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Bacon Bash: A day to celebrate one of Pittsburgh favorite foods, BACON!

Pittsburgh’s only bacon event, Bacon Bash, will take place at the Harris Grill in Shady Side on Saturday, August 14 from 11 am to 4 pm. Bacon Bash follows last year’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour stop in Pittsburgh, which saw more than 85 people the day after the G20 summit. Event organizers Jason Mosley (better known as Mr. Baconpants) and the Harris Grill plan to take what they did for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour and kick it up a notch for Bacon Bash.

“We want to make this a yearly gathering of bacon lovers” said Mosley.

To help do that Sugardale Foods, a leading supplier of smoked meats based in Canton, OH, will supply bacon for the event along with a few other bacon purveyors. Sugardale will also help promote the event and are excited to increase their exposure in Western PA.

Several bacon appetizers and small plates will be served at Bacon Bash. The event also will feature the Bacon Eating Contest for a chance to win fabulous bacon prizes.

Tickets are $35 and go on sale online at Store.MrBaconpants.com and at the Harris Grill (412.362.5273) July 1, 2010. Bacon Bash is Pittsburgh’s only bacon enthusiast celebration and tickets are limited, so to be sure to claim yours today.

Jason Mosley, aka “Mr. Baconpants”, is a local blogger and bacon enthusiast. Other Mosley blogs include Startup Pittsburgh and OMG! Play This. Posts written by him have appeared on Crunch Gear, Mobile Crunch, and Touch Arcade.

The Harris Grill, known for it’s “Tuesday Bacon Night” in which post-happy hour patrons are treated to free bacon, is located at 5747 Ellsworth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15232. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday, 11 am to 2 am, with Sunday brunch from 10 am to 3 pm.

2010 Bacon Bash Details:

• When: Saturday, August, 14th, 2010 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Where: Harris Grill
  5747 Ellsworth Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA 15232
  (412) 362-5273
• Tickets: $35 per person
• Ticket Includes: admission to the event, several bacon appetizers and small plates prepared by Harris Grill, one beverage ticket (draft beer or frozen cosmopolitan), optional entry in the bacon eating contest, and more.

Menu will include, but is not limited to: bacon pierogies, mini BLT sliders, bacon-wrapped meatballs, chocolate-covered bacon, bacon sushi, bacon horseradish spread with pretzels, bacon breadsticks, bacon shot glasses filled with cheesy mashed potatoes, bacon cupcake, and bacon wrapped tofu!

More details found here.

If you’re around my area (Philadelphia/Bucks/Montgomery counties), and you’d like to join in on, message me and we’ll coordinate some kind of driving pool. My truck comfortably seats six, and I’m sure we can get other vehicles together if more is needed.

Taking a page out of Captain’s playbook today…

Now understandably this is not a “motivational poster” image… but I think it’s pretty damned motivational to me!  …plus, I like it, and it’s my blog. so there! heh.

Picked up an “M” coil and 2-ton RUUD condenser today.

Central air here we come!!

Cameron to Obama: This is how we do it!

The British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron showed the Messiah how to live within means, and flew commercial to meet with President Obama, saving over $300,000 for British Taxpayers.

David Cameron refuses to fly private. Saves 300k

Of course, he didn’t have a dog to bring along, that required a separate aircraft. heh.

“Man of the People” award?
Cameron: 1
Barry: 0

Just wait till November…

Just a shame I can’t vote in AZ. :-/

Code Monkey can, though!

New Jersey Supreme Court: Police must explain breathalyzer test in driver’s native language.

Seriously??  Ignorance of the law (or language) is NOT the problem of the officer.  Are they supposed to know every damned language in the world, or have a translator on hand?

Fox News video here.

I know what I want for Christmas!

From Topless Robot, The RPC (Rocket Propelled Chainsaw):

The rocket chainsaw launcher. Tell me it wouldn’t be worth getting eaten alive by the living dead if you got to fire this thing into a crowd of them first. Hell, I’d be too busy cackling with delight to reload even if I had any extra ammo. Thanks to everyone who sent in the tip.

How cool is that!!?!

I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.

I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

Later in life, questions arose over my real name.

My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn’t follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them..

That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.

I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics in my 30′s then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s.. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything.. That reinforced my conceit.

I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.

I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.

At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.

But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.

I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

I called mine “A People’s Campaign” and that sounded good to all people.

I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.

I knew that, if I merely offered the people ‘hope’, together we could change our country and the world.

So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include “persecuted minorities” like the Jews. My true views were not widely known and I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation’s leader.

I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.

I’m glad they didn’t. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth..

Who am I?

I am ADOLF HITLER

WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF?

Scary, isn’t it?