go topless to gain viewership

Those among us who shall remain nameless is a little obsessed with this man:

Why? Why you ask should a man (great player) ever take off his shirt purely to increase viewship of his show? I don't know. What is this world becoming?

Breaking News: Wait a Tick

Breaking News! This just in...

It appears that our blog comes up in 3rd place when Googling just "don schweneker" (case not sensitive!)

High Five Yall!

(Disclaimer: the female in the picture is not affiliated with Operations Pudding Pop, aka OPP. Her shocking face was discovered and subsequently retrieved from Google Images. Any request for her name, phone number, or zodiac sign will be denied.)

Google "don schweneker news" (case sensitive)

It's been over a year since our last post, and don't yall get too excited, I'm only posting because of this exciting Operation Pudding Pop, don schweneker news.

Appearantly mr. schweneker has moved to Chicago earlier this year. That's sad because I've only noticed that fact this week. I guess I'm not that observant afterall.

In any case, exciting news for our Operation Pudding Pop fans, we came up first in Google's search for "don schweneker news", and yes, it is case sensitive. And just so you know, we didn't offer anyone at Google for putting us first for this search. It is purely fate that we have and continue to do so.

So, keep Googling "don schweneker news" everyone because don needs you and we need you, and don knows how to make pierogies.

Which one would you? Bush or Rove?

A Wedding on Saturday

Well... I went to the wedding of a co-worker yesterday. It was nice and it was fun. I took a whole bunch of pictures at the wedding and reception. Many of them are somewhat standard for wedding photos but they're pretty good as a whole. I thought you might like one of my favorites as an example to post here:


(Click the img for a larger version)


Oh... and it was noted that the way Jen had her hair done made her look very Pam-like for her wedding. It was cute. (I just said "cute" - aargh!)

St. Patty's Day!

The pics are coming! The pics are coming!

But until then, here's a pic posted on one of our local news station websites:

The Poor Man's

I'm not making this up, check out what Perez posted earlier:

Most of the Mustard Family is Good

Yes, yellow mustard is nasty. On the other hand, wasabi is in the mustard family and wasabi is awesome.

Maybe baby #2 for Brady?

Rumors have it that Tom Brady's current girlfriend Giselle is preggers with his baby.

Tom's ex Bridgette is already 4-month pregnant, and Giselle may be 2-month.

That's means some time before November, Brady may have 2 babies!!! He must be one horny bastard!

But what we should be concerned about is "who's gonna have the cuter baby?"

It's been awhile

Sorry, no new material from me except:

I LOVE JCREW!!!

Apricots & Pomegranates

I think the Steelers made the right decision in letting Joey Porter go, but I really am going to miss the element of crazy that he brought to every game. If you live in Pittsburgh and are a Comcast customer, you should really watch the Steelers 24/7 coverage on OnDemand. Those shows have given me some good laughs over the years, none of them more than "A Day in the Life...Joey Porter," when he took viewers on a tour of his old neighborhood to show that his life hadn't all been "peaches'n'cream" but that at some points it had been "apricots and pomegranates." Apricots and pomegranates! Who says that kind of stuff? Joey Porter, that's who.

The Real Deal with the Penguins

As I am sure that you all are aware of the Penguins are talking about relocating to another city because they feel that they have reached a negotiating stalemate with city and state officials. What I don't get is why are so many Pittsburghers only mad at the city and not with the Penguins leadership? The city wants to keep them here but the Penguins are holding out for more money or whatever it is they want. They should consider themselves lucky to have such a loyal and devoted fan base even after many crapticular seasons.

So, if anyone from the Pens is reading this stay in Pittsburgh! After all we "Don't want to be like Cleveland".

On a personal note, I can't stand Mario. He's whiny and selfish and wouldn't play during the regular season but then went off and played for team Canada, won a gold medal and came back and didn't play. If the Pens leave, I will find him personally responsible.

Bizarre Cluelessness

I hesitate to even admit this. This morning I realized that there is a rather obvious reference that I've known as long as I can remember. The bizarre part is that I never realized what it meant until this morning.

