Last night's Pirate game with DEK was surprisingly normal for the first 4-5 innings until, of course, the pierogi race. Before the contestants actually enter the park in left field and race to the finish line, the scoreboard shows some animated scenes of the pierogis racing around the city. Last night's clips included footage of pierogis racing through the Andy Warhol Museum*, including "Oliver Onion" staring at a silkscreen picture of himself. For the rest of the bit, Oliver was animated as a Warholesque silkscreen looking thing, very stylized. I turned to Dwight and simply said, "Somewhere post-modernism just exploded." I cannot even begin to tell you on how many levels this was disturbing.

Oh, and in the interest of full disclosure from yesterday, I walked through the plaza again today and noted that it was in fact a stegosaurus--not a diplodocus--eating the cookie. All the points, however, still stand.

*The Warhol is the perfect example of that ridiculous civic pride of Pittsburghers that I mentioned yesterday. Warhol was about as un-Pittsburgh as they come, and if you read between the lines of the biographical information presented at the museum, it quickly becomes obvious that his strategy was to get the hell out of here as soon as possible--in fact, if I recall correctly, immediately after his 18th birthday. But he's a native, so we embrace him and all of his fame, even though most Pittsburghers would be either simply confused or utterly horrified by most of what Warhol did and stood for, and vice versa.