Does The Warhol Hate Pittsburgh? Follow Up

A few people reacted to my question about the Warhol not listing in the Gallery guide.

First, to get it out of the way; I think the Warhol is awesome and I want more people to know about them and all the other great things here.

I did some checking and I think the listing costs closer to $3000 a year, which is a lot. I think it includes a page on their website and other stuff. Anyway, it seems to have been worthwhile for most of the small college galleries and a non profits in other parts of the state and in Maryland, Delaware and D.C. to list themselves. In fact the guide just makes it look like cuture stops in western P.A. Why don't any of the institutions list themselves; the glass center; The Center For the Arts; Wood Street; Space gallery; The Society For Contemporary Craft; The Regina Miller Gallery???

I have been thinking hard about getting a listing but for me it's a lot of money and what use is a guide in which nobody lists themselves?

Pittsburgh,Drunk Driving Capital of America!

The Friday mayem has got me thinking about an Idea that occured to me soon after I came to town. The city seems to be sadly obsessed with creating a niche of specialness with endless slogan campaigns and stuff. Here is one from me. Pittsburgh, Drunk Driving Capital of America.

That Pittsburghers love to drink is a sort of an absolute fact. Coming from NY, which is a hard party town, I felt at home. But, soon I could see that partying in the Burgh had a sort of wierd edge to it. In most of NY, because of it's high housing density and transit system ; one is often not far from home or a convenient way to get home after partying. drunk driving in NYC is a sort of unforgivable act. You are likely within 10 blocks or much less of a subway line or you can walk home or you can catch a cab out of the endless sea of late night cabs that troll the party alleys of NY. There is just no excuse for drunk driving in almost all of NY.

You have to wonder, Is someone trying to create some sort of drunk driver road course? There is hardly a high density transit system to speak of and so many of the popular party spots like The Strip and Station Square have marginal transit links. Service on the marginal system that does exist shuts down pretty early at night. Years of active aggressive and stupid urban planning has removed most of the housing density from near the center of town and created massive amounts of parking for people who might drive in from the massive sprawl that surrounds the city. Then some of the same genious people who discouraged or removed housing from the city try to market it as a place to come and party.

WTF. I mean WTF. Is it just me or is someone just trying to kill people. So anyway-- I think that we should challenge other cities to some kind of drunk driving contest or have some kind of suicide Grand Prix. I know it will be tough and that many other cities in America are designed to train drunk drivers. But I think we can win. It's a prize that we deserve.