It goes like this... as I was getting ready for work this morning the old drinking song, "Roll Out the Barrel" popped into my head. [I have no idea why this song popped into my head as I was putting socks on but that's a whole issue of its own and I don't have that kind of time.] Anyway... it suddenly occurred to me that the "barrel" was a keg of beer. Why wouldn't I have understood this before? Maybe it's just that I've known the song since I was young enough that I simply thought it would be fun to roll a barrel around. I don't know.

Maybe I shouldn't have admitted this.

How do they know????

Thanks to my class schedule, I am hardly ever home on Monday nights. So why is it that the times that I am home, the episodes of "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a half men" are repeats of the episodes I caught last time I was home on a Monday night? Why, God, why???? (shaking fist)

Also, has anybody else watched this new show with Patrick Warburton (AKA Putty) and David Spade called "Rules of Engagement"? It's on about the time I get home from class so as of late it's the only thing I catch on Monday nights. I'm not real picky about my TV, but this show is not very funny. The younger, engaged couple played by some chick and Goldie Hawn's son make me want to hit my head against the coffee table which is sad because the dude is super hot and I'd like to watch him but I can't because I'm so darn busy cringing at their lack of comedic timing and chemistry.

Continuing My Recent Terse Negativity

USA Today changed the format and layout of their website the other day. The new layout sucks.

Local News

There are all kinds of things I can say about local news. I'm usually a Channel 2 person, but lately Channel 4 has been bringing me great pleasure. Some of the stories they report on (the turkey problem in Shadyside, viewers' snow pictures) are so insipid they give me pause to reevaluate my own life and consider how well it is going compared to the lives of the tools who report these kind of stories for a living. Ouch! I say this in love, though, as anybody who knows me well knows my love for local news anchors.

That being said, today during lunch at an undisclosed location in Oakland (which I can't reveal lest the paparazzi show up for pictures of the OPP staff), I was excited to see none other than Channel 4's diva divine, Sally Wiggin. After some further investigation on the Channel 4 web site I discovered that she and several of her fellow co-anchors have their own blogs. I mean, they'll give a blog to anybody these days....Seriously. And of course, Don Schweneker's post today is a recipe for pierogies. Of course it is.

Who Freakin' Cares?

Scheisse! The people of the city of Pittsburgh has this chip on its shoulder about any time someone bad mouths it. I don't understand it.

Here's the point: some tarty little trollop who was here to film a movie made some negative comments last year and it caused a huge stir. Everyone in the city was upset, annoyed, or outraged.
At the time, people were saying things like, "Can you believe what Sienna Miller said about Pittsburgh?" to which I would reply, "Who the hell is Sienna Miller?"
I still don't really know who she is but now I recognize the name. I don't think I would recognize her if I met her on the street but I'm sure she'd tell me who she is.
Still - I have the following question for Pittsburghers: Do you think the people of New York would give a rat's ass if she said something bad about the Big Apple?

White Zinfandel

Lately, I've felt an impetus to make terse comments about (not so) important culinary issues:

I had a glass or two of White Zinfandel wine with dinner last night. White Zinfandel sucks. The only reason I drink some every now and then is to remind myself not to drink it more often. You'd think I could remember that without the torture.

Oh well.

Kelli Pickler

Before:

OK. I don't usually watch American Idol, but I did last night, and boy did I get an eye full. I'll get to that in a sec.

First of all, why are all the boys and girls crying whenever their "friend" gets voted off? Now, you know they aren't that sad, that's one less opponent which should make them happy. But are they happy? NO, they are crying their eyes out! I don't buy it! I don't buy it! It's a load of CRAP!!!

Now, the eye full part, did anyone catch the New and "Improved" Kelli Pickler? Even though I didn't watch her last season, I still had an good idea of what she looked like. So, last night when she made her return to American Idol, I was shocked. First off, her hair style made her look as if she was in her 30s, and it would appear that she spent some of her post Idol $$ on a new pair of "you know what" (hint: boobs, they are boobs). I also think she had work done on her face, possibly an eye lift.

OMG!!! Is this what the music execs think America wants to see - another singer with the look of a generic porn star? I am offended they think this is what will drive me to spend my $ on their CDs. OFFENDED!!!

She looked cheap!!! I think with her new and "improved" look, she and her career has "jumped the shark".

After:

Yellow Mustard

Yellow mustard should be illegal. If offends me.

Why is he doing this to me?

I can't take it anymore!!! KFed has been nothing but wonderful these days. WHY????????????????????????? Why is he doing this to me?????????????

We all know that he visited Britney last Friday, well I just read that on Saturday KFed brought the kids with him to visit their mommy.

What is happening??? I'm really warming up to him, the thought of which makes me want to cry in shame.

I'm going to fall so hard when he starts screwing up. :-(...............

Stupid Criminals

One of my favorite forms of entertainment is news stories about particularly stupid criminals.

GMail pushed me a story from Reuters today that cracked me up.

How many ways can this guy be stupid at once? The major acts of stupidity:
1) He committed his crime next door to police K9 training exercises.
2) He gets himself (in his stolen get-away car) stuck in the snow.
3) He attempts to out run a K9 cop on foot.

I love it.

Is it wrong?

So, I just read on Perez that K Fed paid a visit to Britney today at the rehab center. There's been talk of possible reconciliation, and that Britney's family is very grateful for Kevin during this difficult time.

To be honest, I'm very grateful for Kevin right now as well. I'm glad that he's step up to the plate, and actually being a parent. I never thought of him that way EVER.

So, is it wrong to wish that Britney and Kevin were back together? A part of me says I'm crazy for thinking this and writing it down, because if that happens Kevin would probably end up disappointing me. But then the part of me says with Kevin's presence, Britney might just be less crazy.

I don't know. I'm feeling conflicted about this issue.

Best. Quote. Ever.

I would just like to say that the following quote from Jan Levinson on last night's episode of The Office, just might be one of my all-time favorite TV soundbytes:


"What's the upside? I overcome my nausea, fall deeply in love, babies, normalcy, no more self-loathing. And the downside? I date Michael Scott in public and collapse on myself like a dying star. ... Why is this so hard? That's what she said. [beat] Oh my god."

Learn to Drive

If you live in Pittsburgh it is understood that at some point you will have to drive in the snow. So, why do people that live here freak out every time it snows? Even a couple of snow flakes send people slamming on their brakes and backing traffic up for miles. It should not take over an hour (85 minutes to be exact) to drive from the east suburbs to Oakland.

If you can't drive in the snow move to Arizona because I'm tired of driving 4 miles an hour because you can't handle the roads being wet.

Why do we celebrate so much? (My Best Post Ever!!!)

Great lunch yall, sorry you missed it. "Sathy" and I had a great time.

One of the topics we discussed that I enjoyed was regarding the workplace and that it at times feels like kindergarten. Why do we celebrate so much? Why do we need to pitch in? Why am I asked to "give" to: going away parties, birthdays, baby showers, or even [people we don't know], and etc. Why are we ask to give to newpaper delivery people on holidays when delivering newspapers is their job? Why don't we receive monetary gifts on holidays from our co-workers for simply being here?

Why do we do that? Why do we celebrate everything? Is it because we have nothing to do, or nothing better to do, or is this a display of power from those who have so little? Since when did I allow others to tell me what the appropriate amount is to give to certain things? Why, and when did this begin and why didn't anybody tell me? And why should I ever feel guilty for not giving anything at all? WHY???

I'm not saying that all giving is bad. Certainly a lunch together to celebrate occasions such as going away parties would be nice, but why then do we need to buy "stuff" to show others our gratitude?

Having said all that, I wonder what my future going away party and gift will be. Sigh.

Celebrity Spotting

Great news for fans!! I have it on good authority that Harlett herself can be spotted at Presby cafeteria today around lunchtime.

We've intercepted this telling email excerpt that explains when you can see her or maybe even meet her yourself:

I’m going to Presby for lunch @ 11:45 if anyone’s interested.